The golden orb

Has rendered me red

Upon arms & shoulders

And on me fore'ead ?

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Words can unite

Monday,31st May 2021

If a sword can kill innocent

the words can heal and present

the actual power they hold

and tell the entire world

if the swinging sword can flash in your eyes

the metaphors and words can try

their utmost to create an influence

and bounce in your mind

words are the best instrument

for any movement

to create an im...

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A counterfeit complacency

to ease the bane of being.

Why aim for the firmament when

you've read the fine print?

Inscribed in small type

is the loss that won't be

quantifiable, yet readily

identifiable. 

So you lower the sails

in shame, before the

voyage even gets

its say. 

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encouraged by the sunshine 
exploding magenta bombs 
cheerleaders of the garden
perfect peony pom-poms 

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In Sharp Contrast

It burst forth like a rapturous applause

to see the field by the river which had been

sprinkled with a saffron down

as buttercups claimed their righful ground

The month of May had arrived

to rejuvenate the landscape which had

lain dormant and bare

Trees once darkened silhouettes against

a grey heavily laden sky

now held a vista of verdant pastur...

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you can make sumpin

out of nuttin

or nuttin out of

sumpin

but you cannot make

nuttin BE sumpin

you have to have

sumpin

to start with.

-O.L. Buzzerd

(most of my poems amount to nuttin.)

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we used to walk in the canyon

talk of a future that never came

gasping at the beauty round us

Selina was one hell of a dame

its a movie playing in my head

just pictures without the sound

a neck-lace of images inside a

cold tomb on hallowed ground

called to New York for a movie

turned your head with ambition

left me doubting your standing

fearing you inten...

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Rumbles have started growing louder. 
Now there appear bright flashes across the sky; 
Filled with glee, thundering sadistically. 
I admit they appear absolutely splendid to me.
Blue, white, dull grey and yellow.
No one ever says that's a great colour combo.
But is there a sight prettier than the grey clouds
Trying to cover the tints of soft crimson,
That sparkle throughout the infinitude,
...

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I'll keep marching on

Go on walking 

From dusk to dawn

Holding my head high

Chin up and shoulders back

Running straight into dreams

That destiny has for me

I'll keep trying

This way and that

This one or that one

Something will surely work

Someone will really help

Pulling me out of this well

I'll keep hoping on

Trust the process

It may take lon...

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the foundation has crumbled

and the pieces lay all around me

of what was once my home.

the repairs were insufficient

though my hands are skilled in their craft.

not enough will always be not enough.

now I sit amidst the wreckage

and among all these broken pieces

that for so long I have tried to salvage,

piecing myself back together

as best as I could

whil...

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I am not as strong as they think I am.

I am not who they want me to be.

And I,

I can't be as they need me to be.

All this weight is just pushing me down.

I'm not strong enough.

They don't understand.

Their expectations are so fucking high.

They are waiting for me,

a stupid caterpillar,

to turn in to an amaizing butterfly.

But what they can't see

is that I'm no c...

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Slavery equates with knavery -

Who today would argue with that?

Evil is as evil does...

And wears its evil hat.

But every buyer needs a seller...

Market forces in the murk;...

About who was buying and who was selling

Sees one-way forces at work.

Across the world and throughout time

The two have conspired as one,

Without their cruel complicity

The deed cou...

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Just because I've learnt to swim underwater,
Doesn't mean I can live without breathing.
Just because I can walk on the surface,
Doesn't mean I can't slip and start sinking.

If I don't look in the mirror,
Doesn't mean my face has changed.
If I start at the beginning,
Still I have to reach the end.

Just because there is a meaning
Doesn't mean I understand (or know it).
Just because the...

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The yellow suns in your eyes lit our path, revealing the secrets hidden under the gray sky. 

When I was thirsty, blue poured from your tongue into the black bile, and I drank from the river. 

Your skin was a red furnace, a cauldron of warmth prevailing against the brittle wind and melting through my ice.

You pointed to the titanium obelisk on the hilltop. 

We were on a journey to somew...

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i was flying high

because ive let myself dream

i was in the sky

because ive let myself  believe that finding happiness is easy

now im back here 

with myself again 

thinking how did i not know how this will end 

im doing my best

i really am 

its not the time 

not this time 

maybe not ever 

i can deal with that

focus on whats real

ill keep on existing if tha...

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I will go to the mountain alone
to face my fears
now that I know you don't love me either
nor will I be yours
I will slap her on a drunken night
and the people in it
I will go to the mountain alone
alone in black perulin.

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Something magical happened. 

