A beautiful bouquet
yet growing wild and free
A stunning arrangement
in natural harmony

A carnival of blooms
cheering up the city
A colourful display
delicate and pretty
 

Photo credit Dr Amir Khan

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The voices in my head so loud and chaotic,
making my thoughts and actions oh so psychotic.

An endless hurricane of whispers and screams,
manifesting memories in my haunted dreams.

When I close my eyes I see his repelling gaze,
laying on my bared skin as my mind goes haze.

The dimlit room turns into my minds prison,
restraining me forever as the demon has risen.

-The Crescent Moon

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We’re not deep enough

we risk nothing

tip-toeing around what we want

never knowing

We’ve a fear of death

as if it could be avoided

we won’t be hurt

not if we can help it

Voyeurs of the world

we could never hold it

thinking we can control it

we’re left alone as a result

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Steaming hot, black takes

Instant coffee journalists:

'In for the long haul'

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I haven’t written for a bit

As basically it all been sh*t

The plasterer he hasn’t come

And plastering has not been done

Instead it  sits in powder form

In its bag all forlorn

Waiting to be mixed to paste

Then troweled on with undue haste

One day at work is all  I got

Before he left me like a shot

Another job just up the road

And he’s off like Mr Toad

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A vigil for the temporally bound,

Deafened by the bodeful ticking

Of a grinning grandfather clock,

Retinas scratched by grains of sand

Lurking in inverted glass, 

Hermetically sealed to conceal

That all constructs are makeshift.

Try to outrun the analog hands 

That slice like scimitars;

Reside in realms that protect 

From the arbiters of neglect

Who relish chr...

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Summer is…

An early morning sunrise

Pale light creeping in

Through net-covered windows

Quiet stillness at the start of the day

Blossoms, nodding on fragile stems

Golden corn swaying in a light breeze

Children's laughter as they play on the green

Bees and butterflies

Days which stretch out endlessly

A time when storm clouds gather

When the air fills with forebo...

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Don't just be a number

in the life of the one who is waiting for you.

I will be here next year too

with a new wrinkle on the forehead,

and my ordinary apples

I will paint them green

to look like yours.

Open your heart

close the door

look at me

and do not be just a number

in the life of someone who loves you

hence to heaven. 
 

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You only see an image of me,

You don’t see the demons,

That haunt and taunt me,

You only see,

What I want you to see,

Only I will ever know,

Who is the real me.

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Hope

Keeping hope

Is like heading upstream without a paddle

Not knowing where the mouth of the river is

 Yet mentally deciding to find a way to cope

Its trusting in whatever the future holds

Without having a crystal ball

Its giving something a go

With the risk that we may fall

Hope is believing that the fire won't defeat us

And understanding that healin...

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As time moves on

So do people

Our roads may intersect

But they never reach the same destination

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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 there.

A mingling of the finest bouquet
With the deepest regret in a minor chord
The tug at your heart and a tear at your chest
Just flower after flower, n...

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This is my street, the film proclaimed

an RT bus, a dustcart, camera

above eye level with a railway bridge one end

and a row of uniform terraces.

The plot, a warp and weft

of flash harry on the prowl

steamy cafes,

sleazy nightclubs

cars swung into kerbs. 

Painted doxies and helpless wives

living tainted roles on London streets,

kiddies' dollys in the turb...

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                                Blue on Mauve      

Look into a mirror (not a screen). You’ve seen a soul, a                                mind defined face to face:                                                                       Fallen from grace too late to change a course once free.

Alone you stand to find confined inside your cage:                           Regret and sorrow fol...

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To feel alive was such a great feeling.

To enjoy every single breath,

To savour every bite,

To have a spring in every step,

To experience sad and still look forward to happy,

To see the thorns and yet plan for flowers,

Now its same day after day.

Its good, happy, sweet, safe,

But its not the same.

To feel alive was such a great feeling.

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Pouring myself out of an empty bottle
Pooling between the weeds
Soaking into stone, utterly alone

Night time comes and we check the locks
Draw all the blinds, set back the clocks
The only stars out drip dimly through 

It's late, or early, I lose track
Newport light right from the pack
Burn a resolution into your palm

They talk of revolution like it's a song
Sing along, memorize the...

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The crushed-ice boy in the corner

Has both his eyes fixed on the cup,

But the old hands near the dart board

Have the tournament sewn up.

Though cocky, preening juniors

Contest the calls across the net,

The veterans the other side

Win at a canter for a bet.

Gun-waving youths are boasting that

They’ll stop the flight of helpless birds;

The grey campa...

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Daylight gone

garden overgrown

dark demon

alien eyes

stare mine

advancing closer

nerves tighten

feeling foolish

spiky hedgehog

shuffles past.

