When he said there are no words

I knew he told the truth,

and love poured in to heal the wound

where words would try to help.

I know you can't describe a gap

in lives so badly rent,

but nothing's lost that's truly learned

and lessons taught when truly earned

to help by kind consent.  

Read and leave comments (5)

I watch from

The height of obscurity 

Looking down,

not god like.Simply I, 

gazing from reclusion 

Towered in the sky,

Seeing 

the whole world before me

painted to the horizon;

Pressed against the glass

Unaware of my touch

Upon the latch

Of the caress

I feel as loneliness 

I wonder of life 

How vacant am I.

To open that window

And let my life fly....

Read and leave comments (0)

The current obsession with gin

worries me;

My inherent memory sparks unease

with whiffs

of 17th century Protestants

Read and leave comments (3)

{You}

​​​​​​

My life 

My love 

My blueish~green 

turtle dove 

I had to set you free 

And you flew far

away from me

and then you

had left me

permanently

©Tina Glover All Rights Reserved/One_Pissed_Off_American_Ghost_Writer 2017 but posting here on June 30,2018 

​​​​​

Read and leave comments (0)

I can go about my day

The headphones in my ears

Keep the thoughts at bay

Read and leave comments (2)

With an illusion

Saturday, June 30, 2018

9:12 PM

we live with an illusion 

there is no confusion at all

it is the tendency to wait for the miracle

and avoid the struggle 

we are a total failure 

and still, want to make it sure

that despite our being dishonest

everything must be seen as the best

the world is same

but we claim

the safe place with...

Read and leave comments (0)

Hot curry scent of helichrysum

rosemary, myrtyle and lavender

flaunting scarlet bougainvillea

darkly shadowed by umbrella pines.

Colourful butterfly windsurf sails

zigzagging across the turquoise bay

watched through dark glasses.

Small orange and cobalt fishing boats

riding motionless on glittering

flawless transparent emerald glass.

Golden sunbaked body lying limp

Read and leave comments (2)

In that first perfect summer, that summer of love

when rifles bloomed and we turned on

and so nearly dropped out

in that year we met

and in the sun

we loved

despite clouds

that threatened us

and sought to break our love

a sad weight of parental love turned on

our first perfect summer, our first summer of love

In that first perfect summer, that summer of love

whe...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/ZYTq97CreoQ

To all you writers and poets out there.

Thank you for your words of courage, 

words of truth,

words of encouragement

and nourishment.

Thank you for your solidarity,

for lifting us up.

Thank you for breaking ground,

cutting the edge,

standing on that soapbox 

with daring and drive,

having the nerve to shout out

what many ...

Read and leave comments (9)

Spot
In this universe what is the image of a moment and how long does it last.


Spot : https://youtu.be/DshiMBVD_FU this documentary realates many ways with my poem which will hopefully help understand on the title of this poem. Hope you like both.


spot of life : spot of time spot of colour: spot of music.SPOT

A poem holds the story;
words find the right note
meeting of just a momen...

Read and leave comments (0)

Firefly it seems that I can't get enough of you
Can you catch me under and steal my breath
Can I give you high on my love
And have you sink into every word I say

It seems that I can't get enough of you
Can I make you numb to the depression
may I taste you just one more time
Why don't you believe me I truly love you

Can I wake you up to the monsoon
That's outside your window
I want to...

Read and leave comments (0)

just thinking

what i only remember
you

casting shadows away, just a few
with my only feelings that are left, they pass..

can't look  i'll just go this way  just keep me thinking 
undermining thoughts come back  that rest to stay

the fire is bright  emotions sway and given with delight

Read and leave comments (0)

I feel faint; cannot breathe

in this goddamn heat

that it's weird that my body cannot sweat

and I'm left with a headache.

There was no time to swim; to save my life

but I drank fluids to keep away from burning

and stayed in the shade until I

was safely inside with cool air.

Created on June 29, 2018

Read and leave comments (0)

Brian Has Gone A'Cycling

Brian has gone a'cycling

Somewhere near the coast

He won't now be a'spidering

Over all my post

Now Brian is very clever

He noticed that my frown

Was really just a smile

But simply upside-down

When I did first meet Brian

(via my screen I mean)

His picture really scared me

What the hell's this mean?

Did WOL allow suc...

Read and leave comments (2)

He stands in the rain

soaked to the skin 

wondering where in the world she has been.

A girl sits on the floor,

leaning on a cabinet,

writing a letter to someone she knows probably won't read it.

She's safe inside,

he's out in the rain.

He walks away,

willing to try another day.

She walks out into the storm,

not wanting those inside to see her cry.

She does a lot...

Read and leave comments (0)

All aboard the rollercoaster
strap yourselves in and begin the ride.

Hold firm and think of those,
who try to listen and speak
without prejudice.

It is something of which they can be proud.

They do not hide behind a fake smile
or an ignorant grin
but are open, honest and vulnerable, too.

Attempting to ward off the shallow words
flung back at them in a attempt
to curtail and sile...

Read and leave comments (2)

A TIDAL RELATIONSHIP

Ours was a tidal relationship,

It ebbed and flowed

Over hidden shipwrecks,

Sometimes calm,

Sometimes smashing defences,

Opening cuts on beaches

Then healing them

With the soothing sand

That fills each wound.

Ours was an unsteady relationship,

Seaweed covered driftwood

Slid beneath our feet

As we slipped and stumbled

Over the flots...