Goosebumps flooded my entire

body, I heard bells, colours were

exploding into vibrancy: suddenly

the prospect of the water was a 

terrifying and drastic inconvenience 

that I had happily avoided. I stood 

and thanked the woman. I didn’t 

want to look at her. I didn’t want 

to remember her, in case I fell in 

love, because then I’d end up b...

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Farewell delicious citrus companion,

For three years we shared our breakfast table,

Breaking the night's fast together as one,

And now, you gone, and I, miserable.

Three-fold were your sweet sunshine hued fruit rinds,

Melded too with sugars from cane filled isles.

Our love connection, forged by taste and mind,

Child of copper-bottomed pot, yielding smiles.

On your...

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Good Morning Sunshine

A ray of light

Warms my body and my heart

A daily reminder 

That we are given an opportunity for a fresh start

In times of disconnection

When living can feel like hell

The sun gives us the same message

Of kindness and of strength; for us to be well

Sun beams wash over us

When the fight is hard

A memoir of a greater presence

L...

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What is it about our race issues

And hatred towards each other today

It`s the twenty-first century

By now we should have found our way

Is it that our past regression

And all of the supression

Set forth a situation that is here to stay

Always too hard to forgive

When free to be yourself you cannot live

We must strive to get over our past

Forgive but not forget,  for a ...

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Once upon a time on an icy hill,

two worlds collide giving jaunty chill,

adventure began with massive curiosity,

but uncomfort remained still.

Round and round and up and down,

were trying to explore the entire town,

amidst this process of fun and pun,

became reason for each other's frown.

And hence its time to depart away,

before it gets deteriorating decay,

without a...

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Scene II
Has me frozen
Like a cat
On cold concrete.
It's so awkward
I wish . . . 
I wish I could leave.
But no,
I must stay.
There, now I've 
Done it --
All eyes are on
Me.
Please,
I'll ask so politely,
Don't listen
To a word I say.
It's so hard
To stand barefoot
In the rain
And try to light this
God-damned cigarette.
I must exit
But I'd really rather
Not go.
And would som...

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I found Her She found Me

love found Me love found Her

lost number given She lost mine

coincidental meet up second chance given

I found Her She found Me

enthralled in love the rest history.

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Faded, pegged, denim jeans fashioned by men who’s haberdashery skills were much in doubt

Bright paisley, high necked, tunic styled shirts,

collar as high a a Harry Hill prop

These memories give me the shakes, hippy shakes, like the many songs:  ‘All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey’; Mamas, Papas, flowers, pots, pot and hemp and pipes, the lot

Hip, hep, beatniks, Gree...

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I’ve played in most positions so that being quick and lean

I started off at fullback where I wore the shirt “15”.

I joined the line in their attacks, my kick was like a mule’s,

I tackled like a rhino (sometimes within the rules!)

A surfeit of jam puddings, though, at dinner time would mean

The coaches said that I’d become the fattest back they’d seen;

And fellow team mates o...

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Mr Handbag

The cackling sound 

of old led

sat and placed us 

with a person

It echoed out his life

and coughed up

three CD’s

so we sat.

darkness and fingernails

ran out of the room

leaving only me 

with Mr Handbag

his corduroy sweatpants

leaked receipts

covered in syrup

or was it marmite?

my heart began to bleed

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Lest we forget

Past influences the now 

Now influences the future 

Future influences the now 

Past influences the future 

Take steps with caution but with no regret

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A farmer's wife sent a letter to school which said,

"Please excuse my son from school,as his father is ill and the pig has to be fed."

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 Dreams of a black country infect my sleep
 Ragamuffin babes we cannot keep,
 Everything is black, rotted, gone.
 Everyday I dig down to the bone, 
 To the marrow-black foam on a dead man’s lips 
 black thoughts of the black cancers of the soul.

 No home for me beneath these skeletal trees 
 God isa  black star, in a black mood, afar
 The animals mourn the black earth,
 Conemarra, i...

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A drifter rides into the town,

Soft-spoken and quite roughly dressed;

His smile and manner win him friends,

Three others are far less impressed.

While he relaxes at the bar,

They gather, spoiling for a fight.

The plain folk start to peel away;

This is a match of wrong and right.

He swigs his drink and spins around;

He picks off one from either side.

The...

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I remember you in the morning,
the way the light hit your eyes,
the way your smile matched mine,
the way your fingers grazed over my peaks and valleys,
the way you wandered over my warm skin, inhaling its intoxicating scent.
And I remember the feeling that it was a perfect dream,
one that we never wanted to end
but it slipped away too soon.
And now every time I start to rise in excitemen...

