a miscreant yearns
A Miscreant Yearns
A soul’s cry, released in words— chosen, picked, woven in quiet longing.
And there, in articulation, beauty finds its form...
The soul, unbound, bridges a gap, touching both heart and mind.
Friday 18th April 2025 3:05 am
Also by Red Brick Keshner:
pot plants | appraisal | q u e t c h | here we go, passing by | terminus turnstile | song to the stars | windswept smiles | midnight courage | Vilvoorde: wash | eye on the road | heartbeat | ever onward | a future’s horizon | waxing witless |Late For Her Lecture
Slim and athletic looking
dressed in black lycra
hair in a pony
she emerges holding a book
no doubt something quite rare.
Breaking into a run
everything moves in unison
except her pony.
I call out to her
but my words are lost on the air.
Thursday 17th April 2025 11:49 pm
Sync
Miles between, yet souls align,
He’s the moon, and still he’s mine.
Thursday 17th April 2025 9:27 pm
Also by Kalyani:
Dear pain | Mirror at 2am |TABULA RASA
Every day I awake to a blank slate
upon which the hieroglyphics of fate
make their mark and spark a reaction
in me. Nature or Nurture? Genetics
or the Environment? Heaven sent?
or just somewhere to rent?
Written in the stars? Or, twisted by chance?
Let us make the best of it,
let us inject some zest into it
Reach for the stars, be kind: reject
Inshallah, God’s will, no bette...
Thursday 17th April 2025 5:21 pm
Also by John E Marks:
Avoiding the dirge | Extra-ordinary | The lonely sailor boy | A fugue in a minor key |I'd Like For Everyone The Biggest Luck
Thursday 17th April 2025 4:45 pm
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
The Day Of Liberation | I Am a Chair |The Seventh Whistler
The Seventh Whistler (after William Wordsworth)
for World Curlew Day April 21st 2025
By slough and marsh my dog commits
to muck and fun on coastal walk
swathed on our way through rugged fields
in Cumberland’s old mizzled cloak.
Until a statue he became,
as through sea mist the air was split
with ghostly cry from unlit worlds:
the seventh whistler on th...
Thursday 17th April 2025 4:21 pm
Also by Jonathan Humble:
The Safety of Clouds | One Called Paul | You and I |Faithful companion
Eminent forces give rise to this world. Graceful swaying and warm pulsating are a parapet to access the sublime.
Springs flow, enamoured with their own concerns, Courses assembled in inertia, consumed of only what has been.
As I rest, all else continues. As it always was. Belying a darkness we cannot see beyond. This native impression is all I have to give.
Thursday 17th April 2025 11:30 am
Also by James R:
Handle with care |Indoors
light drizzle taunts me to step outside
stopping and starting in half-hearted
chaotic random showers, its laughter
a mocking feeble hiss on the paths,
the sky is a dour threadbare grey, which
necessitates the kitchen light being on
for breakfast, a hark back to winter,
a stiff breeze circles around the house
like an inquisitive expectant crowd,
my days of denying the...
Thursday 17th April 2025 10:43 am
Also by Graham Sherwood:
Family Flowers |MY DEAR CHILD
Staring at your puffy face in the cot,
I realize all the hurt I’ve been carrying in my heart.
Forgive me, my dear child; I suppose I didn’t know,
Didn’t know that the ghosts of my past still haunt me, even now.
Forgive me, my dear child,
If I’m unable to love you maternally—with tenderness and warmth,
To love you like other children are loved.
Forgive me, my child,
If tra...
Thursday 17th April 2025 10:40 am
Also by Naomi:
GREEN WITNESS | DUSK AND DEPARTURE | SHATTERED AIR |The Death of Phlogiston
A mysterious force once ruled the minds of chemists — Phlogiston, the invisible essence of fire. But as precision met curiosity, a new truth emerged from the flames. This poetic elegy wants to trace the rise and fall of a forgotten theory, and the spark that ignited modern science.
