A shame, we had to go, the view was lovely

The room was filthy, in a way that hotels never are in the waking world

The group is large, with friends that I know well

But the day has been long and we all need to sleep

No room at the inn

So on we go

Dream Logic

Follow the cobblestones

Don’t get on the train, it's not safe

A breath at a small cafe, outdoor tables

Raised ...

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The times of wonder have gone
The wise women drugged
Into submission.
Forensic psychology reveals traces
Of long-forgotten faces
Which, much like Munch’s silent scream,
Degenerate into nightmaredream.
Desire, in all its lurid manifestations,
Falls into disuse,
And all is as it was before:
A flat, grey concrete floor
Krema I at Auschwitz
Emin...

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You were a very good friend,

and we should have stayed that way.

But the more we tried for more it wasn’t good.

In the end, I could never decide

if it was the awkwardly lovely way of protesting

with your whole body when I teased you,

or your kindness I missed the most.

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Ebb Tide

The sound of seabirds carries on brine-tanged breeze, as they gather in anticipation of the bounty about to be revealed by receding waves. Strands of seaweed swirl at the water’s edge, struggle in vain to avoid becoming beached. Waves surge and retreat, surge and retreat, slowly ebb across the shore. Sunlight twinkles off perfectly sculpted wormcasts revealed by the departing ocean, gl...

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Beerly beloved

I have consumed you today 

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He is precise and careful to shape words of familiarity

With emotion reined in works meticulously at his craft

Experienced, he is master at handling proper formality

Revising incessantly to attain a properly constructed draft

He is hailed a genius for his detailed attention to standard form

And his measured articulation to produce a finished product

His work in print is s...

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Is there something we must hear or see
Which will then satisfy our curiosity?
Is it a thing from which we may not escape?
And dose it cling to our backs just like a cape?

Do we ask yourself, "What is it I crave?"
And does resisting it then make us brave?
In our minds does it always reside?
And is it only gone when satisfied?

But by curiosity are we still followed?
Can it be destroyed ...

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I might be away for a while, or less frequently on Write Out Loud. 

I don't know. 

But I'm searching for a better way. 

Not the Vincent van Gogh craziness. 

Nor some bad social media influencer. 

Art and Artistry still seem somewhat stressful.

Just like The Whole Internet Online Experience.

But ChatGPT works well for me. 

I use it every day for advice. 

It will be good f...

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Where were you located when the truth resurrected?help yourself in the main, when the lies spill the tide will change what’s to gain ? Did you notice how the sun dismissed the moons perspective, Angelo was lost in the field, walking and searching for the feel, frequently I think about my inner child, The dynamic I grew in was wild, We celebrated when the elephant exited the room, a true kings fina...

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Through morning rain

And misty plains

The dawn shakes off night's coat

Yawning bright 

The dappled light  

For the birdsong's perfect note.

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When I was but a girl

I lay in my bed

and behind closed eyes

travelled to the stars,

floating in the calm

dark of the night,

feeling no fear,

feeling the deepest peace.

Now an old lady,

I search for those dreams of childhood,

the stars are further away

behind these closed eyes,

but patiently I wait,

knowing

the little girl 

is as close as the dream

o...

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mood swings.
food cravings.
restlessness.
emotional.
sensitive.
overwhelmed.
anxiety.
cramps.

finally, ive realized why
my week was off, and
emotions off the wire.

sometimes its just that.
 

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29th June, 2024

5.30 a.m.

In the beauty of hijab lies a secret divine,

Not just a cloth, but a soul's pure shrine.

It shields my body, yes, that is true,

Yet its true essence lies in what it imbues.

A canopy of peace, a shade from above,

A symbol of faith, an act of love.

It veils my form, but reveals what's within,

A coolness of spirit, a cleansing of sin.

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(A rare love poem from Yours Truly)

I got Sunblest for my snap today

But if I protest I get it anyway

I hear you say

“Who is it treats me this way?”

