ON EDGE
Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash
Black sun on the run
born a mute
not too cute
on my back, sans coat,
sans hat,
on my back
no fringes of lace
around my face
I’m intact at last
I fling curses
at the stars
bury my wishes
in old jam-jars.
turn mere shadows into shades
hold my breath
for an age
i kiss a lion
In a cage
condemned
at the root
& in a rage
I evade
an early grav...
Friday 31st May 2024 10:44 pm
Also by John E Marks:
SUBLIMITY | ANGELUS BELL | AWAY TO THE CRAGS, WHERE EAGLES SOAR | REINCARNATION | THE MOMENT BEFORE HAPPINESS | LITTLE BOY FOUND | WICCA, WITCH, WIZARD | WALKING SOLO | INFANT MORTALITY | The Armenian Genocide 1915 - 1923 | FORGET-ME-NOT | "Beauty awakens the soul to act." Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) | A cloudy day in early May in old England | Radix malorum est cupiditas | The Christie |Sounds of a Demonstration
Sounds of a demonstration
The distant cacophony
of loudhailers
carried by the gentle wind
into the green park
it’s starlings scattered,
searching diligently
for bread bits fallen
from the visitors’
tables and laps,
with their coffee stains,
onto the ground
below as the
sound of rhyming
chants float through
the air like
soft drums on a...
Friday 31st May 2024 8:50 pm
Also by 'Michael Martinez':
Sounds of a Demonstration |Jealous Cat
Soft and fluffy
Ball of fur
Curled up tight
Contented purr
His favourite place
Right on her lap
But Hey what's this?
A DATING APP!
Am I not the one
Who gives her Love?
Now all of a sudden
It isn't enough
Her eyes are glowing
As she scrolls
The screen
All these faces
I've never seen
I don't see men
Just a bunch of mice
If they come...
Friday 31st May 2024 6:13 pm
The Last Train
We stood on the bridge watching
the train approach
The steam dampening our faces
as it passed under
It was warm, then cold
I grabbed my brothers hand
and we ran to the other side
But, the train had gone,
along with my brother.
The imprint of his hand
still lay in mine
But time had taken them both.
I stood there for days, weeks,
Perhaps, months
Perhaps,...
Friday 31st May 2024 4:32 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
New Labour... | Save the children |Bard Work
I’ll tell you of a writer, Bill the Bard as he was known,
a bloke that wrote a load of plays and verse.
He started out when good old Liz the First was on the throne,
and gave his actors plenty to rehearse.
He wasn’t all that famous but he got some well-earnt praise,
and coined some phrases never used before,
like green-eyed monster, elbow room, and also salad days,
so wel...
Friday 31st May 2024 2:39 pm
Also by Trevor Alexander:
The Game | Red Brick Boxes | Loss | Who Cares |Tearing up the Script
A contest of true believers no matter who against or league status, after watching a thrilling F.A Cup semi-final there is an old football saying that came to mind sometimes your name is on the Cup.
Facing current holders
Dominant City team
Champions fourth time
All Manchester final
Revisited previous season
Bitter derby rivals
United stars underperforming
Manager condemned...
Friday 31st May 2024 12:02 pm
Also by Nigel Astell:
A Thousand Smiles Magnified |Hills
I walk amongst the heather, thinking of you.
Lonely flowers in hand, feet dripped in dew.
To the hills where we walked, I’m on my way.
Every hill I will climb in your memory today.
The wind is merely gentle, cool upon my face.
A thousand memories await me in this place.
I see the pale sun, now rising from its sleep.
It’s that time of year for my promise to keep.
T...
Friday 31st May 2024 10:02 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
The Gifted Songwriter | The Crossing | My Island |Red Clay
My dreams have been strange
Leaping rivers give way to slick clay- red and thick
I wash and wash until I melt away
In that house, I wander, opening new doors and exploring rooms
Rooms stacked high with towers of books
My bed rest high above my head
Balanced on the book towers, so I climb
Reaching the top my bed is gone
It doesn't matter, I'm not tired
I leap cloud to c...
Friday 31st May 2024 1:19 am
Also by M Lane:
The House | Tents in the Desert | Falling- Perfect Blue | Invocation of the Watcher |Dream
Dream
In silence, I tread my soul's dusky paths.
If only I could meet her there, tonight,
In her eyes find a guiding light.
In silence, I hear the fleeting hours of my day.
If only I could bear her pain, make it mine,
Heal our wounds with love's twine.
In silence, I see her beauty sing and shine.
If only I could make her heart dream,
To sail together down...
Friday 31st May 2024 12:19 am
Also by Luca:
Unseen |BROKEN SLEEP
At midnight, I'm still awake,
waiting on sleep’s blurred
hypnagogic state,
a fleeting mirage like journey
crossing at nightfall.
I stretch to cut the bed diagonally,
her legs retract unconscious
beneath her folded sleeping body.
A knot of blue sky fills my gut,
a worryglow from earlier, flittering
like a young fish
I sit up, anchored at the bed’s edge,
...Thursday 30th May 2024 8:10 pm
Also by CiaranPCunningham:
AN BALLA BÁN | AUTUMN | TO CHOOSE | POINTING AT BOATS | UNDER DARKLIGHT | On Water | VERDIGRIS |Keeper of Lies
Head down, underconfident eyes,
Mouth sealed due to the fear
Of uttering more fake replies,
Mind that was once honest
Had made room for pests,
His falsehood made him
Gain none and lose a few,
The only few whom he knew.
