The process of developing ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’, my final poetry book proved a tricky process in contrast to all the poetry books I wrote where sometimes I would write poems about places I barely knew, or in some cases didn’t know atall.

In this case, the next poem I am sharing from the book, I had been to twice but the first involved sitting down in an airport very bore...

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 You won't find my soul in a box,

What a busy day I've been going through alot,

Hot or cold? can you predict the temperature?

Tempers flare temporarily, Trim the grass

the weeds are out of bounds, Coffee before work,

Argue with your famiy until it hurts,

Who's in charge to rearrange the standards?

Don't you go and charge towards the treasure,

Move your car please.. the driv...

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Hello old friend

I want nothing to do with you

But here I am searching you out

Hello old friend

I thought you left so long ago,

But here you are, crying

It must be a dream

Brain letting off stream

Sanity flowing down stream

Southbound or bust

By rubber or rust

Getting nowhere on trust

I’ll crawl if I have to, not even fuss

Turned mean as a...

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In the kingdom of the blind
A one-eyed man is king
He wears a tricorn hat
And his right arm’s just a sling
They’ll pickle him in brandy
When his last race is run
And he’s shagging Lady Hamilton
In a pub they call The Gun

His pals in the West Indies
Are keen on keeping slaves
That damnable Wilberforce
Our one-eyed hero raves
I’ll fight him with both arm and tongue
The lifestyle he be...

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And if you must pierce my heart
With a dagger so sharp,
Caress with it my cheek
After you've retrieved it.
Paint my face soft,
With the violence of your love.
It is for you who my heart beats for,
Thus it is by your hands that it should stop.
May the wind blow you
My final breath to.

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This year being the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s 1623 Folio of plays, Qudos Academy examines “The Hidden Symbolism in Shakespeare's Publications” and what they mean: An analysis of the symbols employed by printers, publishers and playwrights to adorn their books.

https://qudosacademy.org/2023/06/28/the-hidden-symbolism-in-shakespeares-publications/

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I imagine living in the haze

          Between waking and dreaming--

The soft noise on the telephone

          Just before she speaks

The blank paper beneath the last words of a book

          The snow visible by streetlamps

The world sleeping under the cosmic shroud

          Where starlight leaks

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In nature's tender design, a story unfolds,

A whispered secret, a story yet untold.

Conspiracy of stars and moon's soft light,

To test our hearts, to deepen love's delight.

Intimacy, a dance of souls entwined,

Intricate, like patterns in the tender design.

The world may try to keep our love at bay,

But in our hearts, it finds its sacred way.

Arousal's fire, a spar...

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Space I recover, time never A lesson I learned from the war I can heal my wounds and scars But I can’t forget what I saw

The faces of the fallen haunt me The screams of the dying echo in my ears The smell of the blood lingers in my nose The taste of the fear remains in my mouth

I try to find some peace and solace I try to live a normal life But every night I have nightmares And every day I h...

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saw her in the street

polite, random, neat.

forget drunkenness

create the diabolical

divine Tabula Rasa – blank slate

too late.

one, kind, sweet woman,

polished floors with rage

arms red and fleshy –  

 dark memory of her soul 

 late, near the Spaniard’s Inn, 

 full moon shining,

with all the solemnity of a river in flood,

sleeping London dreaming o...

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At the well of poetry stop and drink,

It refreshes the mind and make you think!

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i.m. Seamus Heaney

'Away with the fairies' my wife will say

after we’ve been on a walk or I’m asked,

out of the blue, what I think of the dress

she’s spotted, when I’m only vaguely there –

pursuing the rhythms inside my head

and depriving her of my attention

as slowly, mysteriously, the lines

coalesce into 'another damn poem'.

And if at times I frustrate ...

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“Why don’t you leave your boots on?”

She said, as I walked through the door,

“There’s nothing to spoil in the kitchen;

There’s nothing to spoil on the floor”.

And later on in that evening

As I kissed her softly I said,

“Why don’t you leave your boots on?

There’s nothing to spoil on the bed”

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Unseen, many gods remain concealed,

I tread life with reason as my guiding light, 

Proud owner of a sceptic's heart,

Dogmas unbound, no ancient tomes reviewed, 

My creed is doubt, in doubt I find my way, 

With open eyes, the world is revealed

Unseen, many gods remain concealed

No prayers whispered, no insight divine, 

I marvel at the cosmos and its starry field, 

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It was the first day 

when you came into my life, 

time arrived

As the stars began to move,

they whispered in content 

our lives begin again.

