Bulging bank accounts, classic art on the wall.
It doesn't impress me, it means nothing at all.
An expensive car in the garage just one of few.
Forever on long holidays where skies are blue.

It's not the life I want, honestly it's not for me.
No interest in sailing a private yacht on the sea.
A wallet bursting with plastic cards to the brim.
People forever dreaming of a record lottery win...

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a foxglove lives forever down roman way
watching videos been recorded on Zoom in confusion
Warm southerly poem in the latest style
she's running scared
in the video matrix, seven poems for seven times, 
lockdown in a woke world, as nights are sooner 
and the transient have the final word  
behold, spake the King - my streets 
made of marble my canal’s water turned to wine
a chicken nugget...

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Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

Days of stormy autumn come
Mother, child, brother, son;
Memories, like dust, infect my eyes,
Swirling, like a Turner sky,
Land, sky, water, ripple by.
Like water under wind,
I begin to sing
Mixing grays and blacks and whites and blues,
With guitar chords to pull us through.
Chiaroscuro skies, tussling these monochromes
Into a piebald heavens...

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Your heart is in my hand

I have been holding it for too long

It is telling me to hold on one more time

For little long

Coming time, not sure 

It will mend the broken pieces 

To start a new story of love 

It's my expectation 

Not sure it will turn into reality 

But I will say it out loud 

I don't want it 

The broken pieces have formed a heart itself 

A heart of s...

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An Ocean of Time

Memories reverberate across the ocean wave

you touch my heart on the crest of each nerve

I want to reach out but the mist of time says 'no'

yet for the sake of love I cannot let go

Time has not lessened my passion for you

despite all others my heart has remained true

I am blessed with good fortune yet sad

between us there was no room for anything ...

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Sun will rise,

and I will get up at six,

one hour cycling,

to make my day fix.

I will cook for an hour,

and will get ready by nine,

will commute for an hour,

to reach my office line.

My office is in cultural centre,

so I will peep there in break,

will get inspired,

for my own happiness sake.

I will be back by seven,

then zumba for an hour,

will have dinner...

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I  commenced battle

and ended it swiftly

complicit in love's long game.

Rows of cups and saucers

and chipped face of cheese-board

dropped-heavy; the sink a salad bowl

of porcelain bones crunched

crazed; fuzz-hard green wires

absorbing like a forest roof.

I've hollowed out this morning

with a pen knife, stuck a wad

of shut-eye and shame

inside with the smell...

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Humour Don't Sell Papers

I've just read today's paper

It's full of doom and gloom

Murders, killing, destruction, death

Children being groomed

Headlines blare out constantly

SEX FIEND IS EXPOSED

There's so much negativity

(The paper I have closed)

Why can't I read, enjoy myself?

With lots of humour, rife

Instead of being subjected to

This gutter si...

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Every little thing
that could make you smile
should make you smile

Happiness
doesn´t arrive in one piece
it is built slowly
and carefully
out of tiny bricks
stacked up
until they finally
form a house
a home
for your heart
to live in

Every little smile
ads a brick

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Happiness

I must admit

Is when kids achieve

their measures met

Seeing them succeed

relieves all stress

As they soar from nest

my happiness.

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We were ambling in leathers down Florida Mall

When the sky caved and showed us its power

Like lightning it dropped, pure cats and dogs

What hip street cats call a power shower

Rocking and rolling and wringing wet

All conventions shot out of the window

The beat of Nature kicked in from nowhere

Man, can you dig that wind blow!

A summer storm cools down the street

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(VII)

Back from holiday
Your bag won’t stay on the rack
Wanting to go back. 

(VIII)

The wind pushes you
Down the platform like it 
Wants you off quickly.

(IX)

Exiting August
At your stop train
Overfull doesn’t stop.

(X)

Maybe see you later?
Her question calls out to him
Tepid in her guilt. 

(XI)

Complicated these are
The guard answers you smiling
Opening the ga...

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Steve was on the phone to his wife,

"I have just had the worst experience of my life,

Sonia has just taken me to health care,

She pushed me there in a wheel chair.

I was leaving work and was hit by a van,

The driver was drunk and away from the scene he ran.

The police pursued the driver but all was in vain,

I am in hospital waiting for a scan on my brain."

"I have thre...

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I can see you, even from so far away
I feel your presence in my heart
You keep me warm at night, with all of your love
And you hold me together when I'm falling apart
I only hope you feel me, and I truly mean this
I hope you know that I'm sending you all of my thoughts
It's a deep understanding, this wisdom we've gained
Has come from the countless battles we've fought
I hear you calling my...

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The illusion that you're living
Patty and desperate for attention
The conditions that you wanted is not meant
Your broken wings won't get you far

You have a problem with moving on
Darling, you think you wrote the rules to the game
I had to spell check them so I know better
The fabrics that hold your delusions together is ripping
I thought you said that you matured

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A war has been waged between my mind and my heart. 
At fault is my flesh as it is loud and dangerous. I continue to find myself consumed by it's cries. I question your existence as much as I question your love. No matter your grace I still feel dirty. Doubt weighs heavy on my chest, igniting endless confusion. 

Though I long to heal wounds of the broken, a good person I am not. 
I may reach o...

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Waking up Christmas morning
with a sense of sadness in the air.
These walls are unfamiliar,
a lack of memories we've shared.

Christmas is a time for joy,
a time for laughter with the ones we love.
Full of special family traditions,
and praising our Father from above.

But life is unpredictable.
In a moment everything can change.
What was once loved and cherished,
will now never be th...