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The Universe is full of dreams,

Of what we've done, of what we cherish,

It laughs and cries, it hurts and screams

Within the thoughts, the virtue 'n' blemish...

The Universe is tender, kind,

It's tough and rough - the way we treat it... 

Just keep the clean and sober mind 

To catch the life and firmly keep it.. 

To live each day the utmost fullest, 

To praise t...

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"What's the blood from? And please tell the truth
You didn't have those stains before you left for school
You cover your scars but wear the stains with pride"
Would you believe me when I say it's how I feel alive.

Awkward in my own skin but comforted by my blood
I don't even like myself. How can I be someone you love?
Call me a sore loser when I didn't even ask to play
White striped refle...

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The lust for war
is skin-tight & as hemoglobin to bone--
turning poets into preaching prophets
politicians into potion preachers
children into cheapened chattel
soldiers into senseless slogs
intellectuals into inflated idiots
conservatives to corny connivers
liberals into leaky liars &
the right into the wrong.

simply because war is a blood poison
and war is psychotic chaos,
a f...

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I escaped my dreams just to 

run right back to reality.

My soul fell right back into 

my unconscious body,

I took a sip of amnesia

rubbing my sleepless eyes.

As I lay there, trying my best 

to remember, the pain of grief 

and emptiness rush into my veins

sending pithy down my prideless

cheeks. Only if I could escape 

reality too.

I can't explain the tw...

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(for a nightingale)

Tossing in redhot sheets

with two granite pillows,

every sleepless night

he keeps faith and enchants.

Such a silvery crystal song

better performed than any tenor

so many perfect variations.

But no fool he, this minute brown bird,

his lovely lust only let loose

on balmy spring nights.

Never when just cold blackness

filled only by harsh owl shr...

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Planet Mars

When you close your  beautiful eyes
When you will look above the sky 
Remember which planet is mine
I live on the famous red Mars
A planet which belong to us
The birds will make  the longest flights
The wings  scattering the feathers 
Down  to the Earth we wear leathers
 A long distance traveler was
Say it a poem or a prose

Kiki Materi

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Celebrate unity

For life is all one

Every living thing

Works together

Most don't see it

And won't ever know

But the beauty of life

Does not lie solely in love

But in all emotions

In all of the struggles

We endure pain

And come out stronger 

We feel broken

But we are not

For we are each a piece

To the puzzle

A piece meant to be put back in place

We...

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WORLD IN LOCKDOWN

A patchwork-style poem written by the people of Merseyside during England's first Coronavirus lockdown 2020

Curated by Barry Woods

Assisted by Michelle Wright

(c) Copyright contributors 2020 (listed at the end)

World in Lockdown

We're earning o...

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     It will not mistake pride for gravitas
when it takes a cloth to the looking glass
but will find one's relation to heaven
simply focusing on what is hidden.

     Because privacy loves...no one need know
one hears the violin court the oboe.
No poem ever brought, or ever will,
mosses from that valley to this stark hill.

     Revealing in whispers -like to madness-
how one disti...

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The old stone dwelling, clad

in layered years of whitewash,

squats between farm track and field.

Against the winter-stained gable,

stacked turf leans, waiting.

Feathers of smoke wisp

from the chimney

fills the air with comfort,

and fiery flickers dapple

the open kitchen door.

The warm glow banishes

spring’s twilight chill,

the scent of turf mingling

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SERAPH WINGS

____________

She--English student-to-be

He--Art student

Accessorised well in cool black

Clothes as two roving assassins would

But they weren't assassins

They were just young, creative, self-expressive

Goths in love, bonded souls

With a beautiful future ahead of them

They both enjoyed the quietude before midnight

In a walk through Stubbylee Park--

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There's a little town in Lancashire they call Accrington
The birthplace of a legend and a sportsman elite
He set records year on year as he ran like the wind
He pushed himself to the limit and as a competitor was hard to beat
A world record holder and a marathon man to boot
From national records to Olympic glory he brightly shone
For 52 years and 39 days without a break he hit the ground run...

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BBC trying to get with the Sixties.

After it was played

compere David Jacobs

repeated the title in his

suave Light Programme voice

and only just the hint of a sneer.

The panel – people like

Eartha Kitt and Pete Murray –

looked at each other, trying

not to laugh. The last thing

they wanted was to seem square.

They had got the Beatles

and those other lon...

