1.A Rapturous welcome

I woke up this morning

No tea and toast

Wondered where Dad had gone

Probably shopping, but who knows

Just no sign, none at all.

Put the news on

Purely as a distraction.

Planes have crashed,

Cars have crashed, buses have stopped

The trains keep their usual bad timetable

News off, still no sign of tea or toast

No sign of Dad ei...

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1.Questions

“Mum, what’s a laboratory?”

“Well son, it’s a place where

Men in white coats

With hair all over the place

Make exciting things

That fizz and bang and sometimes smell rotten”

“Dad, how can the moon be all those different shapes?”

“Because it’s clever and it can.”

“Mum, what’s a Policeman?”

“Well son, he’s very smart and helpful

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1.He’s there

He's there
He's always there
Good or bad,
usually bad
He's there

He's there
Patient as ever
Sees the good,
the bad and the ugly
He's there

He's there
Do I deserve him?
Never
What if he wasn't there?
But, he's there

He's there
I am nowhere
wandering in the dark
Do I appreciate it?
Not enough, but he's there

He's there
No idea
Why he hasn't
given up by ...

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1.Dirt

Staring down at three fresh mounds of soil

Rain running down the collar of my shirt

Tears gently rolling down across my cheeks

As I stare uncomprehending at the dirt

Three lives gone, taken from me forever

Leaving behind, a shell of a man and a mountain of hurt

Lost in my memories and my inner thoughts

Staring blankly at the freshly turned dirt

I silentl...

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1.Church

I remember when I were a lad

Sundays meant only one thing. Church.

And the real possibility of missing the footy

On ‘World of Sport’ with Dickie Davies.

Entering the chilly, severe building

In my best Sunday hand-knitted tank-top

Absorbing the unique smells of

Wooden pews and well-thumbed hymn books.

Admiring the ceilings, the windows

Admitting...

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1.The things we say

I suspect we are all guilty

Of saying things that just don’t make sense.

There are, of course, those oxymoronic little sayings

We all trot out every now and again.

I am guilty as charged, it’s an open secret

Old news if you will and, I would bet,

Even odds you have done it too.

So, whilst I silently scream and think “good grief”,

I do still ...

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'My Best Friend'

Always there when I need him...
Anytime, day or night
Yes, always there for me
Even when I look a terrible sight

My best friend won't leave me
like many before have done
He stays close and comforts me
and makes sure I do not run

My best friend understands me
understands my pain, my needs
He tries to salve my anguish
no matter just where it leads

It's a good jo...

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 listen to the sounds
Look at the surroundings
Nothing to hear
Nothing to see...

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I’m throwing out light

Wherever I go

Making everyone’s day

So warm and bright

I’m gleaming, I’m shining.

Touching everyone with my glow

Wherever I go

Illuminating, providing insight

So everyone will know

I’m radiant, I’m shining

Light exploding all around

Wherever I go

Mirror-ball shards of light

Each dark corner is found

I’m re...

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We’re not satisfied with one

Even though it’s been good enough until now

No, we need a second one

It’ll be so much better

More in tune with today’s needs

We need to show the younger people

That the Church hasn’t died on its knees

That cold, dark, dusty Churches

Aren’t the only option

Yes, we’re planning a revolution

We’ll sh...

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You can look up at a blank sky

Sit in solitude and wonder why

Enjoy the peace, release on your ears

Push away all those obvious fears

The sky is blue with slashes of white

Darkening now, slowly fading light

The end of the day draws near

Lost all that held so dear

The twinkling stars look on down

Almost with a parental frown

Yes, you mes...

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For now, it’s all I’ve got

Memories of happier times

Now nothing in the pot

Reduced to a wasteful soul

Nothing left to live for

Just got my begging bowl

Stubble adorns my face

Armpits smelling high

Lost the pride and the grace

Sitting with my blanket and dog

Asking if anyone has an...

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Booked us all on a holiday

Take the family away for a while

Yes, of course I had to pay

Even went the extra mile

Get the ferry over to the other side

Relax, have fun lying in the sun

But the ferry’s neither long nor wide

Worrying, but what is done is done

The engine can’t be big enough

Just seem to be drifting along

But it’s quiet, c...

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Why now should the tear roll from my eye

Just when things are looking up

What makes you want to cry

When there appears to be not much of a ‘why’

When things are looking bright

When opportunity looms ahead

Why the fear, the paralysing fright

Inducing the sweat, turning my face white

If money can’t buy happiness

Then having no money buys nothing a...