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I ran 5000 metres on a running track in 14 minutes and 34 seconds,
a personal best by a country mile, but I didn't really enjoy
the cut and thrust of track and field, preferring the road and those fell races
where I could race down a gradual descent, leaping like a stag over rock and stile.

I liked to pretend I could mix it with the ‘tough men of the fells’, and pick up easy prizes.

Which...

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She leans in close and I smell her very essence

Hanging on the air

No longer just a cardboard cutout dream

She is the real deal

Her eyelids do not flicker

Her eyes say nothing yet everything

She breathes in slow and careful

Exhaling through her nose just a hint of what

Might be available to he who is prepared to wait

Her lips rich and full down beside my cheek

Her ...

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The wheelers and the dealers, middlemen singing the blues
(you hear that...?)
my wheelers my dealers my middlemen all singing the blues
( I hear you!)
I see what you got, you got nothing I can use
(all right.)

and the seargant at the station he's always singing the blues
(you know it)
yes the seargant at the station got to be singing the blues
( I know it)
his boys go around and round,...

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Every day,

Travelling through Life,

We encounter Them,

Some, maybe true,

Yet many,

Disguised.

They have,

An ever changing mind,

Facing me,

They call me sweet,

Behind my back?

They say I'm rude,

They call me good,

Then say I'm bad,

They say you're the Best,

And then?

Nevermind.

Whatever they want,

Whoever they be,

Let them say,

W...

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The pride of our town,

Its mortar and bricks

Now crumble to dust,

In heaps of destruction

And mollified lust.

Out there men are laughing

And punching the air;

They deal in high fives,

When hitting their mark

And ending more lives.

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Cry me a river

so I know you can feel

the heartache which splits me apart

in hopes you will come 

with a stick of glue

get me that violin 

and sing me a song

for I’d play,

until my fingers fell off

just to hear you sing along

or come kiss me goodnight

bless me with your gentle touch

and look at me with those glittering stars 

so I may fall asleep 

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I'm only here once

In this particular time

Within this flesh and bone structure

And I only have so much time with it

I will make all that I can make of it

I will find love

I will find peace

I will be happy

And I will scream it to the stars

That we are only here

To open our hearts!

We are here to share our souls!

To reconnect with our spiritual families!

We ar...

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How will I ever let you go If I still remember the things we did How will I ever forget you If I still remember the words you said All the things you said are running through my head Please leave me alone, get out of my head All the memories we did, are all in my head Please leave me alone, stop messing inside my head

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Contentment and peace

Showers upon me daily

Fills my heart with eternal love

Brimming divine hopes within me

This world is beautiful

Rich and vibrant 

Colours all natural 

The seas, the oceans 

It's an amazing feeling 

Early morning breeze 

Gently loving and caressing 

Showers of blessings falling upon me

It's God's love for sure 

That fills my...

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As the sun rises

In the east

On this late August day

The land of greens and greys 

and browns

Are washed once again

In that heavenly glow 

Promising yet another day 

Unknown ~

But this I know …

I know that luck has blessed

My soul

With the joy of life

Singing sweetly

As the birds in nest

I know that my heart

Shall rise

Along wi...

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Pressed together on a rail allotted

with a row of trousers I became besotted

a clearance sale I couldn't refuse

with dark and pale subtle hues. 

The selection tempted me to try

a pair that hung and caught my eye

something right about the colour

camouflage green but slightly duller. 

Behind the door of the changing room

disrobing I began to fume

with heavy ch...

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There is a certain freedom

in desperation,

finally letting go,

not clinging to life

as we believe it should be,

instead accepting it as it is

because all our efforts

to change it

come to naught.

So, jump up,

say "yes" to whatever comes

because it is here

and we are here

and might as well skip over all the "wish things were different"

and enjoy what is good

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I wait, dear friend, in line to collect you

you my rejected painting in this year’s competition

Unselected entry, now out of the race,

But when it’s my turn in the queue to be reacquainted with you,

I am caught between a rock and a very hard place

At the front of the queue is you waiting there

Wrapped up in paper and protective layer

I see ...