Some devastating ones,
While some were white,
Some gave him peace,
While some kept him up
During the long nights.
He walks past my home
...Thursday 30th May 2024 5:59 pm
Also by Manish:
Debut | On the Mend | Heartstrings | Family | Window-Shopping | Gemini and Scorpio | A Solitary Sandpiper's Sentimental Tweet | Catalyst | Don't, Mowgli | A Parched Plant | How? |just a human
am i normal
i seek references
comparison to what
what standard of measure
i am just a man
what category do I belong
no distinction
i am simply human
am i this or that
do i pass the test
based on what
for what purpose
a decent person
what’s the standard
according to whom
according to when
i have withdrawn
leave me out of it
...Thursday 30th May 2024 3:32 pm
Also by Tim Higbee:
Campfire | Memory Bricks | Time’s Illusion | Desolation of Life’s Despair |An Arid land
An Arid Land
I bought a plot of land to grow vegetables,
it was flat and without any weeds .
I drew a plan of what I would grow,
dividing it into seperate rows.
I bought four types of seeds to sow,
Justice, Compassion, Equality and Love,
all I knew to be popular and much sought after,
and a profitable return for my efforts.
I spent hours sowing the seeds,
and res...
Thursday 30th May 2024 2:00 pm
Also by keith jeffries:
An Obscure World | A Tropical Downpour | The Fountain Pen or Quill | In a Blaze of Glory | Pater Noster | A Temporary Tenure | A Ruined House | A Moral Hub |Inner Conflict
Being insecure
After so long an interlude
Not daring to
What feelings impulse me to
Afraid of being aggressive
Angry for being so shy
Thus, moments go by
Not willing to games
Still, I desire and admire you
So, don’t censure
My interest in adventure
Afraid of being culpable
Angry for being so vain
So here I remain.
Thursday 30th May 2024 12:20 pm
Also by Patricia Ziel:
Passion Poem |Question Reflection
I am the air floating from room to room,
I open my mouth, too often, too soon,
Eager to feast and chained to a wall
Watching myself from the skies, waiting to fall
I am within from outside
Begging to be seen, screaming to hide
How high the moon is, how high was I
I am the branches on the trees,
Swaying with hope and too eager to please
Crying with the rain in the...
Thursday 30th May 2024 12:05 pm
No Angel
You say you're "no Angel"
And we're left in a tangle
Words expressed with feeling
Still searching for their meaning
Does this give you a license so freeing
You can do whatever without stressing?
Responsibilities old and frayed
Distressed, dismayed and betraying
Keeping everything so tightly wound
Is bound to cause a rupture
Spewing the pain you strive the concele
...Thursday 30th May 2024 10:57 am
Also by Wordseffectbrew:
Walk the wight | Our songs | Night shift solace | Taming of the shoe |Two into one won't go
She soaks her body
Scrubbing and peeling layers of invisible dirt
Flushing away the undue haste
Of the last two days
Letting the shower taste her face her body
The weeks of anticipation
The grieved upon tears
The streaks of hair
The makeup gone wild
She carefully dries and scores every
Fibre and cell that clings to her flesh
Creasing and smoothing fresh sheet...
Thursday 30th May 2024 10:26 am
Also by Martin Elder:
The woman of her dreams |Mended
Having been in love a number of times,
my past hearts live in me like wounds
that no longer need dressing.
But a very small part of me
will always be in love with the scars
of the time spent there.
Thursday 30th May 2024 7:04 am
Also by Mike McPeek:
Something to Say | The Properties of Embers | About Last Night | The Opposite of Toil |FINISHED ink pad began in July last year! Here's final thing today.
Six Month Evaluation
Do you you think you have scared them off
It certainly scared those ones in charge
Of hiring for proprietors a privilege
In just being asked
What chance the grubby homeward constantly
Interview selected
How can it prove the visible room
Circles in repetition cycle
Already thinking Movie channel
Did you get the part of knocked on...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 9:49 pm
Mouthful of Words Poem after Brian Moses
Mouthful Of Words
Poem after Brian Moses
These are the words my teacher teaches,
omnipresent, evaporating, invigilator, dichotomy,
diminuendo.
Then there are the words at home they choose
in our chatters animated to recounting the news.
There are the words that Grandma always seems
to say that I regurgitate, no matter the situation or their
denoting: bam...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 9:31 pm
Greater than Alexander
His love delighted her
Shirley Valentine would have been proud,
Intertwined, on sun-bleached sand.
Quietly tender, both breathing loud.
Unlike her suburban life
Every moment, utterly forgettable,
Together yet separate, final vows unfurled,
The sadness of marriage, entirely regrettable.
His love delighted her ...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 4:51 pm
Also by JD Russell:
What does it feel like | Metaphorically: A life | Innermost Coast | It doesn't excite me anymore | A better you. |BEACH - June 6, 1944
They splashed ashore on their target beach
And death came flying from out of their reach,
Returned in kind from grey battleships behind
Aiming but not always accurately to find
The concrete and cemented bastions that lay
Ahead - to keep expected forces at bay..