Read and leave comments (3)

I am that woman who does yoga

Then sits on the beach

Eating oranges and writing poetry

I am that woman who watches her weight

Then takes the grand kids

For pizza and icecream on Friday evening

I am that woman who listens to TED talks

And checks out youtube

For mindfulness, shamanism and grannies dancing.

I am that woman who is an almost vegan

And (you guessed already)

Read and leave comments (9)

I caught a glimpse of goatsuckers

At dusk the other night,

Appearing as twin phantoms in the

Murky forest light.

Read and leave comments (0)

From packet and clipper, from Royal destroyer,

with prayer and with hymn

and a rum-drenched Amen,                                                                              

goodbye to the matelot and captain;

so long to the boatswain and master.

We're chanting to ease up the passing.

The last one is sung in a million tongues.

Grief-soaked and lonesome

haul hard...

Read and leave comments (19)

The Wall of Prejudice

Their smile is warm and reassuring

well rehearsed and convincingly given

But behind this veneer is a dark wall

which conceals a true and sinister identity

To be in a minority is seen as not to conform

to pose a threat and challenge the norm

Muslim, black, gay or zoroastrian

the beaming smile remains the same

The smile is false, rooted...

Read and leave comments (14)

You said that you can get over anything if you got over me 
But you did dirtt to so why everything being held over me 
I get you over me 
You don’t want nothing to do with me 
You graduated from me 
This gon sound selfish but I thought you really loved me
Yeah I left but I never stopped loving you 
Whenever you was going through something I was always there for you 
I’m not even gonna try ...

Read and leave comments (1)

Knowing the knowledge of man is like testing the wielder man, growing and gripping from grass that causes a liquor of liquid. •••• To those who love plant, will tell the benefit of the incubant everywhere in the farm, having a rotating mind to wind up a standing fan. •••• The sick will pick the dreak, living the falling leaves to in astray in a mouldy train. Having a believe in the shabby...

Read and leave comments (0)

.....

".. and show me another plot of land where

just for a moment I dawdled and losing sight

of you let go your hand ... show me that fooprint.

.. we pass this way but once, you took nothing

with you, and so I , with tears, and regret,  pursue

the same path, the space you left.

There are no words, you carried them with you,

four hundred sunsets, there, we counted them...

Read and leave comments (2)

Oh love of mine, 
I hope that you are fine. 
I miss you so, 
My love for you will always grow. 
This is just a little message for you to know, 
That I wish to kiss you in the snow.
Oh love of mine, 
I love you so much more than you know ?

Read and leave comments (1)

Amidst the jealousy,

so many hopes,

these desires are the one,

which don't let this belief to mop.

Desires of granny,

and aspirations of nanny,

has inspirred me,

to see big dreams many.

Unprecedented respect,

of this fearless soul,

gives immense power,

to avoid the fall.

Life's ultimate goal,

is not astute pleasure,

rather its to seek,

the unlimited hid...

Read and leave comments (0)

Suddenly this morning

I was without care

When without warning

We passed on the stair.

Daylight was dawning

And my mind was elsewhere

Busily yawning

When I saw you there.

Now sadness I'm scorning

And I long to share

The heart that's adorning

This love-stricken stare.

So - every morning

I dash down the stair

Hoping the dawning

Will see you ...

Read and leave comments (2)

They are not away;

they stay close to me.

They are not lost;

they live in me.

They have not forgot,

nor forsaken me.

Just a branch is cut

to save the tree.

To live happily

they've set me free.

I am ready to accept

the fate's decree.

Just a tiny wish

that in happy times,

may they look back in life

and think of me.

Read and leave comments (5)

 Since this is the way it's going to be,

I'll sum it all up with poetry...

Where do I even start explaining the way I feel?

I just keep telling myself: this can't be happening, this isn't real.

In my heart it seems there is a sudden void.

You built me up, only to break me down; now everything appears destroyed.

My life's orbit has suddenly stopped- where do I go from here?

I g...

Read and leave comments (0)

I am hosting an online open mic using Zoom.us conferencing software beginning at 7 pm (UK time) on 1 July 2018. We will use Zoom.us teleconferencing software (meeting ID 260-756-986) and take turns reading our poems out as you would in a physical open mic. With luck, we will have a few poets from Britain and a few from the US as well. If people join from other countries, that is even better, but t...

Read and leave comments (1)

As I grow, I see many places to live by
I see the true nature of life,
On how doll and peaceful it can be.
But what is life without sorrow?
What is life without dreams of the melancholic soul? 

Just a thought of a restless mind. 

-G.N.D

Read and leave comments (0)

You and your trust issues

Me and mine

You have your fears

And your doubts

About me

And I have mine

But every time

We try to rationalize

And prove to each other

That the pieces don't fit

The sentences get left

Unfinished

Back and forth

Like whiplash

Seeing how far I'll go

Until I look back

Keeping me comfortable

At a distance

Have...

Read and leave comments (2)

The start is the end of a long sleepless night,

A new day's light is the bell, next round of the fight

"Today's going to be different", echoes a heavy pillowed head,

You've heard this lie before from the soapbox of your bed,

You know who you are, you've lived through each day,

The context of those comments?? "What did they say?!",

That really doesn't sound like the 'me' that...

Read and leave comments (1)

You came back into my life

and I honestly felt relieved 

but some part of me felt deceived

I had no way to deal with our past

When you came walking in

I could hear the change in your voice

I almost felt the need to rejoice

But you had no intention of revisiting our past 

It all happened so unexpectedly and fast

I blinked and suddenly you were gone.

