If Only
If only our lives were a movie?
If only we got what we wanted
If only we didnt have to think about our 'stances
If only spontaneity was our reality
Then life would be easy
Then again, who says our life is not a movie?
Tuesday 31st August 2021 7:56 pm
Ovid in exile
So hard to please, gentle reader,
so unlike me, loose, thoughts astray
Hot, tonight, as it was for the poet,
Ovid, exiled from Rome to the Black Sea.
So many exiled nights ago,
Go slow, I whisper, go slow.
Forebodings bring unstoppable shakings
Like i have poisoned blood,
I think I have stolen your heart.
I never lie,...
Tuesday 31st August 2021 7:48 pm
Also by John E Marks:
Love is a losing game | Christian forbearance | Statistic | Seeing things | Excavation | Quantum leap | Two worlds | Mother's little helper | Past imperfect | John Clare |Why Can’t We Go
The summer is nearly over
#staycation will no longer trend
Foreign holidays are risky
until the traffic light rules end
We could travel down to Cornwall
we could travel up to The Lakes
There’s no need for Covid testing
whilst enjoying staycation breaks
We can not travel to Turkey
the country is still listed red
Our flights keep getting cancelled
so we are stuck at home instead
Tuesday 31st August 2021 1:11 pm
Also by julie callaghan:
Will The Truth Ever Unfold | Difficult Day | Good Morning | My Petition Part 2 | My Petition | A Moment To Savour | Today’s News | Cheeky Little Roam | Smorgasbord Of Texture | G Pee | TV | Day Break | Puggle | The Morning Run (Not Mine) | Freedom | Moorhen Chicks | Plymouth | Summer Landscape Scene | After The Storm | Everything Happens For A Reason | Gothic Glow | Play Time | Blushing Pink, Sunny Yellow | Holiday Check List | Travel Plan Chameleon (Karma Chameleon) | The Doctor Will See You Now | Jewel Of A Scene | The Muscovy Duck | Turkish Wild Fires | The Plight Of The Bumblebee | #Visibleandsafe | Yorkshire Day |A Great Poem
Tuesday 31st August 2021 12:28 pm
Also by d.knape:
THIEF | The Poet And The Mockingbird | HOPE | Good Intentions | Adoption Ad | Chance Of Rain | Blue Moon | AUGUST | Fridge Is | Carpenter | Paint Strokes | Bad Times | Drops In A Bucket | All For Naught | CANCELLED | Interest | Choosing Sides | For Sale | HITCH-HIKER | Song Unknown | Angel | The Yard Man | Today's Poem | i feel so small | The Phone | The Phone | BANANAS | Wet Noodle | WALKING | The Mask |Daughter Of Eons
You're seen beneath broadleaves
as light rain passes over
Disaster upon disaster
safely behind you
When the rainbow shows
you're happy to move on
You're caught listening sometimes
sorrowful sighs on the wind
Driving home today
how many to run out of road?
Your eyes shock those now asleep wide awake
and those all too awake at last shall dream
You speak of a clock
smash...
Monday 30th August 2021 9:33 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
Looking Out To Sea | A Certain Strength | Convalescent Life | Putting It Right | My Half Of The Sonnet No.3 | Son | Buzzing Of The Saw | The Poet's Promise |The Journey
The plain and simple things are those we feel
In our lives on any common day
And keep us all together on the ground
Like sturdy stones resisting over time.
They are the same for poor and rich alike,
A hug, a smile, a warm and sunny day,
Reminding us that we are here and live,
As different as we are, in the same world.
Apart, there are some goals and wishes, t...
Monday 30th August 2021 8:05 pm
The Shopping List
A curl of paper
Placed on our scrubbed pine table
A hurriedly assembled
List of necessities
For comfort
And some structure
On days when I am lost
Drifting, unanchored
Thread to sew on a button
Polish, for appearance sake
(Can't show how I'm feeling)
A Sunday lunch
Of chicken, salad
Apple crumble
Trying to hold my life together
When each day it's
Fall...
Monday 30th August 2021 7:03 pm
Also by Brenda Wells:
From The Silence | Wish You Were Here |TAKe & giVe
Is love to give or love to take
Do I give my love or is it taken,
If it’s taken is it at behest
If given is it by request
Confusion reigns
to give, to take, But given can I take it back
Further down life’s railroad track
Or taken is gone for good
Lost forever in the wood
You take my love and lock it up
And leave me cold and out of luck
If given though ...
Monday 30th August 2021 4:22 pm
Also by Edbreathe:
huNt [er]s moon | DREam InG SunS | YooF | OLd RaGe ( will Owe) | hoPE LESS | tHe Or an g dreSs | FiiiiRe | SUMm-er-DusK |EXERCISE
I admit I speak from a certain age
In an era when exercise is all the rage -
But having had my share in the past
I seem to have done enough to last;.
Keen to lay the foundation provided
When youth and energy coincided,
Working to keep the body healthy
Without seeing multi-gyms get wealthy.
Now the years have accumulated
I view exercise as over-rated,
Preferring instea...
Monday 30th August 2021 2:39 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
FREEDOM TODAY | TWITS | THAT WAS THEN |A Shooting Star
I think it's the third twinkle down
(Alioth)
In the constellation of Ursa Major
Where she sits
All sparkly with stardust
And cheesy-gobbed from moon food
Gran said that God had came and
plucked her right off the earth
A car was an odd choice of plucking
But, that's what he chose
With all her beautiful smiley curls of gold
And shimmery eyes of sapphires
I t...