A break in the weather had foxed the foe
And saw the dawn-mist Allies go
Boldly where Angels would fear to tread
...Wednesday 29th May 2024 4:24 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
THEY SAY - a love song for Spring | PERFECTION THAT LASTS | OPPORTUNIST | MAY RAIN |Literary Lemmings
If words are important
surely, they are as important as the corpses
of the forgotten.
Words, like men are buried,
dismembered,
misremembered.
Corpses sometimes disinter
as if to scream
here is where we were.
Corpses are who we are,
they are the words we will become
Spoken with a dying tongue
Preserve our words as treasure
lest they ar...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 3:45 pm
Also by David RL Moore:
Hiatus | The Slipknot of Truth | The Truth is Never Known | Atrocities against language, guilty! | Reset | The case for exploration | Toad | Vigil | Of what remains | New Prora | Resting Place | Gun in the fridge |Disembarkation Day memories
The happy go lucky faced old man,
war tunes whistling, his way down our street
tapping his stick to their various rhythms
on top of the little wall, that ran alongside of him
where { I know } he hopes to see
left-over breadcrumbs have been placed.
As the clock is about to hurry me away to work,
I suddenly recall some of those whistled tunes,
and, I'm back on Granddad'...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 2:36 pm
Also by Bethany Sallis:
Unbreakable | Off beat! |Spring Meets Summer
I want to wake up in the morning before the dawn
And watch the spring dressed in a beautiful gown.
When the spring passes its crown to summer,
Demonstrating its beautiful gamma.
I want to open my doors wide
And watch when summer as a bride
Accepts her sister's presents
And cherish all the dear moments.
And then I wish to walk with summer in the wood
And as a lyrist to...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 8:52 am
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
Today, on the 27th of May, I proclaim Larisa Rzhepishevska Day. Hurray! | It is Hard For My Heart | I Still Believe in Good Deeds | To My Grandson | There will be Again the Sunshine | My Elixir | I Didn’t Want To Speak Out Loud | I Am Laura’s Stomach | My Father’s Homeland Attacked Ukraine | The Melody of Love | Love of the Stars | I’d Like To Thank You For Stealing My Heart | I Am Out of Fashion | There is Nothing Without Love | His Majesty Accidental Meeting |4 scores
40, should it be a big deal?
40 more will be 80
Is that enough to feel fulfilled on this planet?
Maybe I will still have a few incarnations ahead of me
I think maybe it is time to live to my fullest and leave fear in the garbage bin.
Wednesday 29th May 2024 6:23 am
Also by New Shoes:
Pleasure |Go Live Day
Sheaves of stamps with perforated edges
Crumpled postal orders and giro books
Biros, jotters, paperclips and ledgers
Welcoming smiles and knowing, sideways looks
Parcels, diligence and calibration
Columns filled with calculator clicks
Ink stamps thud in rhythm with the nation
Lips seal envelopes with efficient licks
One day they came with boxes, drills and cable
“It’s ti...
Tuesday 28th May 2024 2:56 pm
Also by R A Porter:
Barista Blues | Socially Perfect | The Last Tango |Marvelous
We know everything vibrates,
molecules dancing around even in the firmest of objects.
How then can our eyes see only the solid?
That rock, that table, the earth beneath our feet--
wild, intelligent movement going on within,
but absolutely beyond our plain-eyed perception.
But then, every once in a while, as if an interior microscope lights up,
there it is--
the dance of th...
Tuesday 28th May 2024 10:18 am
Also by Hélène:
Spring! | "The Little Way" (Thérèse de Lisieux) | Letting Go (Eventually) | Electric! | Just Another Day in Paradise | Beauty | Rising Day | Beautifully Adorned | Listening to a Woman of 103 Years of Age | Thoughts on Water Heaters, Cars, and People | Fun With Words |Slipperstale
Slippers are used variously,
A humble gift from Mother Nature's stall.
They cushion our steps and guard our toes,
As we journey through life's winding rows.
Bathroom slippers, we don in haste,
After a long day's slumber or a warm bath.
The soft terry cloth or fuzzy fur,
Protects our soles from tile's cold, hard sting.
Room slippers, too, we find their place,
In...
Tuesday 28th May 2024 8:42 am
Also by Sunshine:
Barking dogs seldom bites | The house we call home |Obsessed With Happiness
When Snow White met Narcissus
and kissed away the loneliness
all the adults were jealous
all the adults were envious
all the adults were contemptuous
as they kissed away the loneliness
like Snow White and Narcissus
ended up in a circus
where they found their happiness
cannot be jealous
cannot be envious
cannot be contemptuous
and it's only virtuous
to be obse...
Tuesday 28th May 2024 5:24 am
Also by Auracle:
Howling Happiness | Incredible Happiness | Happy-To-Go | and explore the many dimensions of happiness | Happiness like the wind | Enormous Expectations | Humility | Why so negative? | Exodic Trends | even more beautiful | Nova knows |can't fix love (Matheus L. Duarte)
You hammered nails into our bed’s headboard
The wardrobe’s frail, but you said you could fix that too
And I answered: “do we even have glue?”
You always complain when I try to think forward
But monday’s gonna rain, what if we have to buy more?
Who’s driving to the store?
Isn’t it dangerous to drive in the storm?
