I should have rung him

shared his decline

knowing he was dying

but I had problems too

don't we all?

we went back years

he liked a smoke, a drink

so natural at the bar

but we lost touch and he moved on

don't we all?

            I should have rung him

but it's too late I guess

now that he's passed away

but nobody's perfect after all.

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Like rotting fruit

I found her

Hanging from the tree

The note she left us

Simply read

‘This life is not for me’

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I once thought,

that I was the only human left on this planet,

rest all seemed robots to me.

As if they had no emotions and no life.

I had fear for my life,

even when new diseases were invented around me,

I thought I was the only human,

may be because I felt the pain of others, more than many.

I once told my childhood friend of what I felt,

He flew down from th...

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Of course they are not 
Simulating terror 
Crossing the border
From one country to the next 

Vibrating in fear 
through rain
and gunfire 
criss-crossing into brutal rhythms
across a gutted reflection

choking on echoes 

screaming walkways 

Choosing to sleep in the freezing air
looking at the camera
stone eyed 

Pursuing hope
before their lives ebbed into pieces. 

(For t...

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Aliens In Transit

My split end hair trips the light fantastic as

it freefalls down and around your nowhere

empty heart shaped hole. Winds of nutmeg

histories so similar as to add whimsy

to the turmoil of lust, build walls of solitude

…..Your contraband choices,

     my suburban unset jam,

     our firebird distractions…..

The train is at the station where choic...

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On The Slag Heap

Quenching the eternal flame,

the furnaces won’t burn again,

the northern dragons will lay still -

the Government has had its fill.

At its heart a molten core

that will implode and beat no more.

The mill will close, the light will die

and in the dark the ghosts will cry.

The workers will go home to bed

not knowing if their family’s fed

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Mercy

     It isn’t just paranoia,

It becomes more than that the moment

Your ravings and ramblings become true

And it’s so powerful,

     So powerful the term intuition

Be only a slight at what it is,

For it is to many

A cliché written by others

With a hint of the macabre,

     For the struggle for recognition

For what you know - be more

Than fiction c...

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The first time I felt my baby kick,

It was nothing like they said.

It didn’t feel like butterflies, or

A quickening within.

It felt like nothing I’ve ever felt before.

It felt like my entire life would never be the same.

And it felt like the love of my life

Had just tapped on my shoulder

And whispered “I’m here”.

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Nightmare 
TEEN FOUND DEAD
SHOT-ODED-MURDERED 
The headlines read in my nightmares
In my dreams 
My fear for you 
Slowly grows
The look in your eyes
Sound of your voice
A text A picture A call
There's a word 
A look
  A laugh
     A whisper
The feelings grow 
Ever so slow 
My fear for you 
A look 
  A laugh 
     A whisper 
Don’t let that be the last of you

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An apology for a station

on the Hampton Court line,

the place where the fast

slowed down for Surbiton.

It overlooked a sewage farm

we’d cycle past, a short cut.

Lower Marsh Lane

more or less summed it up.

Sad? Not for us.

John and I would trainspot there,

watching the Merchant Navys

and Battle of Britains

round the bend and thunder

towards us, while list...

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Man makes opportunity
Bleach boned gratuity
picking teeth in the blazing sun of ages
the weak are meat, 
So the strong say as they eat
Atria strained and skein stretched, 
bursting by design
this high tides earth inheritance
for the meek, the malign
those porous, jealous strangers
familiar high noon encounters
of a stilted, different kind
a familiar so close its alien
suspicions of an...

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They move silently amongst us

Their cards held close to their chest

Never letting down their guard

These full-time sexual pests

They have no redeeming features

Nothing extraordinary, to be fair

No sign of a dirty mac

No slicked back greasy hair

They blend in to the background

Sit quietly in the park

Waiting for that moment

Early evening, just before dark

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As the days get warmer, I keep getting colder. Lost the inner motivation to feel confident and bold. Pondering if I'm destined to be old and alone. With a world full of so many people, how could I feel so alone? And with a world full of oxygen, how am I struggling to breath? It's a broken world, and people want to continue to step on the pieces. These scars represent my pain, they are my tattoos f...

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(A Personal Recollection)

I well recall some years ago

Before I had a car and so

I’d caught the bus to go to town

I paid my fare and then sat down;

A woman was sat next to me

(I paid no mind and nor did she);

And so in silence on our way

We journeyed, till I heard her say

“If you don’t eat up” she began,

“I’ll give it to this nice young man”;

I glanced and saw...

