Inhaling the chill of the night,

My pace quickens.

I soon realize where I am.

Time stops.

Exhaling fears, anxiety, stress.

My heart slows.

I notice the sound of a train in the distance.

Time resumes.

Inhaling the scent of pine tree and oil.

My thoughts race.

I remember the diner just past the railroad tracks.

But time stops again.

e...

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The Surrogate Writer

My thoughts could never languish

as does my mortal frame

As my mind is a perpetual

cascade of ideas each which

indent themselves in my complexity

Words are in a flurry

as snowflakes dance about

Phrases interlock and call

to be heard and remembered

Intense activity inhabits

and pervades my thinking

capacity, relentless in 

a desire, a...

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Do you feel like round peg trying to push in square?
Where you can't fit in mold that others did design
Being called abnormal by popular baseline
Yet being genius under your steady care

Wanting the best of you in every moment
Being in your own core, clear mind and a sane soul
To make proper judgement of your values to goal
As you guide your actions, your thoughts and your movements

The...

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Time is infinite now
music carries the essence 
of a soul like an echo inside
repeating rhythmically 
drumming through history 
thud thud thud comes the love 
blue red is my blood
blue was the colour 
I caught from above

like a train in my brain 
acid rain stains colour 
reclaims the lights flash 
either side a fairground ride 
alive inside my mind 
feels always like 
I'm crashing...

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My Heart Beat Beat Beat.

My Heart Beat Beat Beat.

Feels like I am falling from 9000ft

A rollercoaster with no end

& when I am with you it begins to ascend

My Heart Beat Beat Beat.

My Heart Beat Beat Beat.

may be hidden and discreet, 

but it's the only way it can avoid defeat.

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You were the prettiest girl in the Co-op.

You said it yourself, to the lad on the other till,
when I was in the queue.
You were just messing around, of course,
flirting a little, perhaps,
but it was true.

You asked me once, as you scanned my sausages,
if the sun had gone down yet.
You said you were starving.
I told you it hadn’t, and knew what it meant -
that a couple of drinks in th...

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You stare through the silence 

Eyes still, in the night

Disguised in the shadows

cast down,by moonlight 

You gaze to the maze                             

of humanities sprawl  

Then into the alleys and 

dark places you crawl

You hunt, by the moon

Stealthy and light 

You are the boogeyman 

that hides in the night

Long are your fingers 

Skeletal tools

For p...

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Come with me to the small car park by the fields of Higher Brownstone high above Kingswear and the

River Dart in South Devon where the track to the old World War Two coastal defences is marked by a

solitary tree.  Breathe in the salty air and step out down that track towards the sea.

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I gave him everything that I didn’t even know I had

More than just what’s on the outside

He knows my soul, inside and out

He can play a trivia game about me with me, and I know he’ll still beat me

He knows the way I fidget my fingers when I’m anxious

He noticed the way my  lips would curl when I always wanted to laugh in a serious situation

He’s the only one that knows till this ...

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The wind has been playful all day

along the castellations of the coastline

ducking down behind signs

aquaplaning through valleys

puffing deckchairs inside out

brushing the pelts of heather and vetch

forcing his attentions

fancying his chances

troubling those in age's advances

and like all young souls has worn himself out

hands deep in air pockets

cre...

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Fucking kids

When I was you and you were me

We wouldn't've liked the same things 

You're much smarter than me

And don't the patience for such trivialities

There are twice as many people around

All with their own desires and dreams 

We need to make way for them

Romantic fantasies to the contrary

When I was you and you were me

I liked simpler th...

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You dance with tears in your eyes

They dont see past your peircing lies

and as each one dies

so you continue to rise.

You're playing games

but you arent bothered by fame,

and as you dance in the flames

they cant understand the games you play.

Some nights you dance alone at night

with tears in your eyes,

no music playing

trying to keep your demons at bay

try...

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we congregate

at 3am

huddled, not with hands together,

(no one prays out loud)

in silent supplication to whatever

can remove us from this hour

we do not have our hands together

prayers are whispered inwardly

desperation tethered to the tiny tips of light

as they hurtle down from high above

this no smoking arena

we do not pray out loud

this ensembl...

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     They are poor old creatures washed up from the sea
-best not look- or might they be waiting...
who can say... the last word of the comedy
     to hurl themselves through the waves, and end it?
Either way nothing to do with us.
One tries a word-search puzzle, one drifts off in the shade.
     The ebb and the flow
          a gentle tide plays.

     We accompany ourselves with gr...

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"Who you are I know not,
The place of pilgrimage you hail from
you make me wonder
How you tune yourself to the rhythm of the world of mine!
Bringing me beneath your canopy
while the cloud outshine the sky
you just catch the glimpse of the smiling sun
Tell me what austerity
spread the trap of the peace!
you just melt my ego into
your fragrance of love
I know the pride you too are endowed...

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Trying to get my boyfriend to understand me

is like trying to teach a duck to do hop scotch

He is divorce of my needs

all he sees is his wants

I don't think it is out of cruelty

just how he is...