Isn’t it best for us to just conform that... some things cannot b...
Tuesday 28th May 2024 12:59 am
Bluebonnets
I am left empty
In a field of Bluebonnets
Whose roots reach for the salt of my eyes.
In a field of Bluebonnets
I lay,
Lay,
Lay.
Flowering hues of me turn Blue,
Smearing the sunshine yellow-oranges of my memories of you.
Flowering hues of me turn Blue
As I drift away on my bed of bonnets.
Tuesday 28th May 2024 12:21 am
Diversity
Meeting different people
On the train or near the steeple
Learning about different cultures
Without any nasty vultures
Exploring different religions
Flying away like free pigeons
Tasting and trying different food
Without being awkward and rude
The beauty of different skin colours
Enjoying the ride like happy scullers
Whatever the age, gender or sexuality
There is n...
Monday 27th May 2024 5:56 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Park | Kiss | Feelings - Short Poem | Surrender | Make Me Sweat |Finger painting
got your outsides covered
by former lovers
just when you thought
there was nowhere to hide
I pick up my brush
I paint your insides
I’ve got more than
eight million colors
most can’t be seen
they’re felt all over
I make you cry
tears of delight
just you now wait
for the rollers
painting your insides
in a rainbow
painting your insides
with a hint of a shadow...
Monday 27th May 2024 5:06 pm
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Your last chance to sell out | Annoyances | Another Song for my Friends | The furniture of the moment | Sweetness & Grind | Esoteric | True |Magnet (Kharkiv, 25 May 2024)
A magnet hung in the big, bright store,
Between the household and the sport,
When down came a pair of guided bombs
And more innocent lives were cut short.
Far away across the border,
Pampered strategists play chess;
They do not know the victims,
And are bothered even less.
This is the new reality
Of war devoid of shame,
Where women, men and children
Becom...
Monday 27th May 2024 7:43 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
The Naughty Little Boy | The Empire of Light | String Quartets | Eurovision 2024 | The Old Smoothie | Ballot Box |I’m No Stranger
And so it begins
Slowly pushing myself down
Into the darkness of a self dug hole
Allowing all of the bad
The negative
The shitty things to give me the strength to dig
I’m no stranger to the pain
My childhood trauma and everything after can attest
The stories I could tell
The looks I would inevitably get
The judgements, perhaps
I’m no stranger to solitude
Self ma...
Monday 27th May 2024 5:25 am
After the storm - Remal, the tropical cyclone
After the storm, there's a stillness all around
All that was destroyed now lies on the ground
Plants uprooted, leaves scattered with branches entwined
Vehicles overturned, corrugated roofs left behind
The sight of complete upheaval, an ugly scene to behold
Yet the air is calm, the weather pleasant and bold
An extra sense of gratitude fills the air
For the destruction that...
Monday 27th May 2024 3:48 am
Also by Ghazala lari:
Surrender | Echos of the soul | Grass will be greener on all sides | An orphan's paradise | Divine timing | Invincible force | Fragile dance of relationships | Human intervention in weather conditions of today. |Wedding Day
Once upon a time
in a land far, far away
A boy and girl met
at a gathering one day
When he left for home
they promised to keep in touch
Living so far apart
didn’t faze them too much
Over time and tide
friendship turned into romance
They travelled to and fro
whenever they got chance
One blue sky day
resting on a bench by the sea
He asked for her hand
whilst bended down on ...
Sunday 26th May 2024 8:21 pm
These Four Walls
These Four Walls
The pot is bubbling contentedly,
my rice softening as this shoebox dwelling -
persists a hardening,
I can hear and I do note the steam
now covering all surface known shiny,
I sit listening and note the modulation
be quickening, the bubbles faster and faster
as liquid disappears.
Here I am, noting with stubbor...
Sunday 26th May 2024 7:17 pm
Also by ZTK Space:
The Observations of The Strath and Formant |AND WHAT WE ARE IS DIVINE
Our passage through time's feasting halls
is swift and short,
slow and long,
a sprinting, crawling,
leisurely race
towards and away from
eternities we know nothing of
yet speculate endlessly over,
like debaters and disputants
far more knowledgable
than we really are;
and all the while
forgetting, ignoring, uncaring of
why we're in the race to begin with,
remembering even less -
as t...
Sunday 26th May 2024 4:02 pm
Also by Martin Peacock:
BIRD OF DAYTIME'S NIGHT | THE BLACK FLAG! |‘Reading back’
Reading back
To see all the love my mother recieved
As she was pregnant with me
June 4th 2010 I was attended
When her pregnancy finally ended
I feel a surge of relief
That my mother had so many people with belief
Belief that I came out well
Although it was quite like hell
Sadness came to me as I realise
That I almost didnt make it out alive
Goodness! I must'v...
Sunday 26th May 2024 12:52 pm
Also by Kara-Fé Burrows:
‘I miss you mummy’ |Samaritans ,well trained life savers
Working as a Samaritan was something I always wanted to do,
Six months into the job I unfortunately got the flu.
As a consequence I tried to call in sick,
But they talked me out of it really quick.
