From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.. William Cobbett

My native land – England – has gone from me
Shrouded in a so-called unity, called ‘diversity’
a shibboleth, as fake as those who preach it.
Our ravished land is no longer a king’s demesne,
But is now a poor, peculiar, ...

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Give me some time
to remember
who I was
when we met
you might not like
who I am now

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Oh! the rain sky poured,
And I stole sometime from busy life,
clearing the mess of my room,
to do my favorite task.

Oh! the tiny water droplets,
falling in laps of the mother earth,
 with some thunder and lightning,
playing the music of rain.

The dance of nature,
and green leaves of trees,
playing and refreshing itself with zillions of tiny droplets of rain.

The aroma of rain,
co...

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here a tallow skull spurting mist
of red and smoke chokes the air
here a woman with a broken mouth
screaming for mercy face down 
in the concrete 

an old black man long-alchemised 
from ashlar to pillar cries in throes 
of righteous anger as the skeletal horde 
burn down his fought-for foundation 

there an elderly couple threading waves of angry bodies 
beaten to a pulp simply
for...

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 Don't talk to me of "due process"

When I'm marching with the mob;

It messes with my actions 

And how I view my job

Of trashing up the neighbourhood

And plundering the shops,

Making hay as the sunshine sets

On the guilt or innocence of cops.

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They group up

protected by numbers

they race around

hurling bricks

bottles

rocks

anything that hurts

or breaks

the idea is not to protest

the idea is to destroy

a savage inclination

a basic instinct

setting fires

burning businesses

looting stores

spraying graffiti

the ugly truth

they are the Barbarians at the gate

and no one stops them

...

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Mustn’t Grumble

Thinks he’s the bee’s knees

One big bumble

He’s doing his best

Mustn’t grumble

All around

Dreams start to crumble

Chin up chaps

Mustn’t grumble

Gets his words

All in a jumble

An Eton boy

So mustn’t grumble

Discontent

Begins to rumble

He’s such a card

Mustn’t grumble

Staggering on

He’s bound to stumble

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someone spread

a black shawl

over the sun

the long day

became night

the moon crept

inside the dark sky

in a hush

and cast stolen

soft sunlight around

an owl calling loud and deep

flew into sight

and spooked

dreamy watch-dogs

to disturb the calm of the night

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I've told you before stay clear of that

Boy if you ask me there's

Something wrong there

Turning up to school on his own not a soul

Knows a thing about him he's a

Right mystery

(Stand still when I'm

Talking to you) he may be good at

Maths and yes' he's

Tiny but he's always fighting he's

Beaten kids much

Bigger he made mincemeat of Jimmy

Cummings its autism if you...

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Road by road I turn the car

and travel a phrase to a line,

move a sentence to plural,

then to verse to vent a thought,

but within the limit,

as speeding is futile anyway.

[2020]

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Noticed two little kids playing in the park.

One child was black, one child was white.

They were happy; totally engrossed in their play.

They hadn't learned how to hate.

Lovely to see. It gave me hope.

And I wondered:

What could we learn from them?

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Jane was given four courses of antibiotics,her pain was intense,

Getting a dental appointment was impossible, she was left in suspense.

She had been in agony with an infected tooth since the end of last year,

How long would it take to redress the problem ,she did fear.

For a check-up at the dentist you will  have to wait til 2021.

Treating a back log of urgent cases will be the...

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How a mother touches her baby to sleep

How the cool wind in the dusk smells of the last rays of the Sun

Silence has her ways to comfort our soul to stillness

She scrapes the rust of carelessnes

Flinging the debris away from the beating heart 

Planting a single seed of hope husked within doubtfulness

In the now fertile soil of calmness

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I just saw a poetry teacher say that we should write in our own way,
Speak in our own dialectic tongue,
No fancy poetic language, just rap our crap as we would in the neighbourhoods where we belong,
Don’t fret about scansion, or rhyme, or rhythm, or our own distinctive dialectic style being understood,
And to be fair it just made me smile and think, “Ok, good,”
So I started thinking, “we...

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Hit The Biggest First

Hit the biggest first

It’s become the family mantra

Passed down through the generations

My dad said it to me

And I said it to my kids

Whenever you’re confronted by more than one person

Hit the biggest first

I don’t even know how I got here

Out in the street

In front of my own house

Split lip

Buttons torn from my shi...

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The sun was filtering through a gauze of green

and ripples of lustre rolled pearl-like over moss

as if her path lay deep beneath the sea.

The branches overhead 

seemed polished with a gloss

that flung each iridescent spark of light

ricocheting sideways, bud to bud,

before they sprinkled, sharp and diamond white,

to soak into the vibrant

forest’s spongy bed.

...

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Truth is hiding in dark places

I want to find it but do not

know where to look

People toss it back and forth

like blind children

Where have the grown ups gone?

I long to find them

I take a deep long breath

then lay my head on my pillow

Hoping to wake up to a real world

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KEITH FORDYCE AND A PHOTO OF MY PARENTS

A first kiss on the battlements

with your daughter's friend

while everyone drank downstairs

and Harry Worth for company

as my father hopped around

taking snapshots of actors.

You interviewed celebrities,

hosted music shows and quizzes

but looked better on screen

than in the cold flesh of reality

pottering unshaven, hung-...

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I need me a good one 

Do anything for me fun 

I might lose my way to stand 

Promise me you will make a plan 

I need one to hold me tight 

Not just in the dead of night 

No matter what I ask will do 

Just because you love me too 

I know I can depend on us 

It's simple just give me trust 

Life's not perfect it's true 

So you don't have to be ...