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Saša Milivojev

OF DEEP STATE AND WORSHIPERS OF SATAN

LORDS OF THE WORLD

The Ancient of the Days, 

can you see what he is wearing,

Cardinal shoes made of children’s skin

wrung out from the veins

Last drop of blood that remains 

overflowing tankers

Come through the secret bunkers

Descend to the underground 

To the cities of gold

The gardens in diamonds a...

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Where you are born is the passing partner of chance;

Of whom you are born is the invitation to the dance.

...................................................................................... 

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Ujjal Mandal, India

Anger causes danger
as the sweet flower in the scorching
sun.

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Theirs is a darker time than ours
obstacles to their progress greater 
and the pain in their minds more real.

They lift average people like us
for they work for the sake of people like us
sharpening the edge of our weapons.

They deny us nothing, but do we see?
Clearly they speak, let us hunt for our ears
and hunt for hands that might receive tribute.

We await their word, their ...

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'Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who is the ugliest of them all'.
Hearing the answer gotten so sad,
For the looks of it, he was not so bad.
Seeing himself ugly in every face,
But it was just his perception not the case.
Thinking of this day and night,
Forgetting the beauty was not in the face but inside.

Again giving himself a chance, he gathered courage.
Asking one more question, like a sag...

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"Help meet"

There are few humans like God
That could see our tears before they come
Draw close to us whenever
They sense our loneliness from afar
Snuggle silently to share our solitude.
Only you can share this cross with its thorn
Bleed and act as if you are not hurt

In every pain you sought my gain
You lost many too precious to find me
Love was all that mattered to you, and still do...

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This bad kid 
good kid thing
I don't get 
The bad kids want 
to be good
The good kids want 
to be bad
What the bad kids want 
the good kids got
Except they don't understand 
except maybe for 
the want
What the good kids want 
the bad kids got
Except they don't understand 
Except maybe 
For the need
And what you folks 
don't get 
however much 
television you fill 
your reality ...

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I have been

Seen 

Death has held me

Life has killed me

But you still think

You have the right

To give me advice

As if you’re above me

If you let me speak

You might learn

Something

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Outrageous Carnival

definitely wicked vibes

Lavish make-up

enticing dance movement

Cascading colour

Manchester Pride Parade

Screening expressive

street party atmosphere

Somewhat different

but so - - -

are we.

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Our Turkish garden, early morning

so peaceful, calm and tranquil

Dragonflies dip, dart and dance

above azure water, calm and still

The pool is the centrepiece, blue,

crystal clear reflecting like glass

Cool, creamy, natural stone tiles

circled by freshly cut, green grass

The sound of cicadas, constant

invisible, cascading from the trees

The fountain water, w...

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The summer's turned into autumn

by this August's sorcery.

It had wrapped the sun

in a dark blanket

and drained its warmth away.

Deceived by the cold breath

of August's treachery

nature has begun to go into lockdown.

Alas yesterday's colourful landscape

is now a wilting canvass.

I pray that the sun shall

soon escape from August's veil

its warmth to spre...

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C-19 is not a dream, or the name of a robot

It came very suddenly, a thief in the night

It won’t ever be something that time forgot

The effects have burned like piercing light

Not just lives lost, but jobs and business

Financial catastrophe across the world

It’s origin is clouded by those suspicious

of some sort of plot as insults are hurled

World leaders point th...

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Listless and wanting more.
What the hell am I fighting for?
But I’ve got to keep swinging.  
While there’s still fight in me.  
Aimless, I’m a vagabond.
But I’ve got to keep moving on. 
There is no place for me here. 
I’ve got to get going, my dear.  

And onward I go. 
Be it fast or be it slow. 
If I stay here any longer
I’m bound to fuck it all up again.  

So I’ll put one foot
in...

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Do you look around?
    Does anyone???
The great ones did, and they wrote about it.
    (the mediocre ones did too)
They looked, no they SAW,
            And they wrote......
    They did not choose to see, they just SAW,
    And they did not want to write, they had to,
Because people who see would explode, vaporize, disappear, or something,
    If they didn't write.
The world has no oth...

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Dear Dad I miss you
I wish you were here
Someone to talk to
To ease my fears
You made life look easy
But now I know
Insides a struggle
Outside a show
I wish I had a moment
To show you who I am
I wish that you could see me
Now as a grown-up man
Just to know that you’d accept me
When life’s not gone to plan
To have you walk beside me
And show the world I can......

But I wonder........

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Help

Nothings new

Nothings the same 

Nobody yearning

No one to blame 

Pretentious thoughts

Relentless smiles

Bloodthirsty thoughts

Sinless flesh defiled

It hurts

Pointless meetings

Insipid friends

Effusive pretenders

Matching the trend 

World keeps turning

Illusions are gone

Within the abyss

The demons belong

I’m scared

Watching from th...

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I'm a slave to the laundry.

It tumbles before my feet as if to worship me.

But it is the master and I am the slave.

I gather it's heaping mass.

Socks fall from the corners that are out of my reach,

Gracefully stroking my fingertips on their descent.

The change starts chanting in my pockets.

It's calling to me and I must obey.

The machines light up with pleasure,

CHING, C...

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The wind in the trees the sound of what it like to be free

The cry of a newborn son is the beginning of love

Where is that mountain top where Martin saw the dream

Where is that path to the valley of peace

Where is that message of hope hidden from me

The wind on the water pushing the waves of the past

The cry of dignity echoing through these monuments and memorials

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This year I am so delighted

Blessed be her the way she is gifted

Appreciate her glow and grandiosity

I am moved by her generosity

She has weaved a magic…

Such a lovely devotee…

Source of fascination, pretty lady Mitha!