Read and leave comments (2)

She lies in her bed, her electric blanket on
The lights are off, she is warmer than the sun
She likes it this way, it helps her forget 
That her sunshine is not ready for her yet

He struggles on his own, stressing alone
The walls he is trying so hard to shatter
Are still standing tall, towering and strong 
He feels like his attempts don't matter

When he sleeps, she stays awake
Fi...

Read and leave comments (0)

What does the world have on us?

lets set ourselves free

we're under this fake world's shadow, indeed!

i keep asking how can the sun keep shining after going down the sea

but the real question is why do people scream when they have to sing

or why they blink when its beautiful outside and some wind 

why do we breathe the lies but really its the oxygen we need

having to understan...

Read and leave comments (0)

You don’t know me.
The time is gone
for you and for me,
but with this gun in your hand
you see the future
of your illness mind.
Call me by my name
and kill me after that.
Maybe in your eyes
I can write my happiness
and give you for the rest of your life
a peaceful victory.
We could die together
but who keeps alive
our memories
in this world,
the only world
that can exist?
My mist...

Read and leave comments (3)

I would not say this heart is hungry
I dare not say this heart is heavy
I only know now, a surer sense of all I want
a clearer description of what will fire
the drive, the rush, the love in me

If we're not going out tonight
then can we just sit and giggle
at each other, at the TV, at the others
can she laugh with me, make fun of me
until we have tears in our eyes, can’t breathe

When ...

Read and leave comments (2)

A Wound That Never Heals

It hurts me

when a you shaped hole

appears in the cosmos,

where there is

an absence of colour,

where the sound

scrapes along,

where the light

is masked by

dense grey mist.

That’s where

I miss you

the most.

When it rains

a greasy rain,

when the cracked bell

clangs,

when the planets

are misaligned.

Read and leave comments (1)

Well I wove the rope and I picked the spot
Well I struck out my neck and I tightened the knot
O stranger, stranger, Im near out of time

Richard Thompson

This is no country for young men

Men who will not bend to every fashion and whim

Men who cannot abide the gig economy, zero hours contracts

All Thatcher's legacy, a poisoned chalice.

Men do not like being lectured to, hec...

Read and leave comments (2)

We could be

sheltered

from crumpling

horizons,

but atmospheres

are tempered

and all the weathers

culminating.

I don't want to stay

and await the flood:

there is already

in your face

a rain that will not

soon be dried.

Read and leave comments (0)

Dedicated,  without her knowledge or permission, to Laura Taylor, who gave me the desire to write and perform and the kick up the arse to actually do so.

Lioness Laura (Waitrose staff room Jun '18)

Lioness Laura, she Roars

Fury and Rage fly off the page

Venom and Grit, Bile and Spit

She's a voice of a certain age

Lioness Laura, she Purrs

with Mercy and Charm, Beguiling a...

Read and leave comments (3)

Cookie Lucky

There goes a cookie

I'm feeling lucky!

Observed the RAF aircrew

When the huge bomb blew

An explosive filled dustbin

Made of little more than tin

Killing more damned Germans

The blame was all Herman's

Sending the Krauts to Hell

Sound of the final bell

Dead in their beds at night

What an awful Satanic fright

We gave them a real blitz

Enough to m...

Read and leave comments (0)

Into the kitchen, surrounded by clutter

Crumb-covered plate sitting next to the butter

Coffee stained mug at the edge of the sink

Put on the kettle to make me a drink

Dust-dotted gadgets lie dormant, unused

Wearily waiting in vain to be used

Bottles of wine in the half-empty rack

Patiently wait for the corkscrew’s attack

Deafened by silence that echoes so loud

...

Read and leave comments (1)

It starts with a bit of confusion at first

Maybe a question about me

And some daily occurrence

With me hoping I can work it through

So I pick up the rhyme

On the street of the stage

Cos in this age of poetry

Not on the page, the beats from within

sing inside of me

And now eternally,

the rhymes come internally

And through these rhymes

that ain’t no crim...

Read and leave comments (6)

Half-Asleep

The street light casts a shadow on the bedroom wall through
partly opened curtains and for a moment I see Adolf Hitler
in silhouette and I know it’s my imagination but the truth is, hate
in an orange face scares me.

Read and leave comments (2)

Tho technically sweet

there was no heat

in the kiss

The kiss was taken

no offer made

Seized the moment

but killed the future

No loving request

to test

the power of the 

attraction

Not the reaction

looked for...

Best to ask for permission

then assume the position

if granted

Should not have just

planted

one on her.

Read and leave comments (1)

Such grotesque creature leaves acidic gashes. Cringing her skin raw tearing at the grime. Sick twisted pleasure in your favor. Desolate orbits twisted in your skull brightens in my agony. Marred by violent scars resurface high with primitive urgency.

Cruel visuals of past surface bright and vivid as yesterday.  Finally broken,something died along side her soul. Dancing intertwined the smoke rec...

Read and leave comments (1)

The phone call was somewhere between 2 am to 3am, 

His voice was shaky and full of sorrow as he told me my best friend was taken from this Earth.

Drug overdoses are never easy to cope with, considering you never know someone’s true intentions as to why or how it happened.

It was all too much in such a small amount of time. 

It felt as though while you were speaking, my heart of th...