Monday 30th August 2021 12:40 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
Page Break | Sunbeam | Your gracious hosts | The Day The Seeds Fell | The Changing Breeze |The cabin I am
Think of me as a cabin in serene forestry
May the stillness of my words shine down upon your presence
Like light penetrating though a canopy
Dancing hickory shielding you from ghastly winds
Astray and exhausted
The path will always present itself
Guiding you to the home of my existence
Supplying you with peace of mind
Serendipity lives amongst those who reside
Forev...
Monday 30th August 2021 12:36 pm
Also by Cody Roach:
River of love | Awake | Fate | Dam | Paradise | The climb |OUR NEW NORMAL
OUR NEW NORMAL Life during a pandemic. Already change is challenging for most. If we had a choice or I should rather say, control things would remain the same, people's thinking would never evolve, but we don't have control over anything. Change is inevitable; it is an integral part of being human. Going about our lives blissfully oblivious believing that we are the captains of our destinies, then...
Monday 30th August 2021 12:30 pm
Sunset
things used to be simple
lovers dawning undiluted
before he turned up and
left my dreams polluted
I knew she had a history
you sensed it in her eyes
she'd seen many lovers
said a host of goodbyes
hoped she'd seen sense
woken up and matured
that restless streak still
her carnal urges cured
my money she was after
I knew it from the start
one-w...
Monday 30th August 2021 11:08 am
Also by simon lucan:
Cottage Cheese | Kelp | The Roxy | Size Six | Spikes | Sealed Units | Fern |Today
In a score-settling mood
With the way things go,
Though the point might be moot,
If life's sine qua non
Is the precariousness of it all.
Indeed, yesterday's feast
Could be tomorrow's defeat;
But what of today?
It could be the olive branch
Extended in exchange.
Monday 30th August 2021 4:40 am
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Porphyrogenitus | Cracking | License | Defined | Freeze Frame | Visionary... | Make-believe | Avoidance | Unrehearsed |SKUNK SHITE
A much needed Dylan Thomas/DIY/Shakespeare fusion poem and celebrating a little mishap which befell me at my daughter's house.
I should go gentle into that stud wall
For fear of piercing cable or a pipe
Else certes much skunk shite may me befall.
A wiser man might prod with a bradawl
At DIY, though, I am dud arsewipe
If only I’d drilled gentle through that wall.
...
Sunday 29th August 2021 10:59 pm
Also by John Coopey:
YOU'RE NEVER ALONE WITH A PHONE | HE WAS A FRIEND OF MINE | FADED GENES | VAR MAN | TWERLIES | EDDIE |Union
An organised mess,
No train of thought,
Just swirls and swoops,
Campaign abort
If ironed and pressed,
A chain no longer,
Confused and tangled,
But maid of honour
A taste of love,
So now you see,
Instilled in us,
A fantasy
Exchange our hearts,
Entrusting me,
Through pain feel power,
Uncomfortably.
Sunday 29th August 2021 10:49 pm
Love in Winter
At grubby winter’s evening time,
They waited in the cold and dark.
He saw her run across the park;
Each changed their taxis in between,
To take no chance of being seen.
He opted for a jazzy blue;
She wrapped herself in guilty green.
Later, beneath a small squashed sky,
They looked back at the empty room,
Scraped featureless by some new broom,
With all scraps...
Sunday 29th August 2021 9:55 pm
Also by Stephen Gospage:
The Log Sledge | Global Rat | Demonstrators | Dead of Night | Eighty year-old rockers | Waste of Space | Data |This wanting look
The more I see beyond
your reckoning words
and their sweet ache,
I realize you won
You always did
I gave,
You hid.
And this boyish want
has walked its way
away from you.
Despite my stay
and turning look
I was leaving by weighted
line and flying hook.
And this turning to your
wished for face
has piled the wanting
piled the weight
like stones not counted
...
Sunday 29th August 2021 9:42 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
3rd person silent | Holding...the point | I can point |Dinner By The River
Dinner by the River with beautiful you.
The 3 Graces can also join us too.
Across the way a Ferry, Seacome bound.
Dinner by the River, happiness I've found.
A sleepy Mersey, barely musters a wave.
The memories of this day, I'll forever save.
A speedboat leaves all else in its wake.
A crawling old Tanker, baby steps to take.
A weary Criuser, her voyage now complete.
In the cool River M...
Sunday 29th August 2021 3:14 pm
Also by Mike Bartram:
97 Avenue (For Andrew Devine) |Superglued with Love
Pink flamingo angels
soft butterfly wings
sweeping virtue gracefully
steadfast gallant knight
dignified splendid blue
white princess bride
elegant breathless beauty
wedding vows bonded
hearts superglued forever.
Sunday 29th August 2021 2:06 pm
Also by Nigel Astell:
Betrayal on a Massive Scale | Hard Core |Don't let me forget
Sunday 29th August 2021 10:20 am
Also by Guinevere Heron:
Jumping waves | They are just words | Do you grieve in heaven? | Your coffee | Dear Death |Jewelry from stars
When the music is boring
when I will not have the strength to express myself magically
the sky will break
the moon will be left homeless
and I will meet the stars on the terrace
oh good people adorn me with star jewelry.
