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Three Pennies

I gave you three pennies

that one winter’s morn

when the dancing had finished

and we felt so forlorn.

 

The first for that kiss

when we were first lovers

ne’er to be broken

lying snug under covers.

 

The second for our child

for one oh so fair

a cherished little treasure

but not long for this air.

 

The third for hearts broken

no healing can mend

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Sadness

Eternal Relief

Two seconds to make him go

To free me from this pain and woe

A pill, a potion, a knotted rope

To relieve me from this misanthrope.

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Relief

A chariot bringing good news

Sky horses chasing rainbows across the sky

the wonder of the blue heavens flowing,

cascading down onto the scorched earth

joining together to form a perfect scene.

Behind the flying steeds a chariot

carrying the messengers of a new dawn,

an age of far reaching force

where all will be destroyed

to be reborn into an era of true enlightenment.  

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Lark song

Far from the high ridge the lark song

called out to love, hopeful and hopeless

reaching out to heal the lovers’ rift,

but the day broke over their stooping heads

and the saddened winter sun shone

its weary rays onto their hardened hearts.

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larkLove

Ghosts of the past

A fiendish reminder that the past

is around and within us

A memory, a mood

a startled cry, a stifled laugh

worm their way into our weary hearts

and we fade into a history reborn

The ghosts dormant and still

awaken in that undefended moment.

 

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ghosts

Naked

A child stands here naked before you

naive, untouched and unblemished

nothing has yet tarnished this vessel.

 

It feels the weight of humankind

on this mother earth

slicing her open to steal her core

the pillage of the landscape for selfish gain

thoughtless self-aggrandisement

mindless games with no regrets

the power whores who

rape and murder the innocent

who p...

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naked

No Silence

This deafening world

I feel the whole world chattering

Cannot break away

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Silence

Wanderings

You dropped from the heavens

my peripatetic friend

took me boldly by the hand

and led me round your

joyous garden

calling in along the way

to chat to friends, but not to stay

wandering on and on

wisdom is your guide

and peace your bride

I will join you on your journey

keep you company, if you like

we can part from each other's side

and any time meet up again

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wanderings

Adieu, but not forever

The wave on the stairs

was no final farewell,

but a resounding adieu

repeating we will meet again.

Glimpsing your fading eyes

a distance away now

still pronouncing their beautiful hue

and glistening under a single tear

mirroring the evening dew.

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adieu

Autumn leaves to be reborn

The fluttering of the autumnal flags

clinging onto the last hope

of the now distant summer

brittle and brown they hang on

for dear life to their arboreal home.

The bark, it protects and guards the

living trunk against the bite of the

Northerly wind while the leaves

they suffer stoically the chilly breeze.

One final breath, and they are pulled

from their earthly space

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Autumnleavesreborn

Words

Once upon a time

we stumbled on words

 

Creation, mutation,

incomplete, never ending

 

They trip off your tongue

get caught in your throat

 

Lost in your memory

then, rekindled again.

 

Words full of colour

and monochrome, too

 

Words fill your belly

and empty your heart

 

Words knock you dead

make you feel alive

 

Raise you to the sta...

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words

Embrace

Behold the outings of emotions

effusive chatterings

the often spoken misgivings,

disagreements and growlings.

Toddlers' tantrums tripping

so swiftly off the tongue.

Displays of love and affection,

sullen man walks a distance

behind wife and progeny

hands in pockets,

boredom in neon lights shines

all too brightly from his face.

Parents hanging onto their kids,

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Embrace

Longing

Longing for the touch of a soft hand

Lips brought together

to seal the one kiss to end all kisses

Craving the taste and smell of female arousal

The sensuous beauty of passion

Making the mundane a forgotten memory

and the banal a distant ghost

Moments to savour,

to place in a cherished corner of the mind.

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Longing

Time to party

Time is gearing itself up

for the start of the party

 

Tick tock tick tock

 

The second hand making

its way impatiently

around the face

counting down until the

festivities begin

little time to waste

 

the minute hand has

more haste and less speed

steadily moving round

reveling in the moments

taking each one in

without a single sound

 

then t...