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The time we spent picking blackberries in the backyard

And collecting spring onions and waiting for that strawberry bush to bear fruit but it never did

Or rolling downhill and getting rashes and making beds out of hay

There was a time where we swam until we couldnt see through the dark

Or ran until we couldnt breathe but we kept on running because we were scared if we stopped the happy...

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I lost something years ago,
I've lost the hope,
I've lost the trust,
I've lost the peace,
I've lost the confidents,
I've lost the happiness,
I've lost the supports,
I've lost myself,
I've lost everything.

Standing weakly at the edge of the cliff,
hardships are at the peak,
Finding solutions making me sick,
How i wish for my life to end quick.

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It began as a sparkle, a mere glint of the eye,

Rolling down your cheek, with a hint of emotion,

A misty water vapour, from cloud in your sky,

Filling broad streams in those mountains up high.

On a fast, rolling river, surging deep and wide,

I cascade, uncontrolled, on a white-water ride,

At the mercy of rocks on the Severn Bore tide,

I hurtle past speedboats on this rive...

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The light embraces you
traversing the threshold
shedding mortail coil
across sapphire rivers in the breath,
wandering across the essence
grasping through words
behind a display panel
touching across your memory
in the vast expanse
of lifetimes
lost across starlight pathways,
reaching for the way home.

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The flow of simple things 

White gypsy skirts

embroidery and white-work 

Silver circles from Rajasthan

artisanal huaraches walking slowly

The long green scarf as shawl 

Sea ebbing in as we circumnavigate it 

Persian poets painted on the wall 

One lone hand beside it painted white 

Deep purple açai spread with nuts and strawberries 

Then we flee to the ramshackle books...

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'If the Moon is out today, it will be a good day'
And she was, hence it was.

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Oh almighty,

Please help me, guide me and show your miracle,

please take charge of my life and drive me to the road,

which serves the best for my family and me.

I know you are the best,

have faith in all your plans,

show me your light and give me your strength,

I need your angel,

to give strength to my weathering wings

please help me,

dear God, please be there for me.

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I've always been a bit of a dandy
A popinjay...... A fop
A fashionista in my own mind
A coxcomb from bottom to top

And I've always been a bit of a poseur
But now that I'm close to drawing my pension
I had to up the ante a bit
In order to get the attention

I had diamontes on mi shoes
And a bright pink Panama hat on
Paired with the shortest of shorty short shorts
And a shirt with a ...

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My heart sometimes lies to me.

It says things it knows I want to hear,

knowing full well I will believe.

The constructions it builds there

tell me love isn’t a burden.

But here I am, fooled once again,

as grief returns to collect its price.

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Henrietta 

we would go shopping in Henrietta 
the sprawl near our town 
parking lots stretched forever 
watching from the left side of the car 

it felt like another planet 
fluorescent and asphalt 
its monotony broken by signs 
the kind you’d find in airports 

I’d get nauseous in Henrietta 
from the traffic and ice cream 
the dazzle of a new toy to take back 
to Penfield 

we a...

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This was the end

he knew it, the inevitable

nothing mattered - not his love, not his hate

not his preference

it was destiny

Had he seen a palmist

or visited an oracle

and heard of a short life, ending in strife

as his future

how he would have laughed!

But today is the finale

planned by him, or maybe not

his last day of living, last breath

along with...

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Peaceful mornings turned into mourning nights 

Yes, I've come a long way

Heartfelt smiles hindered behind the heartbroken tears 

Yes, I've come a long way

Endless thoughts occupied in lieu of endless talks

Yes, I've come a long way

Dreams of life suppressed by the mares of struggles 

Yes, I've come a long way

Shrieks of tickled pink c...

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I swear I won't mourn you 

I won't miss the days 

Of snuggling up to you 

Of you kissing away my fears

Of the long phone calls talking about our days

They never happened anyway

I won't miss the time you visited

And baked my favorite dish

And watched the kids while I went for a run

And folded my laundry tightly

It never happened anyway

I won't mi...

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Darkness is not always indicative of sadness, maybe you just forgot your flashlight.

Sunny days and clear skies do not reserve your spot on cloud nine, maybe you just felt inspired.

Feelings and reactions are never set in stone, they’re dynamic and free.

Nature’s four seasons are the human’s equivalent to both emotions and expressions - constantly changing.