Thursday 17th April 2025 8:40 am
Also by Rolph David:
The House At Eaton Place | 104.5° | Eighty Springs Since Buchenwald | Erased In Silence | A Quiet Strength | When They Came... | The Bitter Cup | A Ballsy Tradition | The Woke Inquisition | Grok You, Musk! | Malice In Blunderland OR: Executive Disorder | The Thinker’s Soliloquy | Musk's Swasticars | Vodka Novichok |A Boy
Thursday 17th April 2025 6:12 am
Also by AirlogRigsMaria:
Prayer | Infidelity | A Workplace "Downer" | Wisdom | Whispers of Wisdom | Plate of Plenty | Woman | Out of You | I Am A Fighter | Jealousy | In the Shadows of my Silence | Unbothered |Mom, This One Needs Your Hands
My school bag used to be torn.
My mother patiently sewed it,
stitch by stitch, she arranged it neatly,
connecting one side to the other, she made it whole again.
She said that sewing is a way to be grateful for what we have,
so it won’t end up as something forgotten,
but remain as something cherished.
As I grew up,
I began to practice what she taught.
One by one, I sewed the rips I ha...
Thursday 17th April 2025 1:14 am
Also by Yanma Hidayah:
Just That, The Sea is Too Deep... | A Fleeting Beauty |The infinity of consequence
Regard your hands with disgust.
Idle, they are the tools of wicked thought...
Your mind wanders the contours of things forbidden,
misused, it writes a script for dormant horrors...
the seed and the active ingredient repel,
whilst psychopathic imagination permits all...
the membrane of restraint is gossamer thin...
a butterfly wing betwixt heaven and hell
...Wednesday 16th April 2025 2:58 pm
Also by David RL Moore:
Aubade-esque |007 In Retirement
(with acknowledgements to Cubby Broccoli)
We’ve a new allotment holder
Just retired from MI6
Wears a Beretta on his shoulder
Calls our lady members “chicks”
Drives a silver coloured DB5
He won’t get much in that
When he has to transport compost
From his Docklands penthouse flat
He takes his Martini shaken,
In his shed he keeps a score
Of days spent with psych...
Wednesday 16th April 2025 11:19 am
Also by R A Porter:
The Coniston 14 | The Coniston 14 |Destination Unknown
Destination unknown destination unknown
Lost in this crazy world I roam
Zero zero compass or direction
Just need some guidance and affection
One day I'm gonna see the light
No no destination in sight
I eat up the endless pavements
As I walk and stride my worry away
Devouring the gruelling roads
As I run and keep grief at bay
Swallowing the countryside whole
As I ramble on random d...
Wednesday 16th April 2025 8:13 am
Also by Tom Doolan:
Better Day | Blossom Avenue | Life Is A Porn Movie | Human Race (Shut your face) 👥👥 | Roll The Dice 🎲🎲 | Shattered Dreams | I Like Your Style |Mission Control
Sometimes she got impatient, angry.
The girl that came in was late, or different
today and didn’t know where things lived.
In there, she would say, next to the fridge.
She’d want to do it herself, but it took
five minutes just to stand up, get her balance.
Simple tasks became impossible;
pulling the top off the tea caddy,
carry a drink without spilling.
S...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 10:30 pm
Also by Trevor Alexander:
Keynotes |80 years of peace since the end of World War 11.
We mark the historic 80th anniversary of VE Day,
A tribute to those who fought. for the freedom we enjoy today.
We celebrate 80 years of peace since the end of World War 11,
Reaffirming our commitment to world war peace for our future generations too.
A powerful reminder of the resilience and unity that have brought our nation together,
Reaffirming our commitment for our futur...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 9:50 pm
The best dream
I had the best dream
Where I was out to my dad
And we were
Laughing at responses
That my teachers had
One teacher said that
My egg was cracked
And that’s true
But it has been
Since I met him
Although those two things
Have no correlation
I mean when I had him
it was online school
he never made do anything
Because he was cool
So I spent m...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 9:31 pm
PADS
There's pads that you find on a puppy dog's feet
There's pads that are cushions on your three-piece suite
There's pads that you write on sheet after sheet
To these though I now have to add
My fucking incontinence pad.
