Winter had arrived
after the rain…

The sounds of their footsteps
on the softened ground
travelled gently…
Beyond the window pane…

In bed…Half sleep,
with the fresh winter light
warmly caressing his face…
Softly kissing his lips…

The artist wished for a dream…

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I wish that we could be together
But it looks like we're just getting colder 
I should probably put on my leather
Or maybe I should just write a letter

Love is pretty evil you should believe me
But I still leave my key under the rug
For the day that she comes home
Or the day that the sea rises up 
She knows that she has a place to go

I like the divorce myself in the drive that I have
...

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Spring Arrived!

The tulips are in bloom!

I am in great joy

because of you!

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Lose no hope

Monday, April 30, 2018

10:04 PM

God takes the test

and gives you rest

it will be the best he can offer

so later on, you suffer less

the body is prone to decay

and the death may have the sway

but nothing is taken away

without his wish and stays

you may recover soon

and come back with the boom

there is still room

and reason for yo...

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She said

You not going anywhere

I’m not going anywhere

So what can you fuck up...

How bout the possibilities 

Of what’s to come

If we become

My past life

Now interfering with my now

I carry old wounds

Scars from her

Not wanting them 

To become you

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To the bog again,

with the ghosts of forefathers looking on,

surveying the task before them.

Along the turf face, the marks of the sleán,

slim, practised cuts,

a tribute to skills passed down the generations

who have worked this land

beyond memory.

Still-damp turves to turn,

dry stacks to gather in.

Fuel to stave off the cruel winter about to come.

Fuel to feed the...

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Beds

To some it's just a bed,

Somewhere to sleep in oblivion,

suspended animation,

when to the world we're dead.

But sometimes

it's something else

instead -

A magic carpet to take us on a ride,

through epics and adventures

we may learn what's hidden

inside.

A bed to some may be a task,

a domestic chore,

Something we make 

and no questions aske...

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Snakes don't kiss.

I know this because I used to be one,

in a former life,

long time ago,

biblically speaking.

Snakes don’t kiss cos their hiss gets in the way,

and that long long tongue you see with the V?

Gets all tangled when two snakes frenchie.

No, snakes don't kiss.

But never take a bet on it,

especially with a snake.

'Cause apart from not kissing, ...

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She soaked him up

Like water in a sponge.

Saturated

She went to a bar

Had casual sex

Got squeezed

Then went back for more.

Satre, Kerouac, Cohen

Horizons that exploded

In her small town mind.

They drank to forget the words

Made love in a fug of helpless hope.

Talked about marriage

"Why not? Why the fuck not?"

In an existential kind of way.

Then the love...

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She only hears the rooster's call
In the morning and peeks deeply
At the sun's beams through the window
The way she reads a talking mouth.

She's twenty-two but thinks like twelve
Keeping fairytales in her nook
How a sixth grader reads a book.
Old papers hide in her basket

With her touch becomes piece of art
As she tears and folds the pages
Forming flowers, vases and doves.
She has c...

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SELF DEFENSE

 I just want to talk isn't what it seemed
 Speak and he would just vacuum your skin
A friendly face how mesmerizing.

A breach of the shell, a breach of the heart,
Into your soul, is how it felt piercing through the dark.

Running through your mind is how to say no, self defense is the way to go. Head spinning, eyes wide open but still can't see.

Mouth wide opened as if y...

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The night wears late

with cataclysmic debate.

Set fire from an ember,

lit long before eight.

Our molehills worn flat,

Meandering, this point to that.

It's vendetta based pinball (2 players!).

Another soul searching spat.

But then we arrive, at last to scene 5:

the finale as you take off to bed.

So exit stage left. Big finish? “Drop dead!”

The audience lef...

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Skeleton staff, always pleased to help,

pleased that they've come back to life

given yet another chance. 

Cheap to run, never complain

rise from the dead again and again,

no service issues, bang on time,

cheaper than robots, quite sublime

and full of humour, lots of fun,

collect in groups or one by one.

They know our thoughts and serve us well,

arrested...

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Time

The infinite space between life and death

Expanding contracting held in a breath

Lost in a moment born in a wave

Warm at the birth cold at the grave

In between we fail to measure

Add subtract hurry treasure

Learn expect wish and dread

Wake from slumber sleep abed

All the time, all the space

Held then wasted falls from grace

We own we lose we kee...

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I have a face

But it’s not my face

It’s a face with flawless skin

And I have eyes

But they're not my eyes

Lined in black

With upraised wings

And the glitter and gold above them

Is not mine either

Shimmering and throwing light

When I blink

And I smile

But it’s not my smile

A practiced smile framed with bright red lips

That are not mine either

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In the middle of the night Fiona awoke screaming in pain,

"Quick dear husband,ring the doctor,my appendix is driving me insane!"

Dave rang the doctor, whom he knew really well,

"Don't panic,took out her appendix four years ago,I remember it well..

Whatsmore I have never come across anyone with two appendix in my life."

"Thats fine,but have you ever heard of anyone having a new wife!...

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Silence seems to be practising on me
from that uncertain distance 
where the sky meets the sea. 
Looking so far without obstacle
I don't know what I perceive.
Is that the other bank of a vast river,
and how might things be viewed from there?

On a day like this great ocean is
laying foam upon the sands
awakening my toes way down there
miles above my head wide sky is
throwing halcy...

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Yes, I am bitter.

Yes, I am jealous.

Yes, I am insecure.

Yes, it hurts to watch.

Yes, I am not the victim. 

Yes, you are free to choose.

Yes, I may not be your first choice.

Yes, my best is still not good enough.

Yes, I cannot accept your rejection today.

Yes, I won’t be able to accept it tomorrow either.

Yes, I apologize, I am a burden to you because I am weak,

Im...