We as humans have the privil...

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Our new complation, Featuring work by Mark Safranko, Douglas Bales, Steve Passey and more is out now.

We also made a basic site with links to our books.

https://www.yellow-king-press.com/

Thanks.

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   the 1950’s.

But I spent 

   4 months and,

   15 days,

   living in the 1950’s. 

At least I’m told I did.

My parents got me there,

   before moving

   to the 1960’s.

All I know

   of the 1950’s,

   is grainy,

   distant,

   and black and white.

Dad quiffed,

   Mum elegant,

   caught happy,

   in...

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The Criticisms

Crash down on me like Thunder

So tired of the Storms

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I wish I would have taken photos to remember it all by.

I miss the smells of those places

And I will occasionally recognize 

the scents as I go about my days.

It was like sweet honeysuckle 

On a warm, glowing, humid summer day.

It was like the old smell of worn out leather

After a long days work in the heat.

It was like chlorine in the air 

that linge...

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A tale of a boy who lived by destruction

New toys at Christmas they'd break when he'd touch them

If the label said keep dry then no doubt it got wet

He scratched dvds and danced on his train set

He'd climb any height to get were was needed

Danger keep out but this boy proceeded

If he couldn't go through it  he went over or under

Mayhem on school trips  made sun turn ...

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                                                                              opening

each night when my sleep reaches deep
creeping into the crevices of dreams unknown kingdom
i see a house among the pines

in these haunting dreams i appear as a child

among the pines i find a cabin i have seen in a film
which i vaguely recall from a childhood screening.

                             ...

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Desist from your rave and your rant,

But indulge in hypocrisy and cant.

Dead Yemenis are boring,

Europeans, alluring.

Oh look, there’s a rather large elephant!

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A Sapphire Song

     I look up sometimes upon a sapphire sky,

  and know that she is there,

          ‘at least.’

     I married an angel once,

she has a wisdom deep with frustration and anger,

   and of course, that sorrow that never has

respite or remedy; a true safe home where

  Worlds ‘should’ be championed to the Cosmos.

     She can be a ‘Grey’ or a ...

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A lost ark

palpable only

through a parable;

A lost art

of surrender 

to the melancholy

of the quotidian, 

which once transcended

can reveal a chaos

in technicolour,

a bewilderment

stellified, mellowing

thus the paradox, sweetening

the aftertaste of finitude...

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Here is a link to my first full length poetry book,  recently published:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solving-Puzzle-Peter-J-Donnelly/dp/B0C9SK19RV/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1692718100&refinements=p_27%3APeter+Donnelly&s=books&sr=1-4

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Gallipoli

The merchantman cautiiously moved through the waters of the Dardanelles.

Fierce fighting on land and the beaches had reached a crescendo.

The crew was alert to artillery fire.

Bill Dawson a Mercantile Marine Officer stood on deck.

The scene before him was one of unremitting battle.

British soldiers were in retreat.

In the sea they held their rifles aloft with bo...

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She fell down a spiral of her emotions

She was a mess

She felt she was worthless

It was then that she heard a tiny voice

That reminded her of her worth

She remembered who she was and what she was

She regained her self confidence

And promised herself to polish into becoming a beautiful gem

A diamond is who she would be shining brighter than the stars in the twinkling night s...

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The European champions 

Hold the world in their hands

Bring it home

Bring it home

Comes the chant from the stands

The breath of England 

Heaves shallow in wait

But, these Lionesses 

Are the key to our fate 

They have passion & strength

And a will to achieve 

Each heart & each soul 

Worn firmly on sleeve

For 57 years 

We've huffed & we've puf...

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"Sadness can come along  anytime,even when life is trouble free,

And can happen even to a strong-willed person like me.

When sadness holds you in it's grip,

Talk and share the turmoil of your trip.

Share your sadness with friends ,open up your soul,

Lowering a rope they might pull you out of this hole.

When sadness clouds your outlook on life,

Write  about it ,document yo...

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As this home of ghost talks
I asks who am I to love me 
I’ve become the melancholy victim withering away 

With in the act of solitude 
I forget to move my bones 
Love is gone without hope 
Clinging memories of false pretence 
I begin to swallow away the ocean 
Like the virus inside the hand of god
I’m death without love

For silence is a blessing 
In the memories of death it’s cold 
...