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time

My mother appeared to me today

I saw your face today

as I stared in the mirror

It was not before me

but right inside my head

Not me looking at myself

but you holding me in your gaze

The form was clear and true

You were alive to me

Your face filled mine

I became you

for a few moments

felt your mind in mine

the fear of your thoughts

and the power of your emotions

I know not why you

app...

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mothermum

The Rat

I saw a rat in front of me

it seemed quite tame and shy

I bent right down to pick it up

and it spat straight in my eye

 

I cried out "how could you, sir?"

I sure had quite the hump

Then, at once I realised

it was Donald Trump!

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rat

The day it rained

I looked up your number

Oh yes, I remember now

it was a dark day last summer

when the sun refused to shine

and our love dined on

heartache and wine.

The rain it fell

it seemed for an age

mirroring our fears,

while our eyes fell

upon an empty gaze.

Tied up in knots,

our words became

entangled like

barbed wire

in no man's land.

We dried up and

went ...

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rain

My mind is my prison, but I hold the key

My mind is my prison

when it should be my home

where I sit in front

of an open fire and

keep myself snug and warm.

 

Instead my prison guards

are my thoughts and

situations my bars,

together they keep me

in solitary confinement,

but I am always keeping

a close watch on my sentries

as they make their regular patrol

and I begin to see a pattern

to their s...

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thoughtsmindescapeprison

Peace, love and understanding have left the building

Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen

They’ve really enjoyed playing here over the years

It has been a wonderful experience for one and all

but now it is my sad duty to announce that

peace,  love and understanding have left the building.

 

Peace,  she left by the back door

Her sullen face only lightened by the thought

that it cannot always be this way

Wandering around...

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lovepeaceunderstanding

Summer calm

The Autumn chill blows between

the seasons hardened trees

The leaves may turn

a beautiful shade of gold

but my hue will always

be a summer's green

only to be seen when the sun

hangs high in the sky

and the clouds are

nowhere to be seen

I lie down on the fresh

verdant pasture

waiting for a soft breeze

to fan my sun blushed cheeks

and the soft wings of

a ...

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Summer

Multicoloured Dreamscape

From a grey world into a kaleidoscopic dream

Twisting and turning watching the colours fly

fusing into a radiant scheme where nature

abounds with hues of indelible vigour and life

Mother of all mothers withstands each test

bouncing back time and time again

evermore beautiful and bountiful

stronger than the plough pulling ox

tougher than the hardest diamond

more radiant t...

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Dream

Dumped on the street

At a glance a heap of rubbish

dumped in front of the house

detritus from indoors

strewn across the footpath

 

On closer look someone's life

their stuff moved out onto the street

destined for a refuse container

on grey, impersonal council land

 

A new owner with new stuff

will give the house new life

while the old life peters out

in socially isolated circumsta...

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dumpsocial

The future is waiting

You sit alone and talk

of nothing but the past

Is there anything that

will urge you to think

of things to come

or is your life

already at an end?

Defeated and distorted

your sole source of hope

your only child

She is not who you are

or should ever be.

 

Be the person you had hoped

when in youthful years.

He lies there dormant

deep inside you

waiti...

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future

Miles and John

John and Miles on the final tour

soaring like eagles in my ears

The wind breezes past my open face

And wafts the melody high up into the heavens

where it sounds out its angelic anthem

Broadcast to the entire globe

Marvelling in its musical wizardry

Triumphing in its tuneful finery.

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MilesJohnjazz

A lazy Sunday

Caught up in the late summer sunshine

Swaying trees and light breeze

Almost silent, the whispering wind

is harmony to my spiritual rhythm,

A melody rising and falling in perfect tone

a softening of my thoughts

transporting me to that theta world

where relaxing images float 

on waves of joy and pleasure.

Seizing every single moment

each one an enlightened condition,

...

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SunSunday

Daybreak moments

The day is emerging from its nightly slumber

opening its sleep weary eyes to peak at the surroundings.

The human race joins in this rebirth

every day is a new fresh feast for the senses.

 

What wonders do I behold

while walking on the near empty street

the distant golden orb shining

its warming rays on my naked face

 

The strimmer-man at his task

cutting forth the ...