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Trees are so inspiring to me

Pillars of Nature, that live and breathe.

Have you seen Trees in the morning light ?

I never weary of that splendid sight.

Bark and branches dark and light

Sunlight contrasts them as day and night.

Winters starkness enhances delight

No distractions,  just , Trees and Light. 

Poetry reader may I suggest

See the Trees,  at my behest !

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How does a blind man, 

black man, 

orphan, 

born in disproportion, 

make his prospects 

better than his card decks? 

Let’s take a trip into his past life 

without life

while he tries to save his brother 

and brave his mother. 

Stay alive! 

He screamed at his younger. 

Stay alive! 

I need you my brother. 

But, no matter how hard he tried, 

he d...

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Folk Cut, folk thrust, folk fight

for a slice of life,

for peace and quiet,

for their health,

status, safety.

And folk cut you, slice you,

dice you and fry you

to gain relative wealth,

advantage,

their own ego.

So where you might be prone

to help, support and

nurture, advantage is

taken and

you get shafted.

Trust destroyed, isolate,

li...

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Feeling the fire that burns from within,the things I want to do is known as a sin.              Lips touching lips eyes are entwine, .       
us making love till the end of time.. let us 
pause and  look at the Stars, lost in the 
moment as we gaze.   In awe....   

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I've had thee, all mine
if thou wilt.
I'll find subtle way to cure 
tremble at the words.
My dearest June, love beckons.
drama~
Through every lasting place
thou promise of such
thy hearts desire, sweet June.
Mark me well, lair of earth,
murmur of the birds.
~~
Whatever approaches the beating wings
oracular of drama, world of pain.
 

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so what if we spent just one afternoon

scooping grains of unseen stars into the life of our hands

watching as the universe drips between our fingers,

we would stare at one another and breathe

together,

at once, as still, as beautiful as what remained.

so what if we spent just one evening

gathering the last of the sunlight,

we knew we could do it all again

as we knew...

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Sometimes, we love what we see.

Knowing not that there's a different view beneath the sea.

We try to make sense of superficial things when being real demands no explanation.

We live in a world where we chase smoke then feel the fire...

We love feeling safe in our little world and forget that sometimes we need to let go.

Let go and let the fire consume us

Feel what it means to be ...

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Widow Maker

In the mid 80s my dad took me to a plane crash in North Wales

It was a B-26 Marauder that hit a mountain

We climbed up to the area nearby

I froze when I saw our last climb

Up a seemingly vertical dry waterfall

There was only a bit of metal at the bottom

The rest was hundreds of feet above 

We had to ascend a series of rock ledges

These were like steps and gav...

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The times may change

Certainty may become uncertainty 

The intended may become the unintended 

Your beauty always remains.

The times may change

Invention may become folly

The creator may become the destroyer.

Your beauty always remains.

The times may change

Healing may become the disease 

The gift may become the poison 

Your beauty always remains.

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(I’ve always thought that literature lacked a fusion poem marrying a certain country and western singer with the achievements of Admiral Nelson and my Hampton.  This is my attempt to address this.)

I have a certain body part to which I’m quite attached

And as a Rear Admiral I think he can’t be matched;

So to this country singer this tribute I apply

So I call my willy Nelson cos he...

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Introduction before the curtain is opened.
-->The  introducer addresses the audience.


Instead of none-stop
Condemning the past
Let us do our part
To lift our country
From economic morass fast.
Better than licking a wound,
Taking corrective measures
On former leaders’ mistakes
We could
Capitalizing, on what
They did good.

(Open Curtain)

--> Enters Emperor Tewodros II

I...

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It has been a week now

Since I saw your face

I walk by your room 

Sadness overwhelms my body

I don’t want to open your door

Because I know you won’t be there

Sleeping in the house alone is different

The loneliness sets in when the clock strikes 10

And you’re not home

The dryer still full of your clothes

You shouldn’t be gone

I walk past the dishes in the sink that ...

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About Today’s fake Babas

Today’s babas are playing with religious sentiments of People

Fooling them for the sake of religion and God

They are well known by their followers in country and abroad

This is becoming every baba’s passion

Misusing people’s money and their blind faith are only their aim

Fake Gurus are hurting simple people’s religious beliefs

Betraying their foll...

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Why is it that when I am doing my best,

and feeling my best, 

I end up collapsing,

and starting all over again feels so hard to do

You just feel like the biggest failure

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Justice and Peace

Rumbling sounds warn of earthquakes

gathering clouds speak of an imminent storm

A vat of wine mumbles as it ferments

a child whimpers before it cries out

The sun rises to reveal the glory of the day

beneath the surface of life a new force gathers momentum

This is where we are

A challenge is breaking loose

to denounce corruption, prejudice and war

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where do I fall now?

I’ve left so many craters

find me by the holes

=======

where Birds congregate 

and people move too quickly -

there you will find me

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you hypnotize me

I call for your secret lies

you never said no

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I have now begun:

claw my way up from the void.

no slim light - not yet

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I think of all the things we didn’t need before

and the thought is enough

to make my heart open doors

that i never dared before to huff ... To

my heart gets warm to the things we accomplished before

and then I wake from the sweet dream that restored

the faith that once was sore

but its enough for me just for the record

you didn’t need a face to be heard

your lo...

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Painkiller

This world is brutal in its bitter way,

destroying beauty, tarnishing the good,

Hurting the carers, harming those who would

do better with their lives each passing day -

those who, despite all that the doctors say,

take back some control – if only they could

get up from where they drown beneath the flood

of good intentions. So today I pray:

when you’re hu...

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I’ve never known as many people now in this country . Who are against our country’s beliefs . Too far to the left . To ever set us free . They know how to please . It’s like a disease . Lots of people don’t want it . Can’t get rid of it . They know it can spread . It’s been a way of life for far too long . And we need to cut this badness out forever . 