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I’m not sure which I dread the most:-

“We need to talk”

Or, possibly

“There’s something I need to tell you”

Would it not just be better

If we didn’t talk

Didn’t have that conversation

Just let it quietly slide on by

Would it matter all that much

If you didn’t tell me,

You kept it to yourself

Just left me to carry on, problem free...

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Tense, all so taut

Cross, impatient

For no-one else a thought

Dark, not light

Brooding, silent

Muscles cramped so tight

Alone, so Alone

Screaming inside

Love turned to stone

Sadness and sorrow

Such painful disappointment

No light to come tomorrow

Dark, not light

Drowning slowly

Losing the fight

Slipping ...

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He flings himself to the floor

Bullets flashing just over his head

You fling yourself to the floor

At the merest touch of a little finger

When he shoots, he’s trying to drop people to the floor

When you shoot you’re trying to bring people to their feet

He’s lucky if he gets twenty grand a year

You wouldn’t get out of bed for that much a week

H...

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I was wondering and I figured

I probably wasn’t the first to wonder

So I thought I’d see what

The Global community had to say

Opened my favourite browser and typed

“Should Porn be Illegal?” then hit Enter

“Did you mean Popcorn?”

Popcorn?   No, I bloody well didn’t

That’s three letters I’d have to have missed out

Anyway, Cinema-goers, relax, d...

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Cliché ridden? Not sure. Can I ‘phone a friend?

Patience? No. Haven’t got time for that.

Tolerance?  No.  Couldn’t bear that.

Empathy?  Well, I suppose I could be persuaded.

Sympathy?  Yes of course.  There, There.

Obedience?  Me? You’ve got to be kidding.

Sarcasm?  Yeah, Right.

Egotism?  Yes, I know I can pull that one off.

Modesty?  Me? Surely not? No...

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Trapped in these four walls

Wallowing in self-despair

Suffering from my latest falls

Let my mind and body repair

Not a thought for anyone else

Never offering to lend a hand

My mind only focused on myself

Not sure how much more I can withstand

How to move myself forward

How to re-establish respectability

Stop doing the things that are untow...

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When I was young, we used to live in Yorkshire

Except, for some reason, our bit was called the West Riding

I assume there were also North, South and East one’s too

No fun at all, but required, I assume, so as to maintain geographical equality

Some people just seem to have no imagination

If I was in charge of giving things names

I’d have called them things...

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What is it with Daughters?

They’re such a pain

Even when they were little

They kept interrupting my sleep

They’re such a pain

Why can’t Daughters be like cars?

When you get fed up of them

You can trade them in for something else

Or, maybe recover a little bit of cash

They’re such a pain

Come to think of it, they are like cars

Smell fun...

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I was sat on the pebbly shoreline

A Blue sky punctuated with

The odd slash of painted-on light grey

The shrieking of the circling Seagulls

Mocking me, high above my head

Was looking out at the horizon

Where the light and dark blue meet

In what appears to be an oddly,

Unnaturally, dead-straight line

Way, way far ahead.

Looking at the pebbl...

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I’d like to know who did it

Been using my favourite mug for years

It’s been with me through the laughter

And it’s witnessed a fair few tears

My kids gave it to me when they were young

It says “You don’t have to be mad to work here…

But if you are, it helps”

A very droll sentiment that I hold so very dear

It has kept me company in many meeti...

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I was zooming up the road

The other day

Saw you on the pavement

Walking towards me.

Put the window down

Gave a few loud hoots

Of my extremely loud horn

Stuck my arm out of the window hole, and waved.

Ah!  Oh dear!

Sorry if I startled you.

Made you jump.

Gave you a heart-attack.

Wrong person.

A genuine case of mistaken identity.

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He’s creeping, quietly, stealthily

Hugging close to the treeline

Remaining concealed in the shadows

Ears attuned to every sound

A small rustling sounds in the undergrowth

Brings him to a sudden halt

He’s standing still now – rigid – sniffing the air

Weighing the immediate threat.

Silence restored, inches forward again

Assessing the wa...

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Just experimenting.  More like a (very) short story than a poem, but thought you may enjoy (?) it anyway.  Feedback - Good or Bad, is always appreciated.  I'm new to this game.

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Ben and the dog

Ben yawned and patted the cold side of the bed where Mary should have been.  Just empty space and cold cotton now.  Sighing, he swung his legs out of the bed and rubbed ...