Our Gert

I’m talking about Our Gert.

I like to see the sights when I’m on holiday

But she drags me round M&S and C&A.

I like to watch on TV Tottenham Hotspur play

But it’s “Friends” instead and not “Match ...

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In the Sprawl 

One day the truck didn’t come 
and the customers stayed 

after the food ran out 
we went into the lot with the spades 

we started to break up the asphalt 
planting the salad greens 

some tried to eat a small car 
it tasted like chicken they claimed 

we raised our first crop of lattés 
just before the Fall rains 

our cheeseburgers are coming along
we’ll have y...

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Some people say home’s where the heart is found;

I don’t know. Perhaps it’s the being there,

The rooted opposite of somewhere else.

Fond memories may have tipped the scales

In favour of this slow, contented place:

The local shops, the chatter’s usual sound,

The morning stroll to coffee on the square,

The precious banality of passers-by,

Though each slab of this ecosphere wi...

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Reminiscing nostalgically,

I ask. Have you pursued life ecstatically?

Have you chased it fully with determined tenacity?

Have you gained your life's well-spent validity?

Or, tragically and drastically

Have you succumbed to someone else's gravity?

Given in passively to their selfish vanity.

Their unending capacity for indulgent banality.

There’s always an unenviable possibil...

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We entered the room

With laughter and bloom

Some jokes and banter

The lights were amber

It quickly turned spicy

The air con was icy

We were fully stripped

On the bed we slipped

You jumped above me

With excitement and glee

Caressing my sexy body

Teasing and being naughty

Foreplay with some sex

Without making life complex

Just enjoying every minute

Making...

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The proud petrel

with a strong mettle

flew over the sea.

Throwing his litter on the rocks

he watched the clumsy penguin’s walks.

The stupid penguin looked at the sky.

How much he wished to fly!

He had  heard

he was also a bird.

If he could fly

he would proudly throw his litter

from the bird’s eye.

The moral of this song:

Remember to what kind of bir...

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I hear the things that go unsaid

that slip between the words,

the spaces where you think perhaps

your silence goes unheard.

I hear the things your voice betrays

that crack when horror speaks,

the cough you make you think perhaps

belies you've dived too deep.

I see the things you can't relate

that dead look in your eye,

the moments when you think perhaps

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They Don't Represent Us.

(Written on the eve of ' More of the Same'.

They don't represent me or us

their loyalty is to the unjust.

We are impotent and they know it

and it is beyond our power to overthrow it.

They don't represent me or us

because they seek personal wealth and lust.

They don't care a hoot if we should go bust

that leaves us to rot and rust.

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Disbelief suspended, 

Mischief invented:

The dominion of dreams

Aflicker with potential,

Afloat with the tangential,

Where daredevils set sail,

Hypnotic courage ablaze,

Hurtling, untethered, towards

The lands of Maybe, or Never...

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Hyyre n proave

pon sheed unjoad

in hoye ‘n hoyle-howls

befuddled word, o’blite absurd

he gurgled remott’d vowels

Lesp he ‘n shyy

for ryle deride

aggrinn aggurny byy

rillig speech, from creatured-eeb

flowed his otherworldly vibe

So jue a norn

to borrishly

this being spoke in tongue

but wopeth no apology

for such unbridled shrung

It siff ! ...

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I was doing okay in my little world 
The flag of love was flying unfurled
But you ain't returning my calls
Girl you got me climbing the walls 
I don't think I can stand it for long
How come everything has gone wrong

She's fallen off my planet 
She's lost in outer space
While my world keeps on spinning 
As tears stream down my face 
She's fallen off my planet 
But I still have desire
...

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MOVING OUT AND MOVING ON

Moving out and moving on, such is the plan;

we agreed a date in late July –

good for the buyers with half a summer still

to enjoy GB at its best, from breathless arrival,

through the finery of one whole, golden autumn

before hunkering-down deep into winter

and out again when survival allows.