Sunday 26th May 2024 12:24 pm
Also by hugh:
High hopes for Nye | A highly impressed bystander | The joy of reaching 99 | Georgia Laurie,you are amazing!! The first person to be given the king’s bravery award medal by King Charles | Are you a pole vaulter? | The power of the sun | A frustrated comedian | “Have a good day,”said my boss | I could see myself doing this job. |Moving like Jagger
‘Mick Jagger has a six-year-old. He’s 80.’
Conversation between two older women overheard on a train
Embarrassing, enduring logo. Those lips.
Jumping Jack Flash, no ordinary wrinklie,
sired another offspring in his seventies,
still manages to shake those hips.
Faux-rebel with a knowing grin.
Only a nineteen-sixties serum
explains so many honky-tonk women.
Rul...
Sunday 26th May 2024 10:03 am
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING, MR STARMER?
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Starmer
If you think old Rishi’s done?
We are the boys who smashed down your North Red Wall
We are the boys who will bring about your fall;
So who do you think you are kidding Mr Starmer
If you think the voting’s won?
We don’t care about Lib Dems cos they will not perform
The Nationalists are shafted; we don’t care about Reform.
Who ...
Saturday 25th May 2024 10:52 pm
Also by John Coopey:
LIMP AND ANODYNE | WE'LL WIN THE LEAGUE NEXT YEAR | EDDIE TUPPER | HIGH AND MIGHTY | TUM-TITTY-TUM |2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 8 Edinburg to Austin
Image: Arriving at my motel early afternoon, it wasn't that bad, clean enough but prone to loud music at times from a nearby complex. Journey back went well small hold up for another vehicle, but good detour so no great worries.
25.04.24 – 131:99) Departure day both gladness and sadness
Gladness at what I’ve done, seen an’ where I’ve been
Memories abound of new friend...
Saturday 25th May 2024 7:59 pm
Also by Trev the Road Poet:
2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 7 Edinburg | 2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 6 Midland to Edinburg | 2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 5 Midland | 2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 4 Austin to Midland | 2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 3 Austin 1 and NaPoRiMo begins | 2024: Trev does another National Poetry Month in Texas and NaPoWriMo: Part 2 The Journey Out |stand and deliver—mile markers
the road’s rolling out
in front of me again
showing me the exit
say something quick
and make it stick
I’ll soon be gone
I’ll set a candle at my back
to light the path I’ve traveled
I’ll burn my skin with the heat of it
with still no movement ahead
I set my sight upon the distance
look now into my eyes
like you’d once done
smile and bring the te...
Saturday 25th May 2024 7:37 pm
Also by Landi Cruz:
beyond the pale (artefacts repurposed) | burrow | Corpus Aurum |Chameleon in a Candy Store (Reflection)
Chameleon in a Candy Store (Reflection)
My past, a faded wrapper, clung to me, bittersweet,
at the end of the book as other possibilities shimmered,
Each sweet, a choice, a moment a life path I could explore
From the journey back home or to something else.
Would I melt into the darkness, and become one with the swirl?
Or break free from the jar, a defiant, unflav...
Saturday 25th May 2024 6:14 am
Also by Gray Nicholls:
The Colour of Darkness | No need |COUNTRY BOY
He's a walking talking country song
Pie in the sky kinda guy
Head in the clouds
Talks too loud
He's a walking talking country song
and I won't be with him for long
Bye bye Country Boy...LOL
by Lynn Hahn
Friday 24th May 2024 11:19 pm
Also by lynn hahn:
WINGS |Why Tennis ?
After a long,long time
A decision emerges
To play tennis
Again.
A knock about tennis
Session revealed practice
Was needed .
Ropey backhand and
Forehand.Rushing to
Hit the ball .
Another decision emerges,
Lessons are needed .
After the second lesson
Confidence grows .
It all comes flooding
Back .
Hitting a ball is
So satisfying.
Angry,
Hi...
Friday 24th May 2024 6:19 pm
Pulling ourselves forward
Andy continues to fight with diabetes
while I wish he could stand in forests,
watching the tangerine glow from trees
carry across the sunset,
and throw sticks across the river,
watching the wind bounce them off the stones,
casting memories further back
then old age allows.
Andy continues to struggle with dyspraxia
while searching for a new day job,
while I wish he could laugh at life a...
Friday 24th May 2024 3:13 pm
SELF-COMBUSTING LIFT (with audio recording)
SELF-COMBUSTING LIFT
(written in response to seeing sign displayed by lift in Vienna)
It’s best to give this lift short shrift
because it’s known for giving gift
of you inside it, in the midst
of fire!
FIRE!
Lift sets itself on fire!
When you saw sign, you look quite miffed
It’s too late mate to catch my drift
Best have a brandy, have it stiff
Yeah, fir...
Friday 24th May 2024 9:41 am
Also by Lee Campbell:
Goldilocks and His Three Bears (with audio recording) | Goldilocks and his three bears | Grammar School Guy | Take me on a journey (with audio recording) | TAKE ME ON A JOURNEY | Hot Mess (with audio) | Hot Mess (with audio) | Hot Mess | Compulsion to box | The Bird Feeder | Ignorant | Living the Unimaginable | Olfactory |-RANDOM-
That deep breath we take before reasoning
With our thoughts, that last smile we put on
right before we stop existing. Why do I find
Comfort in my depression?
Today is the new beginning of yesterday and
Tomorrow is what’s left of today, no end to the
maze, with little faith to even try to escape
from this dark place. Is it right to seek comfort
in my depression?
