Image: David Lester Young aka Ben Franklin, he is the Ben that I refer to in the Poets Three poems

 

03.04.16 - 19) End of a long flight,

landing always a delight

Luggage and car collected, change of intent

Drove first to the anthology event

Nothing to fear let the motel know I was here

It was alright, I’d be ther later that night

Then we took to the stage with our latest s...

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I swore allegiance to our Sovereign The Queen, her heirs and succcessors too.

Our Members of Parliament do the same, on behalf of me and you.

So I'll blame and shame those who are busy doing what they do -

Promoting and espousing the deeds and decisions of the ANTI-sovereign EU.

You can't plight your troth in favour of both; you can't be true to the TWO!

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Thoughts to writing,

Thoughts to speech,

Are, if you will,

A ball rolling down a hill,

 

The hill is my mind,

Consciousness is the shovel,

Ideas the furrows,

 

Ponder one way,

Be a channel,

Lose heart,

Be a hole,

 

I stand atop the hill,

A spark,

I release the ball,

Expression,

 

It's path dictated,

Ever dictated,

Carried down ideas pa...

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Maybe things have been more

Maybe things have been greater before,

But hearts change and feeling too

Why can't people understand when they do?

 

Didn't have it planned and don't have reasons why

But things have changed and left me so dry.

I don't want to loose the people I love so dear

But what's happening has always been my fear.

 

I try to back up, give myself some ...

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Baby otters are wonderful creatures

So I've often heard it said

They brush their teeth without demur

Before they go to bed

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a traitor of a thousand miles, i'll hold you in my shoe
push'd into my heels, step by step
those memories of black and blue
though time heels all wounds, it doesn't unbreak bones
chatter'd open in the breeze and brine
hanging like a laugh, swinging
alien on a face so tragic
painted with mascara, running toward gravity
running toward the sea
sprinting and tumbling and drowning
the wet san...

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I want to catch a butterfly.
A pretty little butterfly,
Delicate, Beautiful, curving, intense, vibrant.

But not trapped in a net.
She chooses my rough hand,
Rather than a rich flower to provide for her.
Not a conservative or vain butterfly.
Not one that flutters around you,
But has an aversion to touch.

A butterfly that longs to be admired,
In all her beauty,
Only by me.
To land on...

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TOENAILS BLUE

You know

I know that - you’re playing a game

You tell me you paint your toenails blue

You mess with my head - but you stay the same

All night you talk to…? I haven’t a clue

 

You know

I know that - there is only you

Behind your grin and bear it persona

Sparkling and dizzy - and heady just you

Fizzy like Tizer pop and Corona

 

You know

I know ...

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...clattered into the pane

like a meteorite of feathered rubbing,

beak and claw ensuring 

the whole room lifted an inch before rushing to the window,

now flecked with crimson loss and hairline fractures,

a scream trapped tight behind the teeth of a child.

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The wall, grey wall
It sits between the lines.
While the inside fiddles and fusses
Over prospects of the life.

A feeling here and there,
Yet hopeless and despair.
A jumble of the words,
Dancing like birds.

Chirp, chirp.
The words come out,
Seemingly nonsensical.
What to do when life becomes incomprehensible?

After everything that happened,
One stands at a loss.
Unable to toss,
...

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Ken says to us,

“Why all the fuss?

I don’t understand.

It’s hardly big news –

My thoughts on the Jews and

Their Promised Land.

I simply pointed out that Hitler wanted that too.”

How stupid of you;

You don’t have a clue;

Kenny.

 

It might have been dead and

All put to bed by

Bradford’s Naz Shah;

She offered MPs

Apologies

And blah blah-di-blah;

We a...

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Tea

Spoon

Rests

 

On bottom

Eager lip

 

Not too

Much

 

Just a

Little

Sip

 

Sip

Sip

Go on

Silly

Bitch

 

I’ll

Spoon

It in

 

 

Fill

You

Right

Up

 

With a

Menstrual  

Little

Piece

Of me  

 

 

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I could be kind

but when I meet the man

I can't help but think

 

You are a vile creature

 

How does your wife stand

to look at you now?

 

I'm not the best

at kindness, though.

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Every day I push myself through this world

Bending and creaking

Ejecting splinters so small 

Not even I can see them.

 

Every month I pull the wiry wigged head

Of humanity's shine to its own bastardization 

Closer to my breast 

Hoping its nuzzle will be less coarse. 

 

Every pay day it feels soft,

For a moment 

Then looks up at me with wooden teeth

And coughs...

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a muttering crowd gathers
'round a well of human tears
they lower dirt-sodden buckets to recover
the wet product of night terrors,
tumult and nascent fear

an ejaculate shower glistens
on the dead leaves and automobiles
while nature howls
then hunkers down in silence
posturing for the next kill

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All pigs are pigs

all hacks are hacks

 

Apply this logic

then stand right back

 

All black is black

all white is white

 

In the gulf between

you’ll lose your sight

 

and just might drown

in what you’ve sewn

by dumbing down

all that’s known

 

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They ran wild in woods

Full of bears

And carried bells 

And pepper spray

To keep the bears at bay

They knew no fear

The road was clear

Safety a written rule

They laughed and frolicked

And mocked the wild life 

with their bells

And hid behind 

Their pepper 

Until one day

Invited to stay

At a vets on the hill

In weather a 

little drizzly

He ...