Sunday 29th August 2021 8:46 am
Also by Sanja Atanasovska:
Brown eyes | Angels on the wall | Pineapple from Thailand | Wound in the genes | Diaspora of verses | The beautiful face of truth | Visiting the sun | The right way | An empty dream | Stacking images | Disarmed | Dedication | Me, you and she | One way |4. POEM
Together, forever
Into the world eternal
Hand in hand
We walk into that land
Love isn't what we say
It's much Deeper than a ray
It makes us feel everything
Longings, pain and also grief
If there's anything I want to change
It isn't past that I have already lived
It's just my feelings I had for few
Who cared not for how much I loved
Reverse isn'...
Sunday 29th August 2021 7:57 am
Also by Sunshine:
3. Poem | 2 Poem | 1. Poem |On Sunday
I never used to understand
why Jesus wanted to be reborn,
into a world of sinners and saints,
of betrayers and victims
where even the strongest hearts of gold,
would one day taste the cruel pain
of a finite life.
And then one day, I met you,
and my heart that believes no faith,
believed in you,
and I knew,
I’d die a thousand Friday’s
to be reborn to you on Sunday.
Sunday 29th August 2021 2:47 am
Also by Connor Hamilton:
From A Distance | Murder on the Playground | Racing Thoughts | What’s One More Cancelled Visit to a Man in his Grave? | Breakfast | Black Water Bay | Mr Fat & Mr Thin | Ophelia | Butterfly Thoughts | The Wasps Kill | The Bath (A Recipe for a Broken Marriage) | Burnt Toast Tomorrow | An Ode to the First Times | Three Kisses for Betrayal, Two for Spite | Handsome Leaches | The Sad Boy Orchestra | The Postman Came So I Know the World’s Still There | We Got On Like A House on Fire | Crimson Hills | Cracked Pot Schemes | Naked Poets Society | Salt | She Stayed for a Season |Best In The Morning
It’s best in the morning
with no decoration
only flesh
and fingers reaching out
It’s best in the morning
sun licking through the window
we’ve honestly
nowhere we need to be
It’s best in the morning
kitchen door
open on the garden
you sip your tea, strum the guitar
sitting on the back step
Your dark hair ruffled
eyes so brown and full of wonder
nowhere we need to be
“It’s bes...
Saturday 28th August 2021 2:03 pm
Also by Tom:
Tokyo Honeymoon | Mayor of Kabul | If We Love It... | Beguiling Sirens |Tango
You’ve heard of policemen out walking their beat,
while wearing those shiny black boots on their feet,
a slow measured march as they come down your street,
but now what if that beat was a tango?
They’d shimmy and slide to a rhythm so hip,
while lookin’ so cool the kids wouldn’t give lip;
watch out for the sergeant and give him the slip,
because he’d want to switch to fand...
Saturday 28th August 2021 10:25 am
Also by Trevor Alexander:
Car Crash | Beached | Conversation With My Nine-Year-Old Self |Waiting to Fly
Waiting to fly
People run to terminals
As best as they can —while dragging heavy bags
Others sleep
Or are zoned in to their screens and books
Like robots
Elevator music playing
Passengers in waiting— tiredly window shopping
With no clear intent or interest
What time is it?
Doesn’t matter—you are in another country anyway
Hungry?
Not sure
So you buy...
Saturday 28th August 2021 9:46 am
Also by Rasa Kabaila:
Put me on the kitchen counter—please! | Forever Blue | Finding My Way |Farra Thin Thot
Farra thin thot
Feera thin thet
What is it I'm trying to say
Fairer than thit
Feerer thon thet
Mi tongue's in a twister today
Firra thin thot
Firra thin thet
I'm talking like a twat
Farra thin thit
Farra thin thot
I can't say .....fairer than that
Saturday 28th August 2021 8:07 am
Also by kJ Walker:
Coal Ash Maisey | Spelunking the Banana Caves | To Ride Jock's Bloody Bull |HELPER SKELTER
So you want to go it alone
Asking for help is just not right
Please consider before you abandoned any assistance
Even a shadow needs a light
Friday 27th August 2021 7:58 pm
Also by Joe Marcello:
OPEN FLY | WING AND A PRAYER |Come and See
Come and See
Then there was a faint light
A glimmer of hope in a vault of cloud
No brightness was emitted
Not even shadows could be formed
It seemed to remain still, unmovable
I pondered on its presence
Did it signify new hope or a beginning?
It would not go away
My attention was transfixed
A gradual movement dispersed the remaining darkness
I saw the sun in i...
Friday 27th August 2021 11:40 am
Also by keith jeffries:
I never cried | The Good Old Days | A Smile |Someday
I start my day the same way I end it
Outside
Reflecting and preparing
I believe when a day begins it is a chance to start fresh with a new perspective
I am struggling, overwhelmed by the chaos we accept to live in our lives, it hurts.
With every sip of coffee I believed that today would be the day I change my own shitty circumstances.
Unfortunately, it seems that it was only the caffeine...
Friday 27th August 2021 2:21 am
giving up
Can you hear it?
Listen carefully now
Pay attention as the neck snaps
Before you snap and lose it.
Do you hear it slit?
Before you split,
To your misery.
Enjoy your seconds of misery
Joy will find you in mystery.
It's all scenery and gore in your head.
Hearts heavy you don't rest.
You wanna die not by your hand,
They won't blame you if you die.
List...
Friday 27th August 2021 1:56 am
Also by JustKelvinMasilela:
when I was still happy | dark world | Sadness | Path |TRICKS THAT PEOPLE PLAY
I'm sorry, I nearly remembered your name,
no-one's to blame for that,
but a face i'll never forget
I couldn't recall the place we met
but perhaps it was the same for you.