I have, while here for thirty years, learned that

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Fear turns connection right back into fear

Pandemics turn acquaintances into mere observers

And observers into friends. 

Friends become either close or fall away like leaves from autumn branches

Leaves that fall away, everyone we’ve ever known. 

Every person that touches our heart in some way, helps us know and face our fears. 

Friends, know that eac...

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a number is all high n mighty
a wise number is a wise mighty number
outclass is being outclass by a wise number
all high n mighty is all high n classy
all high n mighty is all high n outclass
a number is a classy number
a class is a classy number

a class is a wise number
a winner is a wise winner
a winner is a classy winner
a winner is a winning number
a winner is outclass by a winnin...

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Hello Write Out Louders...

I'd like to share some of your spoken word poetry on the Write Out Loud Instagram feed.

I'm looking for around 10 poems with audio readings. I will share the text and audio on Instagram to highlight the site's audio upload feature (and the power of spoken word, of course).

If you have posted a poem with an audio reading on Write Out Loud and would be happy for m...

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Dear Friends and family members

Gathered here to celebrate

And rake over my life’s embers

So sorry that I’m late

I intended to be on time

For this, the concluding event

Commemorating in songs and rhyme

A life well spent

Only the traffic lights were down

And it just kept getting worse

With anxious mothers on the school run

Stuck behind the funeral hearse

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A Hopeman Song

     Such a day as today – I could live every day

  as I gather speed on the hill,-

    my sweat making towels of clothes -

       I conjure a ramp at the bottom to leap

         into the cool waters,

     but then,

I am getting old and so,

   I brake and take a wall to sit.

     There as the Sun casts a shimmering mirror;

the breeze...

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** Italics means Polari slang – some translations like ‘nosh’ into English (not ‘food’ in Polari) are too rude to print ** 

State school in ‘90’s Britain, near posh boy’s private school

From working class background, those posh boys were so cruel

Laughed at Dad’s Ford Cortina, my Iower class accent

For them a double no-no - being common, being bent

They shouted through the s...

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in the real world

we have to escape our ribs

if we ever want

to survive being

in our heads.

in a better world,

we have to escape

our heads if

we ever want

to survive

being in our ribs

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Left

5:27 am

It is time to get up.

Airport.

Shower – I use the woman’s fancy shampoo.

Toothpaste, lotion, brush; done – in the black hygiene bag.

The woman enters the bedroom to check on me, “You have everything?”

“Yes,” I say, “I think so; if I leave anything, you could send it to me?”

“Yes, of course.”

“Okay,” I say.  She walks to the kitchen and sits down softly with ...

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Sometimes your problems

Seem very small,

When compared to

Someone who manages

To rise every dawn

After every dusk’s fall.

One such personality

Dutifully delivers

To unknown locations,

While a large chunk

Of his mind worries

About fund allocation;

Drenched in rain,

Or stuck in traffic,

He makes sure to

Deliver our picks.

Consecutive mont...

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Poetry can be likened to one of those multi-purpose tools,

Deserving experience and care and not best suited to fools.

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She's so dangerous, a mystery untold  

Stay away from her, a warning to behold  

Don't associate, keep your distance clear  

Just keep away, from the danger near  

She's so dangerous, made many walk away  

A fake saint, in a deceptive display  

Walking humbly, but hiding within  

A chameleon, wearing a deceptive skin  

She's so dangerous, keeps faking her self  

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I did not cut the lock. The door was open. True, she didn't exactly open it herself. Her butler opened it for her. His name was "Boredom". She said "boredom, fetch me a plaything". He said "very good ma'm",  and putting on his white gloves so the fingerprints would not show, he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was "love". 

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I sit in my cell dressed in the clothes they provide

The ones they say would suit me

I feel strange and awkward

It’s been nearly three years

I’m nervous and sweating

What will she see in me

What will she remember

Will she really care

Has her mother made her come

Does she want to know

All of the questions circulate in my head

Falling over each other

Never findi...