When younger my dotage I thought through and planned
I knew that my hour glass would one day lose sand
And that, for example, my waist would expand
But w...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 6:54 pm
Also by John Coopey:
THESE BOOTS AREN'T MADE FOR WALKING | DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? | JOHN THE HAT |Marseille
Marseille
“Absurdity is purity my loves” said the wise Monsieur Sinclair to his pupils. “Yet the creativity in the nuances is but a ripple upon the fabric of time.” They all applauded having no idea what the hell he means. But they love it anyway. Cerebral confusion to make one think. Is there meaning in this, is there meaning in anything at all?
Young Pierre Dellatonte sauntered home that ...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 5:04 pm
Nothing Came Easy
Nothing came easy, 15/4/89 the date.
For every bit of truth, they made us wait.
Stuck together like glue, skilled in lying.
The first lie was told as fans were dying.
Duckenfield said fans stormed the Gate.
‘Ticketless, drunken fans, arriving late’
Some media lapped it up, mainly The Sun.
Everlasting damage to our City was done.
On mass, the fuckers threw their m...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 1:41 pm
Also by Mike Bartram:
'Move Back' | Memory Lane | 'Goodnight' | My Dad...Footy In The Park |Begin once again — The prophecy, Foreseen destiny — A happy ending
Beautiful to be fallen in a love with you my beloved
A union two twin flames
theirs
one old soul’s
shared nostalgia
about
our actions, how we react
an intertwined mind
quale, in the way we act
an ordeal with life
born into circumstance
chaotic
the conundrum
all of the elements and alignments required
the complexity of an immaculate conception
the manifestation of a woman and...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 8:05 am
BLANK SLATE
BLANK SLATE
I took an O. D. which they said was genius of me
to survive but coming back down I lost the ability
to ejaculate. I came down from a great height
to the goldfish bowl of quotidian consciousness;
to status life detail; to the boring smell of water;
to the daily soap opera which we all float through
in a state of endlessly contemporary amnesia -
but some...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 2:47 am
Also by JOHN F B TUCKER:
NO STARS AND LIGHT RAIN | 'IN' BUT NOT 'OF' | RURAL NEWS | TOAD AT CUMPSTONES | A GLUM DAY | GUTTERBY | ECLOGUE | HALF OF IT | M | MIDNIGHT WATCH | MORNING PAGES | A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER |A tried mind
Other night cliambimg the walls and yet I still feel as low as the floor
Other night pacing up and down going know fast
Other night of no sleep dreaming of all the things I could do to them people who disgust me
Does your false postion help you sleep
Does judging me make you feel bigger
I do apologise for its ke whos about to judge
Isn't ot crazy how big the world is yet I ...
Tuesday 15th April 2025 12:23 am
american dream
america belong to america
america belong to a city nation
america belong to the streets of america
america belong to the streets of a city nation
the streets of america is the streets of a city nation
the streets is the violence of america
the streets is the violence of a city nation
a city nation is a country nation
a city nation is a glory city nation
violence is a glory violence
vio...
Monday 14th April 2025 8:07 pm
Fascination
‘FASCINATION’
By the Urban Poet
She fascinates me, challenges me
Every time I see her, or think of her
I’m fascinated
She only has to look at me or make a sound
and I’m dumbstruck, mumble a few futile words, and make my excuses
What I know about her is very little,
but fascinating all the same
Her look, tone of voice, elegant demeanour
Who wouldn’t be fascinated?
I...
Monday 14th April 2025 3:43 pm
ñ Pa se liefde vir sy seun
ñ Pa se liefde vir sy seun
Droewige verdriet
dit is al wat ek voel
Was alles verniet?
is die vraag wat oor my spoel
My kind jy is my als
jy moet dit weet
Al leer ander jou vals
ek sal jou nooit vergeet
Ek sal jou beskerm
tot einde van dae
Die ander kan maar kerm
in my arms sal ek jou dra
Dit wat jy deurgaan
is nie jou las om te dra
D...
