Is our planet destined to survive?
In the beginning God created the heaven and earth,
And claims ownership to all that it is worth.
God created our planet to survive,
And on it's brilliantly designed foundation will thrive.
God promised that life will live on our planet forever,
And it's foundations will not be moved whatever.
The righteous wiill possses the earth,
And benefit from all that it's worth.
...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 8:28 pm
Also by hugh:
Scoundrels who steal must be held to account !! | Warning,don’t drink and drive !!! | Stuck in hospital what your loved ones really need |Cinemanalysis: Bean Here,There&Everywhere
We grew up together;
these were cultural phenomena
and also... fun!
Teaching tools for fitting "fools"
in cross-cultural, multilingual settings
suitably adjusted for the faithful&trusted.
Who wants to learn about our customs?
So randomly ordered, conventions bordered
but seldom spoken, a wisdom token
and a gratitude gained:
While some things left, some things remained...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 7:16 pm
Also by Auracle:
Cinemanalysis: The Fighting Spirit | Cinemanalysis: Introduction | To Discover The Nature Of Natures | From Surviving To Thriving: Pudding Proof | From Surviving To Thriving: Baby Steps |Sunlight
Sunlight burst upon the horizon
Exploding like lightening in a storm
Light fell upon the earth like rain
And soaked into our exposed skin
The warmth ran in little rivulets
From my hair and across my face
The sunlight tasted sweet like honey
And sounded like music in the wind
Wednesday 31st July 2024 7:09 pm
Also by Tim Higbee:
Colors | Passing | Occasional Fancy | Love’s Power | Little Scraps of Paper | Winds of Change |Embers
Dreams are in the embers,
in shimmering red heat;
the subtle settling of ashes
reinforces the illusion of movement.
Unfocussed eyes
fix on flickering flames,
the acrid tang of burning turf
warms my weariness,
wraps around me
like a comfort blanket,
faded memories safely swaddled
in the reassuring glow.
Wednesday 31st July 2024 6:38 pm
Also by Trevor Alexander:
Beware the Ides of March | The Anangu Of Uluru | Malice |Butterflies Alight
To live a life in a day
the difference is plain
there’s no doing it again.
A flight within the 4th-dimension
no squirming weasel words for you
just a graceful flutter and decline
on a wing and a prayer.
No absence of synesthesia here.
just a mingling of the finest bouquet
with the deepest regret in a minor chord display.
The tug at your heart and the tear at your chest
just flo...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 6:25 pm
Also by John E Marks:
6 and 9 August, 1945 | Second Sight | BRIDGES of SILENCE | STUTTERER | KAFIRISTAN | VACANCY | VICE | SHORT STORY by Ernest Hemingway | CALCULUS | The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc⁷ | Pilgrimage: out of the blue | DELPHIC | THE STOLEN CHILD | Shalom aleichem | The flowers of the forest | Kathy's funeral |(Untitled)
It’s happy hour in The New Austerity Inn
And a fight’s already broken out
If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it
Rachel cries, as another brick flies
And machetes are drawn in the street outside
Someone’s set fire to a police van
Someone’s shouting at Keith with a wreath
Someone says what about the children
A small voice what about the children
But the far right are flying the flag
An...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 4:39 pm
Pep Talk from a Far Away Galaxy
"You can't get it wrong,"
those words are so soothing.
"You can't fail, you can't flunk, you can't irreversibly screw up...."
Those words are balm to troubled souls,
struggling,
worrying,
fretting--
that is not a fun way to live!
Every problem has a solution,
"failing, flunking, screwing up,"
are just part of the dance.
You are unfolding into your perfection,
yo...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 4:37 pm
Also by Hélène:
Patience and Faith | Who Am I? | Offerings | Everyone Is | Wondrous Panorama | Holding On | Who I Admire |Simple Tail
I woke up this morning
angry at turtles, and parrots too.
They get so many years to be.
Who decided our dogs only get ten,
maybe fifteen brief years to be with us?
All that dog ever wanted was to be by our side,
the occasional extra treat and, of course,
his daily walk. All we really wanted
were a few more perfect days just like that.
Wednesday 31st July 2024 3:28 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Putting Them Away | A Conversation With Grief | On Our Way to Colorado | Those Girls | Permanent Loan |FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
The wet sand takes your weight
evidence of your presence
and you marvel at the perfection,
but nature is profligate and soon
the bigger waves erase your mark as if
you were never there, a tick of time
is marked instead while you have need of rest
and rejuvenate yourself in a different bed.
Wednesday 31st July 2024 1:52 pm
Also by ray pool:
EMPTY SHELLS | THERE'S A TRAIN COMING |Sitting in the garden,end of July.
A warm breeze, caressing my body and
Kissing my face The sky is pale blue.The
Leaves on the maple trees gently swaying
To and fro.The silence is infiltrated by the
Trickling sound of the pond waterfall. The
Carp ly submerged, ready opened mouthed
To receive their fragmented capsules of food.
Not a care.All is right with the world. Politics,
Wars, petty arguments and disag...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 11:16 am
Also by Ornella. Bushell:
Breakfast from a Child's perspective. | Small Things |And there it is
Unraveling now,
my soul laid bare.
Once free of fear,
now I care...
Never needed to hold on tight,
Until I had love in plain sight xo
Wednesday 31st July 2024 9:38 am
Also by AccidentalFun:
The fight within the fight | The fisher. | Keys for happiness |binah
“you got ur mind right, boy?”