तिच्याबद्दल मी आणखी काय सांगू शकतो

अशी एक सुंदर मुलगी आहे

मी देव पुत्र नसतो तर

मी तिच्या मनात कुजबुजली असती

माझे हृदय बरेचदा कसे धडधडत आहे

अ...

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I got very little the bank owns it all

I recently got laid off from my job

looking for more work in security 

I’ve got my faith and my faith has me 

I get excited when he comes on TV

he says the things I need to hear 

he puts people in their place 

they’re getting ahead of me 

he’s a rich strong man 

I’m gonna be like him 

we got all these for...

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বিরতি বিরতি বিরতি

চিরুনি হাতে নিয়ে সিলোয়েট বসে আছে

নড়ে উঠে যখন- সরে যায় তো,

একটু একটু করে নড়ে নড়ে চুল আচড়ায়।

ভঙ্গিমা হয়ে থাকে—

একটি মেয়ে মানুষের-

সিলোয়েট।

মেয়েটি চলে যায়, উঠে- আয়নার কাছ থেকে।

চিরুনিতে- লেগে আছে দুইটি পাঁচটি চুল- চুলের উপাত্ত

ঝরা, ঘ্রাণ ঝরা, ঝাপসা হয়ে আসে আলো অন্ধকারের কাছে—

অন্ধকার আলো ও আলোর উৎসকে নিয়ে ট্রল করে

কিছু মুর্ছনা তাও হয়

বিরতি বিরতি ব...

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What if these once shivering timbers could talk

Tell tales about those who once walked between them.

The scenes they’d not so much seen 

As absorbed with the salt of the spray

And the tears, shed in the triangular trade 

in which so many souls were bought

And sold, young and old alike, back in the days

When the darker fruit of the tree of humanity

Were just another commodit...

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I pride myself on living by a code from days gone by

When gentlemen were gentlemen – at least, I always try;

But times and attitudes have changed from when I was a youth

I often feel quite left behind; this verse will offer proof.

While shopping at the local Spar I’d bought a thing or two

And patiently I waited for my turn within the queue;

I stood behind a woman, quite attr...

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Never be, “Too tired,” to offer a consoling hug,
Never be, “Too busy,” to listen to their woes,
Never duck their questions and give them a dismissive shrug,
'Cos you’re the one with answers, if you’re the one that knows,
Knows their deepest fears and the things that stress them most,
Knows the things that make laugh, knows what makes them cry,
But only if you listen and holds them when ...

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As I watch the waters flow

It calms my soul 

As I watch the light ripples

My heart mirrors its beat 

Smooth, serene 

Somewhat still 

As they move to the wind of God 

Going only where the Father blows. 

Lord, let your living waters flow.

By Faith Olajuyigbe, author of Words of Faith

Read more encouraging poems here.

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River Stone

Sweet as an Arkansas dulcimer

Smooth as a river stone

The satire of Lemuel Gulliver

A twist of seabirds flown

Paints in me a poem

About innocence divine

And the feel of imperfection

Without the need of wine

A likeness in a mystery

Comes clear to both meek and strong

Prisoners of history

The wonder of the song

Taken high by visi...

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As promised yesterday, my updated secular and politically correct rewrite of Land Of Hope And Glory...

Land of Hope and Mercy

Mother of the Free

How shall we extol thee

Who are born of thee?

Wider still, and wider

Stretch thy welcoming arms;

Embracing all the needy

With tolerance and charm!

Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned.

We’ll make thee more me...

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I thought so...

So did he...

He tried to...

To make me strong...

Strong to see him...

Him becoming someone else's...

Someone else's life partner...

Partner who is mine forever...

Forever became a myth...

Myth that I am Strong!?

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I like to keep matters in perspective

Avoid the news is how it's done

I prefer using a straw to drink a beverage

Not perceiving the world through one

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I wish it didn’t sting

when rejection tears apart 

what I’ve poured my heart into, 

hidden emotions or fragments thereof 

painting scenes that tiptoe quietly 

or outright screams. 

I wish it didn’t sting

when he doesn’t think much of me,

but rather holds a love 

kept at a distance that silently breaks 

both of us apart.

I wish it didn’t sting

when corr...

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A pale face, dark eyes, an uneasy smile,

Surrounded by a mass of tangly black curls,

She sat in that circle

Unengaged, aloof, disruptive,

There for everyone else’s sake

But her own.

Trapped in a world by demons who

Would let her see another way

But kept her from it because

It wouldn’t serve their obsessive needs.

Within screaming distance but held behind thick glass,

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Friends and acquaintances many,

Social opportunities galore,

Push button entertainment gives  

easy selections of programs 

but I’m needing more.

Creeping in like a dream,

The hunger emerges,

Feelings begging attention 

amid all else transpiring 

but not with a chance to ignore.

What little thing is missing?

More a throb than an itch,

The circulat...

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The temple of the body beautiful, with a strain and tremble

Music pumping, yet not really noticed

As bodies are pumping, to be noticed

Machines activated by human power

Working up a sweat “just another hour”

Seeking to become just a little more physically decked

Body mass index and calorie counting minutely checked

Gaining bulging muscles or loosing bulges they want to shed

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DUST

a non
exist
like droplets
of mist

a debris filled
cloud
mother's sorcery
a shroud

a ghost
a spook
a joke
a fluke

appear out
of range
spirit behaving
strange

witch's
seed
anemic
no feed

entity
no name
moth without
a flame

kept at
arm's length
not a runway
but a plank

surreal
existence
path with  the
most resistance

disappearing
acts
shadows
...