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"Ignore the unfounded

rumours of pus-

in your milk

and other stuff

which are also

quite scary, "

said the white coated chap

with the clipboard and cap

and the man who's in charge

of the dairy.

words and foto Tommy Carroll

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I guess it all comes from

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Just leave me alone I can’t tell your intentions

Resentment full of contentment and affliction

Tell me why you deserve my attention

I hand it out without asking my heart permission

Leading it to future stitching

Less it be without you leave me with

Every time you tell me this

“I want you”

Three words

That turn

The world inside out, upside down, right side up, and back...

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That day by the tree; with no one within sight; the sun cutting through the leaves and the sound of water close by. The way your hand felt in mine; how your kiss felt on my neck....These are the things that keep me hanging on to the belief that anything is possible; even love and all that comes with it. 

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For the living grief is such relief

The dead don't care cos they're not there.

But they might ask in retrospect,

To be excused from cruel neglect.

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I love eating them
With brown sauce
And red sauce
At the same time.

I love eating them
With mustard
As well as a good splashing 
Of beetroot
And gravy on-top. 

I love eating them
In Custard
Jelly and ice cream
Although of course 
Not at the same time.

I love eating them
In my living room
My kitchen
And on my stairs. 

I love eating them 
While brushing my teeth.

I love...

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My head was full of empty thoughts that rattled ‘tween my ears.

My heart was full of jumbled clots of emotion that fueled tears.

My hands were cold and weak, but they still pushed away my fears.

But what was there to fight when I was the only one that was here?

I used to say I’d rather numb myself instead of feel.

I used to let illusion take the spot of what was real.

Within...

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I see you

I hear you

I feel you

Is what you tell me 

Still

I keep explaining

Keep excusing 

Keep blaming myself

Please

Don't tell me you understand

Listen.

- nicoline 

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Questions hexed by doubt, demons amphetamized aloud.

Sunlight gleams a brain forest virtue while

glow gods meditate odds for monsters.

Powdered lungs blossom the petalled smoke of midnight.

And far beyond the hour of whenever

as long lost photos become hideuous ghosts

of yourself at better times, before the blues and greens.

Sometimes, before is far too ahead of its ...

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You want a bit of me, don’t you?

Although I have a previous owner

You are tempted; I could be yours

I warn you, I’ve been well worn

There are a few rips and tears scarring my history

I am faded; my image only just visible

But, you’re secretly impressed

You’ve been after one like me for years

Hunt me down

Make your offer

Try me

No need to wear me in

Soft, smooth,...

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It has taken ahold of me once more.

Basking and marinating;

my life is in limbo.

At a halt,

with a glance,

Hope arises,

and then just as quickly sets as the sun.

Moments are cherished 

but then despised with a gun.

Feeling the chambers loaded with each shell,

the thought it so real, 

so quick,

so painless.

So easy.

But where does that leave us?

Going fo...

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WORDS OF WONDER

A word on a line
joined with many and more,
a story to tell 
from behind a closed door.

A line on a page
and a paragraph to make,
from a thoughtful sage 
to the ones who forsake.

A page in a book 
telling tales short and tall,
just have a quick look,
hear the whispering call.

A book on a shelf,
many dusty old tomes,
a wealth of words 
from across quiet rooms...

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You left us on
the last day of Summer.
Today is the
first day of Fall.
My tears are
falling for you.
Good bye my baby,
my LUCKY CAT.

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I am standing tall on the mountain pass

Looking over this inner landscape of mine.

And the vertiginous drop of the waterfall of my emotions

Surrenders down from the smooth mirror-like lake of my soul.

Up there in the heights between the two peaks,

I can just make out the depth of the pool

Where I once plunged and almost drowned.

As I submerged myself in it

I wishe...

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I write things about you

I love to write things about you

I always want to write about you

Ever since I saw your smile

Feelings of hapiness begins to pile

Ever since I heard you laugh

My heart became familiar of this unknown "stuff"

I knew right then and there

This feeling will even get deeper

And then one unexpected day,

Our gaze met... Oh Hey!

My heart beats...

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White nights,

white nights...

I'm colourblind.

Kind of like to think I know

why we stand solid,

struck dumb by perennial sadness;

and the salient points,

burst like bubbles in smoked air;

clasped to the breast

that sinks as seconds lengthen

even beyond reason for purge.