...
Friday 24th May 2024 12:08 am
Also by Black_Rose:
-QUESTIONS? | Haunted By Time | WITHOUT PERMISSION (;) | In-Between the lines of life | Wronged By Life | My Secret Soliloquy |No Face Detected
An alarming lack of form
Distinction has faded
No room for shadows
Nothing is shaded
A barren amorphous shape
Indefinite defined
No room for features
Nothing is refined
Staring at the monitor
Seeing me reflected
Nothing opens up
No face detected.
Thursday 23rd May 2024 3:46 pm
Also by Jon63:
New Life |Missing...
Placating relentless yesterdays,
Pleading to curry favour with tomorrow,
Missing all the gentle secrecy of zephyrs,
As if preferring the fate of Sisyphus...
Thursday 23rd May 2024 1:09 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Marooned. | Earnest. |Hill 60
Thursday 23rd May 2024 12:33 pm
Also by Jan Theuninck:
Shot at dawn |Poem: Summer..
The scorching heat of Sun,
children playing in ponds and having fun.
The temperature may rise,
and if you are enjoying it.
You are also wise.
That is Summer!
The feel of blowing wind,
And because of the sweat,
our bodies get thinned.
and my sister’s flying hair.
And if we go out too much,
our skin gets dark from fair.
That is Summer!
In deserts it i...
Thursday 23rd May 2024 10:55 am
When I was a Tree.
When I was a tree
I stood for a hundred years
I just stood, and watched
And waited
I had no concerns
There were no desires, doubts
Or tears
I was a tree
And everybody loved me
As a tree, I felt my roots
Unfurling through the earth
My limbs stretched out
As high as they could reach
My crown was gifted from the stars
I lived amongst my f...
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 11:33 pm
Also by Clare:
Lately. | Erosion. | Roses Amongst the Brambles. | Icarus was an amateur. |A marvellous encounter
I tried to look confident as I approached
Miss Veritable at the park cafe,
but stopped as I realised she was crying into her tea.
I called, only to be almost drowned out by the
band Massive Mouthful - tuning up for that afternoon’s concert,
featuring a muscly rocker
with a voice like crunching gravel,
who, according to the Acton Gazette,
well deserved his stage name of Mighty Marvel.
...
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 12:54 pm
Also by Kevin Vose:
Mighty Montessa and her faithful Velosopeed |Captured moments, pure and right.
This spring I have been of a mind to write a poem that explores the delights of wedding days. This first offering was as a result of talking with a wedding photographer that was hired to shoot my nephews big day in May.
In a garden bathed in golden light, Where petals drift and dreams take flight, Two hearts unite beneath the sky, As cameras click and shutters sigh.
A glance, a touch, a whis...
Tuesday 21st May 2024 5:21 pm
Hope and Belief
If you should live a troubled life,
In an unhappy existence,
You shall find you can get by,
With patience and persistence.
If you don't know where you're going,
And you feel completely lost,
Know new directions may be found,
And new bridges can be crossed.
So in yourself you must believe,
With great courage and with hope,
And you shall surely then survive,
And against all struggles ...
Tuesday 21st May 2024 4:40 pm
Also by Stuart Vanner:
Nobody's Perfect |Behold, How Good And Pleasant It Is For Brethren To Dwell Together In Unity.
1.
As a big brother, you grow up an oppressor.
Your very presence compresses the air
In the little one’s chest.
They bellow their displeasure,
The oppressed, expressing every hurt,
Blurting the measure
Of each Pascal of pressure you exert.
2.
We used to fight all the time,
For a decade or more we waged war.
Life was an Itchy and Scratchy car...
Tuesday 21st May 2024 10:34 am
Bluebell Smitten
At the crack of dawn on a misty May morning
I meander through the forest as it greets the day
Inhaling with joy the scents and bouquets
Drinking in the bountiful lush visual array
I stumble upon a carpet of bluebells
Down I lie onto a bed of romantic intent
Their fragrance beguiles and intoxicates me
I am in a paradise lost heaven sent
I am fatally smitten and enchanted
This is a lov...
Tuesday 21st May 2024 10:00 am
Also by Tom Doolan:
I Need Some Loving Loving | De Lacy Street Blues | May |A Quiet Sunday
The streets breathe
slow and deep
tree branches sway
in the humming heat
A quiet Sunday
a balm for all our souls
Some toil in the garden
some wander up the hill
on the edge of town
the view from here
is a kiss from God
A quiet Sunday
a balm for all our souls...
Monday 20th May 2024 10:19 am
She had no home
When I met her as a happy wanderer
Navigating from places to places
I did told her I had nothing to offer
But the simple comfort of my chest
To this she looked at me smiling
“Hey you adventurer”, she told me
“You’re the one I have been waiting,
Home I don’t need, free I want to be”
“The road is a paved way to paradise,
Like the snail my house is this bag,
I ...
Sunday 19th May 2024 2:55 am
Also by Vincent LE MERDY:
Free the bird |French Fry, The Cat
I have nothing to say
Nothing to complain about
I've survived my nine lives
A cat enthusiast
I'll hold you if you follow me down
I have another escape but it's loud
Can't always be clever
Just don't be mean
Hold it together
And remain unseen
My cat is purring
I don't have a cat?