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the second you heard,
the second it felt,
the arms in the air and blood letting done good for him.

I guess you could say that the cold arms fell cold,
but again,
there's another layer to the madness.

She didn't wake,
nor did she ever say,
that too.

Anyone heard of the snake?
The fallen soldier,
blood in ears and between the eyes.

Mine too,
Well,
Similar inbetween two worlds a...

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The Milky Way

A path to where?

A billion stars at which to stare,

Or a billion eyes that blink at us

From deep deep space and clouds of dust.

A brush stroke in the starlit sky

A misty cloud of wonder why

Observed by all down steps of time

Light years away but somehow mine

It’s fingers stretch into the air

With just a glow in sky so fare

Between the milky ...

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Eindelijk zwijgt dat
hikkende sproeinest van
toegeslagen perforatie
onder de losgeslagen lijnen
van doorweekte levenden

Het bevel om moedig te
blijven zijn, verzoekt
hen eveneens om nu op
te staan en door te
graven naar een zwakke
plek die waarschijnlijk
alleen in het hoofd van
een briljante geest
heeft kunnen bestaan

Zwijgend in medeleven
en balancerend op de
immer aanwezige r...

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I woke up with this poem almost fully 'written' for me this morning. This is about the journey of energy and makes me realise that sometimes poetry is meditation.

Kundalini calls
Coiled serpent awakes 

Travels up spine
Til reaches 10th gate
Passing through rays 
Of red at the root
Converts fear & rage 
To courage & truth
And now that it's mastered 
Danger & risk
It soaks up the warm...

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Desperate poverty in The East End of London all too true

Ten-year-old Alice never complained, what good would it do?

She had reached the age to travel with her family to Kent.

Leaving behind the dirt and smog, their struggle to pay rent

Hop picking in 1920 the children did their share of grafting

Alice loved the clean air, the food, the banter and chatting

She fell in love with K...

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A wise person listens and increases in knowledge 

They understand even riddles and enigmas

Fools despise wisdom and teaching

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Mum and me on a lottery funded

bench in Bowness Bay. Part of us was sad

sitting there in quiet contemplation.

Mum missing a husband, me missing Dad.

Around our feet mallard milled and blundered

and seagulls dive-bombed down from overhead,

swans lapped up their status in the nation 

while jackdaws joined the fight for tourists’ bread.

A Spanish spea...

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Am I doom cause I struggle to sleep 

Am I useless cause I can't find any meaning in a useless job

Am I destined to drown cause I prefer to swim with  shark 

Am I on the brink because I dunno how to step back 

Am I always going to wear these scars cause like the soilder who's home so long but doesn't known how to stop fighting or what to fight for 

Is there a difference between need ...

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I thought I had a fighting chance. A local poem

about a long-lost railway line. But I forgot

that for most folk, especially in Northumberland,

a poem must rhyme. There were some

accidental rhymes there, but not enough, it seems.

Unplaced in a field of six. I even included

some dialect words, but maybe in the wrong order.

I guess they somehow spotted I was a southerner.

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I was just a small girl barefoot in the grass

Smiling sweetly with comedic sass

So kind and so warm with eye that burned bright

But i weathered the storms with all of my might.

Tattered and beaten, confidence drowned 

I prayed a champion one day would be crowned. 

I sought him in every face that I knew

But heartbreak and disappoint always ensue.

Time doesn't rid the bu...

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We found within our reality a Profound and very real depravity. 

The world is filled with things you want not necessarily what you need, 

You work yourself into the ground for someone elses greed,

Look at yourself in the mirror and convince yourself your free,

But it's an eternal prison where you live the bars you just can't see. 

The inevitable suppression ...

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I’m a lover,not a skill fighter
I’m a lover,not a booming fighter
I’m a lover,not a banging lover
bang is a boom of a lover
bang is a boom of a fighter
a lover is a booming lover
a lover is a booming fighter

a banging lover is a booming disease
a banging lover is a booming paradise
disease is a booming disease
disease is a boom of a banging disease
paradise is a booming paradise
para...

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You must have heard this from the influencers, Ted speakers, and many other motivational speakers that it’s your life; make it or break it, it's all in your hands. Well, that’s exactly true, but what I’m gonna tell you about this is something that many of us face and yet still believe that it’s gonna happen one day.