I got this fast car and the whistling wren
don’t know what to think of me
an’ I got a coin in my pocket
lain up toward the day of thunder
an’ the wind whispers
the cries of the great raptors
come, now, the hour of trembling
the mother of my understanding
suffers not to stay her hand
in my hour of need
Wednesday 31st July 2024 1:49 am
Also by Landi Cruz:
burial at sea |A mother's tea is always cold
A mother's tea is always cold
Scrabbled together between dish washes
Brewed while the wash is locked and loaded
Or loaded and locked, who even knows?
A mother's tea is always cold.
Over brewed or under, teabag out in thunder
Speed or is it lightning? Who even knows?
A mother's tea is always cold.
When it's hot, there's always time
To pick up messes, clean...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 12:37 am
Also by Wonderer:
Mother, wife, house. |YER MORRIS 1800
(I was prompted to post this from my Greatest Hits back catalogue because I saw on Bangers and Cash that one of these "land crabs" as they were known fetched £7000 at auction)
Yer Morris 1800 motor car
Was not designed to travel very far;
It was the first one that I bought
And, sensibly, you might have thought
For ninety quid that I’d been caught
With “MUG” across my head.
...Tuesday 30th July 2024 9:14 pm
Also by John Coopey:
TEETHING TROUBLES | DEAD FLOWERS | SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) | BUDAPEST SHOES |A Universe Of Poetry
Merseyside poets have launched a free online anthology entitled 'A Universe Of Poetry'. The work is available to view on the Facebook platform, and will be part of a live upcoming event at the famous Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre on the Wirral Peninsula on August 15th this year.
Editors Barry Woods and Michelle Wright specifically curated the project for the observatory, with a t...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 8:33 pm
SLOW REVEAL
Standing in front of David Hockney’s Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool
Aged 16.
I have always been a keen swimmer
The thrill of the cold water sea chill - that sensation
And now I was keen at looking at the swimmer in front of me
I felt a sensation
I was unsure then over my attraction
The form and content of
Supposedly ‘flat’ static surfaces
reveal themselves over time
...Tuesday 30th July 2024 8:24 pm
Also by Lee Campbell:
NO SOUND AS LOUD AS SILENCE | JAKE THE SNAKE (with audio recording) | YOU MADE ME SWING! | TOWEL TALE (with poetry film) | Uncharted (with poetry film) | Keep On Keep Off | Cut Off | Towel Tale | Uncharted (The Cartographer) (with audio recording and my drawing) | Uncharted (The Cartographer) |RED
Taboo
Cautionary
Loud
Transgressive
Feverish
Powerful
Inflamed
Classy
Tacky
Infectious
Lustful
Lust Inducing
Painful
Irate
Hellish
I remember standing
in the dressing room of Dillard's
with my found Grandma
as she asserted
"honey, Red is your color."
I collected her commentary
and carried it around in the back pocket
of my...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 5:07 pm
Also by Endigo Michaels:
Swallow Me, 2 | Swallow Me |I am scared!
I thought hearing your voice one day
Would make me feel better,
Remove all the pain I felt
After you left me.
But now I am scared.
Your voice takes me back to where it started:
How you broke my heart
And showed no remorse in it.
Now you're showing interest again.
Yes, you miss me because I do too,
But I am scared.
I’ve been giving you lots of ch...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 2:47 pm
Dancing Darlings
Dancing sweet hearts wake one day
Summer break sing and play
Dancing darlings summers morn
Monday Mersey mums they mourn
Silent street dressed in flowers
Prayers on prayers crucial the hours
Dancing beauties nature's Purest
Harmonised with angels to heavenly chorus
Beyond heartache Unforgettable day
Endless love to God we pray
Tuesday 30th July 2024 1:07 pm
Why?
Teddy Bears and flowers rest upon the wall.
It’s just impossible to make any sense of it all.
I cried hard and long, I felt myself shaking.
Inside I could feel my heart was breaking.
All the details, I didn’t want to read or hear.
The headline alone brought on the first tear.
Public outrage is tangible…dangerously so.
People want answers, they won’t let this go.
Last n...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 11:30 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
Brave Birds | Barren | The Sea | Emma and Rachel | For Alba And Nola | Guide You Home |Tigers Limerick (For International Tigers Day yesterday)
My brother says he knows a tiger named Spike,
Who rides around town on a small, shiny bike.
Speeding past McDonald's with grace,
Spinning through the library's space,
With a smile that astonishes all creatures alike.
(For International Tigers Day yesterday)
Tuesday 30th July 2024 10:25 am
Also by Andy N:
"Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995) |MAMMALIAN
I'm lying on my couch, well out of the sun,
and glad if it. Where's the truth, let alone fun,
in baking yourself? You'd have to hold a gun
to my head to get me back out there today
because, so i swear, there is no other way
you'll manage it, no matter what you might say
or do, no matter how much you threaten me,
coax or cajole. No chance! I would rather be
cold than hot, any old day. I...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 10:20 am
Also by Martin Peacock:
RAWTENSTALL LETDOWN | CALLING #3 (IMPOSTER) | CALLING #2 | HER OWN ROSY CHEEK | CALLING #1 |A tapestry of time
It's a trail of events,
each moment passing by,
one after another,
unfurled like a movie screen,
projecting the essence of our days.
We catch glimpses,
the whispers of what’s to come,
blueprints laid bare,
scripts waiting to be performed.