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Their voices harshly clash

and will not lie calmly

or rest in our ears

in peace

They rise loud over all else

and do not fall to our key

but strike out at us

in dissonance

Our song is raised joyously

and the harmonies sing

of the love we know

in concert

We have our air so their words

smash and fall to the ground

they do not stay in sight

o...

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The breath of an early dawn in Spring

Is like a choir eager to sing

To remind us of all that life can bring

The renewal of hopes and dreams that cling

From the early times when life was young

And we found ourselves adrift among

Fellow beings like flotsam flung

On some strange shore to which we clung,

Each with an unspoken fate to face

Engaged in some unspoken r...

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If you're not careful you can get lost in the woods of your mind.
My piece of advice would be to bring with you a guide.

Someone to hold your hand and walk you through.
So that if something is lurking you have someone to hold onto.

Make sure the person you bring is trustworthy.
That they'll stick around when it starts to get scary.

Things go bump in the night and more-so in these woods...

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Just one spec of dust 

In the universe 

And I’ll survive alone if I must 

I’m waiting for your summation 

Your wisdom is a revelation 

Guide me teach me 

Follow through 

Don’t leave me stranded, reeling 

My stomach in knots 

This sinking feeling

You don’t love me 

and that’s ok 

I’ll just savor each day 

And when it’s done I’ll say 

I’m fine and show you I...

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What happened to my forks?

What happened to my spoons?

Where are all my bowls?

Swallowed by her room?

Scattered onto window sills

Underneath a sock or two

I'm sure my daughter didn't mean to

Leave my dishes in her room

Old something green

Hardened brown mystery

I recall there was once a floor 

Here

Beneath this travesty

All is well I'm sure

I'm sure I'll b...

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He slicks back his hair

And knots his cravat

This king of the dance floor

The world’s dapperest cat.

He can tap out concertos

With only his feet

And his Tango has been classified

As “officially sweet”.

His hot chocolate eyes

Say come dance with me

I’ll show you paradise

And if you’re very hungry

I’ll buy us strawberry ice!

He has tutored Fred Astaire

And h...

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incongruent and awkward

always fit well, one with the other

but each make beggars choosers

in this ridiculous world that hides

inside the disguise of normality--

in this world, the jester is made king

and, though supplicants

only sing his song in mock

he remains fixed and frozen

to the throne waiting

for what might be sung next.

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I’ve been stabbed by dead moments too often to hear the depths of my own voice driving to keep purpose loud and clear.

What would it mean to hear all?

How often is it true what one wills for them self?

How seldom is truth far below the surface.

What’s a will like this doing in a wasteland of misfits?

No one is where they want to be. 

Not a single one is satisfied. 

Be who you ...

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The greatest smile I have ever seen,
the most gorgeous voice I'll ever hear,
with stunning eyes that turn me to stone,
I feel like a child when I'm around you.

The little time that we spend together,
I wish it would last forever.
Talk about nonsense,
yet laugh at everything.

We create memories,
with only our fingertips,
never mind the spoken words that cannot be heard,
we make promi...

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I've got green stained knees 
they remind me of you.
its the color of what once was your room
that you always said you hated,
yet you never bothered to paint it.
where we stayed up till 4 am
dreaming of our future flat.
visions of blue walls
and pictures of waterfalls
because you were in to that sort of thing.
Now I'm laying in the summer grass
as God’s tears come trickling down,
storm...

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That first time I sensed you at the old Tocumwal railway bridge,

I peered out the window like a child

at the window of a lolly shop,

It was night,

I could barely see your glittering reflections

In the darkness, your breeze surrounded

My face with a scent of fresh cool water

And a hint of parched eucalypt

When I returned you welcomed me

like a fostering mother,

So...

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We tried to save you with small ads.

Free to good home, must collect

but nobody called.

We tried schools and churches,

community centres,

but none were prepared to accommodate you.

No room for the past,

no use for tradition,

and each back turned

was another key condemned.

Once we dragged you a hundred miles north,

and later a hundred back,

my faithful ...

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I met her once

Under a white moon,

On the lake

With a gentle breeze.

I stared at her

Not knowing what she’s thinking.

We reach out for each other

Under the beautiful sky.

We talk, laugh and sing.

I’ve never been so happy.

I look in her eyes,

I see hope,

I see truth,

I see all I’ve ever wanted to see.

That mystical glow,

The moon reflecting off...

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You scare me

You manipulate me

You used me for your gain

You thought you owned me

You weren’t in love with me

You were in love with the idea of me

You sucked away my happiness 

I tried to leave 

You followed me everywhere I went 

You degrade me when you have a tantrum 

You called me your wife and treated me like a possession

I don’t owe you anything

You changed ...

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Were I to write especially for you

Admitting emotions, far before they're due

Were I to feel a longing for your touch

Confessing my sin of wanting it too much

A noteworthy charm your messages convey

I can tell that you are smiling as you write to me that way

A playful endeavour as we natter back and forth

Both parts teasing as we equally want more

Were I to m...

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My dreams they have died
Buried deep within myself
Hope to renew them

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I know not from when you came.

How my insides echoed hollow.

I know not where my conscious went.

My mind forgot to follow.

I knew not of what empty meant.

At least for a couple of hours.

I know not what empty meant.

 Our love forever flowers.

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Sharp blade cuts I panic

Trying to get past them

The problem solving never wrong

I told you so people.

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what is a dream; what is reality?

what is death; what’s on the other side?

it’s perhaps our vulnerability

our most distressing convictions

our most dreadful nightmares…

what if you die tonight?

how do we differentiate between

what is considered to be reality

and what is deemed to be a dream?

in what we assume to be the reality

is the actuality effectively a ...