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daybreakmindful

A flower in bloom

How tall you have grown
in such a short space of time,
the sun’s rays warmed your nascent leaves
and the cloud’s tears nourished
your newly sprouting roots
strengthening your place in the rich earth.
How you flourished spreading your
green flightless wings to the heavens
knowing that one day a beautiful bloom
would be your crowning glory.

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bloomflower

Beautiful raindrops

Dropping silent raindrops into your hair

Watching them slowly roll down onto your face

while the sun adds its rainbow tint

to their beaded form.

 

Crying is my best answer to this beauty

Smiling is the response to my tears.

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beautyraindropsTears

View from on High

I stare out onto the rugged hills

dappled with rays of the sun

glancing its temperate eye around

the woolly welcoming clouds,

holding the earth in its warm glare,

animating those beautiful pikes.

 

The flora finds its daybreak smile,

the creatures open their slumbered eyes.

Observing the shadow movement

traversing the upland scene,

from a bird’s eye view

the alt...

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view

Tyranny digs its own grave

I met a tyrant going to the fair

I enquired may I taste your ware?

The answer I received took me little by surprise:

“You wear my colours, but cannot hide

your true hues that you keep inside

so I will throw you in jail

and lose the key.

While you scream and wail

my laughter will be heard

around the land

while you rot in this hell

for ignoring my command.”

 

D...

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Tyranny

Ellie

You had so much to give and so much going for you,

but a missed flight tipped you over the edge.

You didn’t want to let people down,

your mind fraught with guilt.

You took to the woods, and left this temporal plane.

 

We see a smile and a happy face,

but this is just the thin veneer

we choose to look upon

not the complicated self that lives within.

It is more difficul...

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EllieSoutter

Charities and the church

Charities and the church

The two bodies we should most respect

Are only interested in reputation

Not in the people they should protect.

 

They hide and conceal

Crimes so heinous we all deplore

Women raped, children abused

Victims too scared to report to the law.

 

I hold my head and weep a river

For humanity and its darkest shame

How can we stoop so low

In re...

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Charitychurch

Education 'Wild West'

When did learning become a contest

Schools become a fighting ground

Where those that don't fit in

Are no longer to be found?

 

Excluded and forgotten children

Left in their bedroom corner curled

Tired and frightened and angry

In our ever more competitive world.

 

Our sense of 'moral accountability'

Has been thrown out with the bath water

Tossed into another huge...

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Education

The human race

The world has become more fluid.

So many sources flowing out at the top of each mountain

Streaming down the gullies, 

babbling brook,

to scuttling stream,

to rambling river,

out onto the delta,

Into the ocean.

Everything mixed and turned,

rolled and crushed

Whirlpool and flood,

tsunami and tidal.

It all takes place on this earth

and we all learn to live it, t...

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human rights

Would or wouldn't?

Would or wouldn’t,

what does it matter when you are

President of the United States of America?

My god, what a farce of wordplay

or is farcical per se?

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Trump

Ghostly Way

My father and mother in front, us boys behind.
It was the most wonderfully frightening experience for us back then.
When asked it was always the way we wanted to go.
Not the usual way down the brightly lit carriageway, but 
through the village then, a turn to the right
down the 'ghosty' way on our way back home.

Dimming the car lights
The horror show could begin.
The white blanketed road...

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ghostlymemories

'My' lavender

I am looking at you in my tiny back garden, planted when I first arrived at this place I now call home.

The sight of the worker bees filling their honey stomach from your bountiful blooms fills me with joy.

Your beautiful hue brightens the dreariest of days, and adds to the beauty of the sunniest moments.

The smell of your flower carries me to gentler, more peaceful planes where my mind c...

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Lavender

So inattentive and so frail

We are so very frail, the skin we’re in,
listening to our bodies is something we do very poorly
trudging on when we should be
holding back or stopping completely.

Suddenly it hits us
the unforgiving wall of mental illness
or the crippling pain of physical struggle
Only then do we stop and open our eyes
to the mess we’re in.

If only we were even every so often conscious
of our mental ...

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frail

Hold on tight, it’s a rocky ride

All aboard the rollercoaster
strap yourselves in and begin the ride.