He is such a man and I am such a girl

we collide

He wears sarcasam like a second set of skin

his badge of honor is being a smart ass

I tend to be gullible and soft hearted

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The potential of the plant is in the seed.

The potential of the animal is in the egg.

How could I perceive myself

As greater than the seed or the egg?

Just because I'm human?

The 'thinking' animal, you say.

Reason and dexterity – and all that jazz!

Minute manipulation of mind and limb

Spinning the wheel of species' progress.

But, you know, if you put a mark on a whe...

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By: Mirza Sharafat

Khushboo se mehakta aisa hi sansaar hota
ye mosam mere yaha har baar hota

tujhe manaana baar baar sirf hunar hai mera
tera roothna phir kis qadar dushwaar hota

tu kar chuka hai soda emaan ka, ehsaas ka
bawajood iske tu kabhi sharamsaar hota

fakhr e talwaar wo, qatil e kufaar hota
youm e ashoor hamrah Hussain ke Mukhtaar hota

tu haar chuka hai baazi Sharafat ki...

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Missing you, since you've been away

Long to hear your mmm's and whispers

Soon again in my ear

Feel the vibrations, and your breath on my skin

For now it's words or face on a screen

The face I want to take in my hands and kiss

To forget about these separations, months at a time

Standing at the airport, waiting anxiously

To feel your arms around me as we meet

The crowd tur...

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He put some hours in at the Abbey, did Luuk.  Just as a volunteer, you understand.  Mostly in the café but he’d lend a hand humping and shoving if heavier work needed it.

He was Dutch and spoke good English with that clipped precision of his countrymen.  His biggest giveaway were “S’s” which, like many other Dutch people he pronounced “Sh”.  He was a big bloke and always eating and I remember h...

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My friend hurts and there's nothing I can do. Time stood still for you… and I was sleeping Forgiving me is not in my scheme of things. Your world crumbled … I was not there. Through silly vibrations I awoke to a world so different…. So sad….so silent and empty. The news come and I SCREAM your name wishing… the loudness would shatter this nightmare But I am awake and it’s not a dream, “you lost you...

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Prose intro.

I can feel September this morning.

Standing here on the balcony.

" Welcome cooling breeze "  I breath in deeply.

Locuts buzzing in the trees

The flowers in the garden, going to seed.

Verse...

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Say these words aloud?

Never would I dare.

I closed my eyes

imagining that you were standing there.

I wrote down words of passion

and words that set me free.

I hoped for what could happen

though we could never be.

But on my notebook pages

I am free to roam.

You are here with me

and I am not alone.

I feel you take my hand 

and hold it ever tight

In my world...

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Talking Asperger in Holland’s gutter
women for men
man-hiding in scab wombs
smell the dad perfume
childlessness disease
restless rights and south paws breaking Pentagon’s cyber world
devise numerical love

*(Copyright is mine. Please contact me if you want to use or perform any of my poems.)

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The controller of life

Everyday we see levels of control
From the day we gain consciousness
To the day we lose vitality.
it causes our blood to boil
But then let's our air flow freely
Yet no matter what
there is only one.
One controller to decide if we live or die
One controller to see how hard we try
One controller to test our faith
One controller to keep us safe
One controlle...

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(Now that the antibiotics are begining to fail, this might be a good time

again for this little `warner` which was written as an answer to a poem

by Liverpool Scene poet Sid  Hoddes who wrote a funny poem called

(I think) `The promiscuity Calypso`...which played entertainingly on the 

way he ended the word promiscuity.)

CHORUS

(Promiscuity, promiscuity

It isn`t a sin...

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Ruling the roost,

makes me boost,

can be induced,

after I was introduced.

Narcisst I am,

sweet as jam,

either you say it ham,

or censure it sham.

 But now infra dig,

to see my headway big,

adict following like frigg,

is the reason behind my trig?

Whatever the intellect be,

juxtapose to open sea,

life is ongoing glee,

flying like a bird free!

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The Royal Free hums its energetic life

As I sit musing in my garden

A background drone always there

As the hospital is always open for care

It's summer so the trees mask its physical presence 

Just the joined up sound of health and excellence

We moved here with two small boys

And thought being near The Free might be handy

Energetic boys in an energetic city

Who knows the...

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There are some things I can't tolerate first thing on a morn
I don't mind a cockerel crowing to greet a fresh new dawn
But today I had roll my eyes and felt sad and forlorn 
'cos I woke to find three UFOs had landed on my lawn

Now, normally, I'd be the type to calmly count to three
take a deep breath, put on a smile, then the kettle to make tea
But all I could think this morning was 'blood...

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Future Voice

looking back

the signs were there

all around us

but

we did not understand that when

the seasons forgot to change

people would forget to love

exhausted by climbing money fed dreams

we could not hear

the last short breaths of small things

and although we knew the song of bees

grew quieter with every year

we had no time to listen

t...