We'll never know of course,
such is the way of meeting
and a few words will let us off the hook
but still, behind that blameless look -
Thursday 26th August 2021 7:50 pm
Also by ray pool:
FUNCTION BAND | I'M THE GUY |Lilith First Wife to Adam
Lilith
Lilith, first wife to Adam. She refused to be submissive to Adam, God or his Angels.
She chose to live freely. She was turned into a Demon for disobeying God.
Known as stealers of Babies and seducers of single Men.
Many talismans bearing the names of the Three Angels who tried to force Lilith to return to The Garden of Eden have been found. This is to ward he...
Thursday 26th August 2021 7:30 pm
ANOTHER LAFFER RIDE!
As expected it's going downhill,
the imaginary ride which I was on,
it made me fantasize for sometime,
that I have reached a deepdown zone.
But it was same as earlier,
the jaunty ride which started with praise,
which once reached an apex climate,
and now it moved to falling phase.
It is like an incessant chain,
tulips after orchids and that after lily,
or is this push...
Thursday 26th August 2021 12:56 pm
Also by MANISHA SAINI:
SAGITTARIUS' NIGHTMARE. | CRACKS IN HARDROCK! | ICEQUEEN OF BARENTS SEA. | AND THE FALCON FLED AWAY! |Dead Hughes
I'll love you until Shakespeare's irrelevant.
I'll love you until Chaucer don't matter.
I'll love you till Silvia climbs from her grave,
and serves me Teddy Boy's head on a platter.
Thursday 26th August 2021 4:26 am
Also by Ferris Ty Taylor:
Reflections and Extrospection |LAWLESS
A life without rules
No teachers No schools
I actually can't imagine how that feels
No authorities ..difficult to picture
No leaders
No scripture
No currency
Living free
No morals..No flaws Flawless
No rules..No Laws..Lawless
Wednesday 25th August 2021 1:11 pm
Also by Sarah Louise mcnee:
ARTHUR | CERTIFIED | POSSESS | THRONE | SIGNATURE |Matrimonial Courses - Pre and Post
Forced furiously to undergo a Pre Matrimonial Course
by both Priest and gorgeous harridan intended,
(otherwise the knot remained undone).
Feeling indignant, resentful and slightly put upon,
the 'married' to him less important than her 'moneyed'.
Honeymoon period over, he grabbed the chance
to take a Post Matrimonial Refresher Course
to avoid early nuptial burnout and collapse...
Tuesday 24th August 2021 11:13 pm
Also by Jennifer Malden:
Ebb Tide Only |Cold winter night
And on a lonely seat in a cold winter night where it all began. Yearning for what once was, but not still and never again.
Was it hope bewitching my mind. Thinking all ache has passed. Or was it true serenity that was too rare to last.
In the dark of night my mind wanders free. Seeking a relief beyond my reach.
Then the day comes and it's darker still. Though the sun shines bright, my sun...
Tuesday 24th August 2021 7:29 pm
That Kind of Love
It was the kind of love
You read in books or see in movies.
The kind that makes your heart flutter.
It was the kind of happiness
That makes you giddy and act silly,
Can’t stop smiling when you see each other.
It was the kind of kiss
That makes your lips tremble and your knees weak
And now you know how it feels to be thoroughly kissed.
It was the kind of to...
Tuesday 24th August 2021 4:14 am
Toxic Affection
Pain coiled
In the red cords of love
Cause a sweet-toxic flow of passion
That pierces the souls of the fateful
Birthing a horrid abomination.
Adoring a beautiful ensemble
It comes to those who seek
An emotion that is nearing extinction.
Promising a blissful existence
It illuminates a trail
Feeding on the vitality of those who walk
Leaving a car...
Monday 23rd August 2021 10:23 pm
Also by Blue Raven:
Sanity. |Mandarin
I love, many things.
I love Mandarins,
And Pagolins,
And Emperors.
But what’s a Mandarin?
Just a duck you say?
Well you’re right
An Emperor's a penguin
And a Pagolin's a Pagolin
But to me it’s not just a duck
It’s a Mandarin.
You don’t have to look to see all the world's Mandarins
They come and they leave with you just looking at them
Noticing nothing
I s...
Monday 23rd August 2021 10:09 pm
The missing
Good to see you again young man, tell me have you made better choices?
Are you still stuck struggling young man, have you sucome to the voices?
You can be forgiven for the sins you did commit,
put it all down to the personality split,
God won't judge you, you used to say he loved you, loved us all,
you should have been safe in this knowledge but no not at a...
Monday 23rd August 2021 10:14 am
Death, Sex and Violence
To put it in the Title
to me seems Sadly Vital
You have to Grab Attention
with Poetic based Invention
The Masses just want Action
to give them Satisfaction
It’s Bloody Death and Sorrow
that’ll bring them back Tomorrow
When its Culture that you’re after
turn to Shakespeare, Blake or Kafka
The Best of us are Dead
Unmarked, Un-missed, Unr...
Sunday 22nd August 2021 10:20 pm
Also by Crimaldi:
Flatbed |How To Think About This
Watching
bodies trampled
at the gates to another life,
all the screaming,
sobbing
and scared eyes
of children clinging
to their parents legs,
while I lay here in
the quiet of a weekend afternoon,
the coffee cup
cooling on my chest,
my child nearby
watching the television,
something about
super hero dogs,
my heart aches
as if running low
of w...