Read and leave comments (0)

re: 'What is Love?'
Sometimes it's a mistake you make on purpose
a chance you take for something that feels as close to real as anything can

in a world filled with band aid relationships and medication and distraction, layers and layers of falsities behind farcities, love comes off as legitimate.

So that's what it is. The great spiritual motivator: the sapient justifier of our need to proc...

Read and leave comments (1)

When my room has sunk into darkness
When it’s crept to the depths of night
Then I fill my head with the words I read
In my book when the world was bright.

When my house is hushed into silence
When the sound all around me ends
Then my thoughts still hold all the tales I told
By the fire with the smiles of friends.

When the world is curled under blankets
When I doze and I close my eyes
...

Read and leave comments (1)

You don't understand, do you?
It's okay...
we'd lie under a crushing trove by now.
You're the dead man walking. Slowly.
Lonesome George, you are the last of your kind,
the cut already made. But you don't understand,
do you?

Going back to sleep an hour is a long time.

"Upon a hillside, sheep-dotted
a shepherd and soft flute player 
enacts the old tale without end
...

Read and leave comments (1)

Look at you
Loving for the world
To be applauded and hailed
For gratitude, praise

Look at you
Intimidating so wrong
Ignoring the soil fertility
And planting the good seeds
Only where people can see

Look at you
Moving in the van of ‘I did this for her’
Crossing the road of ‘I was there for him’
Lounging in the valley of ‘people should know’

Look at you
Feeding the hungry
Clothi...

Read and leave comments (1)

Their minds are made up and expect you to follow . Their ways are right 

and your expected  to swallow .Our lives we need to defend . Politicians don’t listen . They say they care about all but don’t . Take away all their pleasures . Take away there gift of the Gabs . Their pretending to care about all others . Squabbling about all and between one another . Instead of making our country Great ....

Read and leave comments (0)

Millions of pieces lying around me
A deep gash slightly towards the left of my chest
I look up at the dark sky cursing Zeus
As toxic beads stream down my face

Another sharp stab to my chest when I hear her sob
Pouring out is black ichor
Call me a demon for shattering her heart
But for our best, I greased our beats

A couple of broken people
All of the gods above looking down at this ch...

Read and leave comments (0)

I’m in love with Keeley Donovan,

weathergirl extraordinaire.

I love her figure-hugging dresses,

cheeky smile and silky hair.

I love the way she can’t stand still,

rocks back and forth, sways side to side.

I love the fact she’s just a very

tiny little bit cross-eyed.

I’m in love with Keeley Donovan.

I hate it when Paul Hudson’s on.

I’ve sat through half a boring h...

Read and leave comments (4)

Quietly sneaky
you came
Thunderstorms
in my heart
Yet you left
me alone
unset and alone
You were the moon
Now i ask delicate
why when i hear your
name i can't forget
the words on you mouth
those blue eyes staring
inro mine unashamed
I found new hope
untouched 
buti can't shake you away
when i hear you name
and your sparky attitude

but i will keep on 
romoving your spell
on m...

Read and leave comments (0)

That's strange

I had

a dream

about you

When awaken

starlight figure

instant heartbeater

eye contact

We exchanged

glances on

the fast

moving train

That's strange

I had

a dream

about you

Who says

dreams don't

come true.

Read and leave comments (2)

Read and leave comments (0)

it’s all kicked off down at the zoo
absolute chaos, a proper to-do
when it all started, it was really quite small
when a boy in a pushchair just squeezed a ball
he didn’t mean to do it, it’s just it was there
all round and pink and covered in hair
they bobbed past him at just the right height
so he grabbed a handful and held them quite tight
he wiggled his fingers and gave them a tweak
th...

Read and leave comments (1)

Even through stillness

like a wall between us

I felt the rhythmic

heaving of your body,

and like my first born

I knew your cry...

How many sounds

from the crying child?

I counted five:

Pain

Fear

Anger

Sorrow

and one I had yet to come to know...

Read and leave comments (7)

I'm stuck.

I have nothing else left to say.

I have no luck.

I don't want to feel this way.

I'm trapped.

I don't what I'm supposed to do.

I'm done doing this act.

There's nothing left in my view.

Help me.

I'm stuck on a rollercoaster of fear.

I can't see anything

There's nothing left in me but tears.

Read and leave comments (0)

Performing an intrusion

                     Could damage the illusion

                                           Leading to the forgone conclusion

                                                                                   That I might just lose you.

Read and leave comments (2)

Every night when I close my eyes, memories from a thousand years come back alive and shadow becomes me.

Most times I can taste my soul; it's not a picture of a happy ending, it's bittersweet.

I feel them every night as they come alive, ready to prey on the little sanity I have left, then I think of nothing but white walls and oceans, praying not to get lost in its calmness.

In moments of ...

Read and leave comments (0)

The most beautiful kind

Are the most dangerous

Standing transfixed

As she tears you apart

Ripping out the roots you had built

And the walls you had planted

She leaves you in awe

As she glides away

A grey and blue trail

Of beauty and pain

And you realize why all

Hurricanes are named after people

Read and leave comments (1)

You were nothing i ever expected but you ended up being everything i had longed for in my whole life. I will love you beyond forever and though I can't find the ways to tell you how much I cherish you Without a doubt I can say I will love you beyond forever.

Read and leave comments (0)

Are my days numbered? Can I feel them running thin? I think as my day goes along that I can feel the cold kiss of death upon brow..   or is it just me? Do I even feel the need to live any longer? What is my purpose? My only wish was to be a husband and a father.... And yet I sit here and wonder to my self why was I not good enough? What did I do wrong? I care not to live.. I do not fear death.. I ...

