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Little cheeky 'yay' for me!

I have had 'I Disappear' published!!

It's in a book called ' Uplifting Moments' , published by United Press. It will be available in shops from 2012 and contains loads of other great pieces by other people.

Aside from the fact that mine is in it, it is a great book, and seems so far, to have something for everyone. See United Press' website for more info if you're interested. They also ...

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For a moment

Where the ocean meets the sky

The sun will kiss the waves

and say

I've missed thee.

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SPAM TO INBOX

Has anyone else got spam messgaes in your inbox on wol? I certainly don't appreciate bullshit messages from people trying to get me to send money, pictures etc!!

 

I don't know how they could have access to wol messages unless they are a member and if anyone knows how to block them, please tell me.

 

IF YOU ARE THE SPAMMER, GO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO MAIL YOUR CRAP!!

 

Th...

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In a land of broken dreams

I'm alive
fresh, like a virgin
Surfacing,
humming exchange
I want to start something


I'm falling away from me
into the grooves
What do you want from me,
with your western eyes?
The truth is miles away
in the land of confusion.
Am I Evil?

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Know who i am.

come into me
fold yourself and feel me
sink yourself to my depths
and try to swim
swallow your own sickness
and try to breathe
come into me
see who i am and
still remain
be who i am and
try not to break
be what i need
and try to stay
come into me
and know me.

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Pea - COCK

Liar!
Fronting your fear behind
fanned feathers,
bloating your breast
to boost your boast.
How you cheat me!
Don't you know your
rainbow isn't real?
Screaming to
sightless spectators,
toe-trampling to
the top spot.
Pretender!

Don't you know you're
cousin to a turkey?

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Untitled

In turmoil,
tremors ripple below the surface.
Shuddering,
jolting through an unfurnished heart.
Cracks appear,
figments and thoughts creep out,
slick and vindictive.
Fixtures and fittings strewn,
mania sets in,
flagrant and blind yet sincere.
Stumbling onward,
torpid, into the gulf.

 

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Hurt

I saw myself today

Through eyes I’d never used

I had to turn away

Startled by the truth

I hate the me I am

Ashamed that this is Me

I made the me I am

Created what you see

The more I paint my eyes

In shades of black and grey

The more I see the lines

Deepen everyday

They write the things I’ve done

They tell what I can not

They name mistakes ...

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Shameless Plug

Hi,


Please excuse my shameless plug for my first poetry book! From Beginning To End is self-published via Lulu.com.

If anyone is interested, or just wants a nosy, click the following link :

http://www.lulu.com/content/legacy-lulustudio-photo-book/from-beginning-to-end/10867745]

 Kath x

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Daddys girl

he said it was a secret

he said it was a game

he i said i mustn't ever tell,

that I would get the blame

 

he told me i was special

he said i should be glad

he said i should be grateful

that i had him for a dad

 

he said if i did tell them

that they would come for me

that they would put me in a home

and they would not believe

 

he said ...

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No title

the eyes of the world are staring
following my every move
everybody's scrutinising
judging the roads that i choose

the eyes of the world never see me
i'm hiding behind a cracked mask
they only see what i show them
nobody bothers to ask

sometimes my hurt spills all over
nobody knows what to do
somewhere within i am dying
sometimes, i dont get to choose.

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Blue-Eyes

Blue-Eyes cried.
Bathed in flat moonlight,
soiled by incestuous hands,
she cried.

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Blameless

She didn't tell

She didn't know

She was just a child

 

A child lost

in a grown up world

Confused

Accepting.

 

She couldn't tell.

She couldn't know.

She was just a child.

 

A child not guilty.

Can't be blamed

Can't be shamed.

 

I was just a child.

 

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My affliction

Crawl out from under my skin,
it's beginning to hurt.
Silver on china, you abuse my ears
and i'm close to implosion.
The pins and needles you leave me
are cruel and undeserved.
You infect me.

You infect me.
Riddled with you,
you are the seizure that bites my tongue,
the sickness that plagues my thoughts
each night i'm alone.
The touch of your eyes burns,
i've too ma...

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Untitled

i sailed to no-mans island
in a raft made for two
i never said that i was going
but i guess i always knew.
i took a book about survival
but all the pages blew away,
had a compass in my pocket
but the needle wouldn't lay.
so i walked along the shoreline
heading for a some-no-where
and as i looked beyond my shoulder
i saw no footprints there.
so i trawled along the beach
...

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Lonely Hill

Death-blooms rest upon loam
as shifting zephyrs whisper requiem.
Grieving thunderheads split,
unfolding obscurity and
saddening the horizon.
The velveteen succor of night
abandons without regret
and i am left alone to resent the day.

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Untitled

Hold on to the roots,
they'll pull you under,
slip, slide,
downride,
wormholes wander.

cut me down
so i don't grow back
cut me down
so i cant grow back

let go of these roots
they're pulling you under,
slip, slide
downride
wormholes wonder

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Hourglass

rejected before she could give cause.