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I just want you to know I want to.

I can't see you every day.
I can't kiss you while we sway.
I can't hold your hand.
I can't be seen out with you because you're not my man.
I can't get to know you as deep as id like.
I can't let you really know me, you might say goodbye.
I can't sleep next to you in bed.
I can't tell anyone anything we've said. 
I can't tell you what's going on in my...

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We had a plan, we had a scheme
We thought it rather prudent
It was an algorithmic dream
But alas, it went quite mutant

How could we know it wouldn’t work?
It’s not like we were warned
But when set free, it went berserk 
That naughty sum was horned

On paper it looked tame enough
A dependable safe bet
But the boffins’ gentle bit of fluff
Was to be no teacher's pet

It looked so swee...

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Honey glazed canopies 
Shelter you and me 
From the piercing rays 
Of the sun, governing us in dismay
As we remain ensnared
In our reveries,
Oblivious and unaware,
Our fantasies as fickle as the breeze.
Perhaps it's not always a sin
To stay confined within
The bubble of oblivion;
To wear an armour of neon;
To shield our eyes
With rose-tinted glasses;
To sing with illusory passerines-
...

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Falling in love with the one that can break my heart
One step back ward and I'm broken apart. I cut myself but nothing came out, I'll tell you a story the next time I see your shadows in my heart.

I wanted to die for a second, but i was pushed against the wall and evolve to ordnance. Too scared to appear before the court foretold what's missing from the old.

Faced with the joke of truth I g...

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In his image.

Stumbling through the chaotic selfish masses,

whose passing kicks and punches at honesty

destroy the desultory syntax that paranoia inflicted.

Curling the lips of the long kindred spirits.

Lips curling with semi happiness of nervous distrust

Lips curling with the comfort blanket of disbelief.

Brown kids looking at white kids thinking your a liar

White kid...

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I imagined I smelled the diesel that filled the space in your high top transit van.
It triggered subconscious memories that came back to drive me on.

Back to a time when seventies music played on your cassette deck
And you sang along to rock 'n' roll songs.

You sometimes drove like a mad man through the busy streets of Dublin,
Knowing the quickest route to everywhere when your patience wa...

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The sudden shift of your head to avoid me

The effort to not look up even though you knew I was there

The noise you create to drown out my stories about you

I know. I know.

I apologise for not getting the hint right away.

I got happy and thought otherwise.

I’ll slowly inch my way to the door now

And cast a final longing gaze,

Stay healthy and happy, my MVP.

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Laura Lee, she was my first love
tangled in her parents’ bedsheets
and shadows from the attic window
With my army-surplus shirt
slipping from her shoulders

Laura Lee, she was my first love
my first taste of intimacy
her loving hands upon me
guiding that desire, so deftly
through our discovery and naivety

Laura Lee, she was my first love
our fumbled teenage kisses
quickly blossomed ...

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it amazes me

that you make me

feel things i’ve

never felt before

when i thought

feeling this much

wasn’t possible

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How The 'Few,' Rule The Multitudes

     'We,' are niether Darwinian, or Adam & Eve. We are, an Alien Hybrid. Our Architects, our engineers, our rulers, are few, and we, are the many. So how, do they keep control. What follows, is how 'we' ourselves, have been conditioned, and orchestrated, and manipulated, to uphold the whip for them. It is a whip they no longer need to weild as what is la...

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There was a ghost who was a shadow of his former self

as you might expect

if you believed as he had to in the afterlife.

Perhaps he was fit for purpose in that realm

but who can say

and unless you were an avid follower

of the occult

who would care anyway?

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where are you going

how have you been

when will i see you?

                    i do not know

how is your sister

what do you mean

why didn't you text?

                     i do not know

what are you thinking

how were you lost

when will you grow up?

                    i do not know

why are you crying

are you okay

what's wrong with you?

   ...

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I am my own

Worst enemy

Perfectly made by you…

Seasoned with temper

Peppered with self-loathing

Add a dash of despondency

And there I go…

I am my own worst enemy

Perfectly made into you .

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To The Saint Of Lost Causes

Melancholy Monday

Brown sugar blues

In the same vein

As your father

But you never made it

Across the river

To the other side

When you combine

The names of flawed giants

Who have fallen by the wayside

More than once

There is a grim

Divination

You leave us

Those sweet moments

From the Tennessee sun

To ...

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If one spark ignites a flame

That starts a fire

That can rage and rage

Across half a continent

Then one smile can start a grin

And one grin can start a laugh

And one laugh can make a crowd come alive

To become

A clammer

A shimmer

A clap of acceptance

A roar across a nation

Across seas

Across oceans

To here

To there and back again

All with j...

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Sueña hermoso y crece, bajita.

Capullate en este corazón que te ama.

Sueña hermoso y crece, bajita.

Crece y no te crezcas, crece.

Cuando crezcas

baja y disfruta el vuelo.

Disfruta el vuelo y crece.

Ama, no te ames. Ama.

Amada.

Sonríe, sé feliz y descansa.

Sueña hermoso y crece, bajita.

Capullate en este corazón que te ama.

Sueña hermoso y crece, bajita...