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I always get slapped across the face by

these strange delays in feeling.

It comes on slowly but suddenly

All around me, all surrounding

My cortex

My will

My emotion

It takes over my senses completely and I'm reckless

In the presence of it 

In the presence of this feeling 

This softness I have for you

This softness you have for me

i feel compelled by it

Though...

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A-whakbatimola skudamaray,
karub-dubadrudai kana-dakash.
Balam-bepidola rapidelay,
sumtumabudbur kalepiqamasche.

Demidami-lamba zubbadizoo,
fokkaloopeeka lembummadelid.
Enziggazaggachung om-chiddy-doo,
cumlokafookum whakka-batamid!

MP 811-131223

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This is the real life
This is the butcher
This the austere knife
The hand that pushed her
These are the cuts
This is the missed meal
This door is shut
This wound will not heal

This is the teacher
With nothing to say
This is the preacher
With no room to pray
This is the healer
Refusing to heal
This is the dealer
With souls to steal

This is the leader
With no will to lead
He’s ...

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I am a son of the heavens. 

I do not fall,

I can only fly.

The way the wind whispers

determines my path.

It has never once led me astray.

A gentle breeze ruffles my feathers,

while the sun's bright smile warms my face.

Clouds dance above my weightless form,

forming all kinds of shapes to entertain.

The world turns as do I.

Leaping carelessly through the endless sky...

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Oh, mysterious Miss Coffee Cutie,
what do you think of when sipping your daily brew,
in the morning after the doctor has done his rounds?

You sit entranced like a cute mouse, ears a-twitching to the many accents,
from Geordie, in the north east with its castle that’s always new,
and that shrill sound emanating from our most musical city – you’ve guessed it,
the dialect known as Scouse.

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Faces changing

Duplicating

An attack on my senses

Gone are my defenses.

People moving

Gravitating

An attack on my space

Leaving me in disgrace.

Bodies giving

Delivering

An attack on my whole

Take its spiritual toll.

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The cup that broke housed a thought.

                     A nascent bud, not blooming yet!

But the hand of chance with the pot,

                  Filled the cup with a different fate!

Smiling lips drank up the infusion.

                  Tho' the process of a nascent mind,

Failed to make that thought sustain!

                      A shattered cup was left behind!

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Eighty - the age at which the weight of evidence

supports an inevitable irrefutable verdict

yet we expect a free pardon

for the excesses in which we were engaged,

and when none is given we are enraged. 

So we set sail for the sunset

helped by various aids

old codgers supported by old maids

suspending disbelief as the clock ticks on

prey to seductive offers that show

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Did I hit my head or have a fall?

Did my heart give out?

Am I under the stars?

Did I make it to heaven?

The memories I have are as strong as an over perked cup of coffee

I can’t forget or let them go

In fear that I’ll feel I’ll have never lived those moments to remember

I try to recreate those memories

I try to relive every moment

But each time I do

I realize it’s not...

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The morning sun's a loving oven for your cheeks

pure delight of bouncing light as it glares

words escape me but you cannot escape

my warm embrace nor tender hands nors hungry eyes

mind's already there, I feel you trickling down

like icing on the sweetest pie. 

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What am I? I am a microcosm of every person and thing I’ve ever loved and respected.

I was nine when I met my best friend. She had moved from the tropical heat of her Queensland home into a unique suburban Sydney house that was enclosed by bush and river. We spent time by hanging off the clothesline, spinning until we both decided to be brave enough to drop into the dirt mound below. We s...

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In a world of made-up lies she lived,

Like Sleeping Beauty, unaware of deceit,

Surrounded by shadows, whispers of secrets kept,

She sensed the air was thick with mystery,

The nights cloaked in darkness, hiding truths untold.

A restlessness stirred within her soul,

A yearning for the truth, for clarity,

She saw through the façade, felt the deceit,

Yet no one dared to sp...