Monday 14th April 2025 2:48 pm
Mary-Ann, the Moss, and (How Do You Solve A Problem Like ...)
https://youtu.be/s-VRyQprlu8
There we go, astair. I feel like, I should be at stake. Sometimes: One life for the road; Two nights for deliverance. I'm not badder than this. Nor Mary (Poppins). But we still avoid. Two things: One is sin; justified without,within. Two is The Mossad, whose rhythm rhymes with God. There we go again. Bringing Mary in. Merry Mary Poppins. Still avoiding sin. Merry Ma...
Monday 14th April 2025 10:02 am
Also by Auracle:
Is It Okay? (Like Rome) | Like A Video Game (Magic & Mayhem) | Peche, pêche, pêché (sin, sins, Sins) | For Earth And Humanity |Dare to Dream
On Mondays, “Magician”
feels like the answer
On Tuesdays, Maybe a teacher?
Wednesdays, I think of willy wonka—
in my mind, a chocolate factory I see
and decide “He’s the one I want to be”
3 days of dreaming weren’t enough so,
Travellers intrigue me on Thursdays,
and Firefighter is an idea of Fridays
But at the end of the day, its tiring
being indecisive, and living off steam
But I...
Monday 14th April 2025 9:03 am
Also by happy:
Dear Dreams |The top line
When people are selling
Political schemes,
The top line will tell you
The truth of their dreams:
If someone's first sentence
Is “most folk are fools,”
They're fixing to force them
To follow their rules;
If “riches from rags”
Is the first thing they say,
Their policy's planned
To make poverty stay;
And when “right of trade”
Is the first right you're told,
They're seeking a syste...
Sunday 13th April 2025 6:28 pm
Firsts
How beautiful is it to feel
The moment before a touch,
The nervousness before a kiss,
The initiated small talks
That were of a big deal;
An achievement that’d
Be written in the books,
In the form of poems
That’d just begin to multiply
And beautifully compile.
The one who believed was unlucky
And incapable to be loved,
Comes across the greatest form of love
For the very first tim...
Sunday 13th April 2025 4:23 pm
MANUEL, THE MAJOR, THE MOOSE, AND THE CENTIPEDE WALK INTO A BAR
We are caught,
caught in a stream of floating heads
Provocative faces preaching divisive politics
Spewing universalist values as well as those who meme these voices
Through a satiric vernacular
We live in a spectacularly tense age,
the complexities of speaking
bound up with far wider socio-cultural politics,
the question as to how to represent a voice,
to articulate a hu...
Sunday 13th April 2025 3:59 pm
Also by Lee Campbell:
SANGUINE |Placeholder
The sun, brilliant on the trail today,
throws shadows here and there.
Free from the tyranny of clouds,
the silhouettes cannot hide their delight.
My thoughts add an asterisk to their unrestrained dance.
A bookmark to revisit this performance, offered for free.
Sunday 13th April 2025 3:50 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Word Search | Ablaze | Wisdom Where You Find It | Running With Dogs |My Memory Of You
I use to call you Sue,
And now I know
I still love you.
We use to sit on your bed and talk
Of what we though we would be,
As if by wanting, we could make it so.
I don't know
What became of you,
And I still wonder what of me.
But I just remembered
I still love you
And that will always be.
You went your way
And I went mine,
But If I could back in time...
...Saturday 12th April 2025 10:13 pm
Playing in the Garden
You don't have anything to do
but play.
You thought for a second, "oh, I have so much to do...." and felt dragged down.
Silly goose!
You forgot that work is play.
Work is like going to the gym--
move those muscles and laugh!
Fill your heart with joy!
Play, play, in the garden of life.
Saturday 12th April 2025 1:15 pm
Also by Hélène:
Relax | The Measure of a Person |The Esk Valley line
Nobbut a beck to begin with.
The Esk escorted by daffodils
beside both banks, and a train
that escaped Beeching’s
scattergun. Skirts
the moorland’s northern edge,
past lambs and fields
festooned with pheasants.