Read and leave comments (5)

Everywhere I look all I find is potential. Potential to be great, but didn't quite make it. Potential to be brilliant, but fell a few years short. Potential to be kind, but chose to be crewl. This great big world keeps spinning and sure potential will always be there, but when will it really be. When will the great metamorphosis occur that turns potential into reality. Into now. Thats all it is ri...

Read and leave comments (0)

Grenfell Falls Green

Another minute’s silence
Seventy two seconds to be precise
One second for the loss
Of each precious life
Please join me for a moment
To remember those beautiful lives…

As day turns to night
Grenfell falls green
Green for Grenfell 
Everywhere to be seen
Grenfell, once a green field
Now the tower is green

Green for peace
Green for love
Green for solid...

Read and leave comments (5)

Its 2am
I'm lying on the bathroom floor again
Heavy breathing, I got pills in my hand
Shaking and waiting for the sandman
To take me to sleep so you can understand

This is not a claim to fame
Only an attempt for you to remember my name
When you see me in the headlines saying "He wasn't okay"
Oh you miss me now? Ain't that a shame.

I'm not coming back, there is no replay
You can't tak...

Read and leave comments (0)

The Slam

They told me we would do a slam

Of odes and poems and wham bam mam

Our words and rhymes would fight it out

We mustn’t mutter, better shout!

A ittle like a boxing bout;

So off I went to start to train

Like Rocky, in the ring again.

My female rival? Well, I’d beat her,

With exercise of regular metre.

My metaphors would pack a punch

I’d knock em dea...

Read and leave comments (3)

Wasteland

Herds of clouds travel by at sonic speed

Appearing to have meetings to attend

Never looking down at my drastic need

Lacking pity not a tear to expend

Once my fields produced many bumper crops

Filling the air with my sweet summer wheat

Now a flat arid brown mosaic corpse

Giving absolutely nothing to eat

Every living creature has moved away

Land...

Read and leave comments (0)

WORLDS APART

Safe in a tower somewhere

a woman writes about anger

while on ground level a woman walking

home from work gets a police check.

Made to produce papers, abandoned

for three days in a cell, bedroll and blanket,

no chance of a phonecall either.

But egotism rolls around the tower

she paints it beautifully with blackened rage,

scars of privilege ...

Read and leave comments (0)

I used to think sitting up high and looking at the city was the perfect release.

If I just stopped and watched the world, all of my pain would cease. 

Its my perfect definition of beauty,

Blocking out the world and only focusing on me. 

How was I to know that isolating myself would cause such pain,

Because I swear, if I knew, I wouldn’t have done it again. 

I unintentionally...

Read and leave comments (2)

The two lifelong best friends are drinking the night away
With inhibitions down, they start caressing skin
With the frolicking hands reaching for some more gin
As whispers in the ears of new horizons sway

Together's harmony with sensual nature
As lips are pressing hard and hands are roaming deep
To a birthing posture, with moans bouncing in heap
Triggering arousal in tremendous venture

Read and leave comments (1)

I stopped feeling things so the universe would stop punishing me
I tried to feel it right, think it into existence, and withstand the resistance
I'm under decades of doubt
I'm afraid of what will happen when I come out
No longer behind the veil
But I got secret doubts that I can't tell
I'm operating on a fear of going to hell
Think it and be it
Pray it and believe it
Rare glimpses at th...

Read and leave comments (0)

The name is Kane – Harry Kane

Licensed to entertain and thrill

The pitch lays before us a field of dreams

I lead my men into battle and I don’t flinch

In the vast land of Russia we prepare for war

We will fight for every yard and not give an inch

Our destiny is in our hands and at our feet

To lift the world cup is our ultimate goal

One game at a time a band of brothers shin...

Read and leave comments (6)

Beach Boy

South Shields afforded me no defence,
I was open as a Santa Monica sunrise.
The sand, sunshine on the waves
just a bus ride away,
we went week after week
after Endless Summer day.

In the 1960s
the West Coast had the sunshine,
but the dream, surfing
across the ocean,
came all the way East
and remains in my heart today,
music a constant, driving feast
with big blue skies ...

Read and leave comments (0)

The Man:

Why not?

You can fly wherever you want,

Go any place you desire,

No one’s permission required,

To the beaches, to the wilderness,

You are free beyond measure,

Yet you stay,

You stay in the nasty pit,

You stay where no one desires.
 

The Bird:

Everyday, a new painting in the sky,

The stars that combined to give us a masterpiece,

The soothing sound of...

Read and leave comments (1)

I have these dreams in which I I feel really alone. Its not because there arent people around me in them. Sometimes the people in my dreams are even people currently in my life. Although an interesting concept is that they are never my immediate family, and never EVER my son. 

I feel alone in that the circumstances that surround me feel dark and desolate. I feel hopeless, and it's like I know t...

Read and leave comments (0)

All the hurt is making me stronger, The deceitful ways help me strive for better days,

I know how it feels not to be loved by your loved ones

I know how it feels to be cold,

Living with no heat, three pairs of socks on my feet,

Still I stay strong in the mist of my storm

Knowing my self worth is better than not knowing at all,

So many stumbles and falls I took to see me,

...