But reality bites,
a vivid display woven into our lives,
the grandest tapestry ever seen,
where hellos and goodbyes
...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 8:08 am
Also by Sunshine:
Needship | Journey begins | Haters aren't lovers | Let there be love and light |Appeasement
It’s never going to work;
You do deals with the tough,
But soon he’ll cut up rough
And do his dirty stuff.
He just can’t get enough.
He’s never satisfied
Until your flame has died,
Snuffed out by his dark side.
By then his grin’s as wide
As some cream-licking cat.
Though preaching peace and that,
His word is worthless tat;
He’ll rase your homeland...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 7:16 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Joe | Gunman | The Wind | Useless | Fantasy Days | Premier Tour |I Am a Woman
I am a woman up to the tips of my hair.
I am a woman by spirit and nature.
Like no one, I’ve got an innate flair.
As no one, I need a daily rapture.
I can make an elephant out of a fly,
My ‘yes’ a man can never deny.
I do not burn in the fire,
In the water, I do not sink,
I know exactly who is a liar,
And know what a man thinks.
Of course, I can st...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 4:25 am
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
A Moment Between the Past And the Future | Perfume «A La Larissa» | A New Start is Ahead | I AM AN ACTRESS | The Melody of Love | The Most Powerful Force in the Universe … | I'VE LEARNED | Please, Leave Me Alone! | SINFUL SOULS |Bye
I have been ordered not to share my poetry on this site anymore by a family member of mine, i have deleted my poems but left my cherished ones. I suppose this is my goodbye.
i wish you all well 😊
Monday 29th July 2024 10:35 pm
The stalking amphibian
All pop stars have their stalkers – while most
are merely a nuisance, others can be rather irksome.
Take the case of Rory Rocking Rogers,
my stage name, who became the victim of a
fame-obsessed denizen of the ocean.
While making a pop video in Ilfracombe,
that famed resort in the English county of Devonshire,
to promote new single, I’m Ravaged By Your Devotion,
the make-up lady told m...
Monday 29th July 2024 1:47 pm
Also by Kevin Vose:
Babbling man | Montessa |Just Sign
Looking over the terms of my surrender
I can’t help but feel the Germans were treated better
you’ve got me down to my last dollar
making me swear I’ll love you forever
I’m reading paragraph seven
where you maintain I must obey your every decision
there’s an asterisk attached to that section
that defines “enthusiastic submission”
I’ve read the thi...
Monday 29th July 2024 11:41 am
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Heavy Accumulations | Lost in a "U" | This Forever | Issues |Once upon a time
Fall into the absolute
Quandaring on the resolute
Pitch perfect vocational education
Synchronized consultations of the useless
Standing with dexterity
Increasing load off center
Reinforced foundation
Sinking in the shifting sands
Baptized
Symbolic repentance
Loftly lifted
Unto a life unscripted
Into the bounds of resistance
Forming natural sk...
Monday 29th July 2024 4:07 am
Also by New Shoes:
Infinitesimal |Homesick
I came back in time to see the apples change color.
Shades of crimson dripped from such delicious skin, only to be left to dream amongst the branches
Too majestic to eat
I waited for the feeling to return but it was buried so deep I no longer could find it.
So I poured myself some coffee and forced the pen upon the page
In search for the words once again.
I ponder here
Still waiting
B...
Sunday 28th July 2024 7:00 pm
Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:
Pebbles. | 23 |THE GOOD SHIP
How fortunate those who take a lifetime's voyage aboard the Good Ship "Friend",
For they are on a journey whose joy will only ever end
When time and tide run out together and the sun of life slips away
And sees body and soul drift off forever to discover come what may
Beyond the clasp of human hand and the cheering word
That friendship offers the open heart willing to hear and be he...
Sunday 28th July 2024 5:45 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
THE SIMPLE LIFE |Specter
I cast away my ego just to see you smile,
Only to watch you vanish like a ghost in the night.
That specter still haunts me,
Each time I remember you,
Stealing my rest.
Surely, it lingers to teach me a lesson.
I hope it’s something valuable,
Something to make me stronger,
To help me understand this abandonment,
And fill this void inside.
I am not alone; your spect...
Sunday 28th July 2024 4:15 pm
Also by Oscar Fadlala:
Loneliness | Spaceminded | B&W |Thin
England now is stretched too thin
twixt
Birdsong and where throng begin
The thicket and the wooded edge
retreat
as does the honoured pledge
Now where two worlds existed clear
jaded
shades of life appear
Diminished of their rich appeal
devoured
by destructive zeal
Each precious field each sacred stone
buried
like a flesh stripped b...
Sunday 28th July 2024 3:44 pm
Also by David RL Moore:
21st Century family values | An Airshow Progressive | The Uncertain Journey | Summer headlines long ago | From Caves to Cages | The Revelation of Dreams | Haveli | Chair | A thousand faces | St James of Upper Wield | Aabey 96 ( a mountain walk ) |“America’s Best Girl.”
A new century of enlightenment beckoned
The age of women’s suffrage had begun,
A young girl born in downtown New York,
Unaware of the greatness soon to be won
Eight kicks, one stroke, the eight-beat crawl.
Propelled like a torpedo down the lane
World and national records blown from the water
Seven in one afternoon. This was her domain.
Paris, nineteen twenty-four,...