Scurries over boulders,
relaxes and widens
as we approach the sea,
is celebrated by a magnificent,
redundant viaduct,
a memorial to the line
...Saturday 12th April 2025 12:45 pm
Wandering Expositions
Thursday 18th April 2013 11:10 am
Wandering expositions
Poetry has many inspections
each line remains re-touched;
we frown at fingered collections
of nouns and other stuff.
There are troublesome inflections,
and bleeding, wrung-out verbs-
the wandering expositions
of rhymes the metre serves.
There are stand alone conjunctions
in h...
Saturday 12th April 2025 6:11 am
World's End
World’s End
She allowed me to melt into her arms,
A blessing gratefully accepted.
I kissed her burnished caramel skin,
Caressed before me by an attentive sun,
Discovering petals in full bloom,
Where a light dew glistened.
My lips consumed the salty-sweet mix,
In glorious intoxication.
My shyness now displaced,
A new boldness burgeoned.
Encouraged by her w...
Friday 11th April 2025 7:11 pm
Also by Rob J Mann:
No Time To Sleep | Duvet Day | All At Once |A Poem on Schindler's List
There is a wonderful film called Schindler's List.
It is so very special and must not be missed.
It centres round a man called Oskar Schindler,
Who begins as quite greedy and a bit of a swindler.
But while Amon Goth is quite deranged
Schindler is a man who goes through a change.
And while terror prevails to the point of insanity,
Schindler is a man who shows some humanity.
And with his...
Friday 11th April 2025 5:09 pm
Also by Stuart Vanner:
Another Contentment Poem |April 2025 Collage Poem: Remove the Thorn
A stupefied, fuzzy silence in the garden
deployed carrier bags, even grimness dreams
Endure the pain and something may betide
A hidden gem that we may never see.
He was in love with his own reflection
Till he had a face of purple cheese.
A quiet rage of a youth misspent
Where small children play complicated games
He was in love with somebody else’s
...
Friday 11th April 2025 4:44 pm
'Straight I will dream of the Curragh of Kildare'
I dreamt I was on The Curragh of Kildare, that flat Irish plain,
where equine athletes train, and not far from where, in 1914,
Anglo-Irish officers staged a mutiny,
in protest against a British Parliament trying to establish home rule.
But the Angelus Bells, that daily national radio broadcast reminder of Catholic piety,
disturbed my day dreaming, and I made the sign of the cross,
but fell...
Friday 11th April 2025 1:44 pm
Also by Kevin Vose:
A fishy tale |Look! Here's Me as an Action Figure!
This website draws a picture
It really don't take long
Here’s my ten seconds’ labour
For you to gaze upon
Who needs pen and paper
When all you do is type a prompt
No human being needed
Tell the robot what you want
It was clever, it was funny
It was quick and it was free
Upload your own image here
Wow friends and family
They shared it and they shared it
Like there was nothing wr...
Friday 11th April 2025 12:09 pm
Also by Steve White:
47 |Angry Man
‘Savoury stuff. That’s the ticket,’
Said my friend in the canteen queue.
Naturally more circumspect,
I asked ‘Is that potato real?’
‘You’re joking,’ quipped Young Doris
(Old Doris was doing desserts),
And piled the slop up on my plate.
Those lunches hit you where it hurts.
Finding a table, we sat down,
With colleagues in old overalls,
Who talked of hangings and o...
Friday 11th April 2025 7:45 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Performance (Kryvyi Rih 5.4.25) | Jack's Fancy |Trees.
Trees tower over
Human affairs, perplexed
By our follies;
Their rings mark time
In a dignified manner,
While we strive to run
Rings round each other,
Ignobly, if needs must;
Besides, trees know
What we often ignore:
That even the garlanded
Amongst us can't ensnare
Time; they, too, helplessly
Will see sand devoured
Inside a glass of hours...
Thursday 10th April 2025 10:28 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Practised. |Evelyn
When our paths crossed, we found love.
Wish I knew then what would come.
Sunrise, sunset, not enough.
You cried, then you left, so undone.
You had my love, and it was evident.