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19.04.21 

These arms are not mine 
Legs dissconnected 
From a body that doesn't belong to me 

Hands that touch but do not feel a thing 
Eyes that look but see right through 
And a mouth that talks, disconnected from me

Dissociated states 
Keep me away from me
Bring me home 
Put me back in my body please

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Too many times have I have been tempted to cross the line

Of pink pinched and blistered flesh

The red sore scored and lined weal’s

That accompany the opium

Of raised and blooded battlefield cries

In that place of constant feud and ravage

The inner sanctum of the unrested

That you and I and they would call

A state of war

The shout and scream of blood and savage

De...

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He has lived longer than you or I

Standing tall amongst his forest of friends

What makes this tree so special?

Why are so many compelled to visit this exact tree?

Leave offerings in his branches

Bury gifts between his roots…

Wisdom Tree gives freely of his counsel

Wisdom Tree communicates clearly

For those with ears open enough to hear

Humanity drawn to ask favours from ...

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The robin scuttles across the soccer field turf

Its beak goes up and down

and repeatedly nothing is found.

We are more like the robin then we care to believe: pecking away at the green turf dream of our days.

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As we seek help remember

angels don't always have wings

though they often come on hallowed ground,

and our visions can be theirs

so don't look for wings

instead fly too as magic is woven

to lift you. 

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My lover lives inside of long exposures
She breathes inside of my flashlight 
The shutter gazes wide eyed into darkness
I write her notes with this wavering beam
Capture my fast fading dreams by sunrise 

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The body

Is made of curves

But…

It has corners

Tucked inside each one

Sits…

A sorrow

Fresh, old, unresolved

Each one weighing

The bearer down

Each one

A burden

Help…

Lift sadness and sorrow

By listening

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Angel
Came down to meet,
the God's man.
Requested to guide the battle,
Battle of love..

"Thee father of patient, you have chosen to win a heart"

Roovi

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One of my biggest mistakes

Was falling in love with a fake

Who was not who he pretended to be

He'd only mirrored my good qualities

One of my greatest lessons

Ended up being a blessing

His shine began to fade

When I realized his charade

One of my most magnanimous feats

Was to find the courage to speak

To walk away from a selfish prick

To leave the Narcissi...

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Our energies intertwined 

patiently waiting for that moment of ascension

When our two souls merge into one 

An attraction that’s beyond the physical 

Your very essence entices me 

The goodness within you knows no bounds

Your heart drips liquid gold

Encased in a rich chocolate package 

Only time will tell if the symmetry of your heart matches mine perfectly!

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Silence stirs into the room

And in a split second

Something beautiful happens:

Falling into one another,

We kiss,

But not just any kiss,

A kiss that feeds my hunger,

Fills my heart.

A taste that lingers--

Caressing,

teasing.

You stand, hold out your hand;

An invitation to dance.

Silhouettes engage under pearlescent moonlight,

Embraced with patience: s...

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Every now and again

She gets this feeling

OMG, it’s hoeing season

She’ll be a hoe for a season

Hoping to be teasin’, pleasin’ you

Ho Ho Ho, Hoe!

Ain’t nothin’ wrong about it

Ever met a hoe trilla than thee?

I doubt it

She’ll be your hoe if only for a season

Hope to be pleasin’, just teasin (wink)….you

She don’t drink, but she do keep that green

Oh, oh but does t...

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Do not think it’s over.

It’s not even a start.

A poet, a philosopher

Just need more time.

Everything is not verbal.

Deeper sense remains untold.

Usually, but not forever!

With a little more inspiration,

A bit more reassurance

It will come out sooner.

It has to come out.

How long will it be?

Can it stay unexpressed?

Few souls are old.

Ti...

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OME IN COMMANDER PUNA

(for Annapurna)

Come in Commander Puna there’s no more fighting to be done

The war is finally over and all your enemies are on the run

I know you said the river is where we wash away our sins

But these kind of wounds run deeper than any water on your skin

The wound of love, the wound of light

The wounded shadow in the night

One by one they said "S...

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Visions of rain through a broken window,

Let it welcome you to reason,

Let it be beauty in front of you but you are unable to see,

May it be the sweetest fruit known as you lose the ability to taste,

The angel of anger different to us all, I will use mine so your unable to stand,

Crawling across the floor in the dark, let it be your blind hands frantically reaching for safety as you...

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The Eyes Of My Remembering

My eyes no longer what they were,

Dark shadows weave across my sight

That leave me wishing childhood's clear-

-Eyed vision's return in waking light.

My father's smile, his laughing eyes

I barely see through the photo's glass,

The washing frozen in time and skies,

A kitten plays on the background grass.