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"Guilty?"

"Guilty!"

"Justice?"

"Justice?"

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To find the muse I know not how;

As skittish wench or sacred cow.

She’ll tantalise and lead you on,

But suddenly you find her gone

And left you with a knotted brow.

 

The words won’t come at all somehow,

As gloomily your head will bow;

Though you contrive to battle on

To find the muse.

 

Those hopeful dreams of verse endow

Your aspiration here and now

For ins...

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THE ROYAL CHARTER

(Wrecked off Moelfre, Anglesey 1859)

From Melbourne to Liverpool bound

in less than fifty eight days, by sail

and steam the Royal Charter comes

via Queenstown in Ireland and around

the Skerries with cargo of wool and hides

weighted with golden dust and coins

from fortunes made in a far off land.

 

To Moelfre’s razor rocks on Anglesey coast

a total...

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Theses days idk if I'm coming or going, I'm not sure if I'm walking backwards or forward.  I'm left to center, I am out of tune. My fire is cold and my ice is hot. Not sure if you're my best friend or my worst enemy. I keep digging holes that lift me to mountaintops.  My river has run dry and my desert is flooded. As I age another year my body grows younger.  As the time flies by it passes in slow...

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I love you and I trust you and just really want to say,

I know you wern't meant to stay by through the long, tiring days.

I love you guys and leaned on you in my times of need,

You protected me and cared for me and made me very aware of my need.

I see my need for family, the loving imperfected whole.

The ones who keep you close, even when you're mad and choose to take a stroll.

I...

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Have you forgotten? Oh so easily you forgotten. I am you. I am the darkness that consumes your primitive mind. Wrath,Lust, and Greed that eats the last ray of light in your soul. The carnal need that crawls under your skin. Ravaging your soul as I feast on your sins. Forever I will be the shadow haunting your primitive being

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I would have waited there

there under the scalloped canopy

where the firebuckets nestled

where a shadowed door waited too

with its brass handle loose with too much use

 

there I would have waited too

so that the day could progress

at a pace that suited the sun

in its lazy arc

before the day turned dark,

and the flower bed sprang

and the dusty broom loitered

 

...

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will welfare victims

wait for justice as long as

twenty-seven years?

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Is Always Be

Imamu Amiri Baraka taught, “Is always be,” I’ve interpreted it many ways because I’ve had time to contemplate what it means and why it resonates. “The changing same,” sometimes depresses me but mostly there’s assurance that I’m not the first to face struggles for freedom and self-determination in worlds fenced off from each other with barbed wire. Change like the Mississippi River ...

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Now you’ve done it.

Now we’re done.

You’ve waved the flag and brought the bull

You’ve been an astronomic fool

 

I’m just like you

the rage

the fire

In tremulous swell

 

I warned you once

I warned you twice

I even fucking warned you thrice

 

But there you go

You take no heed

And now you want to cry and plead

 

You drew back your arrows

And ai...

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This is legendary,

Probably.

 

When Botolph pillaged Burgundy

And stole Gengulphus’ Rod from a reliquary

He thought he was about

Divine appointed

Duty

 

He planted the naked wand in the precincts of

A long abandoned Celtic chapel

Across the Channel Sea

 

The desiccated stump

Like Aaron’s Rod

Flourished to a spreading

Yew tree

 

St Botolph’s Abb...

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What devils do I dance with

in the darkness

of my dreams

only those of a past forgot

that vanish with my screams.

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1.Sounding my horn

 

I was zooming up the road

The other day

Saw you on the pavement

Walking towards me.

Put the window down

Gave a few loud hoots

Of my extremely loud horn

Stuck my arm out of the window hole, and waved.

 

Ah!  Oh dear!

Sorry if I startled you.

Made you jump.

Gave you a heart-attack.

Wrong person.

A genuine case of mistaken identity.

...

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Sun Bleached Bones

 

someone put it in the sun

and hoped that it would grow

but others said it wouldn’t

and they were right you know

not everything that’s in the sun

is bathed in warming light

a lot of it is hard and cold

and isn’t very bright

 

someone put it in the sun

and hoped that it would sell

but right minded individuals

can tell a lie by smell

s...

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Without her I am nothing
Comparable to Christmas with a light dusting
I feel incomplete
I just need to hear her speak
To feel the brush of her skin,
To feel The warmth of her breath as our lips come to a close
I love her to an extent she'll never know
Young lovers caught in turmoil
Only finding hope in each other 
I pray to our God that we're together 

forever

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When your in my dreams it's bitter sweet.
I can see your smile
Hear your voice 
Feel your touch
Taste your kiss
Smell your skin
But when my eyes open your gone again.