Hold firm and think of those,
who try to listen and speak
without prejudice.

It is something of which they can be proud.

They do not hide behind a fake smile
or an ignorant grin
but are open, honest and vulnerable, too.

Attempting to ward off the shallow words
flung back at them in a attempt
to curtail and sile...

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prejudice

I know

I know the wind rustles through the leaves and no trace is left of its passing.

I know that the clear blue sky shall bring forth warmth from out of the bright orange star far distant in space.

I know that the sea will break its waves on the shore and then retreat to return once more.

I know that the rain will feed my garden after a long dry spell.

I know the snow will glide softly down...

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knowunknown

Fallen angel

Hidden behind the corpulent clouds
sat all forlorn a fallen angel
Tears in her eyes, and a heavy heart
she stared down to the sphere below.

"I have hurt the ones I love.
Let me be cast down to hell
where I am best suited for dying
and the dead"

Poking her head up from behind her misery
she gazed on this shadowed vision.
Reflecting on piercing her thoughts
with a sharp wit and laden ...

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fallen

Down, but not out

My heart remains broken
but my blood still streams
around my body.

My mind still mourns
but my thoughts continue
to create dreams.

My skin no longer feels your touch
but the impressions
still remain.

My emotions are torn
but the desire
still survives.

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An empty house, a full life

Standing outside her house
staring at the water-starved fuchsia 
on her dusty window sill
still clinging onto life with blood-coloured blooms


Until a few weeks ago
she lived here
surrounded by her few possessions
haunted by the memories
of her children
who no longer inhabit this earth.

Her body is frail
and she can no longer live here
My sadness as I look upon her life
is compou...

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memories

Product fury

We associate ideals and dreams 

with lifeless products. 

Our goals are no longer pure, 

but riddled with polluting profit 

 

The neon signs poison our vision.

Remove them from our sight 

and give us a free landscape,

not one created for corporate gain.

 

What do we hold dear anymore? 

A close look at our inner selves 

or a short glance  

at the external ephem...

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product

Fear and Wonder

The headlights from the oncoming vehicle
held the stunned animals in their grasp
The beams like a claw clasping around its prey
An unholy ray screaming silently into the night
Distant, but penetrating.
Approaching still closer,
terror in their hearts,
the vehicle turned off the road

And transformed into a rainbow
Dazzling colours and many forms.
Behold a crystal,
the prism of light br...

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fearwonder

Life

I crave the warmth of sun rays

On my pink uncovered skin

I despair over the loss of someone dear

Forever vanished from my sight

I wear the sadness of regret

When reminiscing

I embrace the happiness of love

When it is in full bloom

I reject a longing for things

I do not have

I feel the erotic pain of a lover's bite

During a passion filled moment

I dream of voyage...

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Life

A chance meeting

A serendipitous moment
So wonderful in its fortune
A wealth of wonderful adventures
was laid before us.
A path that was destined not to last
gave us truly happy times while we were walking it. 

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meeting

What are words worth?

I wandered lonely in a crowd
Brushing up against shoulders
Colliding with legs
but feeling distant and alone
hearing no words of apology
only mutterings of annoyance.

I wondered lonely in a crowd
do we notice each other
or are too caught up in ourselves?
Minds a tangled mess of thoughts
A maze leading to who knows where
Losing our way again and again.

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lonely

Hold onto those thoughts

He gathered his thoughts in a plastic bag
to carry around with him,
to bring out when needed,
when he wanted to reuse them.

Tired and forgotten memories
that could be re-ignited,
and at any chosen time
to be used to tear down their target.

Their life in the airtight container
starved them of any air
thus, actually rendering them
ineffectual and for all intents 
and purposes dead.

...

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Thoughts

Sorrow

Even the arborial space 

Seemed to be sorrowful  

in its vernal  finery.

Hanging its many fingers 

Low and deep ,

Bowing to an invisible god 

whose anger and hate 

never truly dissipate  

but linger in the shadows 

waiting to spring out 

when least expected. 

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Sorrow

I lost you

I lost you today

I understand you, but then again I do not. 
You led me back to a time last year
which I no longer remembered.
I made a mistake, which cannot be forgiven.
You hold these moments in your thoughts
thrashing around like a rollercoaster
until it derails and crashes head long into its target.