Saturday 21st August 2021 11:03 pm
Also by Tom Harding:
Desert Island |The Divided Nations
?
As the earthquake shakes the nation of Haiti,
Afghanistan’s president flees the country for his own safety.
Palestine still in need of freeing from the oppressive regime of the Israelis,
Whilst Yemen starves and the death toll rises daily,
Indian farmers continue their protests and fight for their rights bravely.
?
The Democratic Republic ...
Saturday 21st August 2021 8:11 pm
Also by Your Royal Poetess:
友人 (Yūjin) |Candlestick, October 17th 1981
We arrived at five a.m.
thinking this was early enough
for great seats close to the stage - wrong!
The tents and campsites had been there for days
A tower of empty bottles over our heads, whisky, vodka, tequila,
and all the other varieties you could possibly imagine – no bottles allowed
Having delivered their liquid feelings of euphoria
they were piled high at the entr...
Friday 20th August 2021 5:23 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Evening Walk |Meandering
The clock is ticking
Faster as it can
There's no time to waste
When there's much work at hand
The hour glass slips the sand
The dunes of time shifting swiftly as best it can
Moments slipping off our hands
Hoping to achieve all that I best simply can
The tides are turning to and fro
Ebbs or lowest low, the life flows
How much can we make when waves ro...
Friday 20th August 2021 4:47 pm
Also by Ghazala lari:
Blissfully dormant | Being orphan | Little bits of this and those | One more time | Breathing anew |Losing battles
You and I are the same,
Just like him and her,
Soilders in the battlefield,
Facing challenges and fear.
Stock up the arsenal,
Build you defences,
We sometimes reach for help,
Building gates and fences.
The fight goes on,
Non stop and unrelenting,
Demons, monsters and evil,
Outside and inside the ring.
The dream pushes us on,
Our motivation, our...
Friday 20th August 2021 11:00 am
You And Me L.S.D.
What humanity needs is to take some acid,
Take a tab kick back and get blasted,
There's more to this world than what our eyes can see,
The first time I took acid it truly set me free,
I had never in my life experienced joy like that before,
I have never been that happy in life I am sure,
Then I had a realization and tears poured down my face,
I didn't want to leave that blissf...
Friday 20th August 2021 1:08 am
Courage to Speak
I’ve finally plucked up the courage to speak,
to allow myself to stand up with the freaks
I’ve been sitting in my bedroom for too long
Waiting for the life i want to come along
Wondering if I am under control or lost
Thinking that I’d be better off dead, toast
Unsure how to be a mother to my child
As I’m always hankering for the WILD
I don’t mean just in terms of ...
Thursday 19th August 2021 8:03 pm
Another day
Another day more,
Should be enough
But why it does not feel like that.
Express what do you feel,
the psychoanalyst told me
but why sound so frivolous if I say it loud.
Thursday 19th August 2021 6:01 pm
Lion's Pride
A biting chill creeps in as the warm day transforms to night
The drear of the now ensues regardless of the king's might
Reluctance for this shift as his eyes struggle to adjust
Hunger and solitude instills, to pursue a new life he must
Unfortunately estranged from his cubs, quarters, and place of repose
Yearning for contentment and bliss, the lion's belly-fire grows
Now rogue and in bizarr...
Thursday 19th August 2021 4:35 pm
They shoot poets, don’t they? (For the poet Abdullah Atefi killed by the Taliban, and those left in fear)
He never thought he’d be killed
By words
That freely come to your mind
Took for granted
That his thoughts could run free,
Across the city
Climb up mountains
And settle on the land
Then one night…
He was dragged out of his bed
And shot in the head
Because the stench of death
Has run riot in the streets
The Taliban snuffing out
Anyone...
Thursday 19th August 2021 12:26 pm
Doing your duty
The battle-scarred city walls look on as we march in memory of those killed
by the soldiers who wore the iconic red beret.
But now, the heroes of Arnhem and Pegasus Bridge,
forerunners of these modern-day paratroopers, are stirring in their graves,
at the claim that the killers in British uniforms were only ‘Doing their duty.’
They rise up and march in unison with the souls of
Jack Duddy...
Tuesday 17th August 2021 4:41 pm
Also by Kevin Vose:
A country walk |The Story Continues (Another Flower Gone pt. II)
The story continues
I could not let the flower alone
As' oft my folly
I decided to stay
And keep it company
And bask in it beauty
Until the day
That I could lay claim
To the beautiful dame
But from afar it had to be
For the flower was far from my home
And to transplant such a creature is beyond my skill
And I cannot transplant myself still
So from a...
Tuesday 17th August 2021 2:23 am
THE SONGS WERE GOOD
THE SONGS WERE GOOD
(For Les McKeown - Bay City Roller)
There's not much in Wiki
Just the basics
Edinburgh born of Irish parents
Lead singer of the Bay City Rollers
During their most successful period
The hits and money made
The disputes and addictions
That go with the territory
Stuff like that
In 1974 we looked up
As the band waved
From ...
Monday 16th August 2021 4:19 pm
What is Life?
Is it to wake up every single day,
Jostle to make your place,
make your own identity,
leave a mark your own,
in this world?
The world of possessions;
The world of judgments.
Or standing up to everyone's expectations,
Running in a never-ending race,
with cutthroat competition,
and not living and being who you truly are?