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Left alone the forest
is deserted in your dreams
and across the fields
that the horses are left to run free
every Tuesday and Thursday.

Left alone the way to the river
is untouched and unlettered
with human influence
across the rust laced gates
all the way to the water reservoir

Stealing hours in seconds
as the water rises to ocean levels
free from human hands
sitting waiting for ...

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RISE (from QUILT)

burning
hell
tolling
bell
taste of
bile
left over 
vile
climbing
bevel
disguised
devil
shifting
shape
desperate
escape
crazed
clown
merry go
round
carnival
mirrors
terror
fear
haunted
house
pyre
douse
on the
run
beating
drum
released
hounds
leaps
bounds
low
growl
full moon
howl
warrior
cries
evil
dies
shadow
boxed
demon
outfoxed
...

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They say I'm a bit too much,
too much of everything.
Sometimes too caring and sometimes too irritating.
So here I am, under the constant worry,
'What if this is too much?'
So busy going around in my own head,
That I forget relations have to be maintained with the heart.

I'm afraid I don't know what I desire or deserve.
Is it wrong to anticipate a love of the same intensity,
or is it jus...

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As over and over the same chords churn

your notes pour forth in spate –

sheets of sound erupting till harmony

is wrenched awry; and when you sweated

smack to cleanse your system,

you were hell-bent on an afterlife,

a body refreshed, believing.

You could call it Love, but sombre,

that force that drives you on.

Hearing you now, I feel reproved

for all the...

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Into the forest I go to loose my mind and find my soul 

Because it's for the best to put this wandering to a rest

So for this spirit I'm not sure is my own let us travel into the unknown

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He looks he stares
He's kind and loving
His heart is pure
Strong and mighty
Can he love forever or
Will he lose his passion for loving
He wanted to reach for the stars, but his mind and soul wouldn't let him flow.
He was changing before his own eyes
Falling apart at once
Couldn't find who he once was or even who he is now
This man is lost
Trying to pick up pieces that has always been br...

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Just three weeks ago I had you in my arms
I still ask for commission to take off your clothes
You said yes and my mind was peaceful
We were both naked in my bed
You wanted sex but I didn't
Now I'm lonely 

Wasting away inside my mind
How could you kiss me 
And think that it wouldn't Fuck with me
You Firefly as why I want to die

I don't have peaceful days I just have nightmares
Do you...

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The evolving and metamorphosing of life

The birthing of ideas and innovations

The inspirations and visons that enlighten the simple

The voices that wakeup nations

Many run from this, hoping to stay in their old ways

Thinking if they run fast enough, change won’t come to stay

In vain they hold on to that which is obsolete

Hoping, yes wishing, they would just remain the sam...

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Repitition was key

But never the key to success

The key to her chest

Was hidden in the black depth of her soul

Repitition was inevitable

Outsiders were impatient

And also knowledgable 

About what was likely to happen next

Repitition was boring

A different mask for her to wear

To hide the recurring sadness

That she endured from his actions again

Re...

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Hot and Sad

flavors combined

in one mind 

hot and sad

that’s fine

don’t take my tea 

with sugar 

don’t eat more 

than two donuts 

"that’s enough" 

the stomach growls 

sensitivities of life 

cut like a knife 

that’s what I like 

the rest is too dull  

going through our heads 

the time to respect

all that development 

tha...

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When I set out my bedding plants

I garden in my underpants;

Cos now we’re all in isolation

I’m free from risk of visitation;

The only time my theory fails

Is when the postie fetches mail

Or Tesco’s Gill brings us our food;

She asked me “Why not garden nude?”

I told her she’s a silly twit -

There’s always chance I’d kneel on it.

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A 20:20 Vision

On the one hand, it’s thumbs up for this lock down,

For hand on heart, I prefer a gentler town.

We’ve lost our human contacts, now back in touch,

A world for reaching out, with more time and much 

Space for taking and for making stock.

We knead our dough, and minds unlock,

And saws are sharpened in this time of rest,

When breath and nature seem to teach ...

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"It is over at last",
"What is? What is over? What is finally done?"
"The war" one broken .45 revolver answers
" The war is done",
"Forgive me for asking", I timidly muttered, "but who won?"
"Dunno" he says," it's still a bit hazy but it was a good day for the vultures"

"War always seems to be a grand buffet for the vultures", I replied
"But look now the generals are celebrating, saying t...

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It has been two years today
Since I have had a fight with my then girlfriend
And, crying bitterly, I entered the living room
Replied to my father’s concerns
And let him know his daughter was dating a girl.
No wonder he hasn’t spoken to me since.

But, this poem isn’t about me
And nor is it about a cousin sister of mine
Whose phone was found in the living room
Full with smuts and gay stor...

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   The sorrow of tomorrow began early, and again today.

Time tells, no time and yet the essence of the moment is gone.

The heart yearns for just one more day, yet it still slips away..

   The sorrow of tomorrow began early, and again today.

Desire became a fire, in the inner most part of the mind.

The way a body clings to the soul, of another spirit in twined..

   The sorrow of t...

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What this pandemic has done to the world 

By shaking people's confidence and dulling senses 

Has inadvertently led us into that awful rule 

The law of unintentional consequences 

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The end of the world as we know it?