How quickly we turned into the elephant.
But then again, Evelyn, you taught me how everything works out, in the end of it.
Thursday 10th April 2025 8:41 pm
The World We Live In
What is the world we live in? well where do I start
Start with the feelings that come from deep in my heart
For some there are reasons facing each day is tough
For some there’s too much for others never enough
For some live a life filled with love, hope, joy and dreams
For some there’s only grief, stress, strain and fear it seems
The world we live in has to be shared by us all
W...
Thursday 10th April 2025 3:17 pm
The Man on the Hill
It made me sad when I saw him there.
Beaten and bruised as he carried it.
No one helped him.
No one cared.
He hadn’t hurt anyone, yet they hated him.
He hadn’t stolen anything, yet they despised him.
All of this made no sense to me.
Why was a man who was faultless being punished?
Why was a man who healed and renewed life to people g...
Thursday 10th April 2025 12:23 pm
SAOIRSE DON PHALAISTIN
Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Justice must win!
Freedom for Palestine!
Their freedom’s thine,
Their freedom’s mine.
Thursday 10th April 2025 11:54 am
Also by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh:
Land and Freedom [ Gaza's Not For Sale! ] | Easter Time for Palestine [Global Day of Civil Disobedience] | ! Youth Demand ¡ [That The يُكافِح Continues] |Unshaken, I Rise
Inside me, something is starting to wake,
It moves with such purpose the world it did shake.
A truth I hold dearly, no two men could take,
Defying all reason, these choices I make.
My emotions could fill up most of this room,
Whether frowning or smiling, most might presume,
I'm drowning in sorrow while singing in tune,
My end a beginning that started too soon.
...Wednesday 9th April 2025 10:38 pm
Around the Law in 80 Days
Nothing should have been finer
Then Alcolu, South Carolina,
In the springtime.
People, segregated by rail tracks
White, on the west side, east side, black.
All too poor to spare a dime.
George was raised to respect,
His church taught what was correct,
In life, he deserved so much more.
But he was let down badly,
By white justice, sadly,
Contradictory evidence...
Wednesday 9th April 2025 2:01 pm
Also by JD Russell:
Rosalind Byrne | Does It Have To Be Today? |At the top
Bury me in the sand
Of my favorite beach
Let the ocean breeze
Carry me to a place
Where I feel at peace
I don't know
The exact point
Where things went South
But it was not my intention
To hurt you
I love you
I wish you could see that
One day
We will meet again
And we will be happy
And there will be no end
My dad asked me
To come hom...
Wednesday 9th April 2025 4:08 am
That Shiny City
there’s a thrill
over the hill
will you come with me
to fetch that pail
I couldn’t find my thrill
eating all the blueberries
I felt like a fool then
in such a hurry
instead of climbing
measure by measure
through this
inclement weather
somehow with you
suffering feels better
soon we’ll be
over the hill tog...
Tuesday 8th April 2025 3:23 pm
Lakewalk
Every saturday they gather
the hussle and bussle ever louder
To run round a park of green
To beat the crowd mobscene
Far away the others dwell
Away from the merry hell
By a lake, tranluscent and cool
A life giving, nurturing pool
Peace and calm linger in silence
No pressure, adrenaline or pretence
Snatching moments when they come
Perhaps a boring 'snoozef...
Tuesday 8th April 2025 3:21 pm
Also by Rich Brewer:
Overflow |Song Of Hope
If Hope were a song
I'd sing it all day long
I'd sing it through the night
I'd sing it from great heights!
I'd sing it ‘til my skin
Turned old & pale & thin
I'd sing it ‘til the Earth
Rejoiced in its re-birth!
If Hope were a song
I'd sing it all day long
I'd sing ‘til only love
Rained down from up above
Tuesday 8th April 2025 1:46 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
Giving Yourself Some Stick |The Loss
I lost my dad a thousand times before he was laid to rest.
A tiny portion left every time he fell asleep in the conversation-
every time I watched him struggle to stand.
Every moment in Pain.
I lost my father long before he died.
