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A Women's Catharsis
I want to breathe
I want to cry
I want to live
I want to die
I want to stay out til' 7am
I want a boy that's heaven sent
I want a house
I want a car
I want to travel
But not too far
I want to laugh
I don't want to think
I want to pour myself a big fat drink
I want to dance
I want to fight
I want to see your face in morning light
I want to jump into t...
Wednesday 31st March 2021 10:40 am
The Feminist Friend
Everyone’s having babies
Everything’s just turned up a whole notch of crazy
They must just think I’m lazy
But I too, could really love a baby
Makes me feel quite stupid
I’ve never had luck with cupid
Life doesn’t come with a blueprint
But really did for you, kid
Never been dripping in diamonds
Couldn’t find a man to afford them
And even if he offered
I’d ...
Wednesday 31st March 2021 10:36 am
Freckled Shoulders
The red dust of Mars settles on my heart,
only her will can stop the thrashing of cymbals that call me to her.
Every cascade of flaxen strength undermines the facade of purity
but the tilt of her smile will resound everpresent.
Ablazen are her cobalt eyes, I draw strength from their tranquility
she could not know the foundation she raises the pyre of my love,
the freckled shoulde...
Tuesday 30th March 2021 7:27 pm
Lost
When you left, you took a piece of my heart
When you left, my whole world came tumbling down
I became so lost
I was left in the dark
You took with you my light
When you left, I learned to fight
I learned to navigate this world without you by my side
I learned to be strong to no longer rely on your love
You thought I was weak,
For feeling too much
Now, you're the one ...
Tuesday 30th March 2021 5:31 pm
First Christmas
One whole year's
time emptied
Like lace leaves
From the cold trees
Skeletal wisps
You are missing
attic tinsel
Boxed deep and dusting
With bristles flaking
From the broken spine
So no silver lines
Our crisp, black-branched pine.
Tuesday 30th March 2021 10:26 am
December Bones
Christmas fairy lights still dangle,
Plastic string of neon candles,
Hallowing the wreckage of the year.
Streaming ‘River’ on repeat
River Warbling marrow-deep
Wash away those spiteful, December bones.
From jigsaws sat on nickel knees
To whisky-nursing you in sprees,
Femurs first you left us piece by piece.
Frailty distils the waters
Trickles down through all your daughters
...
Tuesday 30th March 2021 10:22 am
Cinquain #2 (Tired)
Tired
of taming lions,
of dark, eyeless mileage,
of piloting this wondrous ark,
of you.
of dim-heart-riots
rotting fleshy timber,
of all the cages - rusting through
and through..
Tuesday 30th March 2021 10:14 am
My last night, in the flat we almost shared
You've already left.
537 miles North of me, of us.
I'll ruffle up to join you in four (agonising) weeks
but to my unconcerned shame,
I'm too sad to sleep in that bed without you, too ungoverned.
Nostalgia, even the warm kind, is too much feeling for me.
Something about it has always made my lipids curdle
and an unpleasant tickle cloud in my brain.
The street ou...
Tuesday 30th March 2021 9:40 am
Infatuation
I don’t necessarily want to be like you
There are times when you drive me up the wall!
I thought I wanted to be friends with you
I thought that we were something that we we're not
The reason is that I want to be like you, not that I want you
I want to be able to turn my phone over when someone calls
I want to be had a look away and ignore that “ting”
I want to put myself first...
Friday 26th March 2021 2:23 pm
TIMES TWO
This boy this man this Angel of mine
I say mine
This you are not
To me you are
A possession
I mean it not in that way
I dont own you
I am part of you and you me too
Two
Two soles alight
Us two in flight
Or on sea..
We fly side by side
You sail with me
The water gets choppy
Weigh up the boat..trust the waves
They carry us float
In air
bypassing clouds
We share
Our faith soft gro...
Sunday 21st March 2021 10:52 pm
All The Things (Happy World Poetry Day!)
It being absolutely essential
To live our life to our potential
Drifting along, getting on by
Lazy ways to truth deny
Living this way being soul treason
Finding excuses, rhyme or reason
Looking away from where we should be
Closing our minds to our liberty
My reality took a while to sink in
Inner voice screaming, making a din
To be a poet my path to take
The safe li...