Sunday 28th July 2024 1:43 pm
Also by JD Russell:
Catherine Bush | New World Sonnet | Remembering You |Take Time To Sit And Stare
Sunday 28th July 2024 4:34 am
Also by ZTK Space:
Nae The Time To Ask For Slippers | Nonetheless Is Under Control |THEY FED US LIES
The cruelty of the world we woke up to,
A tapestry of lies and deception.
Hopes bestowed, dreams squashed.
Duped with their sweet words
Our trust we gave them, shuttered they were.
We thought it would be better with them,
Regrets now siege within us.
We thought they were one of us,
Wolves in sheep clothes they really were.
Where is the sweetest of our promise...
Saturday 27th July 2024 3:50 pm
Also by Mark Kamuhia:
THE UNHEARD VOICES |A Private View
thoughts at an art show
“… amongst the brightest artists currently working in this medium,
she offers us the opportunity to reflect on poststructuralism’s
most pressing ontological questions …”
The Artful Eye Magazine review
____________
Clichéd,
devoid of style.
Rip-off of my old stuff,
things I was doing years ago.
No life …
Established artist, 57
Ne...
Saturday 27th July 2024 1:09 pm
The Wobbly Wobbly Table
Saturday 27th July 2024 7:52 am
Nothing More
All I hear is the tinnitus ring
And a fan
My heart is beating
But I don't feel alive
Numb to the pain of being alive
I assert a separate role
This body laid on the laminate floor
But my spirit is elsewhere
Exit the body
And enter the stratosphere
Watching a planet
Peopled with busy lives
And anxious thoughts
The pain of lost lives and broken hearts...
Saturday 27th July 2024 7:08 am
Lead astray
The spells of illusions and deception,
where whispers weave through the fabric of faith,
modernity dances to a tune,
a trend in vogue, cloaked in shadows.
God-fearing hearts, and demonic shadows,
all donning masks,
mastering the tricks of the unseen.
You bow five times a day reading namaz,
words of tawakkul spill forth,
yet in the quiet of your longing,
the lure of wh...
Saturday 27th July 2024 6:01 am
Also by Ghazala lari:
Follow your light | Live and let live!!! | Angry monster 💀 | Serenity and peace | Need blood but they bleed | A Million dreams and a million more..... |Maths
Today's homework is: arrive in Paris
But this is maths, sir
Yes. Les devoirs sont to arrive in Paris
But sir, how do we get there?
That's the homework
I know, sir
Yes?
My aunty lives in Hull
Fascinating, fascinating
No really, sir, you can get the ferry to Zebrugge
But then you'll be in Belgium
Then you can catch a bus to Lille and then another bus to Amiens and…
How do you know all ...
Saturday 27th July 2024 4:30 am
Also by Marnanel Thurman:
Dallas Mirabilis |Three Strings Detached
There are three strings missing
On my violin,
I think of touching the last one,
But it’s very delicate and thin,
Outside the dusty window
And closed-compact walls,
Is a road that goes far
And stands tall.
Down that easy road,
Bearing risks of a rough patch,
Some blind-trustingly go aboard,
While some get weighed down
By the fear of detach.
There are...
Friday 26th July 2024 2:44 pm
Also by Manish:
Dream-Mine | Isn't Always Cute | Nobody Knows | Rebound Seekers | School Days | Disowned | Final Slide | The Great Pile |Yesterday Forever
Yesterday Forever that's where I want to be
Yesterday forever a place of sanctuary
Yesterday forever together you and me
Yesterday forever will set my spirit free
Yesterday forever
Live for the here and now they say
Embrace today with a healthy glow
Enjoy the moment it's all you have
One day at a time is the way to go
Tomorrow is a mystery oh really
I don't believe a word hey ho
Yes...
Friday 26th July 2024 12:02 pm
Also by Tom Doolan:
Stolen Summer | Ordinary Day | Photographs and Memories |Shimmery
Poem after Isabel Galleymore.
The cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly
embroidered to the front of a recyclable blue
loves to be on the show so much.
Fashion arrays, boutique sales, forest floors,
and decades of its shimmery are uncounted everywhere.
When the invitation for us to meet outside is there,
the cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly is
a neon sign announcing a caf...
Friday 26th July 2024 11:08 am
Coping
I do things
It helps;
Climb,
Run
Swim
Gym
Things.
Evading life or embracing it?
I don’t know
does it matter if it works?
I won’t stop doing things.
It somehow makes me better outside.
And in.
Maybe...
It works
It’s enough.
Nothing else has a lasting effect.
So I do this.
To cope.
Friday 26th July 2024 12:10 am
Unstoppable
You are unstoppable
Everything is possible
Just believe in yourself
Not rust on the back shelf
Be brave and take that risk
The journey may be slow or brisk
But you have the full power
To handle your dreams like a flower
The road can be quite bumpy
And at times, you may feel grumpy
But never lose hope or give up
Just keep going, like a free-flow...
Thursday 25th July 2024 10:17 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Crazy Lover | A Poet’s Love | Bullet Of Love | Close To You |Going Nowhere
I don’t want no Staycation
I’m not that kind of holiday guy
I’d rather not drive to some coastal location
When there’s budget ways to fly
I want to fall foul of Parking Patrol
Get mentally stressed and shout
I want to queue at Passport Control
Have breakfast with lager or stout
I want to remove my trainers and belt
Fill trays with keys and coins
Want to have...