I'm grateful for the day when fate comes to take him home-
to relinquish the grasp on the others around whose only duty has become to
tend to him.
Not selfish...
Monday 7th April 2025 3:21 pm
I Missed You Today
I miss you everyday
But today I missed you hard.
I had gone and done something
That I don't normally do
And I could imagine you so clearly...
You would have given me a big hug
And eagerly asked, "So, how was it?"
I would have shared all the details
And over dinner we would analyze each one
And I would second guess myself
And you would reassure me that I did great
...Monday 7th April 2025 2:47 pm
What Matters More at the Workplace: Pay or Peace of Mind?
What Matters More at the Workplace: Pay or Peace of Mind?
In today’s modern world , when people are obsessed with earning more and more
Their peace of mind is steadily degrading day by day
They are becoming sick due to mental health despite professional and financial growth in their life
As their peace of mind has vanished, replaced by stress anxiety and restlessness
They are becomi...
Monday 7th April 2025 10:53 am
Sleep talking
The days that I have been fighting for so long
Have finally come to a halt
A hot baited breathing breath beats round my neck
Made up of heavy wheezing pauses
And a middle c irritating cough
Unwieldy and often interrupting my thoughts
So, I sit with contemplation on my chest
A coffee in my hand as black as tar
And a breeze around my ears
A long-ago burnt-out lipstick kis...
Monday 7th April 2025 9:06 am
cold, not calm
i want to work on myself
what kind of work do i need?
am i a car stranded in the middle of nowhere,
waiting until the mechanic comes, only to pass me by
am i an equation, frows burrowed in deep thought
an excuse for the mathematician to silently slip away
am i a philosophical question, everyone has a different opinion
that they will rarely ever voice, for when they do it echoe...
Sunday 6th April 2025 4:36 pm
Also by Lily Eldridge:
Golden Frame | dream of fire |The scammer
I always asked myself how I’d die—
maybe they want it tragic.
I’ve always been the selfish one,
'cause I only think of life
without the secrets in my mind.
I saw it in the sky,
crying in front of the stone,
but I forgot my voice
after the truth was told.
Their wicked minds are full of lies—
they’ll always be
the scammers in your life.
Would you run, or die?
Writings of hate,
...
Saturday 5th April 2025 10:17 pm
My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse, E.G., Poem 54 of 230: HOBSON’S CHOICE
Poem 54 of 230: HOBSON’S CHOICE
During a daytrip to Cambridge,
My uncle showed the confined space
That left punters no choice to face -
Using Hobson’s trade of carriage.
(C) David Franks 2003 - https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com
Saturday 5th April 2025 6:57 pm
Knife I asked for
Oh yes, the knife I asked for
sliced down my face
till I bleed into my eyes
cloudy & hazed with read
I crumple
your arrogance mean spirited
and dark
You stab out, blindly, in darkness of denial
...
Saturday 5th April 2025 6:50 am
Also by MKMK:
Other Regions |The Me After You
The Me After You
A fragile heart, still beating strong,
A soul that's shattered, yet still sings its song.
I thought I'd be stronger, but I'm not,
My soul crumbles at the sight of you.
I'm still in love with the fragments of you,
The moments we shared, the hopes we once pursued.
My love is a flame that flickers with every thought,
A bittersweet reminder of what could never be brought.
Friday 4th April 2025 9:10 pm
Also by Minnie Mbijekana:
My Constant Companion | Rewritten | Blind Eyes |My latest book
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Friday 4th April 2025 4:55 pm
Poem
They sent me to a specialist,
They didn't say in what,
He told me I was positive,
I wonder what I've got.
I hope it's nothing serious,
I hope it's nothing bad,
I hope it's something someday I'll
Be proud that I once had
Friday 4th April 2025 2:43 am
Seven.
A temple once ruined by your sacrilegious dirt, is now renewed. Replenished. Free.
Each pane shattered by what I blindly believed as love, is replaced by those you’ll never see.
3 years I prayed for the agonising weight to dissipate, for your shadow to unlatch from my skin.