Can I wish for a ...

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Pyar wo ehsaas hai jo khud ko khud se milata hai
Pyar wo jazbaat hai jo dil Ko lubhata hai
Har pal ek nayi khushi ek naya armaan jagata hai
Sapno ko sach kar dikhane ka hausla dilata hai
Choti choti khushiyon ko batorna sikhata hai 
Chote chote lamhon ko jeena sikhata hai
Dusre ki khushi ko apni khushi banana sikhata hai
Ye to bas hume zindagi jeena sikhata hai
Kaid ho jaati hai yaadein.. ...

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The walls tell lies

So do not touch them

Especially if you feel lonely

You will feel icecold otherwise

Beyond the Moon lies

The exhausted star of your eyes

Do not wish on that star

And do not ever want to cry

The lyrics will become parts of lies

If your heart does not compose them

So do not sing, and pretend to be wise

Keep on feeling not the same

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Tea and cigarettes,

Have a chat with a friendly face 

Don't have the same effect as alcohol,ups or downers,

A safe pair of hands, a ear to listen,doesn't do it for like 

A quick here and gone with a stranger 

Normal everyday people roaring cause you take everything and left 

Excuse me i just like to state for me being safe and sound not for me 

Drama and trauma know thats my c...

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Your heart still beats

And the blood still pumps around

You can think and move

You can articulate your thoughts

But remember

You must die

You’ve not travelled much

And the world has hardly felt your touch

You’ve done nothing worthwhile to speak of

Time is running out

But remember

You must die

Then again, you’ve tasted the breath of freedom

And seen ...

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Let's explore treasure of alumni,
Who're fighting in the world of tsunami 
bidding farewell to their alma mater
They embark into the world theatre.

Alumni! you learn the art to live in world,
to tackle against traditions ageold.
In this crafty world you see
how false turned into truth phony!

False faces posing false etiquettes,
Every actor around currency rotates.
You've to recu...

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Stop this catastrophic war

Affecting children and the poor

Corpses lying on the floor

I cannot take it anymore

So much blood has been shed

Innocent families have been shred

Buildings put on fire without dread

Do you think this is a way to move ahead?

Let us help the people of Palestine

They have a dream to rise and shine

Stop treating them like a piece of ch...

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You're a steady stream of bad choices waiting to happen.

The eye of the storm, or the calm before it?
What's the difference?
It's going to ruin you anyway.
You're a constant trickle of water, wanting to make noise but too scared to do it.
Because you're a puppet controlled by strings.
Water controlled by the trap.

I wish my life was like a game show where you press the buzzer and you're...

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Skin so soft, feather like beauty

I trace your face with my fingertips

Your gaze drowns me in pool of emotions, 

I can’t barely breathe

Empty space with blissful silence

Feels like home with your presence

On a faraway island

Caught in whirlwind, when we’re kissing

Serendipity, it must be 

I stumbled upon perfect picture of everything

Somewhere deep within

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I

Sixty tonne of metal bellowing down the sky

assails the quietude

of reeds and muddy pools

where spoonbills sift through sludge and seagulls drift nearby.

The mouth of the Ria Formosa’s a birders’ paradise:

miles of salt pans hosting

birds of low-lying coastline,

in thousands upon thousands. It’s Eden beyond price

in every way but one: the fence of Faro A...

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This

Striking my heart strings 

In such a way

Brings such hope

For joy to stay

Casting eyes 

Cloaked in jest

But you know I want

You the best

I love you, I love you!

I long to say

Bridled and silent

I can not play

Ripped and torn 

Inside my chest

Tear off pretence

And me undress

Say you love me

Say you do

All I’ve ever wanted

Was you.  

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Shhhhh….

Listen…

As she gently weeps…

Chirping birds in dialogue… 

Whisper a dance…

Listen…

Can you hear their secrets unfold…?

Like naked puppets in silent obedience…

Can you see their luring flames?

Their tender embrace? 

…

And she gently weeps…

While chirping birds in dialogue…

Whisper…

…

Sh...

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the warm sun reminds me of you.

the way you would hold me, in your big, strong arms.

the way you would call me beautiful, kiss my forehead.

the way you would make me feel safe. 

i miss you.

i miss you, but you don't miss me

that's the issue. we all want what we can't have.

you never think of me, but i constantly think of you.

you were the first guy to truly care f...

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Let's restart everything become unbroken
Let's forget about the motives that drove us here
Who needs the memories 
If we can have a moment of solitude

This is the moment you decided you are over your ex
SIx months and you almost killed yourself 
You don't need this 
Life starts now so don't think about it 
Just keep moving on 

This is the decision
This is the decision that writes the...