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Spikes of chance

Forgive themselves

In the noise

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Remember when the days seemed to go on forever, the smell of watermelon grass and endless summer nights...the music you felt inside your heart, that fist kiss that left you feeling airy and light? How i long for that rush of innocent bliss...a walk hand in hand or an innocent kiss, the naivity that came with our unassuming youth..just being happy in what we thought was actually the truth. Summer n...

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Precipitation within sight
Rain, drizzle, mizzle
Soft weather, mucky weather
‘The Smoky Smirr o Rain’
Liquid sunshine
Slow words, gentle
But it was spitting this morning
Pitter patter, splash, splish, splodge, squelch
And it bucketed down last night
A torrent,  raining cats and dogs
Not a light soaking rain
Squalling, hailing and sleeting
Flooding, flowing, swamping
A deluge chucking ...

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How easy it is to lapse

into false memory

lying awake deepening the grooves

of a thought over and over.

Was it really you in that room all those years ago?

Lent over a desk on a hot summer night

listening to the quietened sounds

of a humming city,

feeling closer than ever

to all that was vital in life

as a woman whose thoughts

you couldn't fathom

lay meters from...

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She:          Like a sky seems so close 

                  but so far from our imagination

He:           So close year so far 

                So vast and yet so near

She:        So kind that doesnot appear

               Everything that seems true suddenly disappears

               You can never feel what she feels 

               Its so hard and an impossible deal

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When I die, mourn not my passing
But celebrate my life.
If you knew me, then I knew you too,
And you touched my life
- As I touched yours.

Throw a stone into a pond
And ripples spread in ever widening circles.
So the ripples of my life spread
- To touch the lives of many others.

But in my turn I was touched
- By the many ripples of your lives -
And for that I thank you all.
For...

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PART OF THE COURSE

I guess he was

just no good at it:

stood on every board

that creaked,

banged his knee

on the coffee table,

collided with silver;

he might as well have

worn a striped T-shirt

and carried a sack

marked swag.

So when they caught

him, sprawled

in the rose bush

and led him away

he still hung on

to his dream

and vowed to try

and...

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Your kiss fortold a thousand lies
Your touch left me wanting you more
Your passion left me without a heart
You tore me in two
But yet like the fool I was I came back for more

You left me reeling in a pain, a pain I have never felt before
The slicing through my insecurities my own demons which you enjoyed
You took the very life out of me and while my lips where still red with breathe you d...

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Does the oak of autumn 

hold dearly to every leaf?

too cool the temp’ture,

too little the light,

time of the season not to be tangled with,

if life be worth living beyond the now,

look, see the cycling of what is,

may it be firm guidance for the how.

listen, feel what’s in the space,

the senses were here long before the me,

use the I as transcendental tool

to ...

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Aimless, sifting through moments

On a wish that didn't come

Sun to moon, moon to sun

The proof gets easier to drink

What goes to waste is the taste

The drug of choice was you

The high unaffordable, the destination unavoidable

Reaching hands warmer than what you offer, except

for the in thought of what once was

And those thoughts---we lived!

Urgency pushes, and the for...

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Its been a hard road

You helped me build.

Im grateful.

You got me through

Some dark times.

I thought you a light,

A torch in the darkness,

But really

It was my magic.

My fire.

My light.

They told me you were watching

As though it was a comfort.

And I tried

To feel helped

Held

I tried so hard

To give you the love

I was told you created

B...

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SHHH CAN YOU HEAR THAT CAN YOU FEEL IT? THAT IS LIGHT OR AM I WRONG. DARKNESS AROUND ME FULLING THE EDGES OF THE WALLS. SHHHH CAN YOU HEAR THAT IS THAT THE WIND FLOWING NO IT CANT BE. DO I HAVE THE POWER THE WILL TO MOVE FROM THIS CORNER CAN I CAN I? I SEE LIGHT I HEAR THE WIND FLOWING I CANT FEEL IT HOW CAN I NET FEEL IT? I CAN FEEL COLD STEEL HOT FLAMS AND THE SCOLDERING LOOKS FROM UNKOWING FACE...

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I wish to be heard.  To bridge the divide

auto-ostracising me from common

experience.  Common understanding,

inclusion and collusion in present’s

moment.  I think ahead what response my

actions engender.  My words carefully

controlled, observation

based: precision vocabulary I

once envied – recycled at will,

effect calculated.  For reflection

on me, upping my status, ...

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  SONNET FOR ROONEY

 So I gets this call from Gareth Southgate

 And he's laying it on like marmalade,

 Saying come back Rooney you've got it made

 Playing for Everton, O what a state!

 I thought your ambition was to be great!

 England's not a problem don't be afraid,

 At Goodison you'll always make the grade,

 So get those three lions back on you mate.

 But I though...

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I see the bright Sun, but feel no heat.
The Oceans roll on beneath my feet.
Not sure where I'm supposed to go.
A 'better' day followed by one so low.

Each day I see skies of Summer blue.
I see happy faces, when a tear is due.
Please stay strong bruv night and day.
Wish I could be closer, not so far away.

But across the miles, and seas of blue.
Each day your family is thinking of you.
...