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Abraham told us to come again

next year when the sky would

pother with ash from the fires

because right now we could not

see the stars just the faceless

children playing basketball on

the streets and you know they

never miss a shot so we spent

the year in our tiny homes with

aggressive mould coating the

walls and the things we gave

names to like Table and Lamp

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A chair calling the anxiety I call bad, misinterpreted.

A doll covering a hole in the ground calling my shallowness vague.

Through the light, where I can see, leave me no room for doubt.

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I've been trying to fill a void, shamelessly I have to admit 

by subsituting our late nights in with even later nights out 

Friends once lost or forgotten reappear into the abyss that long ago were hours I would have dedicated to someone else 

Like water filling a gap in the ocean floor, it is difficult not to let them pour in

But these are the friends I need

Night time drives with ...

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Pain

Pain

All I know

All I ever will know

Is pain

Because of

One mistake

One action

One mess-up

In a flawless life

We got seperated

Far away from each other

Where we thought

We would be better

Off at

I let him go

Out of my reach

Where it would

Be next to

Impossible

To get him back

Into my life

Into...

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This night oh this dark and lovely night where the moon dances with my eyes and till the sun rises again

I have not felt a pain so uneasy as this in years it brings me to the edge of my seat

My heart wont miss a beat

The heavier my eyes grow the more the night glows

And I must refuse to sleep

Body exhausted and my mind a bottomless pit of potential

Thinking of things of old and n...

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You speak awkward 

Struggling for words

Yet you captivate

with your desire to be

Someone who cares

In the clean gaze of your eyes

Honesty is a realm 

Corporeal

I drink in your tears

They cleanse my mind

And bathe my soul

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                 Paradise Lost?

Big adjustment.  Nothing like retirement.

One minute, I’m your average day to day man -

up at first light, a couple of grapes, then

on with the day job:  Emu; Elephant;

Duck Billed Platypus; Lesser Spotted Toad…

biodiversity makes a demand

on imagination.  But when I tired,

I thought of her under the tree: first bride,

always smiling, beau...

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Oh, to spend some time

Precious ill got

Away from the feathers and the flux

Of human intercourse

Where everything is either split or spilt

Or spat out and declared

Behind waves of words

Some unspoken

But more often not

Sent crashing one upon another

In costume covered gloss and paint

All froth and fancy

From those who fail to observe

The cautious perplexities

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The Mask

So softy sealed her lips keep all,

The hurt and pain only she recalls

From dimming the light of someone’s day,

Just to hear the words ‘are you OK?'

A disguise so real, no one would know

The day to day struggle I long to show,

Through the beauty and laughter of a delusory mask

It’s no wonder they don’t even stop to ask

If my life is still perfect as soo...

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broken masonry

Not for me another love
like choking fear
It will not budge
I dare not blink
for it now seems
by choosing drink
I dwell in dreams.

I grind to bits
my words and teeth
when searching through
my history:
to lift above
what lay beneath
all that broken masonry.

Words and foto Tommy Carroll

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Shadows lurkin' in the dark
Mingling, dwindling, taking new forms
As if like mist they've risen suddenly
Clear, murky or grotesque figures
Each shadow has its own story
First there's a tall girl caressing her child
Though it's shadow I can feel her smile
It evanesces gradually to take a new form
A toddler chuckling, chased by its mom
Next I see the child grow tall
And a labouring mothe...

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Your the essence,
The essence of love,
The essence of life.

Your my soul,
Your my heart,
You reside over my mind.

Your part of me,
Your in everything i do,
You make every thought i have.

I feel you, always,
In every breath,
You give me the strength to breath.

Your in the warmth that brings me to life.
Your in the chills that make me alert.
You give my heart the strength ...

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Only One Winner

He dropped a glass

On my stone floor

And there was only one winner.

She breathed her last

Was at death’s door

And there was only one winner.

He took a chance

She faced a threat

And there was only one winner.

He lived a life,

He paid his debt

And there was only one winner.

My nights were dark

The sun arose

And the...

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My lip has been chewed off;
your words, carved well into my bones.
I concede, I had given myself entirely
to an unquenchable longing.

You were astonishing -
some glimmer of Moon's depth -
and my toes found their way through shadow and bramble
to feel in the shallow reaches of your arcane lake-
only if for a moment.

Swam in dreams of what it must taste like
to belong to this earthly p...

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A Trunk holds branches

that then support the new buds

all fed by the roots

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                Ocean Locked Blues 

This could be our legacy 

These are words that help us breathe

Get through our anxiety and hatred 

These are voices that make us stable

This is our energy that stays in a constant frame

An Advocate with a generous grace

that keeps your ambitions intended straight 

so you can fight through a somber night

Smile cause you only get to see ...

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Birds chirping

Praising the beginning of a new day

As the sun rises

I look into your eyes and see

The glory of God staring back at me

Even though at that moment

Feeling unworthy

Yet still acknowledging the fact

That his Blessing was conceived

Thankful for another day

To be close to you

As our souls intertwine into one unit

Formed from a love that was given to us

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I remember a time together

Things were so easy 

We were so happy 

I never thought we'd make it here

Where all our love has dissapeared

I long to hold you close

But your heart no longer craves me the most

The saddest truth you'll hear

To me you're still dear

I wait for the day 

Where our hearts align 

In my mind

Your heart belongs with mine 

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devil's sympathies 
dried up streams 
where letters used to be

smoke-filled rooms 
warm with murmuring lips
rumors left vacant as coal dust

chalk outlines traded
for slow leaks of nitrous oxide 
and the velveteen burn of a leash

taut teachings of how to loosen up 
and laugh again

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{Fear} 

The morning dew is

on my shoes the birds

are chirping and singing

their tunes as the

morning sun brightens

up the sky with warm

crisper air that made

you take a deep breath

into your lungs waiting

to exhale 

And 

I fear 

And as the birds goes

silent and the clouds

went a dark bluish gray

with the sun gone

behind t...