Monday 16th August 2021 12:20 pm
Also by Krishna:
The Magnificent Thing | I'm a BULL | Those days | Masks |Dancing
I am dancing alone
Around silence
The rushing beats of my heart
The only noise matching the steps of my feet along
My feet are cold
It must be the marble floor,
numb cold
Despite the hours, my feet have clung on
Oh! It must be my soul,
dead long ago
I am still dancing alone,
continuous
The cruel mirror in front of me
Standing and showing me the tears
...
Monday 16th August 2021 10:24 am
The Plant of Liberty
The Plant of Liberty
Ujjal Mandal, India
A man wading through blood
holding the plant of enfranchisement.
It is none but an Indian fighter and
we are all overshadowed by
the tree unchained today.
[This is based on 75th Independence Day of India. ©]
Sunday 15th August 2021 12:59 pm
Fear
Thousand words, thousand thoughts, thousand screams in mind..
All asking to forget the past and pushing to a better ride..
What happened was just a bad time and was destined..
To let it go is all I want but Still not able to unwind..
What is this fear resurrected deep inside..
All I want is smile without fear but its haunting me as my eyes gets wide..
Should I feel this way or something else...
Saturday 14th August 2021 6:40 pm
Crumbs
Whenever that gray light with the blue mood
Poured through my window,
We were never blue, but only sometimes
Tucked up under each other like colorblind fools,
Sweet laughter on our lips came and went
Dancing up into the air currents
To be shredded to pieces by the blades of my ceiling fan.
We always tried picking up the pieces
With fingers buttered up like pastries
Leav...
Saturday 14th August 2021 1:04 pm
Also by M3RK:
Symbiosis | The Dancing Dead and Dead Again | War's End |Finally be free
My anxieties exhaust me,
I can’t feed them any more,
Maybe for once I’ll let fate decide,
What my life might have In store.
Tired of living two chapters ahead,
Predicting the future somehow,
Never truly living in the moment,
For the right here, for the right now.
So what if I decided,
To no longer be this way,
To enjoy every minute,
To the fullest live ea...
Saturday 14th August 2021 8:55 am
Behind the Mask
While viewing a black man I see more than just his mask
I see damage strain and the wounds of his reality
Envisioning their endured generational adversity
Depicting the torment, flesh torn and mental agnony
Visualizing present time then reversing to slavery
Desecrating the black mans strength, demanding an end to his legacy
Weeping from the tales of abuse cascaded by the Man
...
Saturday 14th August 2021 8:01 am
Also by Bria Roberson-Gresham:
Already on my page for a quick show case but its called: Hello |YOU AND ME
Saturday 14th August 2021 7:16 am
Also by Shrawani Sen:
Our Moon |Hollow tree
The tree that carries many memories of the act of love faith and sacrifices through the blood that will cleanse the ground of the tree and its memories of the thing that has past
The tree that surrounds them are few but many cost at a great burden of wisdom guidance through a test of faith through the trial of strength through the heart mind body and soul
Many may hide many may run many may ...
Saturday 14th August 2021 6:24 am
Also by Coaghlin broic:
The hollow man | The 7 Valley | The trials |I'm Only Physically Here.
I'm trying to find serotonin
In bodies and whiskey oceans
Floating above water isn't working
Fighting the gravity, so here's to hoping
I don’t feel right unless I'm wrong
I told you this all along
It's like there's a switch that flipped
No longer writing my own script
Can you tell me why you're still here
Why you haven't disappeared
I know I'm always next to you
(But) I'm...
Friday 13th August 2021 4:19 am
Anxiety. hopes, dreams
Everywhere else I'd rather be, because everywhere else only exist in my mind
my mind whispers and leads and tells me what to believe
for the better or worse, my mind deceives me
my mind lives in reality but takes and leaves whatever it wants from make belief and fantasy
nobody can tell my mind what to believe, not even me
Thursday 12th August 2021 10:49 pm
Also by Hobo.obo:
Rose queen’s orders | Weary knees |Patterdale Worship
Patterdale Worship
Speed, stamina, bravery, comaraderie and strength,
And for me a human, Olly will go to any length.
A tough and sturdy terrier without a flaw,
Smart, strong and loyal with a powerful jaw.
Energetic, courageous, devoted and fast,
Happy, grateful, obedient, long may he last.
Loves running off the lead to sniff, excrete and play,
Exercising with O...
Thursday 12th August 2021 1:09 pm
Also by hugh:
Finding Hope |The Indignity of Growing Old
I don’t mind getting old
Really
After all
I’ve put the years in
Its just the indignity of growing old
All those years gone by
Getting married
And having children
Not that I see them much
But those memories are worth their weight in gold
But memories can slip away
That’s the indignity of growing old
I didn’t really know
What old age would be like
...
Wednesday 11th August 2021 5:24 pm
OH TO BE WINGED
OH TO BE WINGED
Sometimes it’s time for the wonderful wind,
even the lightest breeze, to just quieten down,
do as it’s told, blow somewhere over there,
there in the background, and let other
voices be bold, be heard, be stirred up
enough to stake a claim on my attention.
Today is such a day, in fac...
Wednesday 11th August 2021 1:29 pm
Finding your feet
The ups the downs and inbetweens
All started from my early teens.
The life I've lived is a story to tell
Some so beautiful and some felt like hell.
I do not dwell on my hell
Instead I admire my feet.
Optimistic and persistent
I stride with pride
in the knowing' I'm growing
No pain showing
My real strength glowing.
To bury both parents before thirt...