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When I open my eyes

as I do all too often

I see only the room.

I know too well the dim glare

of the flickering light

on the dull wooden floor

With closed eyes

I go dreaming,

Drifting back decades

to soft summers and boredom

I long to feel the shock of striking

the bright and breathless surface

Dazzled by diamond splashes

sparkling on frothy bobbing ...

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I had that dream again...

You and me dancing on some random beach.

 I felt your hands on my thighs,

moving me gently with your warm eyes.

You were looking at me like if it was the first time, 

the first time of holding me with your warm hands. 

I remember it clearly now.

My head was resting on your chest,

I know you were smelling my hair and

playing with it just like y...

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The Great Indian Takeaway

Number one for poppodom
Tell me where our club has gone
Venkys you don't understand
What it's like to be a fan
Things get worse every day
It's the great Indian takeaway

Number two for vindaloo
Tell us what you plan to do
100 million down the drain
Nobody wants to explain 
From the eastern hideaway
It's the great Indian takeaway

Number three for kedgeree
...

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i wish i couldve kept you along the way
it seems i give myself a attitude that has a vivid tounge unable to change 
on and on you talk back at me how i need to choose a safer pace
catching a  break from some memory following me around your empty grave
 

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I smoke and watch her pack.

The taxi waits.

Then a memory of

her last departure-

the scent of her unwashed skin-

and the left-overs

of our arguments...

She's smiling as she leaves

me her echo.

She's planning a future

as we fail,

as we fail to finish

yet another argument

another space.

I pick through the remains

of her accusations

accusation...

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She started life as a Roman fort
And became a name synonymous with music and sport
Attracting the greats, the waifs and the strays
Providing a stage for the Babes and the raves
A settlement where three rivers meet
Where the Industrial Revolution rose to its feet
And jangly guitars discovered their beat
Where Emeline, bound, did us all proud
Where the Nazi’s dropped bombs and hatred to the ...

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Much more than half my life ago

Some chance led us to this place;

Now, my heart is caught and held

By the peace of its earth and space.

Some while past, when first she left me

I could not make my soul adjust

But cached it safe within the plot

Beside her memory and her mortal dust.

And as the family aged and spread

My lonely tenancy grew content

Past spectres...

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1.      Sleeping bag

My Inkjet printer
has run out of ink.
My Laptop battery
has run out of juice.

My sunglasses are broken
keep slipping off my nose.
My bus pass is useless
run out of credit again.

My pockets are empty
apart from a hanky and 63p.
The bank account in the red
no hope there then.

Dread the arrival of the postman
never any good news there.
My trainers have...

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Music blares and we cast our stares
In the direction of its hypnotic beat
The air waves shudder as our hairs
Stand to attention as we tap our feet.
The silence is forced to make way 
For the rhythm of restless instruments 
The sound of music disturbs the day 
Masking the truth of Earth's elements 

Now this music that is filling your head
Used to be knowledge and books instead. 

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How can I love someone who I barely understand?

I sometimes find myself searching in the mirror,

For something that I recognize, something familiar.

I am not lacking confidence; I am lacking self-awareness.

At a point in time when I am figuring out my life, I cannot seem to figure out myself.

Each day I begin with a new mindset, each night a different prayer.

I thrive and I ...

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Cash chips or colored chips

Choose, play and be merry

Now, bets are placed

First game,second game

Win or loose

There's always a new game

Gamble to play 

Gamble to win

Goodluck and bad lucks 

Are not an option to choose

Let it come,let it go

Just remember, there's always a new game.

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From across the crowded passeig

your eye is drawn to the shimmer

of its otherworldly façade,

its bits and bobs of broken tiles

washed by tides of light.

Its carnivalesque balconies

and freewheeling contours

are like the feckless dreams

of those who have no need to prosper

by hard graft or deals.

Incongruous, then, the way

it rises from this city’s

rem...

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A paradox
Of expressions
And concealment.

An escaping
From the deepest
Hole of the self.

An adventure
To the quest for
Liberation.

A hiding place
Through metaphors
And similes.

Like a dungeon
Waiting the key
To be unlocked.

 

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The fallen blossoms
Clouds floating across the sky
They blend together

Waves crash around us
The water becomes murky
Will clear by it's self

Bird sail purple sky
Finds the pink rose blossoming
Dawn purple to gold.

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 disillusionment

gazing through clouds of early fog

perceiving silver sphere above

and for just a few moments

thinking it’s the moon

until it burns through heavy mists

brightening the morning

turning the sky blue

as only the sun can

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the lights move
yellow along
the curves
of your face

soft voices
wait
in the rising
fall of your chest

briefly our shoulders
touch

in sleep
your hand
flutters like
a dying bird

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a stranger--

prewritten but

incongruent

to these lines

that shape me...

A flagrant

misconstruance

of my humanity

is the life

they gave--

my birth, only

anathema to me.