Early hours, I check the clock
A vivid dream has woke me up

Bizarre times, now par for the course
Yes, I‘m not dressed up, and I’ve nowhere to go

In a couple of hours it’s time for work
It’s like groundhog day, but in reverse

A bit of breakfast, watch the news
No daily commute, no traffic queues

So here we go, it’s back up the stairs
No need ...

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The deejay from the UK had a really great time
Staying up all night, regularly
For days and decades
Not just some weekends and the odd holiday

Vitamin D levels were not optimal
Midday sunless UK
No talk of Circadian rhythms
He slept in the daytime

Still about, and now in his fifties
In the flesh and not Photochopped
He looks like something chasing Frodo in those films
A cousin of de...

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Sitting in a box 

Surrounded by bouquets

Silenced by time

Nailed down 

Motionless

Slipping lower,

It’s too late

For someone to enliven these bones

Engage the masses

It’s time to say ‘goodbye'

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A sudden vivid flash electric blue

so swiftly straight more sensed than seen,

streaking burrow-wise from his grey branch lookout

over the dark olive green lake water.

So fragile no halcyon days are his,

unable to command the creek or river water,

and inexpert divers are the fledglings

often waterlogged and trapped in weed or twigs.

Suffering from our pollution-pro...

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Festivity around the scene serene full of cheer

Hullaballoo! Everyone wanted to be there

She heard the noise outside from her balcony

White shirt and black trousers she arranged her hair

The lady looked pretty as she tied her hair

Oh, how beautiful was the nape of her neck!

She went amidst the crowd

Danced and danced feeling very proud.

The fiesta continued there for s...

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telling the bug to do one...

sod off mr corona bug

your not coming in

cause i'm staying in!?

looking out the window i see you lurking about ?

i put two fingers to you✌ and say "sod off"

if i come out ive got a vacinne to knock you out! ??

you been warned mr corona bug

dont treat me like a mug! ?

there's thousands of people you've harmed already! ?

now its time for you...

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Boundless spectrum

jumps over

sky blue haze

Yellow sunflowers

slumber inside

beds of green

Saying to

Mr Rainbow

please stay longer

Before  you

guide love

back into heaven.

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Ten weeks on,

clapping for key workers is coming to an end

Clap your hands,

in appreciation, for their dedication we commend

Every person,

old and young, women, men, girls and boys

Clap your hands,

whistle, shout, cheer, together make some noise

At the window,

by the front door, on the step or in the street

Clap your hands,

bang a drum, beep a horn and st...

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~Black bodies stained red

By hands of those whom color has not dared touch

Black bodies left for dead

Destroyed, discarded, desecrated, and given to death's clutch

Black bodies have always bled

For the sins of those who are yet to be judged

Black bodies are hanging by a thread

Waiting for justice, but receiving none such.~

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When the night grows dark

And all return home after long day task

And the moon rises high in the dark black sky

Studded with stars creating a magical high

All the yester years memories creeps

Into the room where we are lying asleep

From the eyes, into the deepest mind

A dream grows into a reality keeping spell bind

The sleeper carefully speaks and play t...

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It was pitiful enough that I'd be running in anyone arms in desperation
I don't even know what I'm supposed to do or whom I'm supposed to be
It was a lonely road indeed.
In midst 20s when you thought you have it all figure out
And life smack back at you
Then suddenly you're lost again
People say you will figure it out
But when,
When its already too late?
Will I ever figure it out?

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Even after some unremovable

scar marks,

I still crave for your love.

The painful wound is no past

but love can heal.

So why hatred?

Dear Love,

come again in any form.

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A tall and wooden window’s open wide 

And lets the early summer sunshine slip 

Inside the dimly lit and narrow room 

And draw few feeble shadows on the walls. 

Beside the window stands a girl and looks 

Towards a very distant place, away 

From where she stays with shoulders brought in front 

While arms are tightly held around her waist. 

She wears a lively coloure...

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i will never think of you again
i will never wish to be with you
i will forget you with all my heart
i will move on, i will get over you
i will not pray for us to meet again
but before all these,
i will pray for you to be safe and happy
and it will be the end

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I grew up in a swarm of 'farming folk' sayings,

Buzzing around my head like bees,

Pithy platitudes, remarkably philosophical.

'Life' observations, wrapped in common imagery

Like these three:

'Play in the sunshine, rue in the rain.'

'You planted your own row; now hoe it!'

'You reap what you sow.'

These expressions carried weight.

There were always examples to point t...

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It's September of forty-five. 
We remember the dark months 
when France was overrun and England stood alone 
against the force of Nazi armies.
Soon Germany attacked Russia. 

Then Japan committed a tactical triumph 
and a strategic blunder: they attacked Pearl Harbor.
Our ocean fortress had been breached.
That Day in Infamy galvanized the nation; 
to win, no matter what the cost.

Two ...

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Bitten by passion

In forbidden times

Meaning is missing

As each hour chimes

Watching his body

His face

Through a screen

Can a coin set him free

From this vending machine?

He offers a penny

Just for her thoughts....

' If you'd been some chocolate, I'd get what I've bought'

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“All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme.” ~ Mark Knopfler

Sing to me 

one more time. 

Share the gift 

of your romantic 

rhyme. 

You have the power 

to light up the night

with a flick of your pen. 

Show us where 

madness stops 

and love begins.

https://youtu.be/vyI9flHHT2Q

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If I could send you fragrance in a thought

click and send a perfect blend

with words and picture on the wing

to a blissful journey's end

then I would willingly sell my soul

for a magic ride on the juggernaut.

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Why making soup makes me feel so good.