First of all, to make it to your dreams is not for all of us. Imagine that nobo...

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Waltmarie
The fallen unpeopled hallways of life

Do you like marmite?

where did all the grim go? 
Something new to fear beneath the four poster bed
Daughters of despair wait for the hirsute man with the large teeth 
and a penchant for Moonlight Sonata.

Do you like Marmite?

The jukebox unplugged but Beatle songs 
still  haunt the tired rooms.

counting yesterdays over the shadows 
...

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CANAL SONG

Today I saw mallards

fed crumbs by a local drunkard

stumbling from the Grapes

onto the murky cut.

He crooned a forgotten song

that floated on the wind

as narrow boats chugged past

a chalky towpath

old as ghosts of workers

mean-eyed, coal dust-coated

heaving sacks and urging horses

in days now deemed heroic.

It guided him home

under mossy humpbac...

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Kept awake in the darkness, under a heavy starless sky,

As I lie here restless, a prisoner of the in between.

Tempestous Hell beneath me, tender Heaven afloat up high.

How can you exhume a soul, especially one unseen?

Raging emotions consume me, like an insatiable fire,

Yet I again fade away to the light, howling at an invisible Moon.

Night brings again this haunted obsession, se...

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We made a blood oath...

and yet the promise of it dissipated with the conversation I often expected.

As much as I’d love to over-describe, as some might expect me to, the weight of how I feel while concocting the narratives of Univerza, my writings mislead me.

I might say the campfire stories I told, which wrote themselves, are but a light in a pitch forest as I meander away ...

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Walking past The Boot tonight
a warm but sunless dusk
The door was open wide
drinkers shuffling and spilling out

I think of that favourite friend
who brought me here five years ago
We played some pool, supped our beer
as he talked of his dilemma

His partner wanted children
but regrettably, he did not
she gave him ultimatums
and he wasn’t sure what to do

When the world stopped for...

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What if this isn’t what I want

What if I’m destined for more

For someone that doesn’t take me for granted

For the amount of love I always thought I wasn’t worth

A mere 3 weeks away and I don’t know how I feel

Old, bad memories are reignited from a letter I found

The past pain of being ignored for days on end

In the space we shared, our home

I don’t know how I’m supposed to ...

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When your times become tough,

and your road ahead is rough.

And all your brilliant thoughts,

Have come out to noughts.

And then uncertainties begin -

Just find the time to look within.

When you're searching for the track -

You had missed somewhere back.

And leaden of foot, tired and sore -

You feel lost and venture no more.

Then, to start moving afresh again;

...

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Grilled and carbonized matter

Choked with debris

Mon Cher

Their bones will be scattered and their bodies will rot.

Tragic little soldiers

unmasking battery

and causing dreadful destruction 

She passed heaps of comrades,

Friends and foes joined in one mass.

One might think the sky was on fire, 

And she who has not seen it with her own eyes

Cannot imagine the disorde...

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Re. Exploring the joy and delights of why hire musicians for a wedding ceremony

In the hush of vows, where love takes its stand, Musicians appear, with instruments in hand. A violin's whisper, a piano's embrace, They weave melodies, filling time and space.

Gentle chords echo the promises made, As a guitarist strums, emotions cascade. Their harmonies blend with each heartbeat's rhyme, Adding ...

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Truth be told, The silence broken,

Make haste thine rivers,

I have your token.

The boatman cometh, With scythe in hand; make thee hence, for this my stand!

What left is there, if not an ear so deaf,

Pray tell, what good is life...if it ends in Death.

Fare thee well, I've done my best,

I close mine eyes,

Sweet...oh how sweet...this final rest.

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One who wish to die

Must have a reason to live

To be worth his wish

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I do not like to engage in confrontation -
Though I may actually be in the right.
I do not like to have an altercation,
As it may lead to a fight.

Some words - they can be hurtful,
And they can be quite offensive.
Though I would like to be as hard as nails,
I always end up being defensive.

I would like to be courageous.
I would like to be tough and strong.
I would like to stand up to...

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a single crane arriving

I feel the seasons changing

wrensong in the rain

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All Roads Lead to You

People told me it was possible

They said 'you'll know when it feels right'

They didn’t tell me there would be a struggle in finding it

Paved by constant disappointment  and spite

Drowning in a sea of confusion

Smashed by perilous waves of doubt

I realised I would first have to love myself 

To be able to survive and get out

And then I ...