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My mind goes into a blank state

who's on first what's on second

Want to believe what I hear

know a lot is not clear

from the mouth of a liar

On shaking ground

when all can not be compared

due to closed mouths 

of those too scared

to share their truth

The liar is loud

and proud

he causes others pain

pores down rain

on their heads

hopes to ...

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A little thumping fist

Rhythmically pulsating

With one hand on your chest

Another on your knee crouched over

                                                            Running yet again

                                                            You look back but not front

                                                            A glimmer in the distance

                  ...

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Special wishes for the day that arises

the day that breaths fufilling hopes and suprises

resting in the spirit of giving and thanks

puts things into perspective cuz love desires no rank

take pride while we ride in unity

the days also giveth and taketh then they are through with me

they feed my sanity

up front with less scrutiny

my verbal words provide the truth in me

so ...

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whenever i found out i was pregnant with you,
i was so happy and filled with love i could feel my heart literally melt...
whenever i found out i’d be losing you, and then i lost you,
that was the most painful thing my body and heart had ever felt...
you gave me the greatest joy, and also the greatest pain... 
you so quickly made me full of life, and then when i lost you, with you my life had ...

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Will you notice me?

Where are you?

don’t this just send chills up your spine. 

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There were tears

Rolling down my face.

I never was a pretty crier,

So I looked away.

Heard your voice

Over my heavy breathing,

Crying harder when you said

You weren't leaving.

I hold tight to everything;

Knuckles white from my grip.

If I let go, even a little,

My whole world could slip.

I've been afraid, though,

To hold onto you.

My heart ga...

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Image: Got a seat near the emergency exits on the main flight, much more leg room.

31.03.18 – 17) Bags packed ready to go taxi waitin’

No time for debatin’

Quicker than catchin’ a fast train,

I’m leavin’ on a jet plane

Flyin’ high in the sky like a bird on the wing,

Let those engines sing

An’ I’ll be found Texas bound

So now I’ve written this little rhyme

It’s get m...

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More  than a reason, alive and new

You are so gracefully insane.

You are a thousand things.

As always and one more time

You just sit on the line.

Yet nothing is a big deal

And to be different,

So being in your madness 

And dreams that storms,

And those chunks of missing pieces

Your path meets,

But rarely crosses.

Such pretty things you said to me.

For all is ...

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day the night

pain to happiness

alone in your arms

black, white

buds, blooms

rip, leap

3 hours

this heart feels it belongs to you

my sweet dreams.

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Some gets it free,

and others to pay fee,

since they have to earn,

for their own life's spree.

Those who have pleasure,

remain busy in its measure,

unwilling to seek the value,

of colossal within treasure.

Those who really seek,

without getting bleak and weak,

are the real heroes,

who will eventually reach the peak!

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Before my Eyes

the image came to life:

blue lava wails and flares its stifled tongue,

splenetic, sharp and surly-

licking waves which,

cresting ever higher,

catch upon the wind and rain-

crashing down upon

the sailors and the ships

and I can almost feel it,

the ocean’s spray upon my cheeks-

the tension rising

with the wave,

smotheri...

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Whether it was going to an all boys' school,

Growing up in a religious subculture,

Having parents that didn't let you develop

Or provided no template for living

Say you are one of those guys that missed out

On intimacy in your teenage years

How do you ever recover?

Laying in bed lonely for all those nights.

Not even having dates with girls your age.

No girlfriend.
...

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Rise and take breath of newly found freedom.

Rise and take breath as those weighted shackles are gone.

Chains made of the heavyest stone are broken lost to you now are you rise.

Finally there is light.

Finally there is air.

Finally you can breath.

Freedom has been granted and given freely.

It asks no payment only that you take this chance.

Finally there is a shift, a chance...

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The Scientific Enlightenment came at no small cost

Imprisionment, blasphemy, books burnt, the Inquisition, internment  death

The Secular, Spiritual  Sceptical, Scientific spirit survived and slowly tamed Christian fundamentalisn.

Now, a new constant vigilance is the price we pay as unreformed superstition seeks to re-establish a new dark place in the west - truly it is difficult to f...

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Not always easy me and mum

But sparks ignite loving hearts

And fire up a love that runs and runs

Firing true for my mum and me

Special relations mums and sons

As I’ve seen so clearly, with my own ones

Maybe too alike, maybe too different

Sparks just happened along the way 

Both too stubborn, both never to give in

But the clashes only stood out, because really so few

P...

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Hi Im parker a hopeless romantic
Ive been single forever but i dont panic
I have so many goals i need to manage
So i smoke weed and go on drug binges to stay average
Because i noticed im being to passive
Why am i so alone
Is it because im always home
I try new smiles
Create new styles just for the
Lovely ladys that catch my heart
But when she see i want to be more then friends
She stops...

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A Taste of Hell!!!

Where does self-respect sit

In the minds of those who weep

For a burglar –without guts- who

Into a pensioners house did creep

His motive –with an accomplice- was

To brow-beat, so they could steal

From an O.A.P. and his disabled wife;

Such a deed has No-Manly appeal

Through fear for his sickly wife

That pensioner retaliated – thinking ...

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These thoughts that run through every crevice of my mind. The harmful things that touch and ruin the most precious moments, I can’t stop them. The bad that always overtakes the good. The evil that somehow breaks everything that I once loved. Society has broken my view of perfection. Not only my view of perfection, but it has broken me. Into millions of pieces that will never be able to join back t...

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Sabotage
It came from out 
Of somewhere...
A place deep within
You, never let you 
Settle in with the thought
Of us being close friends
Every laugh, every tear,
Every wrinkled brow, every smile
Never fully developed, always stopped Before it matured 
Because you never felt
The authenticity of any of it
How can I realistically
Have a rapport with you
This affinity is bogus
What bond?...