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A few days ago I asked for a word and you said balance so I used it 

In lock down we wrote Daily we can write and i'll prove it 

So here goes "a situation in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions"

It's all about balance equality fair portions 

Trying to balance being a mum a daughter a writer an artist a girlfriend a sister is more like a juggle 

I'll...

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You inspire me to be more than I am, 

It has been unconscious since our meeting.

I strive for your affirmation,

To have my hopes dashed by my own hubris.

My pinnacle is your salvation,

But just to conjoin myself to your journey is its own reward 

I am enamoured by your presence 

Your beauty is Maine's first solstice.

I could not delineate my narrative to you,

In fear of ...

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As innocent blood smears across the now rubbled streets, 

Israel continue their massacre leaving children 6 feet deep. 

The unending air strikes light up the sky like exploding stars, 

And the ethnic cleansing continues to engender trauma and forge generational scars.  

This is by no means a conflict but the bestial oppression of the Palestinian nation, 

We ...

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Picking you up to go driving
I’d get there early to watch you get ready
both seventeen and tangled
in that unspoken thing between us
Cruising the looping country lanes
in those dim headlight beams
That was our place, alone together at last
Two teenagers, eyeing each other sideways
and wondering who each of us would be
would you always stay right there
would you always be
in the car with...

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 You messaged me 'Good Morning'.

My reply made me seem busy.

You are right, I was distorting.

Did I act silly?

I don't know,

what I did was right or wrong.

I had to show

since it had been long.

Time has changed,

so have the situations.

And I am perplexed

with my expectations.

I do love you

but don't know what to do.

It's been a whil...

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I'll make you tea 

as you always said 

stay away from rain 

don't get wet 

shout on us when we play

ate ​​​​​sand with gay 

slattern, we were 

you bathe us till the next day 

your smile when we back from school

you exclude us amid those fools

take away all our worries 

let us play with tools 

when we grew up 

we made you dishes 

you always said you like th...

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My Time had come

I have been as free as I have ever felt

Only still longing to find love again in the heart of another

I am faced with Choice in my direction

Taking faith in making the right decisions

The other day I went out to a local Jam session

Where local artist play their instruments in a dance with one and other

The scene being a large red barn built in 1907

whe...

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The riddle called love ... 

A debate as old as the mountains
with no definitive answer in sight.
Who has an answer 
Who might be wrong or right? 

Adel sings, sometimes it lasts
Nazareth sings it hurts.
Ellie Chu from the half of it, thinks it's 
"messy and horrible and selfish and bold". 

Turn it upside down. What is it not?

Love is not guaranteed
nor just a simple choice
  Not...

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The grey canopy threatens and thunders.
As rain patters, the earth starts moaning.
The angry storm unleashes its fury.
The trees are drenched in rain water
The flowers are swept away
The beauteous verdure is muddied with flood water.
Revengeful winds slap everybody.
Relentless rain water rushes into houses.
Tropical cyclone has mercy for no one
Save for the man who walks through the ragin...

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Harry Potter's adventures have been enjoyed,
He was a boy wizard who could not be destroyed.
There was a bad mage, known as Voldemort,
And it was Harry's death that he sought.

Harry survived and he was raised by muggles,
Who were cruel and harsh and cared not for his struggles.
But Harry entered a school where magic was taught.
It was a huge castle and it was called Hogwarts.

Ron and H...

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We are in a new age

Where our minds are racing,

From one topic to another.

Are we in constant search for new information?

And It's information overload.

Our mind is like an ocean-

 with its fierce commotion of waves.

Our gadgets,our companion

But does it enslave us?

Is nature becoming alien to us?

Longing to be in tune with Nature.

The wondrous joy and peace it bri...

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This time the birds are a cacophony,
The cold air too sharp.
Solitude and peace have become loneliness and deafening silence that crushes,
And I'm soothed no more.

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For everyone who believes their dog is loyal

I hate to inform you, that you've been screwed

They play that best friend card to the hilt

They'll go to anyone who gives them food

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It’s pointless, it’s wrong, it’s not the business of anyone but me

It’s just something you do, well not something “you” do 

Just a few seconds lost in the mind saying things out loud like I’m known to

Something about the focus, the frustration it boils into, that even though I’m not angry at all

Not provoked, not right, not even believing what I think 

But the feeling of the focus, ...

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Why did you leave when the rain started dont you need a umbrella?