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Here

Amidst silence of thousand voices

Arrived a shooting star,

Gazing right at us

Proving everything destiny.

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I learned to swallow my pride 

With no intention of protecting you 

Only to shield myself from You

To spare myself of your lies 

If we replayed your every move 

It would unveil who you actually are 

You're a pro at faking love 

But you're a con-man at heart 

You can't camouflage yourself from me 

I am your truth teller 

You've soaked your hand in red paint 

While d...

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It’s hard for a seed to break itself,

in order to grow under the ground,

but in the end it WILL grow out of that ground

and into its own breath and onward.

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Eye glancing blow of horizons bluff

Does so futures seeds

Where wonderlust must

Overlaping horizons

crest of a heart

A winged bird

fragment of magicians interlocking circles

Y

Yorkshire

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Saffron-Sanatan

Saffron's the colour of sky,
Saffron's all Hindu's joy.

Saffron gets vent out from
ancient Sanatan,
It's an unaffected perpetual fountain.

Each and every earthly
being,
Coming under its
steady swing.

This fountain drenches

everybody,
and filled their heart with
spiritual goodies.

Saffron it is which
causes,
the bloomy-blush

on the face of roses.

...

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Moon rises, the tide is out
thoughts make their way
to the tip of my tongue
I reach for a pen instead.

I breathe in another sunrise
breathe out a restless night
my bed's a field of clover -
better luck next time.

I wash away the news I read
dress my soul in comfort of a song
I've listened to on repeat for years
and smile.

Holding on to the glimpses of
peace I find, I'd pray more
...

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"Take those clothes off, you smell of outside". She quipped

A perplexing concept; an ineffable part of everyday life clinging to our clothes.

Clinging to our very beings. 

From that first life affirming breath as we step out to conquer the day - in hopes of slaying invisible beasts, to the soft caress of the morning dew on bare skin. 
Then comes the rustling of evergreen leaves, graduall...

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Have you ever been...?
Are you... now?
Will you ever be...?
I doubt it.

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GOVERNOR OF THE PEOPLE (Dedicated to Dr. Alex .C. Otti - OFR) ×××××××××××× Poet: Mr. Rays We rejoice like nursing mother Who murdered the sorrow of child birth A fatherly mother pampering us like a new born baby He used pensions to settle our debts Used salaries to clean our tears What a fatherly love! That cares us alot Like a new loft A difficult road Which is full of load H...

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I've lost a great friend, I don't know why.
The sun, all of a sudden has left the sky.
I thought our friendship was forever strong.
Did I say or do something badly wrong?
We became close friends, had great times.
So, what went so wrong, I saw no signs?
For a while I didn't hear anything from you.
Until your message, came out of the blue.
I'm left all confused, feeling lost and upset.
But ...

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The lizard king with his words profound,

Hath touched our souls and unearthed our ground.

The soil is tendered, the seeds are sewn.

By lifetime pass, let us enjoy our sound!

For life is short, and talk is cheap.

Our actions are our souls to keep!

Be love of now, be love immortal,

Trancend our life and become eternal.

Journeys bound and paths to follow, 

Beseech...

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" Hello moon," can you help heal this broken heart

Can you take away the pain of the one I've lost?

The waves crashed loud, my heart beat fast, tears fell down my cheeks as I cried,

"Hello moon" can you help heal this broken heart

Can you take away the pain of the one I've lost?

My feet touched the ocean waves as the moon shined bright on my teary face

I just want to let her go, ...

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Barely visible opal hills in heat haze

and shimmering surfaced streets.

Little dog invisibly belly-sprawled

on icy marble cupboard floor

in frantic search of coolth.

Balcony dwellers limply gasping

slightly straightening only

at sight of heavy watering-can.

But oleander and bougainvillea

evidently in their element

flaunting their lovely abundance.

Birds o...

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Het Straat je by Vermeer, c. 1657-58
  

It will rain soon, those clouds tell us as much, 
no deluge, a passing shower only, 
but enough to darken the bricks 
a shade or two and to puzzle the nearby 
canal. They have been warm to the touch 
all morning, the bricks, their ochre reds 

absorbing the sun. Think how those shutters 
will peel every summer, paint 
lifted from the wood, bl...

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