Beyond the clouds that fall,

in spirals, now thick moistened rope;

we are given base,

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This world is a place full of crowd
Riches, glory, love and proud
But can't really find a single place 
Where I can get true solace

Hating the quest of being wanted
Don't like the extra attention granted
But this strange dilemma has me haunted
I do crave for this favor distorted

Keeping myself in the midst
Of cheering people, chirruping swift  
I feel this sense of emptiness
A stran...

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Forget the nation, forget the love

A poet without a poem is a creation undreamed of

Forget this feeling of Jekyll and Hyde

Sit back, Smile

As worlds collide.

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There are too many days

Without words being said

I forgive myself and then think

Of how I cannot see your face

That's moving out everyday

Alone in the dark.

Is this how it happens?

Like the garden mutating before us

In the falling evening,

It’s tall trees slipping out of certainty

Leaving only their shadows

Surging in the dark

Signifying nothing.

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Fly away,

Drive away,

Leave your troubles behind

Lie down,

Rest a while,

Enjoy the warm sunshine.

Feel your heart re charging

While your mind is at rest.

A week from now

You’ll be bored or stressed

Either way;

Back behind your desk.

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We’re doing crosswords in the pub

Because that’s what lovers do

When they fall out of love

Crosswords in the pub

We don’t speak much anymore

Except to discuss clues

Because that’s what lovers do

When disenchantment ensues

We’re doing crosswords in the pub

But at least we’re still together

Keeping each other company

Uncom...

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Stuck at the point where paths did cross
Cannot decide which way to go
Afraid of whatever's ahead
Look forward to the chance instead
What's there to lose if you take chance
It would not hurt if you did glance
It's true that anything can go
Would it not hurt if you'd just go
Look back if it would do you good
But know you can't go back for good
You've gone so far from where you're from
Lo...

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We the fat and the greedy

Hereby give all that we have

To you the hungry and the needy

We the conniving and the seedy

Hereby give half of what we have

To you the old, the tired and weedy

To you the orphan, the widow

The stateless

And the unemployed

We give

We pledge to ensure

That you we will not go without

That there will never be room for ambiguity

Or doubt

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Prostrate, brooding on sunny and foreboding afternoon
A dog barks in the middle distance instigating a volley of indignant retort above the estate
Road-noise and the blood coursing through the channels
Blue sky touching horizon beneath casual cumulus reminds you of the sea
Emptiness and adventure

Cirrus slowly passes opposite antennae of opposite roof suggesting uniformity
Trees sway
Mind...

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The letter ‘E’ fell off the sign at the Globe Inn
striking the landlord and making him sick.
He will recover, but the pub is soon shutting.
It’s the end of the world as we know it!

From http://www.shortfunnypoems.co.uk/poems.html

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Slithering out from the ruins of once happy homes

A promised land is sold to the highest bidder.

With false stories of a much better life ahead

Vulnerable refuges give every penny to these greedy parasites.

Praying for a safe journey from a barren existence

Packed into a cramped crowded transporter, a gamble taken.

Caged exhausted hungry thirsty, lack of air to bre...

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~~PILGRIMAGE.

Coming out, to entertain
To sing and shout
Express their pain
Then wash away
The darkness of today.
A movement swelling,
Compelling us to change
A movement which is seldom heard
Of music, song, and spoken word
A pilgrimage of arts
By martyrs to the cause
Troubadours
Who oppose the wars
With songs, not rifles
With once stifled words,
Now roaring, soaring
No longer s...

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Oh girl with a diamond heart; Ur eyes and ur hair is all they talk about; The way u walk And the way u touch when u talk; Ur lips they are so red Are they proof of all ur ex'es; In a world where u r a queen U saw me as ur next victim; So I got ready got a little steady; Got the rulebook for us dating ; And I learned to French kiss; Learned to make it Hoping to taste u; But more t...

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I’m a nodding

Bitch on heat

I’ll fetch your

Slippers,

Place them

On your feet

I’ll hit ‘like’

Regardless

Of whether

It is wrong

Or right

I’ll run

Between

Your legs

Sniffing your

Balls

Whilst panting

‘Yes’

To any request

With potential

I’ll be just

What you need

To hold

Back the tears

For tonight

I’m...

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How can something so sweet, be so bitter?

Your love was something special, it has never withered.

The night sky comes creeping in as a shadow

As soon as the light is gone, my smile fades

The true side of my heart turns old and gray

For I do not wish to keep living this way

The bottle has been too friendly to me, these last couple days

Morning breaks, another night accompl...

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All I ever wanted was to be all that someone needed

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