Thursday 25th July 2024 7:10 pm
Also by R A Porter:
The Ballad of the Harbour Bar | The Harbour Bar | Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet |Morning
Morning
Wandering merchants angle about the bazaar wondering if their gold intake will take them far. The birds ruffle in their cages, the callers call out their wares, the buyers hold their hands behind their back as they lean in to inspect the peaches and the pears. With time, the smells, the sounds, the cleaving of the meat. Get it all here my friends get it all. Get your merman and yo...
Thursday 25th July 2024 6:01 am
Also by Brett Maves:
Summer Night |SERFS (rise) UP
the house built on the rock
does not collapse in the storm
yet those stones will drown you
in the flood if you are tied to it.
the prince-maker lay the cards
on the table in black & white
as squares on a chess board
the art of war was forewarned.
Alexander's father / Philip the.2nd
Roman ruler - Julius Ceasar
& horseback emperor small.man Napoleon
...Thursday 25th July 2024 12:11 am
Also by Rob Cohen:
Louder Than Bombs |Tip toe time
Whatever you've done today
It doesn't matter now, the sign states
its time for a parade
for the tiny tippy tappers to escapade
You've seen the sights
Blinded by all the flashing lights
You've filled the senses with a pungent repulse
Tollerated the tube and the intolerance
Now you're back to the place of dreams
Where walls and ceilings go bump in the night
H...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 10:28 am
Also by Wordseffectbrew:
Echoes of playtime |Poltergeists
The poltergeists of every
fait accompli, roam
freely but unfree,
uttering their guttural
regrets, with a
fluency ghostly, and
so very costly...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 8:31 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Ageless... | Mellifluous Madmen |birth of new foundation
birth of mankind
birth is a new birth of joy
a new foundation is a new birth of joy
foundation is foundation of joy
mankind is founded by joy
mankind is founded by mankind
new joy is new birth of joy
birth is a new joy founded by new joy
foundation is founded by a new birth of joy
new joy is new foundation
birth of mankind is a birth of joy
joy is founded by joy
joy is founded by a ...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 7:31 pm
Angry and confounded
People think he’s sad and crying,
shedding tears of regret,
for the love they lost,
a tapestry unraveled by careless hands.
No, he’s not crying, nor is he depressed,
but caught in the thorns of truth,
a revelation that shattered his trust,
like glass underfoot, sharp and unforgiving.
He believed in spirits,
the tamers draped in wisdom’s cloa...
Monday 22nd July 2024 12:17 pm
Also by Watts:
Useless pursuit | Result: Failed and demoted 😭 | The release | Lilly's heartbroken lover | Witches and Angels | Lilly's lover |A Little Thought
Here’s a little thought--
We drop our guns
We gaze into each other’s cataracts
And see the world in color after all these wasted suns
Monday 22nd July 2024 12:15 pm
Also by The Chessplayer:
Phantom Guest | Bizarre | I Love the Sound | Suffice |My Darling Polymath and I [1]
We spoke of alluring arias, sweet melodies on high,
Then pondered the bursa of Fabricius, and how birds can fly.
Confucius gave us wisdom, his teachings ever clear,
Next, we explored dyadic deaths, where love and fear appear,
Existential quests, seeking meaning's thread,
Fractals' depths, where patterns endlessly spread.
With much more to explore beyond the letter F,
Our ...
Monday 22nd July 2024 11:33 am
Also by Keletso:
Life's Dance |Allow yourself to heal
You talk about the past as it defines you
I hope one day you look past the pain and trama
For there is a gift inside you
For the world to see
Your kind and caring personality
You are not a prisoner of your past
Your prison cell has always been open
It time for you to walk on through
And let the world in and all it has to offers you
Nothing is ever broken or beyond repair
It takes tim...
Monday 22nd July 2024 9:19 am
Also by Tales from the other side of secret Love Affair:
Running | Three dots |a bad habit
i find myself texting you late at night
until you block me i’ll keep on coming back
wish i was only here out of spite
but in reality i need to talk to someone during my panic attack
i know it’s selfish to use you for reassurance
however it’s the only thing that can soothe my racing mind
and i haven’t gotten enough money for insurance
so i hope it doesn’t make you feel c...
Monday 22nd July 2024 5:12 am
Also by Violer:
late night walking | going blind |Boredom
What should we do when we get bored?
When we have nothing to do and no interests stored?
Nothing at all to occupy our time
Whether we are young or old or in our prime.
We may feel troubled and very frustrated,
Some pastime would now be appreciated.
Though sometimes there is nothing that we can find
To put our boredom completely behind.
So being bored is never pleasant,
Maybe it will h...
Sunday 21st July 2024 2:28 pm
Rust
I'm afraid I'll lose my edge
if I don't cut myself with it
afraid there's no proof
of my life
if it isn't pouring crimson
afraid that
I'm living in vain if
I'm not
living in vein
Im afraid I'll lose my edge
if I don't cut myself with it
Sunday 21st July 2024 12:06 am
Peace
Oh, peace, where have you gone?!?
You seemed to have slipped away from me!
Too many worries are haunting me!
Even in my dreams!
I long for peace!
Saturday 20th July 2024 9:14 pm
Spiritual Anima
human nature and
sympathetic sensitivity
parasitic
thought forms and will
manifest in woman and child
more so
than the inward hatred from a negative mentality
Saturday 20th July 2024 8:01 pm
Also by Shawn Garcia:
Déjà vu & Phantasmagoria | traffic & drugs | 11:11 | reincarceration | Clothing Line | Pandora's Box | just walk away | Divine Intervention | questioning my destiny |Erosion.