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eating sour candy is like

a roller coaster;

the drop into the mouth is the ride up.

the bite is the culmination,

the chew is the fall

down,

down.

swallow and it's over,

but the thrill remains

a pulsing beat

in your stomach, in your throat

and you yearn to go again

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Questions

I don’t know what to think

About what’s going on.

Shall this state of affairs

Be never done nor gone?

Shall all rich seams of life

Lie dormant in the shade?

Shall millions of us

Feel constantly dismayed?

Not far away, someone

Stands and stares as, too fast,

Deprived of their purpose,

The seasons scuttle past.

Will news today brin...

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I thought I’d get in first,

before the Union flag wavers

and their ‘Why, oh whys?’ .

The end of the world is nigh.

The BBC is considering axeing

‘Rule Britannia’ from

the Last Night of the Promos.

They also have their eyes

on ‘Land of Hope and Glory’

to add insult to injury.

For years, and long before

Black Lives Matter, these

hoary and gory old anthems

made ...

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The worker, at their decreed hour, keys a code and wakes their beast.

The worker has limitless thought, deed and future potential.

The worker has incredible power at their fingertips.

The worker’s permission is to use barely one thousandth.

The worker keys customer choices into a closed system.

The worker is fed from an ever-replenished stack of forms.

The worker keys an account ...

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I like the image,

of a guitar gently weeping.

I wonder what the guitar has seen,

that made it weep that way.

The endless pubs and bars

open mic nights, and small festivals. 

humans at their lowest, and highest,

those elated, and those depressed,

the never ending introduction to new people,

new, but the same.

Maybe that's why the guitar is gently weeping.

...

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~We talked in the silence of gazes and secret touches,

With inquiring eyes and fingers that gave

The blissful answers.

The world was noise

Until our quiet formed the gaps

And made music.~

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Some nights I will wake up @ 3

not sure if I am alone or whether you with me

I will feel my way in the dark to give you a hug

finding some comfort in the snug.

Not sure if you are sleeping or awake

I will whisper I love you, for lover’s sake

Waiting for: I love you too…

to echo in the dark.

Some nights I will wake up @ three

sure that I am alone, you are n...

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 Life in a Kiss.

Sugar-sweet kisses on a bald baby’s crown,

all-comers love you raising dull frowns,

cheek peck kiss... hello my mum,

spit out that dodo, cuddles from gran,

a lift to school in dad’s meat van.

Ta-ra son... his coat smells of lamb,

won’t be a butcher, an also ran.

Bike shed babes’ promises

two-timed in two- tone

a huge let down.

Lend an ear to M...

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Perpetual Freedom

Life lost its glories,
No room to fly high in sky,
Like a bird in a cage it flutters,
Struggling for freedom to fly.

Life without freedom
Is a bird without feather.
And without social bondage,
It is a corpse lying thither.

Life is a feeling to be young
But to be free
Is the spirit inborn sprung.

The bird of life's shot down,
And put in closet of lock down

...

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I wish for a soulful voice,

a proud father,

reconciled love. 

In absence of these things, 

I do not despair, 

because I have the music,

that makes my unfulfilled wishes,

beautiful dreams. 

https://youtu.be/7CXywFTR1gM

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To tell them their thoughts 

To turn it in to glue 

To know you understand 

Its sad you see it's you

To turn things on end

To guide a nose to shit

To know his way 

It's sad you think that's it

Look to self 

See your greed 

Don't be fooled

Youre the soul in need

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How come
The heart-wrenching
And the  unexpected
Widow's grief
Turned-brief?

The lady in black
Soon defying
Funeral decorum
Put on pink clothes
Decency that lack
Simply to attack
A deceased
Cheating husband
Whose unfaithfulness
Kept in the dark
Soon after funeral
Became stark!

Aghast adultery
Triggers
Hell knows no fury.

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Dark and bleak and empty and bare
This life is hard.. I hate it here.
Voided, eroded, saddened... barren of joy
Helpless, hopeless, soulless... a plain white wall
Mopey, lonely, gloomy...why even try
Hungerless, Sleepless, motionless...I might just die
Drowning, not breathing, cant gasp for air
Quiet pain, drenched in rain, not one care
Deserted, isolated, distressed and bored
want to, ...

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I guess it’s true we’re getting on in years,

with all the folderol that that entails;

the much-lamented passing of our peers;

the aches and pains as our own body fails.

More teeth are in a jar than in my mouth,

and nowadays I just don’t need a comb,

so by and large my life is heading south,

as my mortality is hammered home.

I hate to dwell on thoughts of my demise...

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The hard part about all this is that you already found new love

You decided she was better than me that she is enough

The words you said, "to infinity and beyond" we're all a lie and you left me when all I ever wanted was compassion,understanding, and love

But the day you walked out, I learned the truth about life. 

I learned that the only person that could make me strong was God

He...

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Dead silence 

As I sit and stare into your eyes.

 I wonder if you realize.

I know they are all lies.

These words of love you profess to have for me. 

So easily spoke by you yet hold no truth.

To you the meaning is lost.

Love is mistaken for lust.

It burns hot and is short lived. 

Hollow with no real substance it leaves empty. 

How many others fall for this I...

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There is no need

to set your poem to the music of the heart, or let it sway

to the rhythms of the hurt, at least for today.

There is no need

for you to panic, or dive into the pyre of rhyme

Burn later, if you will, but for now, wait out your time.

Let it corrupt a little, breathe in the zones unlit

Break and crumble, and feed on itself, bit by bit.

For you se...

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I am waiting.

Waiting for something that seems will never come.

Fighting a losing battle every day,

I am at a loss,

But I can never accept defeat.