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Bruce Forsyth was a talented performer from a tender age

We were all part of his journey on screen and stage

Sunday night at the London Palladium he shone

A star in the making and a show business don

He played his cards right and as a presenter was ace

On the price is right his corny jokes put a smile on our face

Strictly come dancing was the showcase he ultimately presented

T...

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Steep wooden

creaking steps

slowly came

curious visitors

Within minutes

empty seats

turned into

serious overcrowding

Words spoken

poetry flowed

this party

had started!

Late drinking

was kept

just about

under control

Proposed bookings

for more

still at

planning stage.

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The dog stole my scrumptious donuts a-waiting,

And on school days, my thinker never worked the long haul

Then fate decided to reveal my bowling prowess

Before it flung me four-score a-gutterball.

*

Is it my fault I needlessly negotiate with math?

Or school days proved me a sitting duck?

Even if genes came into play,

I blame humanity’s ups and misgivings on luck

*

Luck...

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As my bitterroots tingle around my feet

I slowly embrace salt water rushing down my throat

like the secrets I could not keep

So unaware with my consequences

My secrets impaled me with all of its force

As the blood flows out can I hold your hand

So I can feel something overwhelming

As my bitterroots tingle around my waist

I slowly embrace that this is the end

li...

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Photo credit: Diane Aldis

Beyond It's Disease 

It's easier to talk about romance than it is to explore the meaning of love

There are entire industries exploiting the chemistry between magnetized bodies 

drawn to each other and how the games are played 

But love is quite another matter

Simplicity is deceptive; walking in the rain, holding hands, touching lips,

rubbing noses and...

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To those who loved,
For those who lived,
For those who sought,
A greater purpose,
A higher meaning,
And shed a thought,
And had a care,
For those of you,
I offer this.

To those who looked beyond,
To see the good,
To welcome light,
To grace the dark,
To tread a path,
And gave a chance,
And listened well,
Without their mask.
– Dedication, Virapo Vol. I

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My short collect...

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Vast and barren
Nothing in sight 
But a black flag
Waving in the night.

Whats in the brain
Of a killer?
A senseless repetition-
Why is blood spilled on her? 

Theres no invitation
Upon the greener grass,
Because of them, it's red.
Go home. Hold your wine-glass,

Go eat food, shit, and sleep.
Try to remember what others now can't,
To be alive, to breathe.
Since you have stolen th...

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When you have feelings . Some things are not right you , Act upon them . You don't let it drop . And don't cover up . You act upon them . You must never loose sight when you think things are not right . You Act Upon Them . Sometimes you are wrong and not always right . Just Act Upon Them . Go with your Feelings . Even if you are wrong . It shows you are bothered . So just play along . Just Act Upo...

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Tweedledee,Tweedledum,

Two Souls trapped in one.

Pretty as Alice, Mad like the Hatter.

Falling down,down,down the rabbit hole,

Slowly surrendering to the fall.

Thoughts growing curioser,ever so curioser,

Faintly the doormouse voice echos,

"Feed your head".

Smoke curls along my lips. With each

cloud exhaled the pain fades.

"Who are you?" asks the Hookah Smoking Catipi...

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Contemplating the pros and cons

of being a pro. con man
I can't confess to my wife how I provide
she will probably tell me "con, done with it!'
cuz she doesn't condone it!
but I love my job - I'm a con gaining
so much money that one safe house can't contain it!
This is such a contrast to when I was constantly working
as a construction man. Building other people's mansions
while I lived ...

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Before you read the poem... a few more to open in New Tabs!!!

On Boycotting the Sean Mac Eoin Statue Unveiling

My Ireland

Chicago May - the Mary Ann Duignan Story...

Now... enjoy the poem!

Smashing the Nazi Eagle statue in Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria

Freedoms cries brought the statues down
The Reich lay in ruins as a new regime
Promised freedom of a versio...

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How does it feel

when a dagger hovers over life,

when anarchy oppresses with brutality,

when dreams dissolve

and let no traces to contemplate?

How does it feel

when everything is swarmed by violence,

insensitivity; clear and humiliating absence of piety?

We are all instruments for an occasion;

others are escorted only by ambition

Oblivious to the world,

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Grandparents see future kings in small boys,

promise trips to boating lake and forest

worlds away from the flat above shops 

Away from bone-dry August air

heavy with discordant dog barking, raised voices,

kids' screams and throaty open-back buses

Like the one to Ilford Market which passed

by broken teeth of war-bombed buildings.

Nan bought sandals from a man weari...

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A damp squib of a brain 

Far more palatable to be insane 

In this misunderstood dtate 

Others eyebrow well costructed

Conversations to be insane.

Vacuum packed like a ton of sweetcorn

Mumbling fawning jostling for hubris

MMM yeah great read the raw sexuality gave me the horn

MMM yeah you you got it the perfect beard to live life as a miss

I dont have the will t...

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The tears were locked and not dried ,

The fears were beneath a pile of smiles,

The cries were muted and not lost 

The miles were all in the mind .

Agony and helplessness are wedded in bliss

Grief and a laugh are a paradox in this 

neighbours seem asleep 

darkness seems awake .