Do you need me to be your umbrella for todays showers

I will give you that I rather walk in the rain

With you through a thousand hurricanes 

Just to splash in puddles with you again

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Thankfulness, A Nightmare passed!

A Nightmare has passed!

A devil had arrived in our lives without a bang

Do I have, do I not?

These questions engulfed my heart and soul

The heat so peaked in my body and reached 103oC

That couldn't be cooled down easily with any pills

That devil has captured me with his strong grip

I was gradually succumbing into its grip

Could...

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There is a life I can imagine, I could see us living there

We are dancing naked in a field, the girls have flowers in their hair

The 60’s are reborn again, Love is plentiful and free

We didn’t build a church to it, we just stopped to plant a tree

The factories became galleries, we adorned them with our art

We burned the houses of parliament, began a fresh new start

We made sundia...

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it doesn’t end with one chance

these questions burn out the stars

to find you again in another time

another name that same thought

only you could stop me

pushed to the edge

pulled back

rocking that monotony

crowd moves forward

pushed back

leaving enough blood left

to start it over again

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Bad Day

Cracking the key hole

your key spliters into bits

and with it your day

(NB. This did not happen to me although I heard about it)

#haiku #haikupoetry

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I can feel it            the undeserved derivation 

from darkness            the welcome light

                          through disbelief a light 

on fire 

like some flame sketched 

in burnt oak I                                                   seek

advice from the great grey sky

and full

black muck like mucus

comes sloughing off the brain 

as wasted paint

that ...

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With gloom I express what I can, 

not to do so will cause the demise of my soul;

sadness lacerates me like a dancing whip

To describe the incomprehensible in words is not easy,

to explain it is complicated,

to make it understandable is more difficult

People are slowly eliminated,

they agonize on a cross that has been erected for them;

hunger and disease spreads

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Let me roam

The lonely places

Where gods were buried

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Aches like an August sky with a lipstick smile
Tangled at sunset in crimson skies
Despicable creatures run and hide in shadows

Drowned rats find worry in their shadows
Running across drenched summits
Footsteps lined up in haiku beats

The crystal glass of the past life
A wedding present in the charity shop
I see the other me, before she turns the corner.

It wasn't me!

Sacred threa...

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In his youth he had found a hammer

Which he believed to be perfect at first

But as years went by, he discovered its flaws.

Later in life he found another hammer

He claimed it made him happier.

Even though it sometimes gave him pain

It brought him much joy and fit him perfectly

It was what he had been searching for!

The old hammer had hurt him more times than not 

It had ...

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A fire so passionate

Burns bright within

The paired souls 

Craving an embrace 

So pure yet tainted by desire.

Like a tide

It flows beautifully

Encompassing the world 

That they breathe in

Neither grasping the end.

Eventually letting go,

The words,

*“Mi Amor Eterno.

Lo Siento.”*

Are alone resounded

As the two disperse.

 *My eternal love...

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I feel stuck,

Stuck between a dark place and rock bottom.

I am so scared,

Scared that if you saw the real me you wouldn’t like me,

Actually you would be disgusted.

Longing for something hidden so deep inside,

I no longer recognize it.

Shunned upon by society, never to see the light of day.

And if the day shall come that you might have to see it,

Will you love me still,

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The hour is slim!

the time to entwine

with her, and

with advantage inhale

the heavy offering

from between the jaws

of her open thighs.

Persephone's tasty flesh

renders her cleft

of wet truth-

she can slake this thirst-

can assuage my ache,

then, enthralled against

the serpent earth,

with legs knotted,

we lay tangled

in ancient ruin.

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fuck, I had such a fuckin terrible dream ending

You sent Today at 9:06 AM

doing some weird shit in an elevator that just flat out drops 400 stories for like 5 solid minutes in free fall , and you just fall into a black pool and wake up at the top again

You sent Today at 9:07 AM

then there was this book I opened that played a rapid succession of videos. voice over described it as a frin...

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Box our feelings

inside a reason.

Intellectualize 

every season.

Never let our feelings

do the healing. 

There must be reasons,

for different seasons.

We tell ourselves,

to mask the feelings.

Let’s pop a pill 

to do the healing.

Distract our minds,

with scientific reasons.

Rationalize the struggle;

overworking is ...

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[Redacted] broke up with me tonight 

By message 

It was sudden and definite

Inside, I collapsed

Outside, I fell to the floor

But strangely

At the moment before I hit the floor

My arms stuck out to stop me

It was reassuring, somehow

That I had an inextinguishable will to live

Despite my feelings to the contrary 

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And yes I have had my share of wild romances, that 

took the breath from my lungs and opened my

eyes to all of this world's beauty.