I know I am hesitant and full of doubt
but I had you fully in my heart.
If you we...

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lost

Once More

I had a second chance
and blew it
thinking I had learnt from
the first time

but there is still so much to learn
foolish hubris
before the fall
before the snake bites

Not daring anymore
Not caring anymore

Tired 
No more fight
Scared
Taking flight

Too frightened to learn to fly again
it's killing me
it will kill me

Looking for that glance
that one look 
that show of affe...

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love

In the Name of the Father

Preying on and crushing new life
with your supernatural talent

Sweet and comforting words
fill the air
for the unsuspecting

defiling the young
with your two thousand year old dick

they, who do not dare question your authority
too young, too innocent

taking advantage of the naive
in your nave

Your hell is too good for you.

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Stranger in me

Looked in the possessing mirror
Holding me fast in her grip
Not letting go even when I step away
Keep an eye on yourself
Spy on yourself
Introspective inspection

I saw the stranger in me
the foreigner in my family
the immigrant in my house

Was it me?
Was it you?
It was me
It was you

Another situation
Another time
Same reaction
Same action
 

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strangermirror

Woman in a Cafe

I watched you working
Treading carefully through
The forgotten orders
Excusing your colleague’s forgetfulness

You had a youthful beauty
But your eyes looked older
Than what your body gave away

Forgive me for writing this
But your smile seemed genuine
And that caught my eye
I liked that.

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woman

Alien

Walking in and checking out 

I am the alien 

The legal alien 

 

What is this mess I've walked into? 

Get your head down 

Dodge the verbal bullets flying my way 

Ignore the negativity that hangs round the people's heads 

Like a sickening halo cutting into their skulls 

And drawing bloody thoughts out into the sleepy air. 

 

They come and go as they please 

I am u...

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Super Ball

I drop you from heaven
and you bounce back like a super ball
that I remember from my youth.
It always came back up
but each time with less height, like you 
you seem to be landing further away
each time I think of you.
Please, use that spring in your mind
to come back to me.
I long for that smile
that glint in your eye
that laugh that I love so much.

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Twilight

I survey the beauty of the lake
in the Spring evening sunshine.
In a far-off corner the rippling
of the water reveals a silent breeze,
while the liquid surface before me
retains its silent harmony.

The bursts of bird song
fill the twilight space,
while in the distance
a goose lets out its harsh cry,
and the call of the grebe,
and the silence of the swan
fill the half-light.

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Twilight

The Quick and the Dead

I watched the shit dripping from the walls,
I watched the piss rolling down the windows,
The stench overwhelmed me
and I fell into a state of unconsciousness.

A nightmare emerged of tortured souls in crimson coffins
Turning in their graves to avoid the violence of the living.
Crippled corpses shielding their eyes from the hellish sight
of the quick ridiculing and repulsing the quick.

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deadquick

Witness

Hold on a minute!!
Stop to think twice about what you are going to do.
or even three, four times.

It isn't as simple as that.
There is more to be considered that just the first witness.

Even the primary can de mistaken
the secondary even more
the hearsay trusted even less
the 'too hasty' should be checked
be careful of the 'not taking care' 

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winess

Winter turns to Spring

I recalled a dream
When winter's steely claw
clasped around my form
and vice-like held me.
Calmly stifling me of my senses,
numbing me of any feeling,
cramping and stamping out life.
It was a moment frozen in time.

Then I was awoken by a sound unheard.

A thawing feeling travelled first
from my inner being to the outer extremities.
A warmth began to flow through my limbs.
A glow app...

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winterspring

Signs of change

The times may change

Certainty may become uncertainty 

The intended may become the unintended 

Your beauty always remains.

 

The times may change

Invention may become folly

The creator may become the destroyer.

Your beauty always remains.

 

The times may change

Healing may become the disease 

The gift may become the poison 

Your beauty always remains.

 

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Change

Ageless love

The old man left everything to her

A full share of emotions felt

Their love had flourished over the years

Blossoming and blooming

Faithful and giving through time

 

They had met when only a youthful seventeen

Love had flown down and settled  on their hearts

Never more to ruffle a feather in flight

But to remain nestled there

Safe in the knowledge that it was safe, sec...