Sunday 21st March 2021 9:17 am
Silk
Silk
Our Post people have connected us,
Through toil and love and loss,
Carrier Pigeons, magical storks
Delivering life to waiting Mums
Telegram boys of Shakespeare plays
Connecting lovers lost,
War-winning, code breaking messages
Relics of a past,
Suddenly more important,
Suddenly at all costs,
Suddenly irreplaceable,
Through the middle of this mess
In the middle of our chaos...
Thursday 18th March 2021 7:48 pm
Astral World
Endora:
I can’t breath, my lungs are burning
Everything around me is twirling.
Everything inside me squeezes eminently, grabbing away my desire to live on.
I am filled with pain, till my last bone.
My eyes are full of blood rivers.
He is dying in the roaring silence.
Lucas:
As I opened my eyes,
I saw dazzling stars dancing in the sunset
It was as quiet as a de...
Tuesday 16th March 2021 7:07 am
A simple definition of love
My life
The sky
Your smile
The high
My neck
The clouds
Your back
The crowds
Monday 15th March 2021 10:56 pm
Wayward Souls
He kisses your shoulder,
then your cheek.
His touch makes your knees weak.
How do I know?
Before you, and a dozen more,
it was me.
Now, I’m a faded memory,
as you will be.
Don’t believe me?
I too used to laugh at the absurdity.
He could never leave me.
As he grows older,
his women get younger.
Curiously, they look like me at 23.
How cruel fate ...
Sunday 14th March 2021 6:43 am
Todo el Tiempo
I think about you all the time,
without reason or rhyme.
You are like a tattoo,
on my mind.
Todo el tiempo.
Enternal souls,
intertwined.
Dancing, dodging,
in this cosmos
for a little while.
Creating sparks of love,
to lessen lonely nights,
and light up dark skies.
https://youtu.be/2EIeUlvHAiM
Saturday 13th March 2021 10:39 pm
My unworn dress
This morning, I played an old record
- the one you always turned off
Just to hear the music with my own ears
It had as much dust
As all the mornings I didn't listen to it
Because your ears didn't want to
Last night I wore that dress, the one you don't like
Just to see how it suits me
- through my own eyes
And when you saw me
you told me I was beautiful
Friday 12th March 2021 6:01 pm
Identities
We lose each other once in a while
We find ourselves in others
most of the time
We may meet some, fresh living and brand new
Forget about the ones we lost, completing one another
Or, on the contrary, at times
We meet again - how different
Forget about the new ones
And turn our faces to the bits of ourselves
we have missed in each other
We live through people
I live through you all
...
Thursday 11th March 2021 5:02 pm
SOUL MATE
Traditional local vacations
Blackpool illuminations
Lighting up a town
Making dark nights bright
To lift spirits when feeling down
Dark so dark unable to see
Then you come along on a lighting spree
Sparks from you fly off to me
I now shine like a Christmas tree
Twin flame duo side by side
Glowing outward flames never ending
Together bright souls darkness mending
Shining brightest i...
Tuesday 9th March 2021 6:50 pm
A love endless
Years ago, I heard about a love endless
Were the times,
When love was sprouting
everywhere
Songs was inviting to fall in love
unbelievable love stories were written
The war had over
Giving passed to unexpected coming backs.
She was an adorable woman
Worthy daughter of his dedicated professor
He was a handsome man and brilliant student,
She was sweet, lovely, ...
Tuesday 9th March 2021 3:18 pm
Demanding Women
I'm a believer in change
variety the spice of life
sex a classic example
my contortions are rife
dog-eared my manual
illustrations now faded
after years of practice
I'm still not too jaded
girls get the benefits
novelties they enjoy
nocturnal gymnastics
with an original boy
yet some do quibble
my antics not enough
not eager to trapeze
in ...
Tuesday 9th March 2021 10:38 am
ASK THE BEATLES
Must I hold back
Hold back on saying
Excel in doing
For the words may be too strong
Strong words can weaken this angelic
Beautiful soul at times
At breaking point
To heavily love somebody
Like I do you can put strain on the heart
If one way
But for love
It to be returned
A constant circle of security
A pure heart too pure for purity
No barrier
...Sunday 7th March 2021 7:58 pm
Heaven and Hell
What is it that attracts us to other human being so much we can’t breathe?
What is that gate to heaven and hell?
What is it that attracts me to you?
Smile.
Pain.
Mutual confusion.
Eyes in the dark, like reindeers in headlights. About to live?
What was life? What was all that fear and anger? Sweat, trembling, catching breath so hopelessly.
So hopelessly lost in you. Forever.
...Wednesday 3rd March 2021 1:09 am
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