Read and leave comments (4)

She’s mixing vodka with echo falls
She’s taking Prozac and climbing the walls
She wants to silence the voice in her head
Determined that she won’t act out what he said
But life’s getting hard without any support
And all of her thoughts they begin to distort
The voices get angry when she won’t comply
And she longs to once more be that radient butterfly
As a child the colours were always so ...

Read and leave comments (4)

She stands outside

Shaking as if she were naked

Her short fur lined hooded jacket

Her only protection from the cold

Not covering her tatty faded jeans

And burnt out long ago trainers

Worn to the walk of her feet

As she takes another drag

From the cigarette held tight between her lips

Held clumsily in her fingers

purple and white as her face

her yellow stained teeth

Read and leave comments (7)

Comfort-satisfaction steam-feathers my mind;

my mug has this aura, a soul - 

a presence that, when I see this crafted, ergonomic beauty,

I enjoy pre-consumptive, pre-experiential, pre-appreciative mind-flutters,

I feel the blood-tingle, the brain sparkle,

the caffeine induced dull-relief sharpened clarity.

My mug.  I feel you. I would love you.

Had I not shattered you upon my ...

Read and leave comments (7)

'I fell asleep unexpectedly

Draped across my bed

A release of wakefulness suddenly essential.

I did not sleep long but very deeply.

My eyes flipped open

My whole self aware

Before the bridge to Mind was closed -

My brain beetling away in my subconscious.

And with neon clarity it left this word:

'OBFUSCATE'.

'What! Give me a break!

What!

I - I - sort of kn...

Read and leave comments (7)

How would it be if we could see through the mirror of that Dream 
Its  the story with in which you find your own true glory 
Would it Stars single glorious songs 
Father Sun would shine the love all around 
Mother Earth would hold us in carrying hands 
I see the picture in my heart where Divine thread 
Connect us all, sewing infinite patern of Love.
Each of us shining like eternal light 
A...

Read and leave comments (0)

I've seen the many medals, I own a plaque.
I played football too, but such things I lack!
I look back and think to myself what a shame.
We never saw each other play the beautiful
game.

I would have seen your honours held high.
But I never did, I don't know the reason why.
Although I played at a lower level than you.
I would have loved for you to have seen me                         ...

Read and leave comments (1)

She sat at the far end of her high ceilinged room

I sat on her prefered chair.

We stared at each other.

***

Her hundreds of books were piled upon a just cleaned black wooden floor.

What was that with the light?

ahh yes, clean windows-

she had gone and gotten herself a window cleaner.

***

' I'm  listening to ''Bring me the head of Philip K Dick'' again' she says...

'I ...

Read and leave comments (1)

I wish upon the stars of
Your coveted mind,
Covered in cobwebs of thoughts 
Avoiding mine,
Wishful thoughts asking why they exist,
Passive buoys raise bodies to surfaces
Stained with your words,
Remarks as fleeting as dotted stars,
Mapping the route to treasure
Never buried.
Beneath the sand sinks hope and glory,
Born with teeth as thick as mountain walls,
Silver water gleaming 
Impos...

Read and leave comments (2)

I wanna be a rebel, no more goodie two shoes

I’m done with being PC

I wanna be a rebel you see

Get myself a girlfriend or three

Or would I prefer a strong cup of tea?

With a double brandy, a lager shandy?

Not radical enough? I’m just not tough

But now I’m growing old I wanna be bold

Eat loads of meat pies, kick sand in eyes,

and because I may havedementia,

say there w...

Read and leave comments (4)

You're reaching out.

You're pleading.

Hands to the sky,

Heavy heart beating.

Knees to the ground,

And the rain falls.

Peace couldn't be found,

So you put up these walls.

In an empty broken place,

Never a smile on your pained face...

And you let the darkness sink in,

When all you needed was ONE friend,

But time and time, over again,

No one was there for you in...

Read and leave comments (1)

She suffers, but no one knows her worth.

She takes the pain, but no one sees her hurt.

She cries, but no one seems to understand.

She feels, but no one seems to take a chance.

She breaks, but no one seems to see her sorrow heart.

She falls, but no one has been there with a hand.

She hurts, but no one seems to want to take her stand.

She drowns, but no one cares to make her fee...

Read and leave comments (1)

I’m a poet, a dreamer, a non believer, the girl who’s always smiling, belly full of laughter, sweetness by nature, but at the same time a total disaster, the heart broken heart breaker.

Read and leave comments (4)

He griped her hand tight

without her consent carried her with him

it was so sudden it took her minutes to fight

he was taken her to a room very grim,

pushed her in ruthlessly

there was no light nor hope

shut the door loudly no way to flea

alone in an envelope,

to be submerged by the night

years of work to suppress tears unshed   

are being taken away in blin...

Read and leave comments (6)

The way the world I’ve seen millions of times can look so different after one moment

One life-altering moment

The world looks and feels foreign

When you left this world I instantly relaxed

While the tears began to swell, I kept them at bay knowing you finally got that breath

You finally let go of the pain from every inch of your body

You became free, and I was so happy for you to...

Read and leave comments (0)

My bones 

Sometimes they really hurt 

My mother has arthritis and it makes me freak

Will I become like that

My fingers curling and hard to mend

Hard to touch or hard to grab 

It kills me inside that I can’t do justice

I cannot make that pain go away

Like a massive wave sinking me and her 

She becomes more fragile and it’s hard to bear 

When will it stop 

When will ...

