You’re such a handsome kettle

With your spout so erect and proud

Strong, long, shining metal

So mighty, so well endowed

I dream of your water steaming

Your temperature on the rise

Your frothing liquid teeming

With me your goal, your prize

Fill me up, fill me up!

When, finally you come

Into my tight little cup

My spices, released, succumb

Comb...

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In the absence of light

I feel safety in darkness

Nothing to fight

Nothing to fear

Togetherness needs no light

In darkness we have love

In darkness we have sight

In darkness we find God

For God is love

And love is God

Nicholas O'Farrell 2023

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Defy, decay

I often wonder

About the last leaf on the tree

And whether there is a leaf

That refuses to wither

To decay, to die

To remain as soft

Lissome, and lithe

As the day it first grew

On the tree

And not just a memory

Of a memory

That we hold

In a photograph

Of a love

In the first bloom of spring

And days of light

And sun without end

Long ...

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If you want to stay wed

Then keep him well fed

And happy in bed

Cos he’ll be easily led

By his cock, not his head

Nicholas O'Farrell 2022

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Every kiss …

Every day

We would write

My love and I

Often

Many times a day

And every letter

Every message

Ended 

With multiple kisses

XXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXX

And I said to my love

Every X is an IOU

That must be repaid

With interest due

And, I am pleased to say

We repay the debt

Every hour

Of every day

And never has there been a debt

I’ve be...

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Am I happy?

What does that even mean?

Is it some permanent state

Carved in stone

Of where and what

And with whom

We are now?

Or is it just the sum

Of individual moments

With which we experience pleasure

Contentment, feelings, and highs

Or, perhaps

To spin it on its head

It’s the absence

Of sadness, regrets, and fears?

But surely happiness

Can’t ...

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I often think about the past

I like to think about the past 

I can’t help thinking about the past

And the people I have known,

loved, and lost

I’ve loved those I’ve lost

And I’ve lost those I’ve loved

I reinvent the past

I reimagine the past

I reconfigure the past

Combine characters, events, and feelings

I create new endings

I create new todays

I wish fo...

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I love the solitude

That lock-down has given me

No need for excuses

For being reclusive

For being solitary 

And keeping myself

To myself

The weeks ahead

Fill me with dread

When masks are removed

And life is improved

Normality restored

But not for me

I just want

To stay at home

To keep my distance

From people, and

The fear they

Instill in m...

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What a beautiful set of tegulars

So straight, shiny, and true

They dominate her smile

And radiate her natural beauty

No imperfections, no blemishes

Tegularis regularis

As the Latins may once have said

Or, to reflect their dazzling prominence

Tegularis regularis majoris

Now mine are somewhat different

Little, yellow, inconsistent in shape

Tegularis irregularis seems...

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I’ve always been the other

Or at least it seems that way

From when I was very young

I was always the outlier

The one who didn’t quite fit

I remember when I was at school

And saying no to cake

I don’t why I declined 

And chose not to partake

I’m usually so inclined

Towards all things edible

Perhaps it was my shyness

Or perhaps, I always

Wanted to be the except...

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Us flipping vegans

We can get so mad

With the world, with our friends,

Even with ourselves

For any lack of vegan purity

Conflicts with our vegan surety

If there’s one thing worse than a carnist

It’s a so-called vegan purist

Who eats organic honey

Bought with tallow coated money

Who wears non-vegan shoes

Made with non-vegan glues

Buys non-vegan booze

For their...

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My love …

She errs on the side of gorgeousness,

sassiness, and kindness

And that’s fine

Because she’s mine

My love …

She errs on the side of gentleness,

sweetness, and forgiveness

And that’s great

Because she’s my soul mate

My love …

She errs on the side of womanness,

openness, and togetherness

And a heavenly scent

That is heaven sent

And that...

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Some things I cannot fathom
And leave me ill at ease
Why is serendipity not wisdom?
And bucolic not a disease?
Why can a man not serve two masters
But have so many mistresses?
What’s sarong about men in dresses
And women who become pastors?

Why don’t poets of our time
Feel the need to write in rhyme?
And who on earth holds the key
To decipher modern poetry?
Not me, it seems, at least...

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To be 60 and have no plan

As to where my life should go 

Is a poor reflection of a man

And the paths he chose to follow

When I was young with years ahead

I thought little of the future 

And focused on the now instead

With no grand scheme to nurture

Now I feel my life has just begun

But no vocation beckons

No -one sees within my life’s span

The depth of al...

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