Wednesday 11th August 2021 11:50 am
Sometomes
sometimes I just want to write and die
go away not die by leave cleanly to some cave system
sometimes I want to kill very person on this planet
and yet I love every sentient being on the universe
Sometimes I a tell joke that make the mind dark
and gets me kicked out of parties barely in once piece other times I fell guilty about stepping on an ant
ometimes I see the other side's...
Wednesday 11th August 2021 8:45 am
Also by Seth:
Crowd of Thorns | The Grinding Day Starts With The Heart's Spark |A New Day
The bleached bones of burned out homes lay smouldered ‘neath a crimson sky,
While all around the choking fumes claw the backs of throats,
And those safely on boats can only look back and ask, “Why,”
While, “Anchors,” do their piece to camera and journalists take notes,
And tears are shed for loved ones who didn’t make it out,
And heavy sighs lament the skies that cloak the smoking lands,
Tig...
Tuesday 10th August 2021 1:13 pm
Also by Jason Bayliss:
Turning The Page |England, low tide
All the fuckin’ country
is tense about some dead duck football game
tonight at 8 pm (or so I’m told).
The sea it slinked away but turned again
and stealthily manoeuvres to reclaim
the mudflats populated by the clumsy
clumps of seals. They loiter, lolled
like slack balloons, like lard
collapsing down to chip fat on the hob.
But we, we sit up straight: our sofa, st...
Tuesday 10th August 2021 10:14 am
August 2021 Collage Poem Reversed: Drowning in Time
Throwing in with grimmest grim.
Vegan Jim goes to Vegan gyms
Drowning in time three oak trees fall onto the bikeshed
Hope resurfaces like a periscope.
October skyscape number one pixelated from his old Wiki edition.
The devil grins to the Grim Reaper – do you want fries with that?
Parnoid haiku drowns in time rewriting the grim award
Chased away by angry geese
A furnace of hot stars po...
Tuesday 10th August 2021 12:56 am
Also by Stockport WoL:
August 2021 Collage Poem: Drowning in Time |Orison
Three days later,
we bought a Newton's cradle.
Put it on the table, and heartsick,
tried to click click click our way out of it.
But there's six strings missing,
a great big grin,
and a legendary faux fur coat.
There are two types of energy:
potential and kinetic.
One is energetic, inhabiting space.
One anticipates
velocity, force.
...
Monday 9th August 2021 9:53 am
Also by Laura Taylor:
Origin |Mercy
I am just an image of time
Lost in the shadows of my mind
Goodman does not have rules
I live my life by so many
I'm not the good guy in the story
I am not a villain ether
I am flawed with every step I make
From a life of abuse, I learned kindness
Humanity is a fleeting color
Death is always certain
My soul is old and I've walked these aisles for years
This life does not need love it...
Monday 9th August 2021 1:45 am
Years to realize
I dont know her.
But I bet I'm everything she isn't
Loyal and with self control in my body
The possibility of a woman to go home safe too at the end of the day
And a woman who worships God above you
So, you go after all your women and pull their hair and choke them. Have sex like mad.
But I know something you don't.
The idea of what it means to establish a soul tie with someon...
Monday 9th August 2021 12:45 am
If it is
Dream tends to realize
If it is purposeful,
Flower tends to be pollinated
If it is honey-rich.
Land tends to be fertile
If it is irrigated,
Water tends to mirror
If it is translucent.
Song tends to be soothing
If it is melodious,
Script tends to be compelling
If it is story-lined.
Air tends to be breathable
If it is oxygenated,
Nig...
Monday 9th August 2021 12:21 am
Defeat
The constant dripping of rain on the ground,
creating a mesmerizing but monotone sound.
Every small drop exploding on my skin,
the sky's tears washing off my sin.
Carmine streams floating down my pointing digit,
cleansing my skin from traces so rigid.
My head arching back into my neck with a whimper,
my red dyed lips curling into a smile that's simper.
The nocturnal blade slipping ...
Sunday 8th August 2021 9:28 pm
Ours from within
Its ours from within.
Some animals fight to the death while some run away if the other one wins. We on the other hand stand to prove something rather than lose, we choose it is ours from within.
Sit in the dark in silence alone but first you switch off the phone. Breathing in time to a rhythm you find you get your head into the zone. Cut yourself off from the meaningless froth spurting ...
Sunday 8th August 2021 3:31 pm
The General Public
What are all the general public like?
Do they care and are they kind?
Do they think about themselves,
Or have they others on their mind?
Are they going to their work,
Or are they looking round the shops?
Are they travelling by foot or by car,
Or do they get on and off bus stops?
Do they really feel happy?
Or are they secretly afraid?
Do they like being outside,
Or wish at home is wh...
Sunday 8th August 2021 12:08 pm
The Q Man
The Q Man
The Q Man was somebody who was different
He travelled the galaxies and universe doing a job
Flying a Type 6 spaceship interstellar style
Normal space travel took forever and a day
But his ship was a souped one off
With engine and fuel enhancements
Zipping from world to world to work
He lands in a remote place and hides
His pointed ship from observers or spies
...Saturday 7th August 2021 8:36 pm
THEY
As dark as the night
This is how their eyes look like.
They told me once
Sad eyes are coal black.
From crime to punishment
They got used to travelling
Hand in hand with the act of crying.
As deep as the sea
This is how they look at the pain.
Just like the drops of the rain
This is how they shed tears
Behind the bars.
No need to use fancy words
To tell the sto...