Love doesn’t just stop loving
Love is eroded by the constant drip, drip, drip.
The drip of neglect
The drip of withdrawal
The drip of rejection
Love holds on for as long as it can
Hoping and praying for it’s own survival
Love will never abandon itself
Love will just fall
Into introspection
That is when love
Forgets
To
Come
Back
Leaving in search
Of another’s affection...
Saturday 20th July 2024 4:54 pm
STADE CARNIVAL ( OLYMPICS 2024)
Buzz is there all around
Players gearing up with the hope of excelling in Stade arena
Day and night with the goal of Altius
Ah! notches to go before the podium – Hymn for motivation
Scribes raring to go all out with razzmatazz
Raking up past history and records
To have a melange with live saga
Phryges is all set ready to rock
Council all set for the ribbon
The Torch, Un...
Saturday 20th July 2024 1:43 am
On The Right Track
Andy Npoet and Polly Anna Rose release their debut album Polly - Ocean in a Bottle.
Musical partnership plays
Words blend in
Poetic vocal cords
Sounds of creativity
Collaboration in all
The right places
Now sit back
Yours to enjoy.
Friday 19th July 2024 2:47 pm
Memories
We laughed
We cried
We danced
We ride
Those days and nights will last a lifetime
Those memories will lift and carry my soul
Even though I miss them so
Time and love is precious thing...Too precious to waste
I’ll stop surviving and start living
All for you, so I can walk on this earth; As you fly above in heaven
One day you’ll walk again
Until then I’ll lay and wait
...Thursday 18th July 2024 2:33 pm
Also by Cathi-Lee Williams:
The Saviour | Craving for Love | Heartache | The Journey | The Spirits | Love | Life and Death | The Matrix | Dreams | Fields of Stars | King Leonidas | The Journey | The Road | Last One Standing |But I’m Smiling
I couldn’t help but think now of where her life would go now she was gone. I suppose I done it to myself really. I transfixed on the reasoning for ages, only now coming to terms with what happened. Before that I drank. Silly? Stupid? All of the above? It would never be insisted that we didn’t give the girl a good send off. She weren’t just a girl. She weren’t just an anything really. But hell, no-...
Thursday 18th July 2024 11:06 am
Also by Kate2004:
Eyes Pour Lonely | Stagnant | Forever More | Home | Who I Want To Be | Hold You Close | Insecurity | Stars Struck | Live Long, Michelle | Hold Me | Noticed | Right? | Love | Did You? | This Is Me Now |Protection Magic
My hands move quickly in the wind
Tying prayers into knots
My frigid joints ache as they work
A wide net is cast in the open air
Across a wide cliff edge
Overlooking the sea
After a day of crude labor
I know tomorrow brings
Butterflies
Caught and released
To a more forgiving terrain
I did not seek out this occupation
It fell into my hands long ago
...Thursday 18th July 2024 3:50 am
Also by Laura Bray:
Equal and Opposite | Devotion |I hate goodbyes
I hate goodbye.
Goodbye dear friend sounds ever so sad,
When you think back on all of the times that we’ve had.
See you never, sounds awful, obscure and unpleasant,
I’m still here, I’m around, we’re still in the present.
Farewell, you may say that you bid me adieu,
But don’t cry me no tears, no, not even a few.
Cheerio, adios, sayonara, or just bye,
Well...
Wednesday 17th July 2024 10:00 pm
Buried and Forgotten
I have buried myself into the earth
Forced myself through the weeds and roots
I let the red clay mold me into something I do not recognize
I tell the trees that I need this
I need to be twisted and transformed by the dirt
To be embraced by the bugs and the rotting
But I yearn for the warmth of the sun
I want to run my fingers through the ocean
And be intertwined with the wi...
Wednesday 17th July 2024 8:15 pm
Also by purplemoon:
I Want You to See Me |Closing the Book
To the swallows
just out of your eyesight,
to the tears
arcing across the edge
of your lips,
to the painting
carrying forward a moment
at the edge of the frame
closing the moment,
to the book
beating on the glass
trapped in the past
blown out in the light
now heading home,
closing the ending
in the middle of the margin.
(1st ...
Wednesday 17th July 2024 8:00 am
Poem Sat on a Coffee Shop Wall
My wallflower poem is dressed
ready to be seen
feeling positive for anyone
who wants to read.
My coutured poem scans
the queuing line
with eye-catching layout
and comforting rhyme.
My needy poem comes alive
when someone's engaged
then impressed when their expression
is perfectly changed.
My vain poem wants to be captured
...
Tuesday 16th July 2024 2:28 pm
Day 21
being alone.
truly alone.
its hard i must say.
i have always had someone.
it has been rare that ive
been alone.
so when i am,
as in currently,
im finding it difficult.
somedays im okay.
but other days, i
miss the feeling.
the feeling of being held,
kissed,
hugged,
cared for.
i miss that.
but i also realize
being alone may be best.
because on ...
Monday 15th July 2024 4:04 pm
Also by SunFlower:
Day 20 | Day 19 | Day 18 | Day 17 |Lovers
We are the lovers
of this kaleidoscope
this ride we’re on
As we twist, we write
of the myriad colours
the fireworks dazzling our eyes
of tears, tantrums, seering sunsets
the veins in leaves
the storms between people
beautiful and terrifying
all at once
We are the lovers
of words on lips
their taste on tongues
and turns of phrase, delicious
The flick of nib on paper
the trail of i...