So instead I wait.

It is the only way I can continue living,

For if I give up the wait now,

I fear that the pain of loss will be too much to handle.

So instead I put pen to paper, pour out my soul,

And wear my heart on my s...

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One rainy night while returning from work I came across him on the bus- last ride of the day to reach Alm Street- on my way back home. I got onto the bus and sat by the window seat, with earphones plugged, music turned to full volume and my head reasting by the window. As the cool breeze and tiny droplets of water touched my tired face, I noticed this man- with a handsome, chiseled face- staring a...

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I exists in a place of solitude,
Where not many would find me.
However, sometimes conflicted,
As there's two inside me.

I just wish to find peace,
But somethings trouble my soul.
Aspiring to achieve greatness,
To accomplish my lifes goals.

Wanting to feel whole,
Eager to what comes next.
Sometimes i had lost way,
For which I deeply regret.

However,

My actions define me,
But w...

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Cancer ©

Cancer you came into our lives once before when you took my grandfather to his final resting place,
We only had a short time to spend with him, and it was hard to look him in his face,
My mama used to cry a lot; regrets, fears, and meaningful words, how hard it was for her to comprehend,
All she wanted was a few more years, without the hurt, pain, and overflow of tears,
The family ...

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In my philosophy class recently, my teacher raised a question, for us to think over critically: is mental health a natural phenomenon or simply a way for psychiatrists and/or psychologists to make more money. This got me thinking what if it’s all true or what if it is just a seed of doubt placed in our minds against ourselves, to make us flawed and instead of perfect we would always stay flaw...

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We see above us huge black clouds,
And in the sky they take their place,
Ominous this must now appear,
As people know what they'll soon face.

First begins the frightful rain,
Which crashes through the air
Drenching our tremendous Earth,
All around and everywhere.

Then begins great flashing lights,
And the sound of rumbling thunder.
What creates this frightful picture?
It must surely...

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There is a beauty in humanity that goes beyond skin deep

A marvel that resides beyond the colour of one’s skin

That is seen when you peer through one’s heart

When intensions are deciphered and love is revealed

When uniqueness is celebrated, and diversity appreciated

When we all realise that the blood that courses through our veins remains the same

That in the variety of personali...

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of a lovers' triangle
three-legged stool

warbles like a nightingale, 
"Why alone? Why?"
an emergency test broadcasting
to the tuned-in hood 

that sets curious ears keening.
Is this war?
Is it surrender when Apollo says,
"I love you. Till next time?"

The wobbly little stool leg 
waffles underfoot defying mechanics 
A tenderfoot always triple-guessing its worth.
Insecure foot sold...

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Olivia

Was it?

Oh my

What can I say

To my amazement

I had forgotten the name

Of my money plant 

I watered her

Sometimes I would forget to, though

Like I would 'forget' to put a fresh candle on my altar

Or provide them with agua fresca

Thank you for staying loyal eggun

I had honestly forgotten her name

Olivia was it?

No

No it isn't Olivia

I scolded my...

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I've seen my fair share of cynical "makes no sense" and it's made no sense.. 

Rivers of tears afraid to test a current/affairs between men and women, unhappy that it turned out exactly like they said it would/you or wouldn't you? 

I would. 

But that's only because I like bloody knuckles and bent knees.. I'm a pray for you/and yours. Traded. For them and theirs/where you end...

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An Englishman in Israel

Jewels in the sand.

From a giant cushion of cloud I descend,

into evening sun-setting on the Middle East.

Blue into grey, into orange, into white

and finally falling back into blue.

Ground comes up to greet us as we seem to pass through tall bushy trees, …

… into what?

Had someone thrown jewels on a desert floor? Some gold, some silver, and some whit...

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It is hard to be happy

When you feel crappy

But we have to try

Before our soul says bye

Littlest things can cheer us

Or make us want to fuss

Let’s try and be blissful

To make time more peaceful

Happiness is like a rainbow

Which you want to show

Some colours may fade

But some may have a deeper shade

I want to be happy

And avoid living in the all...

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In the blink of an eye, the humans had blown across the planet,

Like the North Wind, in a gale of crazy-making,

Leaving chaotic striations of human mischief in their wake.

Then they were gone. 

Reparation began.

The trees reclaimed the earth.

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The evening lights are bright, 

The car has come to a stop,

The colors are different this time,

Shades of orange, white and green,

A quick flash, oh I held onto it,

A memory making its way through, 

A sweet stolen reminiscence.

 School walls adorned in colors, 

Merry of White uniforms, 

Green bands, Orange ribbons,

A paper flag pinned to my chest,

Flying high,...

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Happiness was you. Happiness was us. Happiness was us and a cat. Now it’s just a cat. Not even our memories are happiness, tainted by the reality of which I’m living. Every trip down memory lane is a reminder that it’s just me and our beautiful boy. No memory looks the same as it was. Every laugh, every tear, every whisper, every hand that connected, every time you said I love you, means nothing n...

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The gentle tingle of your electric finger down my spine

The wistful sigh of warm breath

The glow of deep soft lamplight and the

Caress of fresh clean sheets.

You tangle yourself up in me.

Our fingers twirl playfully, our heartbeats 

In rhythm. Ba doom, ba doom.

I feel a trickle of uncomfortable sweat down my clavicle, but the thereness outweighs my overheating body. 