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I was in the kitchen one day

And Dad asked me to pop next door

And ask if they had any spare sugar

Not a big task I hear you say

Sounds pretty easy

Just to pop next door and ask

But the next door to us, that we don’t own

Is roughly five miles away

And that’s if I cut across the fields

I was tempted, to put it to Dad

That it w...

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Who are you?

What do you want?

I don’t know you

What’s your name?

There was someone similar to you

Who came by, sometime recently

Where’s my keys?

Have you let the dog in?

What dog? Of course I’ve got a dog

Fifty years?  Pull the other one

If we’d been together that long

Of course I’d remember

Anyway who are you?

What are you d...

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In the still of the night

Lying in bed, back to back

You are facing West

And I am facing East

All the years together

Kids grown up and gone away

Together still in mind and heart

But lying here poles apart

Memories of when we’d face each other

Recount the day, share our thoughts

When did we become just good friends

Lying here like si...

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Nearly two years now

Time has passed so fast

Should be more clear-headed

You should be in my past

But all that surrounds me

Makes me ponder…think some more

Realise that I still love you

Wish I could re-open that door

The smallest things surprise me

Bring you to the front of my mind

Swamping me with unwanted emotions

Rendering me tem...

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I sit proudly upon my very finest steed

Feel the power vibrating under my feet

Picking up speed now

Enjoying the rhythm and undulations

Love the Wind, blowing through my hair

Living dangerously, no hats for me.

I’m grinning manically, hear music in my head

Relaxing, just letting myself go

It was all going so swimmingly well

U...

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Very experimental....

Don’t let my appearance fool you

Those suitcases under my eyes

I’m like an old sniffer dog

Keeping my nose to the ground

Don’t judge this book by its cover

For inside, you’ll find hidden depths

One day I may just surprise you

For I know the score around here

I’ve been living here for many a year

Long ...

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We’re sitting here united in disbelief

Uncomprehending, can’t hide our grief

Our heads in our hands

Tears rolling quietly down our cheeks

Things will never be the same again

All we can do is share our pain

Sitting quietly, wondering what is to come

Things will have to change from now on

Remembering the good old days

Surrounded in their rosy ...

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10 grey pigeons cooing on the wall

10 grey pigeons cooing on the bloody wall

If I’m really any kind of shot at all

There’ll only be 9 grey pigeons cooing on the wall

10 grey pigeons still cooing on the wall

5 in the morning, do they ever sleep at all?

10 sodding pigeons still cooing on the wall

It seems the trusty air-rifle actually missed them all

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Tense, all so taut

Cross, impatient

For no-one else a thought

Dark, not light

Brooding, silent

Muscles cramped so tight

Alone, so Alone

Screaming inside

Love turned to stone

Sadness and sorrow

Such painful disappointment

No light to come tomorrow

Dark, not light

Drowning slowly

Losing the fight

Slipping ...

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Darling, come and sit on Daddy’s knee

I need to have a little talk with you.

You know you had that surprise sleepover,

At Aunt Aggie’s last night?

Well, that was because

Daddy had to rush to the hospital,

Because Mummy had a bad accident in her car

Coming home last night.

Is she alright now?

No, I’m afraid not my darling

The doctors said...

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High up in my nest

King of all that I survey

Bedded down up on the crest

Watching carefully for my prey

Breathing slowly, breathing deep

Find that inner peace

Ready to inflict the eternal sleep

The provider of the final release

Lying and waiting for the go-ahead

Anticipation of the Green-light

The difference between alive o...

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Lots of words seem to end in ‘ish’

I think some are made-up, like easy-ish

But wait a minute, let’s not get too childish

And appear for one moment that I am being churlish

Some of them confuse me, like pigfish

Which is it?  A pig or a fish?

But I do know that revenge is best served as a cold dish

And that Chihuahua’s may look like rats, but are actually q...

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When I’ve gone

When I’ve left you all

When my bones are being reduced

To dust, best held in an urn

Skip through my back catalogue

Find the verse I cobbled together

That has become your favourite

And read it, loud and proud

It’s all I’d want really

I can think of nothing better

Than my most precious friends and family

Being forced ...

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Shall I let you into a secret?

I’ve got fairies at the end of my Garden

Yes, it’s true but Shh! Don’t let anyone know

Especially ‘Er next door

They only seem to come out at night

When I’ve had my dinner and a sup or two

I like to go out and watch

The fairies at the end of my garden

They don’t talk, not to me at least

I just watch their grace...

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