Saturday 7th August 2021 3:31 pm
Portal
Barely a arms throw away
from where you walked
the lights holds it own
to the darkness
leading to another world
oiling over the distance
like a door nailed open
at the edge of the forest
blowing a soft tease of a kiss
at the edge of your thoughts
peeling the darkness from behind
in a beauty in near silence
cherry-picking the moment
leading a different way out
to the way you enter...
Saturday 7th August 2021 9:15 am
Fish made of charcoal
It's a hard thing when they want to skyline you
The ones you were meant to trust
Told to trust
They burnt you just for the fun of it
Scraped your down to a skin
Some lobotomized form of the former self
All the wealth in the world couldn't change it
Maybe that is the explanation for my derangement
Estrangement from reality, duality of sanity
The man in me says I need to do better
But I to...
Saturday 7th August 2021 12:20 am
Criminals
The red light
And its stunning sight
Remind me of
Our lips when they fight
The blue blaze
As the siren plays
Reminds me of
Your eyes and their gaze
I didn’t care that I
Was being arrested
I don’t even fear to die
If my love gets contested
Because my love is real
Even if it is a crime
Being guilty isn’t a deal
To love is, this time
In a...
Friday 6th August 2021 9:22 pm
Freedom of a Certain Kind
Was it a golden age
of freedom of a certain kind
and were we then the lucky ones
the unchained, in my terms?
The next utopia may be rich and sweet
a virtual paradise perhaps
and honeycombed with images but
from which there is no escape
no vantage point
or cold light of day.
From restless souls are we come
from buccaneers with fast boats
their oak planks...
Friday 6th August 2021 11:52 am
Also by Graham Cunningham:
Potter Heigham Bridge | Will The Storm Ever Pass | I Wonder What They Pray For | What's a Mystery? |Great Grandpa Ray "Grace"Jackson
I remember my Great Grandpa Jackson well,
He was my absolute favorite, tongue would tell,
My Great Grandma called him Ray.
“Ray Jackson,” she’d say
and we’d all look his way
to see what kind of mischief, he’d gotten into today.
He was the one adult in my early young life,
Who’d talk to us like we were just regular folks.
He’d fought in the Big War, but told silly jokes,
and laughed li...
Friday 6th August 2021 2:30 am
Another Cheery Lockdown Poem...
Another cheery poem
I hear the rain patter on my window pane
As lockdown looms again I feel pain
When will the sun from clouds emerge again?
This world has changed, gone quite insane
Problems of the past seem small and tame
We writhe and shake, against each deadly strain
Stay in, save lives, the never ending refrain.
And as we face another day alone at home
I sit at...
Thursday 5th August 2021 5:27 pm
Also by mike booth:
Scroll On... | Last Orders |For Sale (a poem for children)
recently arrived on the market
snug, cosy cottage in the woods
fully wolf proofed
some original bear carved features
handy access to local woodcutting service
open hearth for convenient cauldron cooking
would suit grandma or possibly witch
tower apartment
fantastic views across whole kingdom
recently vacated by princess due to rescue
very secure castle location w...
Wednesday 4th August 2021 8:18 pm
Also by Neil West:
Berite was a bee (a poem for children) | Time Travellin' Blues (a poem for children) | Oblivia (a poem for children) | Neil's Glorious Meals (a poem for children) | When Brian Came to Grotsville (a poem for children) |First Love
I saw every happiness in your eyes
I wonder what was in your eyes that I blossomed
I was feeling strange
There was a different glow on my face
Thought I'd tell someone
But I don't know what was that feeling
who were you could not forget
Couldn't sleep at night even after trying hard
Surrounded by questions, confusion could not solve the mind
was looking for your eyes
where I saw you befo...
Wednesday 4th August 2021 2:39 am
A Cruise Ship State of Mind
Rapper searching for work on board a cruise ship I sign up to entertainment agents and wait for job opportunities to perform.
Yeah, yeah
Ayo, bros, it's time.
It's time, bros (aight, bros, begin).
Straight out the loud dungeons of rap.
The light drops deep as does my singer.
I never sing, 'cause to sing is the captain of swinger.
Beyond the walls of singers, life is defined.
I think of...
Monday 2nd August 2021 1:46 pm
If you’re reading this…
If you’re reading this
I’ve so much more to say
We’ve only gotten started
Along this precious way.
Stumbling at times
Often falling short
Terribly uncertain
Not knowing what’s in store.
Wishing that your fingers
Would reach out and pull mine in
Wishing that your lips
Would savour my sweet skin.
Next to you is where
My heart can take a rest
...Monday 2nd August 2021 7:37 am
Also by Donna R. Hedges:
The Moon in Reply |Change The Narrow Thinking
Welcome to the twenty-first century
Let’s make this poem into a good memory
I have plenty of motivation and energy
The narrow thinking needs to alter, come and follow me
Stop with the forced marriages
Sending your daughters in beautiful carriages
Without asking for their consent
Coercing them to smile throughout the event
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Queer
There is no need ...
Sunday 1st August 2021 11:48 pm
Selfishness
Teaming of cold angles,
Yellow in its breaming,
Dying early at night.
Guttered rat,
Which teals the ground,
Broken edges at the banquet.
Hollowing the precious thin,
A serpentine tincture of handy men,
Because a stream struck a chord within.
Beneath a creep,
The kingdom come,
Rotting hearts of deathly grace.
It streaks the blue,
A red in l...
Sunday 1st August 2021 6:55 am
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