But ghosts do not fade on whispered wishes —
they rot in the marrow, nestle within.
Each morning I carved out ...
Thursday 3rd April 2025 4:36 pm
liberty
ancient wisteria vine
laces through trees
still waking
from winter's sleep
binds the dead up
with the living
but this cold sailor heart
is still
out of place and time
an anachronistic device
running down the clock
running all these nowhere roads
keeping the wheels hot
until my ship comes back in
Thursday 3rd April 2025 4:01 am
Nishimura Comet - 06/09/2023
I was stood outside with my grandfather and mum, specifically to see the comet,
I was the first to spot it.
This comet takes 437 years to circle the solar system. I will never see this comet again in my lifetime.
I will never forget that moment,
not until the day I die.
Standing, barefoot in the mud and staring up
into the night sky for so long I could see the different
stro...
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 1:57 pm
"Yesterday, love was such an easy game to.........."
There's two sides to this scenario
If you are living your life in stereo
The abundant beauty fades to grey
Lord knows we've seen better days
Lived yet loved long
Was not so easily forgotten
It's crest still resides in our hearts
As pure as the light of our conception
Brothers and sisters lived free
Not of the land
Not of our obligations
But of the heart
Som...
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 5:43 am
Underworld
Underworld
Life here, life now,
be akin to a forced air environment,
the day pans out as before and,
the tickly cough and sore throat;-
a common denominator in our being.
Before all the labels were created
for observance of all and fully kept,
we had choice of being – besides
the submariner we now are,
there wa...
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 5:39 am
The Emptiness of Self-Love
Now, I am left with myself.
Not in the way I once hoped,
But in a way that feels cold, detached.
I whisper words of self love,
Yet they feel hollow, like rehearsed lines in a play
Where no one is watching.
I try to believe that I am whole,
That I am enough
But the shadows of my past selves linger,
The ones I sacrificed for love
That was never meant to last.
Now, love is not something ...
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 4:56 am
Also by KaliNova:
A Love That Faded |Live or Wait?
I don't know where it comes from
This pain I carry in my chest
It’s a weight I don't understand
But I keep going, as if the burden were my truth
There’s something inside me
A desire that gets lost in the shadows
But I insist, I insist
Because, maybe, there’s no other way to be
I looked into the abyss
And the abyss didn’t look back at me
Only the silence echoing within
And I, trying to b...
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 4:53 am
NaPoWriMo 2025
My personal project for #NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) is a tiny little project "resonant whispers" where I will write, short intimate pieces, reflections you could say, capturing the quiet moments and lingering feelings that shape our lives. Ghosts, personal experiences, raw emotions and the subtle beauty of the everyday.
For all of these poems, I will be stripping down my poetry t...
Tuesday 1st April 2025 9:52 pm
Watching Horses
That blind Mare
left alone by the herd as usual
shakes her head to gain short respite
from the eye blinkerings of Horseflies
soon to return
head lowered she snuffles about trying to find
a dewy grass stem to coil her tongue around
she cautiously saunters in my direction
stopping a few feet away from where I am
is she able to sense my pitying presence I wonder?
...Tuesday 1st April 2025 3:55 pm
On The Beach At Durdle Door
I awoke, on the beach
at Durdle Door
Pebbles jabbing their bony fingers
into the knuckles of my spine
Tear tracks make maps of cheeks
a brew of salt and sand
that cannot easily be brushed away
The alarm call of gulls above
they want my chips
But it’s 4am
and these hands are empty
with swollen palms
and throbbing skull
I have nothing to offer
them… or anyone
The busy sea endlessl...
Tuesday 1st April 2025 3:08 pm
Release Yourself
Let go of it all and release yourself…
Forget hiding behind the bookshelf…
Put all your worries and stress behind…
Maybe a bit of fun with a romantic grind…
Not thinking about the past or the future…
Just living the present with some humour…
There is no point in dwelling on things…
So, fly high with your gorgeous wings…
The soul needs pampering and rest…
Remember, you ha...
Tuesday 1st April 2025 11:39 am
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