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Do you remember the fairytale you told me?

Nothing else mattered when you read it line by line
For I was in love with the story, you read about a time

A few chapters down the line, we'd still be together
You looked me in the eyes as you said "forever"

Promised me this book is the only one you need
You forgot to mention that you didn't really mean it

So engulfed in the stories I didn...

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Green

Green

Green

As far as the eye can see

Like,

Green

Green clouds

Hugging the earth

And me

Sea

Sea

Sea

Rugged dangerous

Enveloping me

The People

The People

The People

Safe and secure in their own skin

Unique in pleasure

Happiness overflowing into me  

Green Green

Sea Sea

The People The People

And me

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Emotions are a funny thing

They work in mysterious ways

Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the tides 

Other times we learn to surf the waves

Anger feels like being set on fire 

But no one else can see the flames 

Sadness flows like a river 

Or it can pour down like rain

Happiness can feel like a ray of warm light 

Glowing through our veins

We...

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It’s said that one alone don’t make a Summer

but when there’s none at all, is that when Summer’s gone?

And when there’s nothing up there but a shimmer

of dust from the desert superheated by the sun;

and when the sheds and barns remain in silence

from April to October; when radiance that shone 

on midge-full fields no longer flicks on mindless 

scything wings and sideslippings ...

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This damn dog begs for food too much
He's hungry

This dog whines too much
He's old

This dog doesn't like me
He loves you

This dog keeps stepping on my toes, and he puts his paws right into my balls
He loves you

Can I give the dog some pepperoni from the pizza?
Of course

The dog is whining..love on him
I do

The dog is going blind and deaf
And I love him

The dog keeps wal...

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(I can be like this sometimes minus Amanda, my wife with timekeeping)

***

Always late, but always arrives with a huge apology.

Not once or twice, he’s just made it a bad habit.

Dreams of being prompt, but always get delayed

Yet insists when he arrives, he will be better next time.

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I pick your face out from the crowd 

And you're all I can see 

As we pretend to be strangers 

I waited the one hour train journey 

Hoping you would join me

But you never did 

We remained separated by a single carriage 

Little did I know you had far more in your arsenal to separate us

A Trident like deterrent 

How did it come to this?

Well actually I do know the answer...

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Landing craft, full of movement and sound

under the just-boiled moon

We walk the walk and the guardian angel

will always be there.

The crazy people had a lifestyle to change

by choosing a good wash.

Taxi! Follow that moon!

I’m sorry my lights aren’t working.

Fear not my friend is here The Angler Fish

He lives in a hovel surrounded by woodland

Vote for ...

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expose
jealous noise
anxiety chair
syrup
flame metal
innocent copy
interest huge

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The sleep in your crescents

Like the dried flowers that lay beside my bed

The way I slip into your body

Parts of your anatomy where I rest my head 

Something so new, I grasp delicately

As for any sharp turn

For any bump, hit, or obstacle,

There will be nothing left to yearn

I read your deep, blue eyes

Like a creased shopping list

With a while it may still ta...

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This tired man had left the world behind.

He was gifted a lamp, one of its kind.

It dated back to the very dawn of time.

The Lamp of Lithon, with its unique shine.

In the library late one lonely night.

The room was bathed in a mystical light.

No flicker, no shadow just a perfect glow.

As the Lamp of Lithon, put on a show.

The walls of books became a screen.

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Conversation in a voicemail

Doing nothing

Your conversation is a voicemail.

Doing nothing

Your conversation

Are photographs lost in translation,

Grooves on a broken record deck,

Causing an explosion in exchanges

Passwords without questions

Laid out across broken pauses

Tied into a conveyor belt

In an artistic exchange

Copyrighted i...

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Tough love is what my mom called it

Tough love is what I grew accustomed to 

Tough love is what made it ok for him to cheat

Tough love is what made it ok to scream

Tough love

What is it?