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I board the plane at Budapest; please fly me back to where my heart is.

OCD has followed me, nowhere to be seen during my trip then it sneaks into my backpack, managing to get through security and boarding pass checks. Surely not I ask myself, what has triggered all this hell?

“2hrs 50mins flight time” the pilot announces till the plane is back on land and I just sit with my head in my hands...

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Tight embraces were never my thing. 

I hugged you, you smelled of regret and heartbreak. 

You smelled so good and somehow the smell made my eyes start to water. 

As I was walking away I almost felt like I was helpless. 

I’ve become trapped; 

Within your smell, I was helpless.

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I have broken my own heart tonight

Crawling from a torture well and into a deadly flight

I lost control and took a life

I have broken my own heart tonight.

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There's one person whos always stuck by me

Through until the end

They have taught me what it means

To be human

What it means

To be loved

They have shown me the way

Let me catch the world in their lense

Told me the hard truth

But i always needed to hear it

They show me who is important

Who is necessary

And what i deserve

“The world is too much,...

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He was fine until this day
But never knew it would have pay
All his happiness and plan to saved
All his joy will end up grey

Days that he would commit with
Plans that he could have submitted
Now his face looks drown
On the other side of sea of sound
With no one else to be with
With no one else to clear it

He may seem so normal
Act like everybody else
But deep inside
His heart...

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 stomach in knots 
in a race against my thoughts
if you get caught -
that just means you 're fucking up
you can keep ducking but 
it 'll all catch up eventually
they say luck comes in threes
but it 's four unlucky years later
and i'd have to disagree
blood sweat and tears pave the streets
down here if you're weak it 's like a life threatening disease
no one believes in luck , they ...

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It pains me to think:
we’ll never go to another sporting event
we’ll never make our favorite meals
we’ll never lay in bed, watching our favorite shows
that we’ve seen countless times
we’ll never watch new movies together
we’ll never eat at the same old places
“Let’s go somewhere new tonight”
when it comes down to the final decision
“Let’s just go here and play it safe”
we’ll never drive ...

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Life is too short and so

to save time,

to be efficient.

I wear an Einstein wardrobe;

white blouse, black jeans, boots, yet

when a kaleidoscope of colour

flounces before me, I envy

the flamboyance,

briefly.

I indulge in the dream of being

free to reside in sparkling rainbows

simply dancing, with no destination

kicking away scrumpled up “to-do” lists

tossed asi...

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Settling with being

By myself

But not lonely

To many trial runs

More than enough practice

Experienced enough
To know what I can handle

Open an published

letting one listen to my audible

past times,mistakes, struggles,and pain

Having a pretty face, good heart, steel mind, fashion identity,slim,sexy body means nothing even though it's attached to my brain

I think back ...

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Thread-bear walks away, brave and curious

Travelling down a road

Knowing nothing about time and space

Happiness of the hangman, as

the Death Row fly is executed.

Silken threads, falling heart strings

There is death in crowns and crones, in the tender air

We are always cutting threads - or weaving them.

I slipped on folded paper that has more than pa...

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Those times when you’re feeling too much 

and speech gets lost in the folds of fatigue. 

When you’re feeling too much and can’t call a friend, 

or stomp it off, or sit in a park and stare through trees. 

When you’d trudge to the corner shop, if you could, 

hoard jam rolls and wine for crying; 

walk for hours outside the neighbourhood,

stand rounds at a pub you never set f...

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Friends...

I never want to go back to old me

Cuz the new me.

Knew I was a phony

It showed me, that if I stayed the same

I would have more homies

Now that im lonely

no one really knows me

Time flys like 0h three

and friends fade away like kobe

Meaning, no one wants a friend that grows slowly                    

But a friend that grows coldly

Numb, to every c...

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The shell in which you see before your eyes can play tricks on your mind. Do you see the angel with the heart of pure love or do you see past that into the core a red hot devil looking to play with the fire of life. Mesmerized you will get to close an be consumed. Better to not let this demon catch your eye. Stare too long and he will notice you before you’re able to look away

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Life is changing..like a season

I've been stuck in the same place..for the same reason

Loneliness came into my life like a wave

It will splash me outside from the cave

Struggles are getting harder day by day

Hopes are in my mind as well as in my heart in everyway

Sometimes I feel like I can't do it anymore

Wanna go far away and sit in the seashore..

Giving up will make me a...

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Liquid droplets on my skin
Acid rain? Panic again 
Fellow walker on a journey 
Smile. It's my style. 
Will they smile back? I ask 
Yes! He did 
Will this one respond in like?
Not quite. 
The first sign of cold hard pity. 
Not my city. 
Maybe now I'll dodge a frown 
I'm a clown
A strained reply shows me why 
Eyes full of blame. 
Why should I feel shame? And now
Disdain. 

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slowly slowly stronger

reaching slowly higher

building slowly taller

feeling slowly tougher

better slowly forward 

no turning back now

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PORCHES OF SUBURBIA

She's delivering leaflets again,

urging residents to oust their charlatans

who'll vote through a bad deal

then claim they had no choice.

The people here are house proud,

they all have pretty porches and loiter

in back rooms until they think she's gone

then emerge to examine the leaflet.

In her old country they'd be outside

at this ho...

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The masks that we wear  by Esther Daphne 

  The face that you see

  is not truly me

  It’s the person you want me to be

  I do it to make you happy

My smile hides a thousand tears

And my courage hides my fears

I have hidden my pain for years

So that my misery doesn’t fall on your deaf ears

My body is just a robot that walks

My mouth, a clip that talks

My ...

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I WILL ALWAYS... . 