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A two finger salute to reverance

I say fuck to peace on earth

Let the meek and mild rise up

And take paradise for all it's worth

Harmony be broken

Revelation anger filled

I pray angels turn to demons

In none acceptance of what's willed

Harps be smashed by celestial choirs

Halo's smeared with shit

In protest against self proclaimed lords of fate

On glory of heaven I...

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All I want is you,

but seems like yo ex-bitch still wants you too,

so what is a girl to do,

you must choose one and boy don't be no fool,

one kiss,

late nights and early morning conversations was all that it took,

I got sucked into you and I couldn't get enough,

time is never on our side,

but on our stick shift adventures,

I'd let you be the guide,

I'm not like the re...

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I am thunder.
I am the roar of the waves,
crashing, suffocating, breathing my howls 
into your bones. 
Smearing my wrath and power across your 
skin
and branding my smile onto your lungs,
a sight that cannot be obliterated.
I am the night.
I am the explosion of stars, 
the beauty of the eclipse.
The music of the moon, the dance
of the sun. 
The Earth foams with my words
and trembles ...

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If you live your life in fear

There exists a call you cannot hear

A call for reason, trust and hope

One that will pull you up, and

pull you from the downward slope

 

It comes from within, and not from outside

And it can flow through you, reaching far

and reaching wide

It is your call, and yours alone

So make sure you listen, and

always pick up that phone

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Oh President Barack Obama
'Dodgy Dave' might think you're a charmer
There to be seen
At the 'gig' for the Queen
So have some of this Instant Karma

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I remember when we were younger  , we were happy to be alive . Happy to work and strive , just happy . Never insulted in our streets , never spat at and insulted . Never had no go areas , hardly ever saw a gang . Our elderly were treated with respect . Rarlely were we insulted on the roads . Our food we knew where it came from , no chemicals brought in from abroad . We are being Threatened for bei...

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Malaria and dengue are among the main dangers of stagnant water, a breeding ground for the mosquitoes that transmit the disease.

Stagnant water can be dangerous with many kinds of bacteria and parasites that spread with ease.

A spring is a place where water naturally flows. Not only do springs come in different forms, but they also come in different sizes. 

Water from springs is usually c...

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What love what loss so close so long so long 

The birds carry on in song 

It's an awful walk up 

Do you ever get the feeling like you are being watched? 

Subconsciously being lured off course? 

Everythings not alright on the island tonight 

Lifes unfair 

Simple 

Something is going to happen 

But why? 

I swear I am a good person 

Sence supernatural weirdness in the ...

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There's a lady
who's known as the lady of the night. 
On the dot of 9-00 she arrives, 
with her fiery lips and fiery hips
dressed in colours that match her eyes. 
She totters on heels as high as a hand
and makes her way down the street 
to the place that she calls her place of work 
where her clients know that she’ll be. 
In driving rain she'll be there again 
as the drivers stutter on b...

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her smell of perfume so seductive..

as she passes by I got addictive..

caught my soul like casting of spell..

a lonely heart where she dwell..

inside this heart you will find a place..

crying eyes searching into the maze..

from darkness to light in this winter night..

like twinkling of stars an illusion so bright..

I left my shadow behind me..

come my angel set me free

...

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Rosemary

The smell of rosemary filled the house

It was the aftermath

Of lamb infused and bruised

With garlic and rosemary sprigs

Cut from a garden bush

Reminding me of that which

I love to brush past

The scent that lingers upon my fingers

Something I want to hover over

Time and again like a frenzied

Demented bee

Nectar to my nostrils

To all of my senses

Li...

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At nine Steve looks at me and says we may as well begin

and as I was the only one so far signed up to read that night

make my way to the gloomy stage between rows of empty

chairs and empty tables to a lone microphone that haunts

a threadbare carpet.

 

You start, I’ll round up a few more people. Steve disappears

downstairs to an indistinct moan of voices, clink of glasses,

s...

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Night my heart desired tight-knit And baggy in anticipation .............

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I just heard the news from Minnesota

Location Paisley Park on this Thursday

Early on the morning of April 21 2016

Prince Rogers Nelson passed away

I guess it’s a Sign ‘O’ the Times

When you wear a Raspberry Beret

Delirious you just got to Letitgo

Let’s Go Crazy in America okay

I wish you could Take Me With You

Cause Money Doesn’t Matter 2 Night

When U Got the Look of ...

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I`m a floating voter
Can`t make up my mind
Which I`m going to vote for
I`m just the wavering kind,
Whether to remain or Brexit
They`re worried where my one vote goes,
Should I stay - or head toward the exit?
I`m one of the great don`t knows.

Now my lady wife is having
The best time of her life.
Because they have to make a fuss of
A floating voters wife.
When they came to kiss the b...

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"Dearly Beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life"

PRINCE

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To say goodbye to Prince

Shirley Smothers

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