Read and leave comments (1)

Down dark cobbled back streets, clothes lines stretched 
across cohorts of back yards, on Washing Day.
Regiments of white bed sheets hoisted high
flapping like flags,  in threatening skies 
supported by proud, 
immoveable clothes props. 
Garments not daring to fly loose, 
Straddled by dolly pegs 
forced down hard.

Above boiling bleach buckets  
Malevolent steam swirled, silently seethi...

Read and leave comments (6)

Riots in another Eden, Eve’s tearful funeral,

Her truth was a lie and was all about Eve

Caged across anonymous affairs

Over poetic contexts in fragmented narratives

Through expectant open-mouthed pockets where paradise

Would never be the same again

Eve has escaped the serpent

But not its bite, she chases the dragon now

The blackened souls will always rule,

But not i...

Read and leave comments (2)

One day this education,

Will create a quite beautiful nation.

A nation of understanding intellectuals.

A nation accepting of homosexuals.

They will see that this world's hate,

Is not of one's choice, but merely of fate.

Ask the lesbians and the gays,

They will tell you it is not "just a phase."

God's tears soar through the air,

Inside we all know that this is not fair.

Read and leave comments (2)

I dreamt the perfect days
Of me without thinking of problems
I dreamt the perfect times
Of me without worrying too much

It was so great
To felt that way
It was so great 
That makes my day

I dreamt of my journey
In a wonderful place 
With everyone
But just thinking of myself
It was so great
That sometimes you will be selfish 
Thinking nothing or no one
Just me and my wonderful jo...

Read and leave comments (0)

Violence on our streets hits a new low,

How safe is it for us on them  to go?

Our police force has surrendered control of our streets nationwide,

Due to CONSERVATIVE CUTS wherever we reside.

In Derby a 100 year old fatal mugging  is another moment of shame,

Fewer police patrolling our pavements is definitely to blame.

The lady was approached from behind,

Knocked over by a brut...

Read and leave comments (3)

I wish I were like you Mr. Turtle,

More than I can possibly tell,

For if I wish to avoid someone,

I would just hide inside my shell.

I'd never have to pay for babysitting,

I would just leave my kids in the sand,

Did I mention I'm a great swimmer,

And can live in both sea and land?

I'd be the O.G of the animal kingdom,

Better let the other creatures know,

That my speci...

Read and leave comments (4)

I don't remeber how we started talking

Probably with words as simple as this,

Your attacks came rabid 

I had my guard up

You came as a friend

I wanted more

I came with zeal

But my skill

Lacked edge,

Tongue less sharp,

My emotion's,

More clear,

You drifted above

Nearly in my grasp

Only for you to float away

Read and leave comments (1)

You accuse me of inability to express my emotions

but when I put my pen to paper it all flows

You are the poetry within my heart

I sit beside you every day

and there are seasons and flowers inside of me

There are daisies for your naivety

There are hyacinths for your broken home and your sad eyes

There are narcissuses for your arrogance

and Jasmines for the beauty of your so...

Read and leave comments (0)

My temple lies in the middle of a concreate garden of Asters,

Between the Blazing Stars, Butterfly Milkweeds and Lantana’s 

The word was out when their fruits grew out.

An empty space, they gathered in rumours around the last place

I was seen

What I could have been

They reminiscence

“I hope the birds find the butterfly and peck on its paper wings”

“I hope they kill the beau...

Read and leave comments (5)

Water pouring down the sky
Cold wind blows through the window
Can't help wonder why just now
Now that I feel like crying
It went crying out with me

Read and leave comments (0)

I do not know when mom will return
I wait here for the promise that I was given 
I am waiting for my food 
I hear people crying 
And I can’t go outside as I’m alone

I hear the thunder of jets
The sound of bombs hitting the ground
I am really afraid as to what I should do 
I really think I should go out 
But I can’t break the promise I gave

I feel the hunger rising 
And the pain of m...

Read and leave comments (1)

Staring up at his ceiling fan, thinking about this disgrace
Looking in his closet door mirror, with this horrid weed that was laced. 
Sending me into a trance of pure disgust
I have to stop this now, it’s most certainly a must. 
I walked out the door 
With no kiss goodbye 
He turned around so fast 
Like the quickest speed of light. 

My heart pounding as we speak 
I’ve gotten to a Cert...

Read and leave comments (1)

awesome thunder beings floating thur,

lighting kissing the earth to make it new.

lava spilling thur the lands,

mama earth making a stand.

rain drops falling in a gentle way,

what a wonderful time to pray.

givinig thanks for all i recieve,

the laugher, the joy, what more do i need,,,

Read and leave comments (2)

Sand passes by,

Through the glass neck ,

At the top of this rocky climb,

Yet still we slip and climb.

But where does it end,

Ready to charge forward ,

As we fall to our heads,

Vows to trust,

Emotions to gather.

Challenged by the force of time, 

Where is the secret door?

Read and leave comments (0)

You came in like a cold day in July

My bare skin now ice

The cracks running down my chest

Breaking apart

I was a sparrow on the storm front

Did I ever stand a chance

Broken and battered wings

I’m falling

I was unprepared for how you hit me

Now you leave me behind

I’m lying on the ground

Bleeding

But again I will rise

And fly through the stormy ...

Read and leave comments (0)

Minds mould cannot always bend to the will - Look!

A blur of surreal reality:

it’s vivid, a memory, a means 

but travel through years 

and maybe it’s a dream,

or the worst fear:

(for the youth with infantile stretch marks to hear)

Forgotten.

For the youths with flat ironed flesh and barely dogmarked ears,

what we all fear

 is to forget.