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Like Jacob arriving into 

the orange town of

Pineal we fight 

bright shadows on altars 

of heart, bones 

and crows break the paralysis 

of knowing without mind so many

thoughts form a nation 

within themselves        sovereign

defenceless 

there is no sound save

that of cracking ribs and snapped

skulls as a new day floods 

insubstant on chaos-forms

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Your warmth has become my clarity

I wrap myself in it every night

and with it

I dream the sweetest dreams

and feel the softest relief of you beside me,

even while apart.

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Moving out and moving on, such is the plan;

we agreed a date in late July –

good for the buyers with half a summer still

to enjoy GB at its best, from breathless arrival,

through the finery of one whole, golden autumn

before hunkering-down deep into winter

and out again when survival allows.

I have, while here for thirty years, learned that

time may be measured by chur...

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'I would like to be more

Than a turnip in the turf

Or a well-fed cat on a settee.'

I must have carried such a thought

Into my dreams last night.

And nipping sharply at its heels,

So succinctly put by my parents,

'Don't get your liver in a quiver.

Put an arrow in your bow, and GO!'

Because I woke up, chuckling.

I blew a kiss into morning sunlight

And thoug...

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Welp, I was siting here trying to think how to improve this poem and I cant think of a better approach then straight honesty so here you go

One night as I sat

Preparing for another night of drink alone

I receive a call

from friend in need

To stave the loneliness his wife called a companion

And now they had a problem

The husband was back and the friend was there

Now the...

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The Brindy Weeze was tripping 

along the cobbled beard

and all the kindled brats

stood ‘midst the thing they feared

‘twas in the clearing brightly black

brats trundled up the leafy vault

then basking in their troubled hearts

they bawled as one,”it’s not our fault!”

A starling winged sky  

stood tall and deeply boughed

And then the Brindy Weeze

wailed at t...

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Will this never cease,

the wrenching racking weeping

an infinite sense of loss?

No-one to speak or write to

 who  truly cares.

No more her sense of humour

laughing at the same things.

No-one able to listen quietly

then provide some comfort.

All this can't be contained

in a hideous dead weight urn.

So sprinkle the contents on the roses

where her ashes will create...

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Creature in Disguise

A creature in disguise,

You took us by surprise,

You spread yourself out wide,

and took a very fast ride;

You grew and grew and grew,

and spread so quickly through,

impacting many lives,

you've darkened all the skies.

You made the world standstill -

And raced with your strong will,

With a mission to fulfill,

To harm and also kill.

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I feel like I’m falling apart at the seams

Who am I kidding, I know I’m falling apart at the seams

I never took sewing class in high school

Ironic, isn’t it

I try to think of different distractions

Going for a walk

Writing in my journal

Having a scalding hot shower just to have some alone time where I can cry

How long do I wait before I can just let all the stuffing fall ou...

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I hadn’t thought…

Today the effect will be something like this in the air

I kept watching her the way she was seated

Her innocent eyes still filled with mischief

Spinning the threads of lovely magic

I hadn’t thought…

My heart will tell me in a soft whisper

“I have started beating yet again.”

I hadn’t thought…

Her face was shinning elegantly,

The air was filled wi...

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Systematic actions

reactions

alternate conjectures

To alternative deviations

Disciplend mind

Rappid fire reaction 

to every justifiable motion

Of the will of God

In one of its finest expressions

with all as one

as the tones 

and notions flow

as the all emcombacing universal

power grows at the heart of every human

With freedom of mind

Body

Spirit

W...

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By ACE8.6

I heard a baby cry today
while I was walking through the park.
The cry was not to get her way
It was strong, insistent, and dark
Was she too hot from the sun’s bright ray?
Was she afraid of the dog’s bark?
Was she demanding she be allowed to play
in the song of the Meadowlark?
This baby cried not for want
This baby cried to warn
And I became the confidant
Of this child wh...

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Flirt with the thought of happiness 

Romance your way through adversities 

Marry your everlasting fulfillment 

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Suicide is not cowardly, but it’s not brave
Everyone says you become wiser with age
But is that really the case when most of us live in our own defeat?
Everyone sits happily, afraid to show their true selves; afraid to show they’re weak
You don’t have to accept defeat, you can fight it, you don’t have to be meek

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Cigerettes 

Liquor and booze

I wake at the stroke of noon 

My head beats like an on going drum.

Is this what it’s like to continuously be numb? 

A loss at words 

An act of tragedy.

Family matters,

People dieing. 

A girl who’s father is crying. 

In a hospital bed 

With no FUCKING LEG.

All the while 

I stare at the morning sky 

remembering the days...

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the madness is carried

from perpetrators to victims

from link to link on the chain of misery

where victims become perpetrators

and perpetrators create more victims

on and on it goes

history shows

that the chain extends

‘til the bitter end.

there is so much madness

coming from our race

sometimes I wonder

do we use the word “inhuman” in the wrong ways?

we ...

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The Autobiography of a Tin of Peaches

I don't like this talk about "shelf life"

or labels that say "best before",

and I do wish that man wouldn't put back my can

'cos She reckons it's been on the floor.

I heard that comment about me looking bent,

but it's ‘cos I got pushed out of true,

and here in the dark things look pretty stark

for these young tins just cover the view.

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Decades have passed.

The world has changed,

along with its people.

It no longer brings joy to my heart,

as it did in my time.

All because of them.

What happened to the days,

when the only thing one could do during a lovely day

was to step out the front door and pamper one's self

with the five senses that Mother Nature had provided?

But n...

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Why do you love me so intently?

I've hurt you, I've used you.

So why? Why do you care?

Why do you continue to care?

Is it just to make it right,

or is it better to push you further away?