Grief is at the doorstep ,prepped in finery 

open the rusted locks of the revelry 

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So scared tonight, he made me feel as helpless
As I am. He’s looking at me as I write
Cataracts on his eyes, panting. Fear. No disguise.
The fear he feels at the strangeness of the universe,
The inexplicability of life. The Thunder..
But he knows I love him and he takes heart
As I tempt him into a cave under my desk
And Yes! He has finally settled down –
At least a bit – panting still ...

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her breathing is staggered

the pain too unbearable

she waits

listening for someone who hopes she breathes

hopes she continues

no one

never alone but always lonely

her worries eat her fear and devour her whole

taking with it the whisp of hope clinging on to her breathing

in and out

in and out

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Roaming amongst the giants -
Sooth your mind when you lay next to me.
Trust upon your senses when you roam amongst my white giants. 
Taste, when you take in my fruits. 
Listen, when you hear me whispering.
Feel, when the lake gravitates up on you. 
Watch, and see your spirit transcend away. 
Smell, can you detect my presence?

In my kingdom.
Everything is redefined,
Even time

And i c...

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The silence of wood

The snow coloured ash

  melting

Both are the same

I see one, it sees me

I ask the snow

Its breath grins blackness and then calms

I'm sorry, little one

I'm sorry to be demeaning

I'm sorry I couldn't give you more than a few bottles of water

The silence of her sell

"Would you like to buy a watch?"

Polite, sincere, not desperate

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a girl sits with a book in her lap, being too heavy for her scrawny legs, it slips and clatters to the floor beneath her desk. the teacher expresses exasperation at her inattentiveness and offers to teach her skills to fix her focus

that girl is me

and i like being broken.

the vice president of the united states believes homosexuals are going to hell. he said gay couples signaled soc...

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People tell me to listen to my heart, 

But what is she does not speak to me. 

What if she ignores me.

Not wanting me to love?

my mind, He is in contact with her. 

Yet, He still refuses to listen to her. 

Instead He takes charge, 

overpowering and dominating her voice. 

He doesn't just give me an answer, 

He gives many. most which contradict.

Yet she still stays silent...

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Like waterfalls, my tears fall endlessly into a pool of water at my feet.

Standing here I look around and see no one…

They have left…

Left me here to stand alone…

To stand alone with this weight.

My chest is breaking…like the plate God gave me when he said,

“I will never give you more than you can handle”…

You knew everything in advance…and yet, you allowed the plate to break.

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How will I know true love?

Before becoming my girlfriend 

She needs to be my friend

She must laugh and play

In my heart she must stay

When I'm with her, time will stand still and time will fly

I want to dry her tears, if she should cry

Love has hurt me

But will not break me

For True love I will find

Not just love of any kind

With her I will spend all...

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Mother, we castrate you in our pursuit

by pounding bells to dictate our march,

no mercy is know in the stiff pounding rhythm

pumping furiously to silence your heartthrob

and to produce, conquer, and consume.

Blinded humanity whose suffering is hidden in the plastic.

The black and white are lines that divide

            cast off the tethers that bind you to I

          ...

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People want something from me. They pull and pull and it's draining me. I can't fully understand or comprehend what it is they see. The funny thing is I remember when I was the black sheep. Now I feel I have to watch the way I live but they keep pulling and pulling until I have no more to give. I wish I could see what they see but once again all I can feel is them draining the life out of me. So I...

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I won't run away from it
No matter how deep the shit
I swear that I'll never quit
I'll be here til the end of it

Skin that is bruising
Scars I'm not loosing 
A time in my life where all I've seen abusing
Whip me, break me, beat me until I'm oozing
I'll still get up
Its my life your not choosing.

I make the choice to stay and endure
I make the choice because she is so pure
I'll take...

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 avoid

a void

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from the light

to the dark

in a world without a spark

to re-ignite a flame

while drowing in forgotten lore

witch craft is brewing

manipulation is spewing

all aboard!!

rough sawn

to walk along

to get from here to there

in the forest it lerks

a book never fortold

written in nature

the spark to ignite your pulpulsion through the universe

don't forget your ...

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She had that ‘heart wide open’ thing going on,

the one that you find more often in

small children than in adults.

I stared into her eyes and noticed that she

looked upwards at the world in hope. 

Like the roof had been torn off her soul but she was still

brave enough to stand vigil, anticipating a day when

sunlight may come pouring in via the breach.

She had that ‘heart wid...

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You say your soul was destined for mine,

Destined to be intertwined,

Destined to love in the fall,

Destined, but you love them all.

You love the girls that sit pretty,

You love the girls that talk witty,

You love the girls that look,

And you love the girls that cook.

Is it my fault because I stay?

Because I trust, love, and pray?

Or because I always care?

When you'...

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You look at your lover's eyes,
call them as stars..
But you look at all those stars,
And never call them her eyes...

You look at your baby girl,
Call her a rose..
But you look at a rose,
And never call it's your girl...

Then you look at this girl,
thought it was her sister...
But you look at her sister,
And never called it's that girl...