Tell the boy with the newly ...

Read and leave comments (4)

i accidentally fed cornflakes to a deceased nun
it wasn't on purpose
she didn't die deliberately
it was a first for both of us..

i then attempted to feed the nun coffee
to help her swallow the cornflakes
she didn’t drink the coffee either
a deceased nun can’t drink coffee
perhaps i should have offered her tea
i know i often learn 
by such ass-backwards
esoteric ether transferenc...

Read and leave comments (15)

As I woke up 

your face was all

I could remember.

That charm like demeanor 

That magnetic smile

You must be angelic or

something of the like.

I've only met you twice 

bUT with this sweet dream 

Ive must have had, I'm now eager

to get to know you

(Sorry poets out there! I couldn't upload the file to this completed poem.will get back to it later)

Read and leave comments (0)

I cannot remember how it feels like not to feel but I can paint a picture, I can see it and I can sense it. If I had to paint a picture this is how it would look like: You are stuck on a mountain, no cellphone reception, alone and with no voice. Just shapeless dark figures wobbling around with no direction. You are trapped with your inner voice who somehow feels louder and menacing. Your inner voi...

Read and leave comments (0)

Shots

shots break the calm 

pierce your thoughts

what you think about 

don’t matter what 

you could pretend 

nothing’s connected

then again 

you could be dead

hear the kids

think about children 

what happens next

no one says 

listening to students 

rapping through phones 

safe in your classroom 

lockdowns as jokes

shots ar...

Read and leave comments (0)

There was never a God in our civilised world

Who instructed our races to kill 

Never a reason or doctrine or law 

Never has been and isn't one still 

We will not surrender 

We're standing together 

You will not determine our fate 

Our country's united 

We won't be divided 

Because love is much stronger than hate 

Read and leave comments (1)

A lot of pain in the ribs
I have forgotten her words

It has come to understand the foolish
The pains have taught all

I saw happiness in my tears
He found happiness in his smile

Read and leave comments (0)

Hey! If you have tears please do not shed, 
And while weeping do not make your eyes wet. 
The things i want to tell you aren't for fun, 
I want to thank you all for standing with me as one. 
Many moments came some were bad, some were good, 
But, we stood and motivated each other whenever we could.
Now i have to leave you all behind, 
But just keep my words in your mind. 
Do not worry when ...

Read and leave comments (1)

A little fun and whimsical nonsense! Anybody remember Peter Sellers reading 'Balham Gateway to the South?'

Read and leave comments (0)

loch

she was late, the moon;

knew that I would wait,

by the water, hoping.

life drunk, she staggers;

flirting with morning;

greedy for tomorrow.

night after night, weary.

high, broke and barefoot;

she holds me; dancing.

we leave corpses,

fears like broken moths,

rumours remaining.

we rest by the loch;

she brings stories,

long br...

Read and leave comments (0)

I wonder of 100,
How much of you I've seen,
I've seen your 2 or 10 percent,
As you have seen of me.

I wonder if you'll trust me,
With 10 percent more you,
Say 20 percent total,
Ill give the same to you.

I wonder if my percent me
would be safe with you,
No reassurance? Give it back!
Lets keep it back at 2.

Read and leave comments (3)

I stare at the empty shell in the mirror.

Is this what I am now?

My flesh tainted,

clothes tight and suffocating,

nothing looks right anymore.

My hair falls in the wrong ways,

my makeup is now a mask.

I am numb.

I am blistered and broken.

Nothing is real anymore.

I look away,

and once again

I am encased in the hopelessness 

of this damned shell.

Read and leave comments (2)

Impossible to be separated 

This love wont be mitigated

You wont be disappointed, if i see rain i wont go there

Take me to the side when we met 

When i seen you on that last step

Who would of thought that was the first step into happiness 

We have came and went so many times ive watched you move from here to there

With nothing but each others best intrest in mind

We shot in...

Read and leave comments (0)

Her colour, yellow, brings exuberance to my life. 
Yellow; a colour so unlike my own. 
A scintillating, fluorescent perception 
contrasting with my own dismal reflection. 
 
Her colour, yellow, brings distinction to my life. 
Yellow; who would have thought? 
So, unique yet such a synonym, 
altering my own shade from within. 
 
Her colour yellow, brings significance to my life.
 Yellow; ...

Read and leave comments (0)

Boring 

Basic 

Blah 

I wasn’t feeling it 

I wasn’t feeling you 

For the four seconds it lasted 

It was mediocre at best 

You have so many great qualities 

But sexuality is not one 

Your dirty talk is blasé 

Your moves are overplayed 

Stop asking if I’m ok 

Just fuck me already 

I felt literally nothing 

Not that it was small 

It was there 

I just fel...

Read and leave comments (3)

The sun has finally set.
There's just one dim light on the horizon.
A burning light of orange, red and purple colors, All of them dancing on the music that the first stars on the sky appear to play.

I look beyond that light and I see you.
Just like the sun you seem to be further and further away...until you disappear.
There is only one thing that remains and that is the memory of you.

Fu...

Read and leave comments (4)

Come, light a match with

tingling fingers to ignition.

Flames kindle and prance in petalled shades of romance,

or burn like the sun.

Love is fire,

No fire is safe.

They burn like mischief and adventure,

like winter shoots trembling under Spring's dark crust,

bursting up with exuberance.

Love is like that too.

Love is gentle, love is kind

love is forceful, love is b...

Read and leave comments (1)