I guess I do now
Saturday 18th May 2024 7:36 pm
Also by Evan Tyler:
Sonder | Ant Traps |Cats on mats
Cats on mats
by Tommy Carroll
25th June 2019
Wittgenstein says he:
'Languge merely pictures facts'
then changes his mind and retracts;
'It's more complex than I at first thought,
my Tractatus has all come to nought
for there's more to them cats on them mats'.
Saturday 18th May 2024 12:10 pm
grief
It still doesn't feel real,
my brain can't find a way to understand that it's real
that you are not here anymore
I still think that you'll come home
I know you can't, and you won't
cause I'm not crazy and I saw your grave at the cemetery
but still, I seem to forget you're dead
and when I realize you are,
I go back to that morning
when they called to tell me,
when the...
Friday 17th May 2024 10:50 pm
A life of a character
Standing in front of you, you’re not what you used to be, you’re tired I see it in your face, those brown eyes ask for a break.
a break from what? I asked.
The world, you said.
What’s wrong with the world? I said.
The same as it ever was, he replied, we're living a play, don´t get out of character.
You can’t be yourself in this abstract reality of the moral rulers, you need to crea...
Friday 17th May 2024 10:26 pm
FOXY
FOXY
_____
You never forget your first
Infatuation.
Mine was the big thing
Decades before
Other honeys
Entered the picture.
Soul Cinema action queen
Did her own stunts,
Did her own Afro,
Wasted no time
Kicking ass on the big screen.
First of her kind.
The baddest one-chick hit squad that ever hit town!
Mine had no is...
Friday 17th May 2024 4:02 pm
Also by Dee Allen.:
TWO MODELS | SILVER OVER EYES | TO AN APPARITION | DISCOVERY [ EXCERPT ] |And so it goes on…
And so it goes
On
People protest
Against dead bodies
“They’re all terrorists
each and every one”
He says, they say
And so it goes on
The people are lost
Picking through rubble
Discovering their loved ones
Dead clothes
But the truth is being hidden
Sanitised by the news
The killing is not so awful
They plead
And so...
Friday 17th May 2024 12:11 pm
A taste of irony
I drank from your lips and tasted your soul
A delicacy that must be savored
Tension crawls through the sheets the way oxygen builds in my lungs
And with each breath I wished I’d die, because every second without you is a waste.
Friday 17th May 2024 4:09 am
Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:
May 1st- (Another song reference.) |Meritless Words
Words are such a funny thing,
Without actions that align, what value do words bring?
An illusion curated specifically for you,
By someone you wish so deeply would speak things that are true.
Screaming in anger, giving passionate praise, whispers of love, tone dripping in disgrace,
Love and hate simultaneously spewed in your face.
How is one supposed to feel,
Not knowing w...
Tuesday 14th May 2024 9:04 pm
Beach landing.
Tuesday 14th May 2024 3:40 pm
Also by RudyardK:
Good and bad. | Interview. | WB. | may fourth. | im asking you. | Alfred Stieglitz. |The Gift
I keep treading on snails
And you see
I really don’t like killing things
Anything
Spiders, flies, insects, and snails
And today
I wondered
What the lesson was
And now I think I know
I need to look
where I’m putting my feet
This may sound obvious
But what I really mean is
I need to be more grounded
In the morning
when I tend to tread on snails
I’...
Monday 13th May 2024 10:23 pm
GFMA Poetry, Spoken Word & Music Night (May 2024)
Monday 13th May 2024 3:57 pm
Dear Natalie
My dearest darling Natalie
I really like your style
Your tenacity defending
This green and pleasant isle
Your hard line on asylum seekers
Coming over here
Our match was made in heaven
That’s obvious, my dear
We’re so alike, dear Natalie
It’s very plain to see
Your votes against equalities
And for Voter ID
Those rights for workers, I agree
Will really have to go
And never mind the m...
Monday 13th May 2024 3:54 pm
Also by Steve White:
UK Local Elections 2024 |ode to my dog
we match the colours of the universe,
both born from the mouths of wolves,
to lie around, get sick, rage at invasions,
raised by the same two, frightened by their abscence.
he lies on my face and copies my heart beats,
he wails when i wail.
when i look at him i get a strange, sad feeling, i know how it feels to search for people.
people that will come home one day,
bu...
Monday 13th May 2024 12:57 am
May 2024 Collage Poem: Windows on the World
Gibbons in Fakenham time the trains to Sandy Balls
Dwellers in the summer going somewhere where
the dead watch the living
Dark, dusky silhouettes looming over us
Tight-lipped art revealed thru’
miraculously unbroken spectacles
Pass the chocolate Limes
These are the everyday resurections
the family blessedly released from the collision
the one you th...
Sunday 12th May 2024 12:35 pm
Medusa Poem
Many months
alone
with her own
Venom
in a Sarpedon cave
made to nestle her
Beauty gone;
Head -
a writhing tangle of
Vicious Serpents;
cursed;
unrecognisable
Did she retreat because Shame
became
her only bedfellow?
Perhaps ‘twas more a respite
to protect
the unsuspect
ing
from her projections
lest they be turned to stone
so easily does Shame become Blame
...Sunday 12th May 2024 11:35 am
Mothers
In 1958, Bing Crosby sang “Thank Heaven for little Girls”
They grow up to be pretty girls and beautiful woman
They fall in love and get married
and they became the mothers of the world.