 There’s a joke in our house at the moment – “Two soups !” which, for those of a certain generation, will always bring back that magical sketch by Victoria Wood and Julie Walters set in a restaurant, where a doddery and forgetful waitress finally brings 2 soups to a couple, spilling all the soup onto the carpet on the way. Maybe we wouldn’t be allowed to p...

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Choose
as if there is no fate.
Choose long straight hair
like a long straight road
from here to there.
Choose the easy life
however hard it may be.
At the last minute as at the first
as if the duelling pistols are identical.
As a baby turtle rushes
into the sea or into a wall.
Choose.

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Prayer and God Will Protect Me From Corona

Trump calls for churches to open – regardless.

“In America we need more prayer, not less”

Must go to my church coming Sunday

Mix close with the people and pray

To God who'll protect me and save me

And keep corona virus away

Attending my church is more important

More important than staying at home

My God will...

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The next time you cut down the olive branch

I hope you realize that such a limb will not always be there.

With abuse, anger, and violence

That limb may fall.

Too fragile to support the weight of such a heavy soul.

The next time you cut down the olive branch

I hope you realize that such a limb has weaknesses of its own.

With threats, beratement, and indifference

That li...

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in a small town near the ocean

a man stares at the sky

asking for it’s answers

praying for it’s promise

we are used to knowing everything 

but about the universe, we know little

all we can do is stare 

and be drawn in by the discomfort of not knowing 

yet appreciating the comfort of knowing it’s always there

I aim for the dark side of the moon

the part nobody sees or ...

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You lie awake in bed with your eyes swollen from the tears and the pain

Wondering why you deserve to hurt

You play back scenes in your head thinking , " Was it all fake!"

The smiles, the love, the times we laid together in bed, talking about children, and houses by the lake

You close your eyes and tears fall down your face and you cry to God , " Please, please make it all go away!"

...

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The seed he planted didnt really grow
He forgot to add some love and water flow
He just come at night to see the empty pot and go
While the seed he planted, was taken away by a Crow

Roovi

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The sun was bright
Gates open wide
And Esther was the one

I danced - you walked
I listened while you talked
It was not me who cried

You took the blame
And name in vain
I loved the way you lied

We kissed the kiss
And then you missed
That tiny fleeting smile

Your dress so white
Eyes shut so wide
The closure has begun

Polish roulette
The stage was set
For mischief to be don...

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Golden was the frame

That surrounded you

A beautiful scene

Filled with a magnificent hue

- Nature's canvas.

Centrally seated you

Looked at the artist

And drove the object

Out of the imagery

Created an image

Of yourself

Fighting back

Alive with strength

You and you alone

Noone else can be you

He...

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Thoughts..

Thoughts are funny 

Thoughts are freaky 

Thoughts bring pain

Thoughts bring gain 

Neither here neither there 

All we think we bring to bare 

My thoughts 

Her thoughts 

Your thoughts 

His thoughts

Thoughts we share

Thoughts we cannot bare 

Though you do not say, your thoughts they always find there way

Good thoughts bad thoughts 

All day we fi...

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Wanted a Churchill.
Got a blonde workshy dandy,
hapless and fearful.

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Wounded animal

‘Mankind’s a wounded animal!’

The voice of the columnist boomed.

As though his mansion dripped with blood,

While a hungry predator loomed.

Down his way, though, mankind survives.

The van, sanitized, delivers

Deep-cleaned excitement on a plate.

Summertime: nobody shivers.

The odd spark flies and tempers fray,

But daily jogging keeps all tr...

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‘One Lung Dave’ is what they call him,

The man whose fighting cancer.

Breathing is a challenge everyday-

We all wish there was an answer!

‘One Lung Dave’ is what he calls him,

We laugh and all poke fun

His humour is his armour…

when he can only walk but wants to run.

‘One Lung Dave’ is what the doctors call him,

He struggles to breathe everyday-

Waiting for ...

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UNTITLED

Dreams are a simple way to make sense

of the past, often used as a mental grip

on the bafflement we feel

when choice engulfs us, not just hems us in.

Shall I become that which I know I am not?

Perhaps, an empty shell, I will be found out:

a shameful gambler like many,

and primed to receive his just deserts.

Or, better, to receive the same without regre...

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Whilst others may be far away, 
You've no need to leave your room, 
For you can see and hear them, 
Through a device that we call Zoom.

Zoom is a modern method, 
Of which people should now know. 
It is a common meeting place 
Where everyone now seems to go.

Your meeting may be a one off. 
You may have many in succession. 
You might just meet one person, 
Or have lots of them in a se...

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Incapable of tenacity,
My efforts become wasted.
No issue of bone density,
But one of sweet love, tasted.

Too far away;
It never existed.
Mere fiction to fill my day.
My face turns away.

Cause,
That's just my way,
It seems.

To fill my day,
With fallacy;
Your head with 'promise me'.

Watch as I dance around meaning without capacity.
Please, no flash photography –
Try, but you...

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They walked out the door and the air was heavy

She felt as though she would suffocate as all the air was sucked out of her lungs

Her chest got tighter and tighter with every strained breath

She stood there as he began to turn away from her

Instantly a thousand thoughts ran through her mind like a spinning kaleidoscope

Bright colors, scents, feelings, and thoughts

She went back in...

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I will always love you. For the sun and the moon to know, to let the fear flow, to let the earth turn slow. Universe is for the lovers...