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Food with roots and leaves
Eating plants and trees
I see this as life on a plate
I see meat as death on a plate 

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My great grand mudda 

When she was 12 

Moved to Cuba for work

She lived and worked as a maid in a house

And when she was 12

The man of that house raped her

Who was there to protect Rosalie?

Hmm? Anybody? No one!

The main one that could of protected her

In my opinion SHOULD of protected her

Served as her predator

And prayed upon her

Then the woman of the house

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Beyond this tree is another tree

like a desert highway

in the middle of a field

logged in the summertime

running in tandem with the powerlines.

Beyond this tree is another story

churning towards the coastline

and another adventure

in another day across this land

rubbed across this car window

Beyond this tree during dawn

the breeze is writing

a love let...

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She
was married one day
before a jealous rival
killed her husband.
And so it was
her fate to enter the flames
of her husbands pyre.

Her sisters prepared her 
as they might for a birth,
urging her to redouble her strength.
The implacable sun rose
and with a show of gaiety
they walked her to the place.

Foreign explorers pulled her from the flames
just in time and at the cost o...

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Can you run from me? 
I was the devil 
You was the sinner
Beckoning radiance of love
Please don't for get me?

I've seen light pour from your skin
Can I worship at your altar of delusions?
I'm only asking because I want to be 
A creep that takes everything
Can I bargain with you 
I'll keep you safe if you end me 

I can't save myself 
From the blood dripping down your vines
Is this ...

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If you were to leave your body with this breath, you’d float across the lake like dandelion seeds on the wind; the cool denseness of the surface buoying you, the deep gravity of the water anchoring you.

If you were to leave your body with this breath, the stars would twinkle just as if you hadn’t, but the moon, the moon would heave earth and ocean just to draw you heavenward.

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i think its time to go,

i dont feel the strenght to fight the struggle, 

no more i wish i could suddener to love but i dunno  how 

its the little things i suppose often think of these left behind but me meself am one of them 

broken behind but yet so ahead of time 

never been one for truth, so i suppose i grind my teeth and dare to love otheir day,

cause my heart believes richest...

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You want me darker,

So you inflict the pain.

You want me darker, 

So my heart is where your arrow aims.

You want me darker, 

But a glimmer of innocence still remains. 

You want me darker,

But when I can’t love I am the one blamed. 

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There's silence all around me

A stillness song playing

The lyrics of peace 

Verses of serenity

There're dreams vibrating

Orchestrating beauty

The will to surrender 

And the intentions to keep going

There's sadness in the air

 A melancholic painting

The paints of darkness

Canvass brown and pink

There're memories fading

Flying like kites in the s...

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Mary was alone in the beach

staring at turquoise sea.

All in her was saying:

“I am not from here”

Her white skin,

The book in her hands

Her legs under the gold sand

like she wanted to vanish into it.

Her wish of being unnoticed

would have to wait for other day,

Teresa had put an eye in her.

Teresa came without invitation

Moving her body,

How she only k...

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They made the news some little while ago.  Les Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Jackets as it translates.

They emerged in 2018, protesting about something or other.  But you can’t take French street protests too seriously when they happen every other day.  It might have been over pension reform or air traffic control or lorry drivers or the price of frogs’ legs – it’s all pretty incomprehensible to anyo...

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The spectacle of optimism or pessimism,
Frame life's vision thru' 'this prism

 Optimism spectacle was all merry,
Fragrant earth with greenary.
Birds chirping, blossoming flower 
Blessed seemed everything with this shower.

The season of spring with all hope and joy .
Ahh, the pessimism one was quite gloomy,

Thorns , falling leaves and trees were prickly.
Life was stuck in autumn, dan...

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Once, long time ago a Lady of grace and elegance,

her child and spouse in glamorous remembrance.

Chillingham Castle in its prime of residence and tragic,

Lord Grey in spell of love by Mary’s sister Henrietta’s magic.

Heartbroken and in despair with baby girl alone,

took her life and child falling from the tower like a stone.

The Castle already haunted by spirits from the dun...

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never heard her weep out loud before

hard to believe she loves me so much

they called her in for this one last time

no kisses allowed or a hint of a touch

lonely years and empty days before that

vision of blue eyes and short red dress,

the night fate put me on the right path

ending years of drift and its futile mess

takes a lot to kill love but I did my best

pu...

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7/26/21

Some things you'll agree I am 

But you've no room in your heart for me and so I'm sorry, I have to leave. Not later, not never, now.

Meeting at the wrong time or maybe just the right but I know so well, if you feel like your heart can't take anymore you're probably exactly right.

Your sight remains tunnel vision on changing your scenery and making everything right and there's n...

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The moon looks so gorgeous tonight.
Strawberry flavour or a similar delight!
On its shadowy face, subtle hints of red.
Full and beautiful in its night time bed.

Bright stars queued up to be its guest.
In the rippling harbour, boats now rest.
Rays of colour on the Mersey shone.
Bertie and Bella, 2 guardians looked on.