What do I deserve?

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Sage bush smoking sour
Eyes cascading showers
Measuring sober hours
Chewing my cigarettes now
Good coffee, good chow
Pretentious fuck saying thou
Pissing off the bow, drunk
Crawl back in my rack
Afloat but still sunk
Cold icey dunk
Casket of grinding gears stuck
Struck, sliding into silence

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Ilahang pagduyog,
Sa isig-kaubanon,
Aron makig-bisog,
Sa ilang kaantosan.

Mga handurawan,
Hulagway sa kadasig,
Mga kinaadman,
Dungan 'ta sa pagdayeg. 

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slowly i took down my walls

noticing you didnt run from what you saw 

instead you helped me take down every brick

your love seemed to do the trick

now im being reborn from all your love

you must have been sent from above 

or maybe our souls had already known

because being around you feels like home

i have never used the term soulmate

but when it comes...

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August is a great month for star gazers!

Fully clothed

With naked eye

She gazes upwards

To a moonlit sky

A mighty presence

Swiftly felt

Orion appears

Only wearing 

A belt

She's waited here

Till an early morn 

For his shimmering touch

On a summer's dawn

The hunter haunts her

As Venus looks on

But when sun arises

Her lover is gone

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something could have been done last year, now all is morally blear. go about with your day, just stay.

stay in that house with those people you can’t remember, merely a year ago. 

i’m fine, sunshine, and i will tell you forever

it’s not me, it’s the world. once we change, she goes forth.

the universe moves without us now.

she will not halt, not tonight, nor wednesday. for ...

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Far away from the shore 

We just want to hear strong roar 

Waiting for us to grow more 

It’s so cold But We are looking for hearts core.

In the wrecked ship were we all lie  

Struggling to hold we might as well die 

Even if we don’t make it to the end 

We are like pearl born and died with shine. 

Somewhere in the corner of mind

Daydreaming about a beautiful lif...

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I am sad. 

I am worthless. 

I am unlovable. 

Nobody loves me.

I do not deserve to be loved. 

I don't matter. 

I have no matter.

The world would be a better place without me. 

 Nobody cares whether I'm dead or alive.

I wish I were dead. 

-depression

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I wish I knew what to say

I look for words

But they just escape me

I look for a sign, everyday

But the faith I feel, it fades away

Set the alarm, wake up and keep on going

But all the while, my tears are flowing

What about the love and joy that I felt in my heart?

Please don’t tell me we’re destined to depart?

Elvis’ dulcet tones, makes its way right ...

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TIME TRAVEL

I'd love to travel back:

feel the sweet warmth of mints

inside my mouth in 1890,

lick Victorian ice-cream,

follow that monochrome lad

who just slipped round the corner

into the rest of his life.

Granddad when an urchin

stole rides, he said, just clinging

to a horse-drawn carriage

then after smashing windows

police rang the doorbell at night;

...

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She walks around like she has it, she's not mad but she's magic. Caught up in a world that sends us through a mind game, she's keeping her composure but she's cracking around the frame. 

It's too late now but time is never lost, a little more push and you can meet the cost, of what it takes to make it out alive. If you're looking for some meaning then this is your sign. 

She keeps a smile fr...

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My love for her unaching towards the spanied land of the greats. For i have the filtated liberty to marry her as my love as she turns to be the love of my life. I really for her to extent of writing exams for her and got arrested for in terms of malpractice in the exam hall. I really fall for her, due to her undying love i develop in the concrete hood. She is my love and will anything to make her ...

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Through graven eyes, 

peers the chivalry of love

Verities gown; to adorn your desire

Oft held, in reach of fervors fleeting glance

That discreetness; be perceived by silence

taut upon the lips and ears of many 

Though desire was not spoken, but

held within the virtue of true love 

Cleaved to, adored within

the beat of hearts passionate embrace

Veracity though; be a be...

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There is so much
uncertainty in silence ;
so little substance in distance -
yet something vital lives here.

Like the wolf who hunts well-hidden,
this is incisive precision before collision.
This is a Dionysian inkling; the transfixing,
luminous numinosum of two minds
climaxing in the matrix.

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Dedicated to all the single moms out there! 

Every day, I see an angel 

An angel with no shiny wings on her back 

An angel with no halo ring on her head 

But she has this incredible aura within her 

Radiating love wherever she goes  

In this belligerent society  

Battling solely for her beloved ones 

Listening to all complaints, but never complains 

She returns home...

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He's sweet kind and caring
He's charming and anything anyone would ever want
He was the best
And yet some things are not meant to be
I really love him
I did love him with everything I could
But I matter too
I deserve to be love too

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{While walking down Connolly's chosen drag}

I chew my thinking

{Wasting sad lost time}

and with drink

point fingers that with

hidden levity choose

{my tomorrow's eating}

the wet poisin

with aplomb.

{bless the 12 who also drank}

photo and words  T H Carroll

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She wrote so many words..
Words of questions,
which had no answers..
Every word made her uneasy,
Impatient and sleepless..
Until she found peace..
Peace, where there is no words..
They call it empty,
but it was full for her..
She is this shameless poet,
lets the words lose it's gravity..

Roovi

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I can’t see

But I can dream

It’s like wearing a blindfold

On my brown eyes

I can’t watch, but I can feel

All these weird wild vibes

All these angelic faces around me

But those diabolic souls surround me

Are they real or are they fake?

It’s like watching a blue snowflake

Falling for smiles and grace

All night murdering for a race

I can’t wait

Ti...

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