She is a rose in a garden 
She is a star ...

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Books are wonderful

Books are terrific

Books are stupendous

Experiential

Excuriating

Books are a pain in the arse

They are full of words and pictures

Sentences paragraphs and chapters

Long screeds of endless statistics

Sections and subsections

Secretious secrets

References and cross references

Endless jibber jabber and flim flam

So often taking ages to get t...

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I'm evolving

growing from something into nothing

putting a new spin on things.

I'm evolving

becoming somehting I never thought I was

something greater, something before I was to afraid.

I'm evolving

creatign a better stronger me

something not even you knew I could be.

Knowledge is POWER!

Sit back while I take it in

WATCH ME EVOLVE!!

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Lyrical Inebriality

10/08/2017
10:38

So much on my mind, i dont even know where to start,
Cant even feel love no more so why do I still have a broken heart?
Im tired of this dismal feeling I dont want it any more,
Guide me oh Lord, tell me what my heart is longing for.. 

Speechless, thats really all ive got to say,
Somethings wrong, im not feeling like myself today.
I am defeated, i...

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Intolerants not welcome - The battle of Lewisham 13.08.1977

An anti muggers march, called by mugs who wanted to spread hate

August thirteenth in ’seventy seven, history demands we mark the date

when South East London screamed out for black and white to unite and fight,

ensuring wronguns on right would never again be so bold or bright.

The backward Front was in for one...

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Cries for help were mine,

Taking my time,

Darkest place I fell,

And didn't return well,

All I wanted was for you to tell me that it will be okay,

But it's just been a daydream ever since then,

Babe I just want to feel safe under your warmth,

A shield made by you arms,

Is all I want,

Because I been so lonely,

But with you it could be lovely,

So why don't you just gi...

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Watching the rhythmic rise and fall

of the breathing,

of the man

who was my Dad.

The family sitting in various positions

of anxiety.

Holding their breath

with each uncoordinated spasm and jerk.

Occasional disjointed speech,

riddles and ramblings.

Drifting in and out,

slow, slurred words

struggle to form.

A different breathing pattern

deeper,

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I have nothing to show for these past 3 years except a broken heart and a taste for whiskey
Now the early mornin' hours is when I think the most
Though you know I'd really like to get some sleep

See my body has a home but my soul is all alone and I know that it's all my fault
So I'll pour another drink and light up this roach while I sit and think 'bout the last 3 years wishing that this whi...

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The night was burning brighter than the day,

all that watched had nothing to say.

Their homes were destroyed and washed away

Leaving their souls to run and play

Notes and pictures flutter along by catching the attention of those too afraid to fly

Grounding them there, to stare and cry

Haunted by ghost of those left to die

Burning buildings created a light.

One we ...

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John Michael Porter, died, aged 42.

Beloved husband, and a father too.

Engraved upon a stone, obscured by weeds

That cover up a life of unknown deeds.

He lived and died not all that long ago,

His grave untended, so we’ll never know

Who lies here, in this final place of rest,

And was his unknown life then cursed or blessed.

John Michael Porter, died, aged 42.

Th...

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The more he digs, the less he is, 
and the shovel turns bloody in
the red moon glow.
Strikes of rock and the dark earth wounds.
The distant heaves of heavenly others
frailing into their own personal ghosts
deeper, deeper, into nothing.

There must be something at the end, it's
the purpose of their disappearance.
They separate together, far from sight, out of 
reach.
The sound of grit a...

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Wake me up morning breeze
cradle me 'til sunshine places
warm kisses on my cold cheeks.
Let the coolness of night vanish
when I open my eyes gently,
to unwrap my life present of today.
As I unfold my experience wrapper
for the day, let my joyful heart hum
love songs with melodies not heard before.
Grant me sweets of spirit 
as I acquire new shades of 
precious life I so adore,
before m...

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so powerful

to feel so afraid, alone

how lucky

how beautiful

to feel so connected by our inherent loneliness

a vast, waxy net of loss

everyone on their own track, intersecting never

forever, dead kids

forever, all the stars

forever, yet never –

shine shine shine

shine shine shine

shine do you see and shine

how dim my light is shine

yet shine my light so di...

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The transmitting of hysteria by way of poetry in the hands, of an unsuccessful writer, mind twisted with years of failure and bent on revenge against audiences skinny with the kudos, could have a devastating effect on the behaviour of gatherings large and small.The following piece describes the possible consequences

A POEM OF MASS DESTRUCTION

We walk through life on  our chosen track
...

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Tangling over tunnel walls
His call still rings over the gate
Next door to the castle 
Clinching with rage
Across the chiffon like mist

Skating across the ground
Spiked with a half asleep stubble
With his braces barely on
Rubbing the essence of sleep
From his eyes in shock 

‘Oi’ He shouted out 
blanch white in shock
stumbling through the trees
skipping heartbeats
in a glib eyed s...