Unfortunately those matches burn out quickly.

The reality is that true romance is

a series of inspirational quotes carefully strung

between sitcoms and dramas.

Although, I have to believe

This passion exists. That in a 

mundane world the fir...

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The King of the Delta Blues

The hellhounds always trailed him –

for that’s the drift of legends. 

Fuelling spooks with shots

of malt, he wailed out blues

across the Delta.

Between us now the record

crackles bleakly, his scratchy voice,

a conjured ghost, sings clear

as barrelhouse belles who fleeced him

strut across my sight.

In the rattling dives he ...

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"Scribbling Utterances"

I will tell you things that I hear myself say

Things said in between silence and darkness

Watching your despair grow so tall and huge like the walls in your room.

Who could hear when you scream so loud?

Is every cry meant to be that loud?

The intensity draws strokes of the tongue

Than acceptance and help

The errant hope you once had

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Under the sun I was a good boy

I never did wrong.

The trees were very giving

As I climbed

The highest branch

Under the sun , I was a good boy

Who never did wrong

The light would stay

Till I was too tired

To kick a ball

But at home, I was bad  boy

Who always did wrong.

The dark spelt

Foreboding

Trembling

Till...

The light broke way 

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EQUAL IN GREATNESS

(For Michael Collins – Astronaut 1930-2021)

The fourth person to spacewalk

And the second

To orbit the moon alone

While fellow crew members

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

Walked on the lunar surface

Sometimes glory is shared unevenly

But greatness often depends

On those backstage

Silently pulling levers

And watching instruments

Al...

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When words fail...
The eyes speak...
When the eyes are blurred...
The tears roll...
When tears stop flowing...
The smile conveys...
When the smile stalls...
The fingers communicate...
When the fingers are entangled...
The skin sings...
When the skin is silent...
The heart beats...
When the hum of the heart lightens....
The toes tap...
When the tapping turns to a curl....
The body em...

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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, as with 2020, due to it being cancelled, I did it as a standalone project, using my tim...

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From the dream 
Across the sand 
From the sea
Between the Land

From the laughter 
Twinned with the tear 
From the distance 
That resides so near 

From the pain 
That tastes so sweet
From the broken wings
Of all flights so deceit 

Calypso seeks exoneration...
A sleep in concealment 
And an eternal separation 
From her deceiving heart.. 
 

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Through it I saw the real me

Turns out, it’s the figure I wanted

It reflected the brave me

Well, it’s the character I lacked

I got satisfaction in my reflection

The world saw a different image

I fine-tunned looks to my perfection

To my people it’s an ordinary picture

Foolishly I’ve lived, now I’ve learned

To carry load on my shoulder

My chest is not nearly s...

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Go home

Take a shower

Put on your brand-new Couture

Walking down the street as clean as can be

Though you know your character lacks such hygiene

Carefully avoiding anything that will dirty your all-white attire

Your outfit is custom made of course

But yet the inevitable happens

The same way you ruined the previous ensemble

Destroys any hope for salvage

And w...

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Forever and forged,

The great mind,

Of mine.

It comes in bouts,

Of gout,

Needles in my eyes.

The feeling of dull death,

Streaking from the center heart,

And it does not fade.

To walk in day burns,

The soles of my feet,

Summer’s beaches reek of dead pleasures.

Breaking bones,

Pressure of life,

Death besides me.

It didn't help at ...

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What is mightier...the sword or pen?
If words fall on deaf ears, what then?
If the written word is always ignored.
Can you justify the use of the sword?
What is more effective, blood or ink?
What makes people sit up and think?
When to every word you get no reply.
Is the threat of the sword worth a try?
Can you win battles with pen in hand?
Or is it just the sword they understand.
If...

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For anyone who is missing a loved one, especially a beloved pet x

RESTING PLACE

I hope there’s a heaven for horses, 
where the meadows are deep, lush and sweet,
with a shady spot under the oak trees, 
for old friends to nuzzle and meet.

The nights will always be balmy,   
with star-studded dark moleskin skies,
and mornings wake cool, still and gentle,
‘til the sun rises soft by and ...

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Cooped up in a four walled room,
Thinking to myself “What's wrong with me?”
When actually, I should be saying - “What's wrong with you?”

Succumbing to the pattern of predictability - never ceases.
Meet me at first glance, a million red flags illuminate me like a fuckin’ christmas tree.

You tell yourself, “This bitch is crazy, but I bet her pussy tastes as juicy as a freshly sliced waterme...

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