-Deb-

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Escape 1970

Inside the straight jacket 

she is constrained

last days before death

a lonely loss of freedom when needed most

I imagine her emotions, 

tied up, held down, 

crushed

panic spilling into every corner of her sterile camisole

inside the straight jacket 

there are moments of clarity

hidden strength

a fight for recognition in a damaged brai...

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A Pressed Flower

I had procrastinated for far too long

as it sat above the house hidden

to give it shape and additional room

Our loft was a chaotic storeroom

the unwanted added to the untidy

I climbed a rickety ladder aloft

into a cavern of perpetual darkness

with a solitary naked light bulb

With torch in hand I surveyed the scene

old suitcases, cardboard bo...

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I forgave myself the hate towards me, thinking about constantly please let me be. The emotions inside of me not knowning what i please to be. Confused lost out of my mind holding through a thin line. Who am i. Cold , soft , forgotten, demanded, lost, who am i. With no one around my screams and nails on the ground who really was i meant to be.  

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Stuck inside my head with all the hurt that i have done

How could i have been alive when it felt like i was dead

Middle of nowhere is where i belong 

In the open land not thinking about my wrongs

Take me to the place that i truely want to be 

With the stars and the grass, the dirt and the trees

Giving it up, letting it go 

Trying to face being alone, when i just want to pack u...

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In the distance,

trees blossom.

I miss the scent,

and flutter of falling petals.

It’s too far to see bees,

but I must hope they are there,

collecting,

paying forward.

Cool breeze

chills watery sun

in unlooked for blue sky,

wasted on trapped townfolk.

Passing cars

disturb silence,

now commonplace

but once improbable.

The world wait...

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     Our race is lost,
what has won is our disgrace,
our race, is lost,
no other body be granted,
     no more planet for us in space.

     Our race is lost,
for now you buy your air,
our race is lost,
don't ever, ever, ever again state for children - you care!

DON'T EVER, EVER AGAIN.
 

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Before four in the morning . A chorus of birds . Singing all is ok and we're happy . We are Fighting we're alive . We're bringing you joy . We're bringing you hope . We're calling all others to feel like we do . Happy to be alive . Happy to be happy . Happy to do what others can do . Sing out loud and be Happy .

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A summer's Christmas,

A winter's Easter,

Sun blazed reflections,

Moon chilled features,

Decaying bright shadows,

Renewing dark radiance,

Exogenous void within',

Luminescently extraneous,

Lagging just to rush,

The constantly inconsistent,

Concealing joyous sorrows,

Being contiguously distant,

Thoughts resistantly flowing,

Nerves electrically static,

Hearing...

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With pen and paper in hand

I write love letters to you in the early morning 

When I know that your mind is still wavering in dream 

When this conscious body craves the affection of yours as you turn over slowly in your sleep 

and sigh against the curve of my neck 

It is not easy to fill the time that you are absent 

Meaningless tasks seem to pass too quickly 

But from far...

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A pig went quack with a Monkey on his back while watching an Elephant juggle,
a Tiger passing by in his plane was flying high and a laughing Rhino started blowing bubbles,
a Gorilla started baking the pie that he'd been making as a Billy Goat was brushing his hair,
and a Crocodile was painting a Zebra who was skating while eating a big ripe juicy pear!

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I really love my bicycle 
I think that it loves me
Can’t cope without my bicycle
It’s part of me you see

The places I can go on it
The likes you’ve just not seen
I ride uphill, or freewheel down
Don’t ask me where I’ve been

I sit here on my balcony
Enjoying sunny days
It’s good to know that travelling
Is done in many ways

Now some may travel on a bus
Whilst others take the train
...

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Every story has a picture

And every picture has some words

Every word is dressed and spliced

Filed into lines of scraggly words

Strung and hung together one after another

To form sentences paragraphs

And sheaves of misbegotten tales

Drawn and picked out

Of the cold hard depths of the imagination

The aching hand of a straining chemist

Of beleaguered and brightly col...

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Brother Ocey Rucker

On the exact spot where you pitched your revival tent 60 years ago

On the exact spot where you railed about Gog and Magog-America and China and the fires of heaven that will destroy them

On the same spot where you extolled Catholic priests and Jewish Rabbis to climb their roofs and shout” Jesus is Coming any day now.”

In that same dusty lot, where your beautiful wif...

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THE AUSSIE POMM.

Now, as you all know ladies. When a new mans in your life.
You groom your airs and graces to portray the perfect wife.
We are all so very concious of the things you musnt show.
Be discreet and feminine,  that's all he needs to know.
Now I know that all you ladies have to have all things just right. 
Especially on your wedding day and more so WEDDING NIGHT.
Well, it just s...

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the low spot

familiar hammock,

hung loping

silken tar pit

draping and folding;

a salve of shirked living

soothing until it's not

until it's too heavy

until it's a mountain too smooth and soft to climb

until my limbs rend

salted and wet

slow-cooked into apathy.

exhaustion press'd

(rye and ginger, lemon, soda

left half emptied

beaded condensations le...

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I sliced the sun into two

And looted shimmering bars of gold

Which lined her womb, 

Her beloved broods I stole. 

I plucked the sturdiest mountains, 

The choicest adornments on the face of the globe. 

All it took were my hands, raw and unrestrained, 

Their maimed rubbles now abuse those they adore.

I remember the sea that like Moses I parted

And the ocean floor ...