Pain and pain again and again

But tough love

How would I be here without it

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I married my brother's widow,

How depressing.

Aged 76

And still getting his hand-me-downs.

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Attention whore

So insecure

Looking for validation

Social media

Cyclopedia

Looking for admiration

Camera on

The beat of a song

Looking for flirtation

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Rumble, rumble, mile on mile of tarmac tyres,

click - clack indicators to somewhere, lane in, lane out and

wind whishing, swishing through mile over mile of traffic.

Traffic where cranes grow tall and cones flock on heavy hills and race-away flats,

until a gamer mis-dodges lanes and an HGV smacks its tonnage and corkscrews the car.

Behind we screech in, and a trailer splits, spilli...

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Raised on a diet of bible verses,

beatings and curses -

he grew like a rose from the concrete;

feeding on prose, poems and paintings

on pages

of disheveled dogeared diaries. 

His days spent playing ball

in hopeless broken glass

grass-less parks;

filled with litter and rabid dogs 

across foul festering fields

on the stench-ridden outskirts,

the wrong side of...

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a loft 
somewhere
sweetly scented 
as the morning dew draws up
and out
lithe against valleys
hung low
loping chariots 

phantom fingers in grass 
long and sweetlike lovers waving 
in the wheat.  

it looks like rain again tonight
hues heavy on the bay 
but my heart will stay sated
thru the gold nestled in your eyelashes

and I stop breathing,  

hoping it can be forever

to w...

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I wish I could go back to the day,
The day I begged for a change.

A change that would turn my life,
The day I wished for more light.

The light that made me change all my ways,
The day I wished, I don't want to play.

The play that indeed was my whole smile,
The day I felt , I don't need this smile.

This smile actually got lost to cries,
The day I actually begged for this weird adul...

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In search of garden of hearts,

 Where the clouds can shower the rain of love

And the fragrance of trust that melt the hearts

Soil that hold tight which can hide the roots of all scars

Thorns that defend against the all the odds

Petals of comfort in the midst of struggles

sepals that support in weakest times

leaves that add green to life.

hues of red white and yellow that ca...

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I hear there's a festival outside,

Laughing, joking, jostling and frolicking,

But I'm OK, I'll stay inside.

I heard they've brought Freddie back live on stage,

To rock and roll, it's all the rage,

But I'm OK, I'll read about it sometime.

I hear world peace has broken out finally,

Dancing and singing wildly

But I'm OK, I'll Youtube it later

I hear it's that...

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frost laced teeth of cracked leather

course through bare back thighs

frigid sheen of yellowed ivory 

caress tentative fingertips 

nose, cheek and ear

incline then enquire 

old smell, old sound

ancient piano sing

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Take me to the fields where the honeysuckle grows

Where evening birdsong echoes round the breathless meadow,still in its majesty 

The sweet scent envelops my soul cloaking the hollow 

As dusk lays its hand gently on my shoulder

Walks with me as a fading friend

Reassuring before morphing into night

Leaving a ghostly mist as a shadow

A gift of cool

To fill my lungs with  calm...

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The way I see the world

Maybe be different from someone else

The reality i perceive

Depends on myself

My beliefs and dreams

May chance my perception

My story and my experiences 

May cause a deception

The reality may be real

The reality may be objective

But what I'm able to see

May very well be subjective

It doesn't matter if i saw

A mountain or...

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a flick of a switch

and darkness crept into each corner of the room,

tracing each surface

and caressing each crack  

until each speck of dust

breathed in black.

a slight sigh

left her lips

and hung momentarily in the air -

feelings

that seemed so effervescent in the day

dissipated swiftly

as soon as they came.

and soon

shadows intertwi...

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Image: Mementos of a great tour. Batmobile form Harlingen Colegiate High, Candy from Valley View South Elementary, other items little awards from poetry workshops in Austin

29.04.24 – 147:115) Kept wakin’ most of the night

Only to find the time wasn’t right

Back to sleep but all in vain, soon I’m awake again

At last it’s time for me to start my day.