I WILL ALWAYS 
---------------------------

I will never       
Feel cupids sharp sting 

I will never
Buy a wedding ring 

I will never
Lose my male pride

I will never
Kiss my blushing bride

I will never
Have hitch to shoulder

I will never 
Carry or hold her

I will never
declare " i love you" 

I will never
"Stick to you like glue". 

I w...

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Your imperfection make you perfect

Your flaws cause me to love you. 

Seeing you brings a smile to my face

if only the feelings were reciprocated too. 

My my heart flutters with excitement

All I can do is smile.

If only you loved me too

Then you could perhaps hold me for a while.

The array of cute jumpers you own

and tight jeans you wear. 

Cause me to fall ha...

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A guided gloaming giant tarantula
Umbilically detached 
Sans the smart med pilot
Outreach mode ~ kinetic
Sweeps low over the cattle throng
Protesting occupation
Collective punishment
..moan moan and moan..

One difficult child tap-tapped
At eleven o' clock 
A thrill-seeking laser-threaded precision shot
The stencilled oriflamme crowd gathers
Scrambling and scrambled numb
As the pulsi...

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I don’t hate you for all the promises made that you couldn’t or wouldn’t keep.

I don’t hate you for convincing me that when I looked in your eyes I was seeing the future.

I don’t hate you for the passion in your kiss that seemed to always promise there would be more.

I don’t hate you for fooling me into thinking you were the one that was different. When in reality you were just the same a...

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You’re beautiful. Belle Ame, French, for beautiful soul. I cautiously use the word beautiful, simply because the word holds so much power. It may be overused in it’s context, but within mine, it holds virtue.

Rain is beautiful. The smell of rain, the taste, the sound, the feeling on your skin as it seeps into the thread of your clothing. The way it collects in puddles on broken roads, or how it...

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Airy Atom, Arrow At Anger, Anxious, Add Angle And

Bark, Boys, Bright Birds, Bubbles Burst, Balls Bounce By

Clouds, Calm Cool Colours, Cratylus Chrysalid, Change,

Dark Dour Deadly Depths, Dawn Dreamy Days,

Ends Evolve Each, Ears, Early Echoes, Entry, Earthy

Folk Fight, Fail, Fiery Flux, Fears For Food, Farm, Float, Fly Free.

Good Green Grass Grows, Girls Gravely Give Ground, Gravi...

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I live in a world that often surprise me.

Where you have to stand on your own if you wanna survive, 

where emotions are a bad thing and someone who plays with them is categorized as 'the funniest person alive', (and it's your fault anyway cause on scale of -627-0 you feel five) 

where the highest value is to get laid before you at home hug your wife,

and where dogs are appreciated more...

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??Love isn’t a choice it’s what we’re programmed to feel 

You can’t hide it forever 

No ones hearts made of steel 

Yes superman tried and he fell for Lois Lane 

Only 007 was a sinner because he kept playing the game 

But long lasting love is a one time thing 

It’s something that when it starts ends in a ring 

Let your love find a home 

Let your heart and soul find a place t...

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Lost most days 

but you are here 

Showing me the way 

Showing me light 

My dark days are when i sometime forget you...you seem to always bring the shine

I've struggled and then I realize that because of you im still here 

Learning my lessons that need to be learned 

Praying all day long 

Praying that I can just make it through 

Praying that I will get to know you better 

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Words

Purr and coo.

They kiss and snicker.

They lick, they lap.

They bite and snap.

They kick like hell

For the best position

Of their exposition

In the thought

On the line

Of your erudition.

Yours!

Your brain!

Machine of inflection

Reflection

Deflection.

Words!

A petition for grace

A plea for value.

Words!

Loving – lyrical -

Damaging ...

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I Do Not Like You

I do not like feeling alone,
Like every person I have ever spoken to
Has a face made of marble -
Bitterly cold stone.
I do not like remembering you,
Seeing you when the lights in my room have been
Turned out, I do not like
Tabacco flavoured kisses and
Never-ending apologies or
Tequila laced embraces of
Falsified ecstasy,
I do not like breathless.
Weightless, fallin...

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Twilight hues threw a perfect bull’s eye on the drip heavy spider’s web

that still filled a perfect pie slice on the grubby window pane,

the slow sun drew shadow shapes on the flocked chimney breast

with the fading ghosts of beech leaves and telephone poles.

I closed the door, started making quiet camp with the chairs,

nodding to my old friends the barometer, the clock

and the ol...

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I'm putting together a poetry trail for the New Mills Festival. The festival begins 14 September and runs for three weeks. Poem will appear in shop windows throughout the town. We will have a round-robin poetry reading for participants on 26 September 2018 at The Butterfly House at the Torrs. The deadline for submissions is the end of May, but I'm accepting poems as I go, so it is best to get them...

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At first I was angry the only thing running through my mind was how did I not see this coming how did I not notice I was being played like a puppet and you were  the puppet master .                             While everyone sat back and watch the show this was my My life , it was just an act in a scene for you I guess you were the major star and I was the extra, and your assistant. running a...

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In here is the history of the world,

a wretched depiction of life’s poorest victims.

The deluded moth venturing all night

at the dim window trying to reach the moon.

The spider plucking his web

as the fly drowns in the toilet bowl.

Here is the threshing floor

we teeter across clutching our suitcases,

the butcher shop with

it’s the blood stained alter,

th...

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My Loved Ones

I love you; bitch!

I love you; idiot.

I love you; shut up.

I love you; leave me alone.

I love you; go away.

I love you; what’s the matter with you?

I love you; you’re killing me!

I love you; I really do.

I love you; what’s wrong with me?

I love you; forgive me.

I love you; I’m sorry!

I love you; Thank you.

I love you; I love you; I love you...