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In a sky full of dark clouds 

Take thunder by the hand 

Create a storm 

And be the sun that chases the rain away

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I have posted several video clips of my poems (mostly those already published) being read on You Tube. Feel free to comment, criticise, share, but please do not plagiarise. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_kDVClx9RpB3ALD0I3inQ?view_as=subscriber

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Sunlight indicates the dawning of a new day’s potential,

striking the hill across the valley, alerting me to life:

sparrows peck in the strawberry bed, flutter in the birdbath

and the blackbird seeks vital food for her hedge-hidden chicks.

A new dawn’s blessings break for me every twenty-four hours,

I am guilty of taking many for granted, trusting fate

to bring me another, a...

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The lines with tongues of flame

Are still within my sight,

The words of buried blame

Are manuscripts of fight.

I wasn’t meant for you

By destiny and skies,

But fatum gave a clue

And handcuffed our eyes.

 Evasions measured time

And distanced expectations,

And feelings made no crime,

And vanished shame at war flirtations.

And bleeding petals’ bloom

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This is a Time

This is a time,

unprecedented in your lives,

to reach out in person, reach out online.

To demonstrate care for yourself and others

who may be suffering a sense of despair,

your sister, your brother, your father, your mother,

feeling hopeless or trapped in a faraway stare

you glimpse when you enter a room.

This is a Time,

unparalleled in your lives,

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The World in Lockdown People's Poem is now online and free to read at:

https://www.facebook.com/worldinlockdownpoem/

Please give it a read!

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Her pristine beauty is only reflected in midnights dreams

her tears, diamond streaks upon her cheeks

Amongst the light that brightly holds her,

she sings a lonely melody of unattainable love

Seeking in endless time what she knows she’ll never obtain,

sweet solace in cold and steady arms

Poring her heart out in the only method she can,

sending a sentiment of true feelings 

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Bluer with sunlight.

Less pollution to screen us.

New day still no rain.

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Her fingers tracing mine
Lily danced me out of the garden
those green eyes brimming lively 
with purest abandon
Then barefoot on the boardwalk
her summer dress riding high
she leapt onto the jetty 
and gestured to the sky

We let our tanned legs hang below
as we bottomed up the bottle
the air was hot and heavy
the sea around us peaceful
There was lust upon our minds
as a veil upon a ...

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Broken 

Sometimes I feel as if I am broken
Broken beyond what glue can fix 
Jagged pieces spread every where
 I look Inside my head

Yeah,
I must be broken
My imperfections 
becoming something I can’t hide 

I am broken, 
My fake smiles
becoming more evident everyday
Happiness i can’t reach haunting me 
Taunting me through the night

Why am I so broken
Pieces of my pieces shatt...

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We’ll get there 

One way or another 

And we’ll learn 

Along the way 

And 

we won’t forget 

What it felt like 

We won’t do this 

To other people 

We will learn 

And we will 

Remember 

And when 

We’re 

HERE

Again 

Passing ourselves 

On the way back 

We’ll think 

A little more carefully 

Behave 

A little more responsibly

And help ...

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And even when we tried 
to stay away from each other, 

we just couldn't. 

We talked and laughed, 
flirt and fought. 

Deep down we knew,
we just shouldn't. 

Going our separate ways,
And giving up on each other, 

we just wouldn't. 

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I’m too emotional. I guess these are the thoughts of a broken soul.

To all the people who I love, I know you guys’ll do great.

I’ll bet that I’ve prepared you for every friend you’ll make, and every person you’ll love, but also all the people that you’ll hate.

It’s the constant emptiness, yeah that’s probably what’ll do it.

When you re-evaluate your standards, you’ll see that I don’t f...

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Some time ago, I got a bank card with the Tap to Pay option. Negative talk and conspiracy theories that someone will scam my money just walking past me in the shopping mall made me afraid to have one, let alone use one.

When COVID-19 came, I did not want to touch anything, not the card machine, nor the keyboard to type in my pin. My Tap to Pay card was suddenly my best friend!

What happened?...

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Ricky Wilson pushed the button 
that turned his chair around.
He was surprised to see,
standing on the stage before him,
a chimpanzee 
in a tight, bright yellow dress.

He thought it unlikely 
that this could be the source 
of the beautiful rendition 
of Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien 
that he’d heard moments earlier, 
but the stage was otherwise empty, 
so it seemed this must be the case.

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You always see

when people trip and fall 

face first onto a knee,

The shear panic of a red warm pool. 

People crowd and care, 

Rushing to rescue. 

Drip, drip, drip,

The skin now stained

seeping from veins,

Pumping like a bad memory,

Fixated on the blood

people forget the scars,

Not the one oozing with puss

but the one deep-rooted, 

Crying out for atte...

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I lie here on our bed..
Trying to sleep..
The wind is cool today..
The crickets sing away...
I hear the occasional owl hoot..
The silence of the night takes it root...
Memories of you come flashing by..
The hug, the nudge, the rolling close and the rolling off..
I can still smell you in the night cap you wore..
And as I close my eyes, desperately trying to sleep...
Your absence, leaves s...