 

needle highs surround as stale air hangs

yesteryear melodies and dust-glitter float aimless

 

emptiness echoes sorrow

and windows hide truth

people pass on by.

 

she came of age before time

to whispers of threat and empty promise

to young to understand, she kept it buried

masked

 

she was me and her ...

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Crying out


I am my own undoing.
A constant unravelling in myself,
too long to wind up again.

Too many threadbare holes,
revealing my dead heart,
letting the black spill out into you.

Gather up these fibres,
knit the ends if you can.
Cauterize me.

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Farewell

Clouds burst
and as the songbird sings its lullaby
my tears begin.

In Cimmerian shade,
lonesome and fragmented,
i let myself fall.

Engulfed by frigid water,
skin taut and sallow,
my thoughts become void.

 

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Just to say i will  be blogging some stuff that i have blogged before, but since deleted when i went slightly mad!

Hope nobody minds x

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Sunset

Drowning in a sea of tragedy,

engulfed by relentless waves of

heartache and despair,

I fill my lungs.

Burning deep inside as I am

removed,

loose-limbed and euphoric,

I fall towards the blackness of release.

Numbing cold creeps through

my waning heart, stopping the hurt

and I cry,

tearless and relieved.

 

The last light of the day is always the...

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Stronghold lost

Windows that never wore glass
let the cold in more than ever.
Outside, the dried-up moat
offers no protection,
vulnerable, we suffer.
Cracked between the bricks
and crumbling fast,
these castle walls are falling.
Exposed, we shrivel,
shrink back against the cold, hard floor,
self-afflicted and pitiful,
resigned to ruin and shame.
Surrounded by walls that stand no more.
...

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escape

crimson-lipped viper smile
and sly-fox eyes fail to mask your
contempt.
Nose tipped to the wind, self
importance adds height to your
stature yet we see only vanity.
Undeserved and over-blown.
False-fronted, you strain to better
the rest, turning tail when you dont,
hiding 'til your next new thing.
Marigolds to dust the shrubs and
baubles for effect,
no brass tacks in you...

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Deep rooted

Craven, i kneel at your feet,
crystal eyes implore you,
pathetic and needy.
Frigid disdain matches my gaze,
self disgust turns my eye to the ground
as you sneer with approval at my shame.
Satisfied with my agony and excited by control,
you play,
taunting

Puppet-master wins again.
 

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escape

Amnesia haze


wander into mary's garden,
stroll amongst the weeds,
catch a rug to old morroco,
high above the trees
sink into the deepest ocean
lie among the wrecks,
let the stone-fish teach you how
to let your self forget.
drift along a tendril green
into a river jade,
wash away the fears you have and
past mistakes you made
sledge down slopes of ignorance
and land into the bliss
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escape

exit route to nowhere

woodworms came calling,
left a cruel mark on me.
thoughts tumble fast now
through holes i don't see.
woodpeckers woodpeckers
you're just the same,
picking and pecking
at all but my name

chase the bunny down
the tunnel,
and a dead end you will find,
a labyrinth in reflection
of my gnarled and rotten mind.

woodworms, oh, woodworms
each hole is a door
you're bor...

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Time-riding

riding the hours again
coasting from one to the next
re-fueling every half,
much more than really needed.
over-spilling ashtray,
each one a five minute filler,
markers on a munberless clock.
endless peeks through curtained glass,
veiling the blackness outside.
time waits not for me
but me for it,
weary and flat,
like the grey dawn that eventually comes.

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Diplomatic acceptance

Tolerated if only to avoid ruction,
she's faceless and bland.
A greasy, miserable wench,
who owns no redemption.

Conceited words spill over,
rushing to exagerrate status.
Repeated time and again
with growing monotony.

Unaware of the disdain
thats follows her, she
waits for praise and awe,
expecting it without cause.

Slowly pushing everyone away,
she doesn't se...

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Bloodrush

Bloodrush interrupts the silence,
a sudden offence to the still.
Cocooned in marshmallow,
foetal and calm,
i breathe.

I breathe in unison with my
beating heart,
a soothing constant to
pacify me awhile.
Briefly satisfied,
I sleep.

I sleep,
restless and fretful,
no longer eased by bloodrush.
Silence given over to the
tormented wail of my dream.
Frantic,
I f...

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Untitled

Burned at both ends,

thought train derails.

Time stops but tick remains

a midnight metronome.

Long minutes stretch
 
from small hours.

Start catches stop.

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a bitter-sweet affair

Walls bend, introspective.
A looking-glass of truths
i'd never seen.
Green lens,
self-destructive,
helter-skelter
to obscurity.
Soft-soap and sugar-coat
until the lie is fundamental fact.
Insatiable,
lungful of loathing,
take me somewhere pretty.
For awhile.
Kamikaze crash-landing,
hits hard from behind.

Lead balloons sink fast.
 