Monday 15th July 2024 12:28 pm
Also by Tom:
Ice Cream Van | You Are Here |Myths
Myth and mystery born of ignorance born of fear
When nature was in charge
Leading us by the hand
Guiding us through the seasons
Over rhythmic Aeons
Warnings of her power
Passed down in folklore
Stories of the elders
Keepers of the past
Keepers of the apocalypse
Holders of the four horsemen
Now let loose amongst us
Oracles cast aside
Forgotten, disregar...
Sunday 14th July 2024 9:25 pm
Only Best Before
Now existing solely on borrowed time
But the loan carries a horrifying interest rate
From adulation to ignominious insignificance is a high price to pay.
Regrets and nostalgia for before often trigggered by frequent funerals
Each demise a painful thrust through the heart.
Relations' irritation that the loan has not yet been extinguished
Scorned for inevitable small inadequacies o...
Sunday 14th July 2024 5:32 pm
8:26pm
It’s funny how pain sneaks up on you
When you’re sitting alone at home
Thoughts going 100 miles an hour
Maybe you’re not even focusing on anything
Netflix on in the background
Scrolling through whatever pointless app
And yet the feelings still creep up on you
So strong they almost entirely engulf you
Dragging you down to their level
Forcing the pain
The overthinking
...Sunday 14th July 2024 4:28 am
Aching
Like a muscle over worked from too regular under use- I ache.
Skipped stretches, no cool down, seizing from the exertion.
A weight in the back of my throat pulls me down.
Heavy and loaded, my voice is tight.
Down deep into my chest my lungs heave against the heart that aches.
My heart sits like a stone.
A magnet:constantly pulling towards you.
A solid piece of iron core th...
Saturday 13th July 2024 1:03 pm
Also by Strawberry:
To all of those I’ve ever judged | Tears not yet fallen | I Can't Breath | Crying in the Ladies | Tempted by the FLOOR |Packedy-Pack I’m Packing
I went on holiday
so I thought I’d pack
I put in my head
I’d be needing that
I packed my arm
because where’s the harm
so too my toes
not forgetting my face
oh, my other arm too
went into the case
better take my legs and feet
they’re important indeed
I added my hips
and my ‘you know what’
well you never know
I might need it or not
...
Saturday 13th July 2024 10:14 am
Also by Clive Culverhouse:
The Gigglephant And Giraffalaugh |July 2024 Collage Poem: Walk the Walk
Boiled ham skies for a man in a
demob suit reflected in glass
Heart founded in tragic stories, a river
of endless tears
Arriving at Bradford Interchange the
Martian General remembered he had
not bought toilet supplies
Walk the walk right at the door
I am travelling the wrong way
on the escalator
ascending to the dark side of the moon
IS THAT OUR...
Saturday 13th July 2024 8:41 am
29 Miles
We’ve been tiptoeing through walks of life
Dragging lessons of past years to the next
Hoping they serve in the arena of wisdom
Like a wild rose wishing it blossom one day
Young still although not wild. Preference.
On chase of goods overlooking greatness
Seed sawing luck in all fields of sourcing
Leave nothing to chance, but gracefulness
We forged masks shielding f...
Saturday 13th July 2024 7:46 am
The near divine
Burnished moon, melancholy drive toward the blue stars
Lost in a night-dream, something is arising from the black veil
Here we are again, the vivacity of these spirits
walking in and out of my body
Who could make you more alive?
music that sends itself off from the ethers
the near divine which is always following us
the fate of your spirit in the many-theatres of your lo...
Saturday 13th July 2024 6:28 am
Also by Mirabel:
Flower of the five wounds |The eventuality of clarifications
As you age
you get to believe in things you once disbelieved in
gradually becoming unsurprised
as one by one they reveal themselves to you
your mind is connecting with improved awarenesses
shedding the old refusals to believe
bringing to light those darkened enigmas
dismantling the walls that imprison the mysteries
and finally placing your heart and soul
where it should...
Friday 12th July 2024 7:24 pm
Spare Change and Thoughts
What was it about butterflies and lightning bugs that captivated us as children?
We wanted to catch them, never harm them, but hold them for a little while.
Sparks of elusive beauty? Just to take a closer look?
I don't know. I still try to catch them
Nostalgia perhaps, beating at my mind
Of a more simple life
A more simple time
Don't touch the butterfly wings, she won't be abl...
Friday 12th July 2024 6:52 pm
Also by Evan Tyler:
What a Ruckus |Look-n-See
A demon or saint,
one I am and one I play
the lines are blurred with confusion
night flows into the day.
An achiever or a misreable fool,
a con conning herself
observers see keen, bright eyes
hidden darkness beyond help.
A dwadler, a drifter
moving along the brink
focussed for a day, lost for two
one push lost and I will sink.
Friday 12th July 2024 5:49 am
Also by pallavitryingthings:
No Fragrance of flowers |Come On England, Again
Fifty eight years have gone by
since the World Cup of sixty six
Twenty eight have also passed
since the Euros of ninety six
The last final held at Wembley
ended what began in Rome
Disappointment once again
when England didn’t bring it home
Now, the date is set for Sunday
the first final for three years
This time it’s England versus Spain
will it end in cheers or tears?
St Geo...