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Love

Pleasure

I look on as your clothes slowly glide to the floor.
The tempatation is strong to tightly hold you,
but I want to caress and stroke you
lightly and softly until you melt under my fingers.

A gentle touch around your soft firm breasts.
My mind becomes a peaceful haven 
where only thoughts of affection reside.

My tongue slides gently around you hardened nipple
and I hear a soft groan.

...

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pleasuresensation

Good night, my love

She is lovely to me.

I come up short each time we meet.

Our relations in love cut into my raw emotions.

 

Dear lady of my dreams

Only stay if you want to

Read me, and give your interpretation

Intimate and wild

Empathic and remote

Never forget me, nor I you.

 

Good night, my love

 

 

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Love

Renewal

I am unsure of who I am
I no longer know what I mean to myself
.........and others.

I am thrust into the unknown
I feel alone and uncertain.
There is always more for me to learn
I have learnt so much
But actually so little.

The emotions I feel
Are old but I am sensing them in a new form.
A refreshing but frightening way.

Holding onto nothing
I am walking a tightrope
Clinging on ...

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Renewal

Invading my personality

Where have all the boundaries gone?
I cannot differentiate between my life 
And that of others.
Permanently entwined
Virtual, programmed and real.
Which one is me?

Keeping me apart from the rest
Has become an impossible task.
We melt into each others' worlds
And can no longer emerge
With our personality intact.
Dragged into a virtual world
Our lives sucked dry
Until we homogenise.
...

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Personality

Dining on knowledge

I dined on a feast of knowledge.

For the first course i took everything 

That was fed to me.

For the second course i chewed over

What had been digested.

For the third course i mulled over

What was important in my life.

For the fourth course

I reflected and felt replete.

For dessert,  I left that on the plate

Until i could decide on the next course.

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Knowledge

Past, Present and Future

Haunted by ghosts from a distant past of mine

that remain hidden from my memory

but lie embedded somewhere in that cerebral mass.

 

Thinking of a present fraught with dilemma

residing at the forefront of my brain

Fermenting both fear and worry, and causing distress.

 

Dreaming of a future full of brightness

Floating above my corporeal form

Building and creating a beau...

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Standing on the doorstep

Standing on your doorstep
Waiting for you to invite me in
My heart full of fear and self-loathing
my confidence wafer thin

Crying out to hear your answer
Nothing eases the pain I feel
This emptiness and self-denial
Leaves me close to a complete reveal

On the point of no return
A cry for help and a scream of pain
the dread and torment roam free
while sitting in this pouring refrain

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It's just not cricket

Did we ever believe in the untarnished ambition
to run, bowl and throw to the best of our natural ability?
Or has the falsehood always been hidden from us
by those 'dedicated' individuals, who appear on
our sports fields, and on our television screens?

Our faith has been ripped apart so many times over recent years.
Our sportsmen and women, who create the illusion
of greatness and triumph
...

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Going through the emotions

Obscurity through anonymity 

Animosity through sensitivity 

Fragility through uncertainty 

Jealousy through arrogance 

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emotions

Can't sleep

Fighting this beast of sad mediocrity 

Gouging its eyes out to kill its soul 

Body racked with tempestuous anxiety 

Cannot sleep 

Pain of living 

Nothing but void  

A vacuum where nothing grows 

An empty space full of ideas going nowhere. 

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Grey day

It was a grey day 

Nothing was really happening 

Jazz filling my ears 

And the sight of the pouring rain  

Through the misted up window 

 

Outside was staring back at me 

Who are you? 

What are you doing sitting  there? 

I can see the misted up windows of your mind from here. 

Do you need some assistance? 

Some kind of help? 

 

No thanks, I replied 

It wil...

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Terrible words

Grasping, clawing at words 

Still fresh from the lips 

of tyrannical types you would not trust 

With your smallest, least intimate possession. 

 

Tearing at these letters 

Trying to rearrange them 

Into something more distinguished  

More befitting humanity  

 

But there are too many 

to handle and they 

continue their terrible tirade. 