Beautiful as ever, our famous 3 Graces.
Cast in bronze, 4 unm...

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Disregard the brimstone and the smouldered feathers all around me,
I’m no angel but I’d surely fallen when you found me, 
Roasted clean of plumage on the spit of my desire, 
I was mean and foolish ‘til you touched my cheek and quench my fire,
Leaving me to smoulder and the embers were my shame,
Paradise forgotten, my new heaven was to speak your name, 
Knowing that all mantled wings I’d worn...

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It lay open

The portal had no barrier

no key, no lock, no door

Inside was partly obscured

against the light outside

I moved forward but

not with trepidation

Rather a silent invitation spoke

with encouragement

There was an absence of fear

as I crossed the threshold

Into a dark warmth

a womb of familiar welcome

Inside passages formed a web

around an inn...

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How far does it extend this piece of the planet we buy?

Is it to the earth’s core or as far as we can see in the sky?

Guardians of this earth, here to give and share.

How can we own the land, the sky or the air?

Revering nature by giving more back than we take.

Really any other way of living, could only be called fake.

www.deanfraserofficial.com

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A grand and flamboyant tomb,

between the lush green lawn,

with water flowing channel,

shinning from dusk till dawn.

But what was inside?

Couple of empty halls?

Beautifully cremated corpses,

ashes closed within four walls?

Oops this story looks similar,

to someone i know,

who despite being hollow,

is never ready to bow.

She is all dead inside,

with empty space...

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In my sixth decade now, with a front row seat

to the beautiful and fearsome march of days

on their way to fewer of them

What else, other than time,

do we have so many grievances with

but are still so grateful for?

I see life’s passing markers damaging my body,

leaving consolation gifts of memories, good ones,

and lessons-learned ones where wisdom should come fro...

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Face protection is no longer required

For the returning congregation on Sunday morning

Everything seems to be back to normal

Without the ability to conceal the yawning

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A Grave Mistake!

Alf and Elsie - such a pair. Inseparable, throughout.

A paragon of ‘love and care’ (no shadow of a doubt).

Down’t pit until retirement, Alf was ‘Yorkshire, born and bred’.

Which met his wife’s requirement (strong int th’arm and thick int th’ead!)

But, after sixty years of bliss, came by ‘that dreadful day’

when Alfie, with a tender kiss, sent Elsie ‘on ...

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 I am Lorraine                         

I was sacrificed as the first-born female to the god of property and prosperity

Indentured there forth to keep the borders intact

Against all hardship, annoyances, and conditions

That is why I am named of battle and land

After the province, Joan of Arc fought to hold

“Made famous in battle” by German tongue

In Latin, I am “Sea ...

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Seeking praise

Can I get a raise?

From you, so laissez

Faire, my malaise,

Awaiting praise,

The day's motion, delayed

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The heart purity is a mind of understanding an wisdom nit in anger but in love an truth 

The life of men are sometimes jugde for emotional weakness but the strength us in the emotion we feel 

The body of the soul is like water that asorb the memory of the life we live 

The fear of it an not knowing are the understandable of other is the  greatest fear of men 

The fear of many is the ab...

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Shelves were empty in a Lidl yesterday. 

When asked why, a manager said 

it had absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. 

(Repeat this refrain ad nauseam,

or ad infinitum, if you prefer) 

We demand a rewrite! 

We have to sort out the sausages

before the marching season. 

Could this be the end of days?

I'm just asking for a friend ...  

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Tens of thousands reaching for the sky
Running from the beast, I must try
Ravens caw grimly as they hover
Pebbles and stones crunch underfoot
Skittering and ricocheting across the trail

The hedges never-ending,
The vines deluding

Ankles painted with lacerations
Socks tattered
Mary janes torn

I grapple at the shale
Gravel under my nails,
My attempt was to no avail

Creeping clus...

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Kumusta ka?

Nagliliyab pa ba ang apoy,

Pagmamahal at pagsisilbi,

Sa bayan, sa kabataan?

Naaalala mo pa ba

Kung saan nagmula

Ang bunga ng pighati

Bitbit mo bilang tugon

Sa landas na tinatahak?

May halaga pa ba

Ang bawat pagsindi ng apoy

Sa tuwing ito’y namamatay

Sa ihip ng hangin

Mula sa kinakalawang na Makinarya?

Kumusta na?

Ipagpapagtuloy p...

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My favorite me

lives in fantasy

where the forest trees

grow words

that ripen and fall

before me

to be plucked 

and made into

the most wonderful pastries

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Just when I think I'm getting somwhere,

Getting somewhere with you;.

Just when I feel I'm floating on air

Up in the shiny blue -

Suddenly you let me have what-for:

Baby, you slam my door!

Just when I think I'm getting real close,

Getting real close to you;

Just when I think I'm there and you're here

In a sweet meeting place for two -

Suddenly I find I'm flat on t...

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