Thursday 11th July 2024 6:16 pm
The night is mine
Tonight, the night is mine to own, to hold
To walk with
To talk with
To share with nobody
To argue and to party
To laugh with and to parley
To parry thrust and take a
Chance with
The night I have possessed
And strolled under leaden skies
With polka dot spots
Holding it close to my chest
You see the night is mine
And when it is finished
When it has d...
Thursday 11th July 2024 3:43 pm
Goodness Sake
How could I choose
against something good?
When I didn't even know if I would
Find something better on the other side
Or something equal to abide
And don't let me say 'I did it for her'
I'd sound so goddamn pompous
But I struggle to see
How I did it for me
When this outcome is so hopeless
Yes, we were good together
But that ain't the same as forever
I...
Thursday 11th July 2024 2:38 pm
La pureté de l'éternel éphémère
Il y a des moments dans la vie
Qu'on ne risque pas d'oublier
Des moments incroyables
Qu'on aimerait recréer
Comme le moment précis
Quand je t'ai vu pour la première fois
Une simple rencontre
Que m'a rempli de joie
Je marchais dans la rue
Quand on s'est croisés
Et dans ce moment précis
Le temps s'est arrêté
Le bruit autour de nous
S'est soudain...
Wednesday 10th July 2024 9:37 pm
Worlds apart
They were worlds apart
From the very start
He was like the dazzling stars
That adorned the night sky
While she was his contrast,
And the infamous outcast
Always so bitter and dry
With her walls up and high
She lived a life cynical and wry
Yet he held her hand
And gazed at her with those eyes
That was sincere and clear
With his green eyes crinkled
Le...
Wednesday 10th July 2024 5:20 pm
Feel to be (February 1991)
Tuesday 9th July 2024 12:54 pm
Also by Patricia Ziel:
As I search (from March 1998) |Turn Me into the Rain
Turn me into the rain and cascade me down onto the Earth. Let the plants rinse and repeat my hydration and the soil bless my name every time they give thanks. I want the animals to worship my streams and consume generously. I want every human to be genuinely grateful that I'm free and clean. I want to be free and clean.
Turn me into the sun and watch me evaporate the ground. Watch the flowers g...
Tuesday 9th July 2024 5:22 am
Latrice
Dictionary description of disco
Deliciously dazzling
Stays ready
Hair to the gods
Largeousness
In chargeousness
High end highnessness
Excuse the ultimate gorgeousness
Temporarily incarcerated
Eternally celebrated
Bell of the motherfucking ball
The shade, the shade
The shade of it all
Poised with dignity and grace
Bow to the Royalety of the race
An...
Monday 8th July 2024 7:55 pm
Home
All things blue today as well as the weather.
2. 2. 2.
It seems to stay true, that two things never change;
Age and time burn it into the mind;
That once we’re open, the mind pulls back.
Retreat. Retreat. Retreat;
Numbness mixed with strength are they really different?
The mind asks under the rainy sky.
Can you not hear the sadness drip, drip, drip?
Is there anyone ...
Saturday 6th July 2024 4:00 am
Also by Doc J:
Dust | God is not an audience | Beautiful Chaos |Club Life
The local club
Was once the hub
To watch a band
Or chew the cud
Legs eleven
Was halftime heaven
No local winner =
Armageddon!
A stranger's feet
Resting at your seat!
His smarmy face
You'd wanna beat!
Oh, the damned consternation!
“That's been my seat since
decimalisation!”
Working men blow woodbine hoops
In kipper ties & we...
Friday 5th July 2024 9:17 am
Seeing Red
You toss me out like one of your paper coffee cups you probably bought with her. The lip of hers stamped with red-the mark of a thief. Do you share your coffee with her like you shared our bed? The same one we laughed in on lazy Saturday mornings. Who knew a marriage is disposable. Fortunately for you, you take your coffee black. Regret has a bitter taste.
Wednesday 3rd July 2024 9:10 pm
Magicians
The Angels are a hurricane
ripping through the barley grain,
the dust bowl stirs a saviour’s name
summoned forth to bring the rain.
On such wings news takes flight
the down-trod flex their ancient right,
across the red tops headlines scream
you wake to find it's not a dream.
Apparitions shine like turds,
follow them into the drain
they wash away like p...
Wednesday 3rd July 2024 2:57 pm
The self
I woke up to the same sound each morning
It's not brids builders pr busy traffic
But a noise from the inside s shout in a empty mind
Not today not today we can do this it's too hard on goes the battle cry
Eventually I tell the inner child we gota get up for there's bills to pay and a life to live
So I stumble to the shower more arguments with myself this time it's the adult sel...
Tuesday 2nd July 2024 10:18 am
Get Down Off My Back
I don't need another five years of your lies and obfuscation,
There is no temptation in envy and frustration,
You say you know what's best for us but that simply isn't true,
We know what we need and it's not you,
You have no shame, no conscience and no concept of our lives,
Your toxic relationship leaves us poisoned while you thrive,
And whilst you pick our pockets for pennies to...
Tuesday 2nd July 2024 10:06 am
A Soldiers Mind
I've slept and woke through trials and hardships,
given my pain, do I deserve to sleep?
The rot of my mind smells of crushed parsnips,
Pungent but pleasant, to me it's a feast.
Rally in despair, a Spartan prepared,
given nothing but a mind full of hope.
I've taken my fear, gone! Poof! In thin air,
And walked through the valley's filled with red dope.
Through the eye's of a Soldier, bui...
Monday 1st July 2024 6:57 pm
Also by Daryn DeMoss:
The Duality Of Your Day |
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