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Every morning, with half a heart he walks,
The postman to the ancient post box,
With an empty bag for letters and such
Coming in from the Russians and Dutch
(And everybody else too).
But instead of these faraway notes he fills
His sack with coupons, brochures and bills
Then with half a heart he walks away
To deliver a bill for somebody to pay.
He follows that up with a Spanish brochure,
...

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Everything watered down as to not offend
There's no relationship you need to mend
WHen you've got the tv as a friend
Taking comfort in Big Brother once again
Your day feels like the one before
Sick of all your slavery chores
Throw everything down on the floor
To find out celebrity whispers behind closed doors
The A to Z of who's banging who
The story of the latest murder on the news
A zi...

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I set off on a ramble through the Forest of Bowland

binoculars at the ready, a bird book to hand.

I hope to see some species that don't breed in the lowlands,

hen harriers and short eared owls, quartering the land.  

My list has pipits, crows and jackdaws,

grouse in surplus but no raptors.

I tick off golden plover, curlew and wheatear

but where are the skydancers? 

THEY'RE ...

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Unexpected rain

Welcomed by the arid earth

You wafted into my life

Like a breath of fresh air after the cooling summer rains

As unexpectedly as you came

You stirred up forgotten flames

Burning passions I'd thought were long extinguished or at the least only dwindling embers

But alas nothing is built to last in this life

You went as swiftly as you came

Like...

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After The Storm

Not long after the downpour,

steam dragged itself

from the sheen of cobbles

in an effort to reach

the tiny rainbows

bouncing for the sun.

There was a wet smell in the air,

like the heaving body of a wolf

dying on a riverbank,

choking on its own blood

after the arrow

had pierced its throat.

The deep rumble of thunder

shuddered...

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I'm pretty sure that everyone

Knew the ponytail kid.

Had a ponytail kid.

Is what I mean.

The guy that was just...scratchy, and rough, and he needed to shave more. You know that guy?

Yeah.

You kind of have to wonder when you meet the ponytail kid, why he's like that.
With a grey hoodie that's kind of too big, and it has spraypaint haphazardly covering it.

O...

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I am an active volcano getting ready for its big day, the day it will finally be. 

The events around are all blocked out cause what could matter more than the day it will come out. 

He can see it happening already, the dead rocks within are shining for the very first time, warmly breaking through his cracks.

 Its molten lava slides smoothly down her rough skin in a display of pure perfect...

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I really and truly dislike her,

She's not pretty or smart.

Her stupid stanky breath is enough to kill

I really cant wait until we depart :)

I wouldnt mind if she jumped into a pool of poison

Its not like i'd miss her anyways.

Her hair is knotted, tangled and smelly.

I'd trade her for a toad any day.

My wish was for her to disapear,

And when it happened, I didnt shed...

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"It's so damn hurt to show to everyone that I'm doing fine without you when deep inside, I'm not. What worse is, I have to smile when I can barely hold back my tears because as far as I can see your doing fine without me."

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Those nights, sometimes you just have those nights.

Those nights that tear everything that you believe in apart.

The nights where you just want to grab a .22 and blast your head.

When all you can think about is how much you hate yourself.

The nights where everyone is ignoring you.

The nights that all you can’t think that nobody loves you.

The nights where you forget that you...

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"As you are bewitched
By my beauty
Allow me to be a bit naughty!

Pleasure expect not to gain
Without a little pain.

Take me to
The most expensive
Restaurants that exist.
Let me order dishes top
On the menu list.
Hurry let us go
To another place
Having for an open -kitchen
A space.
Don't you doubt
I have interest
For a none-stop bout.

Buy me
Expensive cosmetics
And sho...

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-I give them the painting they asked for, and they never even continued painting theirs.

-they don't have the right brush to do it. do you know what you need?

-yes. i need someone to need me back. 

/// RB

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wherever it begins
 falling down through love
 falling wherever the dream 
 might begin
the undersea river
 parallel
where the night-time slips open and stars swim
 falling through the dream
 where enfolding time spins
 outside inside everything
where a butterfly wing lifts mountains
pearls of dew sip dawn anew
entwining grass blades
and the lush emerald flames shimmer away..

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i am so full of love it's criminal
a faucet with a broken spout

I am everywhere; I'm a mess
I'm the locker room nosebleed that just won't stop
won't stay
won't coagulate
any jostle, any change
And it's just hours and hours
until you're dizzy and think about calling an ambulance.

I am the unhealed ribs of a boxer training his way out of foreclosure, one cough away from falling apart

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It was great having cancer

All my family told me

They loved me

And often

Friends who'd been meaning to call 

Turned up with cake

and often

My inner voices decided to

Give me a break

And often

I started to spend time

Sitting and noticing and

When my oncologist eventually said

"You are well with no signs for concern"

I continued to sit and notice

The fami...

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O my little girl, now you turned one

You are my sweetest one..

You are lovely and chubby

You are my cute little teddy

You are my darling. You are my addiction

You have the entitlement of all my love and affection

Your warm touch makes my face glow

I love you so much that I want you to know

I sleep at night thinking of you

Wake up in the morning thinking of you

Whateve...

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