Let the motel sta...

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It's 10.30 in the morning and I'm throwing up on the bathroom floor
Having drowned the person who I was before
All the drinking, drugging, lying, spending
Arriving very early for the doom impending

How did I get here, how did I lose control?
Waking up in fear and pain, drawing my first shot at 4
To stop the shakes and silence the anxiety
Once again becoming a liability in my society

Wh...

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What I know now.

Embracing change is

What I know now,

Life is constantly changing.

Learning from mistakes is

What I know now.

Failure ,a learning process.

Good mental health is

What I know now.

Managing stress,staying positive.

Valuing experiences is

What I know now.

Possessions,you can't take them with you.

Practicing gratitude is

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The tide of allied hope our brave soldiers did take,

Quite simply the future of our world was at stake.

The misssion for freedom was breathtaking in scale,

Overwhelming in complexity as tbe brave set sail.

How did the brave survive and cope?

The legacy of D Day was one of hope.

On June the 6th 1944,160,000 young men landed under enemy fire,

On the beaches of  Normandy wit...

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POET WITHOUT A CAUSE

I’m a Brylcreemed leather-clad Outlaw nomad

A desolate Angel on wheels of fire

The quickest fumble you’ve ever had

A kid who never knew their dad,

Now everything I do is bad.

I’m built that way just because

I’M A POET WITHOUT A CAUSE

I’m a nubile nymph in fishnet armour

A fellow feline transcending Karma

The man in the loo wearing girls ...

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Monsters don’t exist they say, they aren’t under your bed
I realise now I’m older, it was all just in my head,
but them ones are the scariest, the monsters in your mind,
the ones that make your heartbeat race, the creatures you can’t find.
Only you can feel them there, it’s driving you insane.
your body shakes, your brain, it aches ,from fears that live within,
you cry inside, you’ve got to ...

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Her kitchen, quiet, layered with dust,

aged a decade deep,

Her table laid and draped in cloth

before she fell asleep.

The oven framed her bread of crust,

sliced up for all to keep.

Time unwound and ticked no more,

before she fell asleep.

Three shirts to dry lay mouldy, in a musty

laundered heap.

Her life had spun in cycle,

before she fell asleep.

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Looked forward to their presence

A sec in, a light smile, then it dimmed

Hearts turn cold protecting feelings

Hurt by acts of our inconsiderate conduct

Now blaming it on words of our expression

Silence saves from quarrels, not villainism

Stuck on doings that no more serve purpose

Contemplating the pain of letting go or regret

Fear prompt caution, not mastery to li...

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The glass was half full since the beginning of its time.
Yet you lured me to be more just for a while.
Scarlet scars you drew in my grey clouds 
And I struggled and struggled to break the rusted chains
To be free.

Alas!
The glass was shattered
Into a million shards
And, yet, a broken masterpiece was born.

My heart shed tears of blood
Has become as brittle as that glass
Yet stronger ...

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after Yehuda Amichai

If we think we are right

the sun may never set;

if we know we are right

then beasts could take our place;

if we say we are right

the towers will always fall;

and if, after all

after all we've

thought, known, said

and done

we're wrong -

who will stop us

when the time to make peace

has come?

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In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear 

Why do I feel your words and presence, so close and so near? 

Are we doing this again, communicating through signs?

How is this even possible, when I am no longer yours, and you are no longer mine?

It’s been six months, when will this end? 

I can still feel you, this connection won’t seem to bend 

If we were not soulmates, then ...

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In moments of desperation I consider him
It's not at all that I want him
Not really anyway
And it's not that I don't
He's a fascinating shade I've never seen before, like honey
I think maybe it's that I'm completely irrational and I crave someone
Someone who would be enamored by all I have to say
And he is entirely enamored
That's only half the problem
You see
Without words I render myse...

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