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the blank page waits
for the quenching stink of ink
a scribble of unflinching words
something to mull and make it think
the filled page grits
when the savage pen comes down
to flay through failing words
lose many and put others under doubt
the final page knows
these few are survivor words
strong enough to tell the story
clever enoug...
Thursday 22nd August 2024 10:56 pm
The Blatherwight
Hyyre n proave
pon sheed unjoad
in hoye ‘n hoyle-howls
befuddled word, o’blite absurd
he gurgled remott’d vowels
Lesp he ‘n shyy
for ryle deride
aggrinn aggurny byy
rillig speech, from creatured-eeb
flowed his otherworldly vibe
So jue a norn
to borrishly
this being spoke in tongue
but wopeth no apology
for such unbridled shrung
It siff ! ...
Thursday 27th June 2024 1:53 pm
Mouthful of Words Poem after Brian Moses
Mouthful Of Words
Poem after Brian Moses
These are the words my teacher teaches,
omnipresent, evaporating, invigilator, dichotomy,
diminuendo.
Then there are the words at home they choose
in our chatters animated to recounting the news.
There are the words that Grandma always seems
to say that I regurgitate, no matter the situation or their
denoting: bam...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 9:31 pm
Weaving Lines
In script, I chase elusive breath, emotions' subtle pleading,
Such words enfold, deceit swathed in a tender, soft misleading.
To paint the world through poet's lens, the rarest hues I borrow,
In stanzas sail, through mind's vast sea, where verses trade in sorrow.
A tinkerer of syllables, line by measured essence,
Might muse perceive a poet's form, shadowed in your presence?
We waltz beneat...
Friday 3rd May 2024 7:32 pm
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