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driftwood


small, chubby hands
pat, dimples winking

she scoops again,
spade quivering.

little by little
grain upon grain

and then complete,
driftwood beacon atop.

tide threatens awhile,
weakening, taunting.

her castle crumbles
and washes away
with the lowering sun.

driftwood beacon
left behind.

 

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Times when you should hide your laughter

She looks at me with a serious face,
hands on hips, not a hair in place.
'Me pissed on floor', she says with pride,
seeking approval with innocent eyes.
My jaw falls slack and i stop dead,
she grins and simply nods her head.
''Tell me again, what did you do?'
'Me pissed on the floor and me wet too'
I have to turn to hide my laughs
to get an answer when i ask,
'who told you t...

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Luster lost

cumulus ruptures
ice-white spikes the eye.

a periwinkle-fringed backdrop
ambles above
a veridian tapestry,
dotted with blossom-spots
and lollipop trees.

cumulus broods
leadened mushrooms writhe

petulant slated billows
charge above
shifting obscurity,
moth-eaten windows
showing the luster lost.
 

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Sweet valentine of mine

Sweet valentine,
i'll watch from the shadows as you sleep,
stifle my breath as you shift beneath the sheets.
I'll take myself wherever you go,
patient, quietly excited.

Sweet valentine,
i'll wait as you comb your hair,
fingers entwined in ribbons of silk
I'll pause, enchanted as you caress balm
into your skin,
creamy porcelain laced in black.

Sweet valentine,
patie...

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Dreamer

Golden-copper stretched far beyond his eye,
the swell of corn yielding to a late breeze
made him think of home, the gentle waves
almost lapping at his feet.
He dreamed of another life, a world where
he was no longer rooted to the same spot,
where he could be free.
Looking down at the parched soil,
knowing it was useless to dream,
he slowly started to flake.
Layer by layer he...

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Antelope canyon

copper sun lights the
age-worn curves,
softening the harsh edges
with hazy shadow.
the gentle rise and fall of time
throws images of women,
provocotive and ethereal.
drawn to exquisiteness,
i return time and again.
Forever enchanted.

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i disappear

Pour me over the rocks again.
I'll seep down through the cracks
and disappear.
Spread myself thinly amongst the grit
and pool in tiny hollows
to leave a hint of what was.
My sediment will stay for a while,
'til the afternoon sun burns,
and i will fade away
like an early morn' dream.

Forgotten.

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just the way it is

Sometimes the biggest effort
can have little effect,
and you're left with
a constant reminder,
like a knife in the gut.

Sometimes the smallest effort
rewards the most,
an efficient deluge
almost brimming over,
bringing satisfaction.

Sometimes, you perch on the fence,
neither easy nor hard,
and the end result is
usually the same.

Sometimes, no matter how
ha...

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Left turn

Floating the edge of insanity
with a torn umbrella
and a book of hello,
written in a thousand tongues.

Not that it matters,
if you stop talking for long enough,
no-one hears when you do.

Pulling at loose threads, knowing
sooner or later they'll come undone
and the tea wont be so cosy anymore,

flip-flop goes the fish on dry land
slowly strangled by the air.

Bo...

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My childhood rainbow

Sunny yellow sharps bin
by the sofa side,
blue and green, the bruises,
upon my beaten hide,
dirty orange on sodden sheets
where, in the night, i lay
when Black came in and
ruined me and took my youth away.
the shameful red that
burns below has never left me yet,
Only lessened by the grey
of it's deadened coverlet.


 

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childhood

What would you do?

would you cry for me if i died today?
would you mourn or work the time away?
would you see my picture and grasp your heart
or would you tear that picture right apart?
would you lie for me if i asked you to?
would you cover up an awful truth?
would you lower your eyes or turn away?
when asked would you give the game away?
would you die for me if it came to that?
would you take ...

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untitled again

Floodlit blind and shrinking small
faces loom and form a wall
No escape and no reprise
i am on the run

Broken down and twisted out
faces turn to voice and shout
No free pass and no back door
i have come undone


Where were you when i fell?
Didn't you hear my cries?
You could have been my help
but now i'm out of time.

On the stand and on the spot
stripped away...

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Fancy adding to this???

Found these few words but hit a brick wall. If anyone fancies adding a bit, feel free. Or several of you for that matter! See what comes from it?

 

 

Glass screams shatter through the cold, stone walls,
echoed by a cruel wind.
Outside the snow-blanketed ground is harsh,
it's fleecy coverlet hiding a frozen, unforgiving
quarry.


 

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Never alone

If the sky falls

And the world ends,

I’ll be there with you.


If the stars fade

And the moon dulls,

I’ll be there  with  you.


If the sun holds

An eternal eclipse

And the black night consumes,

I’ll be there with you.


When your hearts’ last beat

Has been and gone

And your eyes are blank inside,

I’ll be there with you.

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muted,
struck uselessly dumb.
things that need to be said,
stifled.

clashes against


unrestained,
suffocating in words,
underwhelmed by insignificance,
drowned.

either way it's the same.



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