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The sun rises

Nature’s light show plays out before me

Daylight reveals highways of the sea glistening on the horizon

Dover to Calais ferries dart between the wake of mammoth container ships

Walkers processionally pass by on their way to The Cliffs

Few pay me attention

An elderly woman with a walking stick stops

She leans on the convenient railings

Bidding me “good morning”

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He's gone

gone

gone

I’m dreaming I’m Bohemian

Last time we met, gyroscopic diner punches back, back, back

punching mp3s isn't the same as punching records

This lockdown is never ending - send me more Vodka

The wrong place, at the wrong time, Icarus falls into the English Channel,

to be washed up on the white cliffs, and the Queen is left immortal,

as the freedom monarch

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Lazy and lethargic
Loopy and lost
Little dizzy dots dancing through glass
Distorted and reorganized daily
Finding wiser ways warily
Cutting rosemary from the dirt
Megahertz blurt thoughts into blankness
Blankets on the back porch
Roaches in the feed corn
Violating duties sworn
Better to be never born
Steel shorn clean, violently
Violets growing amongst ivy
Mahogany inseparably blendin...

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I see the world around me

Shifting from origin,

Natures and actions of people

Deviating astray with no precision.

Yet, among the chaos I seek and find,

The one soul who I thought I could easily leave behind.

Her eyes sparkling with love, and her heart, oh so kind,

She lifts me up with her energy, her voice revitalising my mind. 

She creates a symphony guided ...

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As the crimson veil of sunset

Burned into his sight

He dreamed a thousand dreams times ten

Then wished with all his might

And when he turned towards her

He could see the glow

Of everything that he had dreamed

Just moments ago

In her eyes he saw those dreams

And knew she was the one

To dream a thousand dreams with

Under every setting sun

lcb 2020

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I thought I was getting better 

I thought I had become stronger

But last night I cried 

I cried because of you 

But 

I kept my promise because I didn't cry for you 

Every night, when I am putting myself to sleep

Our moments crosses my thoughts

I don't blush 

I don't smile

I think of something else

And I wish I could omit everything from my mind 

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All ive had on my mind
Have disapeared
To let place
Never to come near

I'm always afraid
In the darkest times
When the night comes to collect
All of my fears

And when the day comes
As if it disappears
Like forgotten dreams
Missing a piece

Iam missing a piece
Iam missing more
Much more than what it seems
Or maybe less 

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The Poetic Bond X - calls for submissions - up to four poems on any subject, in any form, and of any length (120 lines in print + weblink).  

So far 623 poems from 223 poets have been published in The Poetic Bond Series.  The Poets of The Poetic Bond come from all over the globe, from the US to Malaysia, the UK to the Lebanon, with ages ranging from 14 to 86, exploring themes of love, life, age...

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What would I wish for, if given the chance?
For a start, I'd wish I could dance
Wish I could learn without having to repeat
Wish I could earn my depression's defeat
Wish I could do all the things I want to do
Wish I could prove the love I have for you
Wish I could act on all these wishes
Wish I didn't have to do the dishes
Wish I could be the person you need
Wish I could resist the sin of...

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I'm sitting by myself on a cliffside

Watching the sun as it sets,

Burying my face while i weep a thousand tears,

Clutching my knees to my chest

And there's nobody around but me,

In this world i can't seem to call home,

And my heart only wants to spread love

But the anxiety hugs tight and keeps me alone

Then darkness sets in like a blanket

And calls to my soul like a dear...

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Entreaties

My gums are bleeding again.

There’s a stack of papers that need attention

But I can’t find my glasses.

My truck is making that funny noise.

I sleep too late

Because no one wakes me.

I don’t write

I feel it’s all been said.

I find I’m repeating myself

No one takes me seriously

Your point’s been made:

I am selfish and fickle,

Say whate...

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Some mistakes cannot be undone

They haunt us with the rising sun

Memories that hijack the waking mind

And racing thoughts that make life grind

Though we attempt to bury them deep

When we’re vulnerable there they creep

So how from this torture do we escape

And begin our story to reshape

By accepting that we all have flaws

And we aren’t prisoners to what was

Piece by pi...

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Nnoooo More

You're always home - always around...
never heard so darn much daytime sound
I sneak in the kitchen hoping for a crumb,
but you sweep the floor till I fall down, numb

That's my part of the living room couch,
you plop your size 16 butt down - ouch!!
So I go lay in the chair, seeking quiet there -
you start snoring like a beach ball losing air

No social distancing hap...

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At five o’clock the Tories dribble poison in my ears

trying hard to hide their perma-smirks they giggle at our fears.

Trumpeting as triumphs, all the targets they’ve not met.

They twist the truth like wicker man and hope we’ll all forget

that they failed to act in time to protect our brave frontline

And they watched the death toll climb, while they told us we were fine

But w...

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Wrote a few lines on Kangana Ranaut, the bollywood celebrity, who wears too much black to look like an assassin.

So you believe, arrows are sweet;
You have made your mind not to retreat,
Not absolving me any more…
Set sail on the track and therefore,
My agony elevated, fetching me more trouble,
I am in my lonliness unable to even wobble…
Oh God! How can you be so great?
Sealing my beauti...

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Uncertain is all,
Certain is you within all,
Which Remains with all.

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Her!

Her back, 
She appeared as her wings. 

Her eyes,
She showed the flames kept in it. 

Her jeans, shorts or any of clothes, 
Not just clothes, she showed her as a pearl hidden in the river. 

Her fingers, 
She showed as the waves move in the sea. 

Her Nails,
She showed that it was a stone peace that was part of the mountains.

Her Lips,
Well, it was a sweet poison, cha...

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There's a vandalised old bus stop

  At the top of Markham Street,

And there when we were seventeen,

  Louise and I would meet;

She'd sometimes let me hold her hand

  Or kiss her on the lips,

But never more than that unless

  I bought her fish and chips.

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Solitude used to be an escape route

from the chaos of life. 

My room was once a safe haven 

from the scary world around me. 