They give birth, they care, they feed, they raise their kids, teach them,
and love them no matter what
They sacrifice, cry, and laugh, never stop giving
We, on the other hand, grow o...
Sunday 12th May 2024 9:21 am
Auroral Resonance
Solar flares in tempest spent, Earth's veil angrily torn,
Charged plasma dances, skyward flight, in fury born.
Emerald and crimson, a painter's dream, strokes the night,
Aurora's dance, magnetic wraiths, violet light
Transient beauty, fleeting flare for eyes to adore,
In silence held, earth meets sun's magnetic core.
Sunday 12th May 2024 2:50 am
Also by Mike Horsfall:
Spring's Duty ending | Grey Day | A Monster | Beatles Tale | The Lakes | Tide's Afire | Azure Dreams | Always with you | Rushed Holiday | Weaving Lines | I am at a loss to write | Single Father | I AM, (Both sides) | They all come out the Same! |ON WATCH
It is not uncommon to be eighty
and never to have seen the aurora borealis
but now, primed by a news and weather alert
I stand to see if it might happen.
A belt of translucent high cloud holds firm
above a street light under a gash of dark trees
but no aurora.
A scent of sleeping blossom has me in thrall
and on the ridge of my kitchen roof
the silky silhouette of ...
Saturday 11th May 2024 11:20 am
Also by ray pool:
SUICIDE BOMBER |HOPE
You knew the stars would smile
The Sun will shine, in your bones:
Ever since the day you were born.
Trapped in your own desires,
you lived in a nightmare of being the best
of what there is.
So you put the strongest armour on
for the fight against everyone, yet no one.
They said "This too shall pass"
"But what if not?" You said.
Now comes the time when the sun shines bright.
But why do...
Friday 10th May 2024 9:19 pm
Project Astral
remote viewing
a program,
telepathic visionaries
— channels
seers…
seen in a screening
recorded and reviewed
Thursday 9th May 2024 7:25 am
Also by Shawn Garcia:
Ghost Writer | Quantum Leap |The Duck That Laid Golden Eggs
Found it by the lake I was trying to cross
Webs slit, wings broken, unable to keep warm
Carried it up to my canoe and rowed away to my dry little farm.
The wife said I'm an idiot to bring another in when all our chicks starve, which is
When I leave it-but the next morning it's made a home in a ditch.
I notice something glisten in the dawning sun as it wrapped its feathers around my le...
Wednesday 8th May 2024 8:04 pm
Sheila's Moment of Clarity
A candle in the wind a soft breeze A hairnet on the table, a puffed-up fable, a leaning in for a question, a deferential stare, a denial in the night, a getting used to it, a left handed slap, a belch upon a healthy diet. ...
Wednesday 8th May 2024 5:16 am
Also by Brett Maves:
Snack Time | Clara's Dream |not on my time watch
a dial speed is a time speed
light speed is a dial speed
the universe is a time watch
the universe is a light speed
the universe is a dial speed
motivation is a speed of motivation
motivation is a time watch of motivation
the universe is a dial of a universe
the universe is a dial of motivation
a dial of motivation is a dial of a universe
a speed of motivation is a speed of a universe
...
Monday 6th May 2024 8:29 pm
Getting through
Am a product of me environment
A victim of circumstances
A create of my own make
Am I distance to go with the dam
Sure you be grand
For every bad night comes morning
And for every lost soul comes someone to find them
Sit down friend and I help you slow down
For I was going to fast way to far ahead
So God sent me a old wise friend
For it wasn't screen's I need...
Monday 6th May 2024 4:41 pm
Also by Keith Byrne:
A sober mind |Scenarios
Every night i lie in bed
dozen scenarios in my head
thinkin bout how and what and when and where
every night you'll find me there
in my head
my secret place
in my mind
my safest space
all those things i never find
confidence?
i'd rather hide
brave enough? not the case
but in my mind
my safest space
i can be what i cannot
i can ...
Sunday 5th May 2024 7:35 am
"A New Dawn at Qudos Academy"
After four months of planning and organisation my newly re-vamped website is now up and running. A Very Merry Beltane to all my readers, fans, friends and supporters! Qudos Academy is a non-profit organisation or website dedicated in some degree to supporting the Oxfordian view that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford was the author of the 1623 “Shakespeare” Folio of plays. It does not support...
Saturday 4th May 2024 11:06 am
Sway and Shift
The sun could swallow me up
And I would not complain
It would heal me of everything
And take away all the shame
The roots could pull me down
And anchor me down strong
But I would not say a word
For I could finally belong
Among the trees and the wind
I find myself yearning
To sway and to shift
So the world could stop burning
Wednesday 1st May 2024 7:35 am
To Who Do I Owe My Survival
When I was two years old my mother each morning before starting work, while juggling ironing a shirt, a toddler and another toddler would set up a table with paints, and, crayons and various styles of brushes, and a single A4 piece of. One day, she recalls, I stopped writing and cried out ‘I can’t get out what’s in my head on the paper’. This moment, to my mother, illustrated something profound...
Wednesday 1st May 2024 5:57 am
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