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to cry outloud

When your life takes that turn and you dont know what to do,

who do you turn to? what do you say?

for as i sit here my heart breaking so hard,

i couldnt say to a friend that i need a shoulder at heart,

for all my life i suffer in silence,for not to be a burden on those who are unknown to my hearts inconvenience,

as i cry for the events that have passed

i feel so...

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Our friendship is like the sky
Sometimes,
It is cold and unbearable
Sometimes,
It is stormy and full of tears
Sometimes,
It lashes like lightning
Then it hurts us both

But just like the sky
It will always clear up
It will always be warm and bright
It will always remain blue and sunny
Because no matter
How many storms pass through,
How many lightning blades strike,
No matter how ma...

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Pulse drums my ears,
red and burning no tears,
right hand stiffening sinuosly deprived of freedom,
weighted feet,
dim lit corridor,
the far off chatter,
hands burn,
the rain has stopped only outside,
I wait in the blind moments,
ticking,
dripping,
I drain away into the street.

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Without selective compassion

We’d go mad in the streets

Outside of bubbles

Things get deadly

Well-designed products

Reassuring labelling

Consumed without drama

H&M, IKEA, Aldi’s

But the Guardian’s front page

The NPR story

The man on the corner

Doubts go on hiding

I see you tomorrow

I hold you closely

While that figure in the window

G...

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I see it everywhere,

being laughed about, tormented

“Ha! Triggered!”

If only it could be prevented.

This generation needs to grow up

stop being so damn sensitive

a bunch of babies who can’t cope

well how about you stop being so damn negative?

“Kill yourself!”

Ha, wait, is that a trigger?

Not yet, but it will be

when you realize you’re the killer

...

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Have faith

not in superficial distractions that only temporarily satisfies, 

but that you can seek and receive everlasting forgiveness and love from our God.

Have faith

not in your own faith,

but in the greatness of our God.

Have faith 

in the size,

in the strength,

in the power of our God.

Have faith,

despite doubt.

-- Be strong, grow from life's most ardu...

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For what we speak 
In every voice peak
Words pack punches
Immeasurable inches
Faster than thought travels
Unreachable levels
For words spoken
Are no token
But are like a sharp knife
Hot to slice through life
Change direction course
Without determining cause
For what has been said
For purpose of being heard
Cannot be on reverse gear
Be put in rear
Neither can it be tippexed
Permane...

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Spic, wetback, beaner,

Border rat, pepper-belly, orange picker,

Names commonplace now

For Latinos and Hispanics,

Names,

Used to break,

Used to hurt,

Used to kill,

The orators:

Ignorance, Malice, Contempt

But most importantly

Fear.

Fear of what is different,

Fear of what is great,

Fear of what has always been great,

For the sun shone for centuries

On ...

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Crucified.

Between thieves.

Bloodied.

Tortured.

Innocent.

His crime? The age old story.

He scared those of lesser brain.

Dared to shift his perspective to a higher plane.

A sacrifice, inevitable though tragic, a life for our lives.

And, on an exhalation of weakened breath, his final question.

"Why have you forsaken me?"

I'm still not sure I understand, or have an a...

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Delilah’s silent look

is as bitter as a headache,

and as silent as the engine

of a 1953 Cadillac Coupe.

Her slender hands

dig down the depths of that

Mulberry satchel,

and once her cigar box lies unfastened, she quakes no more—

Delilah is frantic no more.

She now gazes at me through brittle eyelashes,

and nicotine-stained nails, her fingers like

fetters...

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The Stoner

There be a stoner, a mighty old one, wrinkled skin, twisted toes, frail and fragile, as if a tiny little nudge can dismantle his assembled soul. He’s not a person, not at least now, may be once, but long forgotten. Now he is a shadow of a soul. He is fragmented so is his mind. He would talk you through rubbish and say nothing, but then when you least expect it he says the thing. Spec...

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It was cool When I first became fool

By larry

In sadness I ate Cadbury

In the month of January

Which belongs to uncle barry

In the end of march

He asked me sorry

On that day he asked me for a date

So at eight ,

I straight

Wore the gown , with the hair brown

I was fine so reached at nine

At the venue, wait for menu

Whole night I sat with that cat 

It wasn't...

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Do you remember how we used to savour the pins and needles on our tongues?

Do you remember how we used to bite into bitterness?

lick the spit of life

I was turned on by brokenness

maybe it’s cliche

that I craved pain

swallowing broken bottles

it's lined my pockets

it's swollen my stomach

Do you remember when we saw ‘sad’ as just another crayon

to colour ourselves in w...

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The excellent Bonnie's Crew website has just published one of my poems 'Premature Birth'.
 

Without going into personal details too much over Kate (who set up this project)'s personal background but Bonnie’s Crew was created after problems through the birth of Kate’s youngest child and the hard work Leeds Congenital Hearts put it for her. Paraphrasing the site, the unit is funded by the Childr...

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I am somewhat given to melancholy, Lord,

Said the Fool,

And though I would give you the mirth that you crave,

All that I work is coloured by sadness,

Whatever I will.

My mother cried when I was born

And there was no star to dance

By way of salvation

And I was coloured by that,

Whatever I will.

And whatever I will my colour is black:

The colour of warmth, ...

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Another Day (Write Out Loud 1-4-2018) – Foolishness

Another Day

The clattering on the cobbles

of clogs, now fade away

and dark November dawn brings

another bitter day

of making do; attempting

to keep all her kids fed,

determined they should never

again, go starved to bed

And, as for her, her hand shakes

as she fills up the pot:

a cup of tea: ...

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New Year passes without a sound
Last firework fallen to the ground
Memories of a season been and gone
As folk continue and life goes on

Shops have stripped the shelves so bare
of festive gifts we all have shared 
It’s time to stock the store with eggs
and cram them in on every ledge

But what does Easter mean to me?
I can’t compute I just can’t see!
They say a man He bled and died
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