My house used to be a welcome sight

after a long day. 

None of those things are what they once were. 

Being stuck in one place for 59 days does that to a person. 

My house is no longer home,

the blue walls no longer friendly and welcoming. 

My r...

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“Who am I? I asked the mirror today.

The mirror gave no reply. 

So then I asked a second time. “Who am I?” 

I was given nothing but a half-hearted shrug. 

My impatience got the best of me so I shouted once more.

“I said who am I?” Silence fell all around striking something  deep from within

I leaned into the mirror searching for an answer but the only thing I found was the face o...

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Adam and Eve had a trick up their sleeve
Being there when the world was begun
It’s a little pet peeve, which brings on a slight seethe - 
They were there at the start, so they won

Some theologists say that if they had their way
They’d get rid of original sin
But our Man of God is a little bit odd
He goes into the box with a grin

He created devotion by stirring the notion
That he’s hea...

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Feel the joy, in this race,
adore the clouds
smell the flowers,
Forget the finish line
It's a start
to a brand new race!

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The school nurse sighed

When the girls’ tummies ached.

But it’s not just a period:

Now it’s the doctors sighing,

Whenever I come in crying,

It’s just depression.

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And what did you fear when you

thought you might have to fight, again,

to win invitations for your heart and voice, to

reach out with ease to whoever happened to be there?

Now it was, you said, time for poets to refocus –

not just because the others had complied;

isolation and distancing had seen to that.

All of us had sensed change.  You were

a poet if you were t...

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We were reckless with love.

Swans dancing on a lake of fire;
unfinished art searching for the
Louvre.

Quiet & loud.

Hungry & fed.

Bones full of broken stars
and twilight;

sapiosexual
astronomers
with the temerity
to traverse galaxies
hidden between the
braille on our skin,

foolish enough to believe
desire this strong would
take a half-life to
decay.

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All my brothers are wanting to commit suicide

But what do you expect my lord?

These days are crazy, and we are not living

The downfall has come, and we were swept

Everyone you love has turned on you

Are we all enemies?

My people must move forward in this struggle

Wives are seeking men from the streets

Kids are shooting for they were taught this way

Drugs are as common as...

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The web page states:

For over four decades,

Chamomille Natural Foods has been providing

Products and resources that promote

Healthy and wholesome lifestyle.

Until…

Sensationalized propaganda campaign

Viral threats marched over

Healthy lifestyles

Negating four decades of healthy,

Life supporting, guidance

Bright Yellow Caution Tape

Blocks the pathway to...

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The following information is provided as supporting details for any articles, blogs and associated content that may be produced in support of The Big Write Out Loud Poetry Competition: Beyond The Storm.

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Is it ok to aim for something higher.

To crave and desperately desire something higher.

Is it ok to wonder about the meaning of it all, the purpose of it all.

Is it ok to walk and see and hope that in the end it is the right thing and all worthwhile.

Is it ok to feel unaccomplished, uncomplete until you get it.

Is it ok to think about it all the time and wonder if it will ever come,...

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In that year – Inspired by Kim Moore’s amazing poem of the same title

And in that year my mind turned into a chrysalis

I liquefied my preconceptions

and turned them into butterfly soup

And in that year I picked up a pen

and my hand slid across the page like a gliding swan

the white lie feathers of self-deceit became black truths

And in that year I prayed at the ...

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The air was thick with ghosts, ghosts from Greece, ghosts from Rome, and modern ghosts from home. 

There were ghosts of tradition, ghosts of faith.  Illuminated were many ghosts but no wraiths. 

Her plumped lips were beckoning all and we tried to admit nothing, not the ghosts, not her, nor I.
None of us were living, except the ghosts, and none were willing to die.  

My heart pounded like...

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NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. It coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. Usually it would form part of my Texas Tour, but this year due to it being cancelled, I did it as a standalone project, using my time and experienc...

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But how can i find my way to your heart ?

how can i appeal to you in every way ?

am trying to  approach you and be confident about it.

What would I say, would you even listen?

the infatuation of you makes me tremble.

what would i do if you resisted ,if you said no ?

feelings i want to profess, places i want to take you

i want to say and do  more but am trying to be sure 

yo...

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Kukukuku.....! That sounds like a hen with its chick, Moving up and down like a wanderous serpent, Trying to get its food for its chick, The chick has fallen, On the rocky area, gigaring itself in Nigeria! Ohh! My doctor, I've fallen, But i need a guarantor, To take me on top of the sick bed, To beg this pandemic queen....

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Another lovely Rainbow I see on a window pane 

Rainbows all over the world, their message the same.

A land full of perfect Rainbows every day and night.

In these uncertain times, such a comforting sight.

Now Rainbows have a special meaning these days.

Boosting our spirits with their hope, thanks and praise.

On every Rainbow painted on street, window or wall.

We thank our ...

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A man sits atop a glass skyscraper.

The building magnificent, made of the most expensive glass known to man. Pure gold trimmed edges all along the building. 

On his desk is the present he bought his beautiful wife. An ivory necklace, almost priceless. It blends right in with the other 2 that he bought for his mistresses. 

The man has all that he could ever want and possesses what most wou...

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For she is , the epitome of paradox
Stares into my soul with her piercing eyes
With a double edged sword, she speaks
One minute, exuberance and euphoria, the next anguish and misery

Out of the blue she utters those words of despair 
Plummets me into questioning myself incessantly 
the queries turn into cries for help
Contagious conundrum creeps in from behind
Eventually this complex maze...

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