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Rose in a vase

I saw a rose 

In a small glass vase 

It looked so fragile and helpless 

But yet beautiful and sublime. 

 

Could I touch its petals 

Without causing the harm 

that would damage 

this wonderful thing? 

 

Could I breathe onto 

its fine leaves 

And leave no sign of human interference? 

Let it live on in its own peace?  

 

My lovely lonesome rose 

Do not ...

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Fear and Worry

You want to let it go
then let her go
she has her life
and it is quite clearly without you
...........for the time being

Are you frightened of becoming
like your mother?
Hated by the daughter?
Never speaking or giving her the time of day?

Then, I wish you well my dear
Fear is your teacher
and worry your god

I fear for you
and worry for your future
as you do not yet know
what i...

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Flower of Love

Half a flower
is more beautiful than none at all
An incomplete bloom
stil leaves room for
more heart and love
A dormant bud can lead
to a fulfilled dream
A single petal still smells 
just as lovely as the whole flower of love
An island is still connected by the ocean floor
to the rest of the world
It is joined to the heavens 
by the air in between
The rocks and stones 
and grass and ...

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Abyss

I could not do everything I wanted to do
so, I laughed it off and cut my throat
to descend into a bloody abyss
where my mind could open up wide
and swallow everything whole
doubting everything
questioning everything
criticising everything
until my mind had had its fill
and I rose back up from the abyss
and into the light
my throat still cut
but my life intact.

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Day Breaks

Hold on a minute
Said the secondhand
The hour is almost up
Said the minutehand
Day breaks 
Said the sun solemnly
Another broken moment
for us to try and mend. 

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Back to Nature

Nature, she called to me

Come lie down by my side

Whispering softly and soothingly under

her cool breeze breath

Hesitantly stumbling through my thoughts

Not wanting to give in too quickly to this request

I crawled around the bloody earth for what seemed like an age

Crumbling at times

Standing tall then crashing down

It is time

I will lie down with you now.

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Nature

Detached memories

Scraping the bottom of the barrel  

I found fragments of a past life 

Remained forgotten for long years 

Cast along the wayside  

Of memory's lane. 

 

Branches of a time displaced. 

Misplaced and left to fade away 

Vague memories of my past 

Or of a past that is now detached 

From my spirit. 

Did I really live that life? 

Or are these souvenirs from a past not m...

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memories

Lobotomise

Tight, you motherfucker.
Too tight and the clouds float nonchalantly by 
as the pistol fires its deadly cargo into the skull of an innocent  
Did Herod have it right when he killed those babies? 
Stop the christ before the antedote to anarchy and atheism is allowed to spread his sickening word around this global hell. 
Manufactured belief system. 
Fucked up frontal lobotomy  
needed at once...

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Keeping hope

Do we search for closeness with a pure heart
or do we always have intentions that are hidden from other's view
Our past weighs heavily on us and delivers a blow when we least expect.
What lies within our bones? Does this trouble and perturb us?
Could our hearts be bleeding or is it just plain beating?
Is our spleen venting the anger of our past or our present?
Is the future driving us to out...

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You

I stopped to blink 
And saw your beautiful face
There in the rainbow
Holding the light at bay
Creating a startling array of colours
That could only have been seen
At the dawn of the universe.
You moved to deflect the reflection
And caught a ray of sunshine
In your smile
I could only look on and wonder
At this sight of an angel.

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Angels and Monsters

I crept out the back door
to hide from the horror 
of what stood before me
too afraid to watch it anymore
People dying all around me
Tears in my tired eyes
Weary of listening to 
the same old story every time
being told to the next generation,
to learn and unlearn in one blink
of the eye
Creeping out of the light
and into the darkness of anonymity
Stepping into the obscurity
of the m...

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Autumn leaves through the front door

Autumn leaves through the front door. 

The frightened leaves of the cherry trees 

Flee with the aid of the wintery breeze 

Get caught up in the metal frame 

Of the iron gate that stands tight shut. 

Their autumnal hues and end of the year  

Brittleness complete the picture 

Of the end of one season  

but also the beginning of 

a time of renaissance. 

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