The Fifty-Ninth Minute

     Don’t jump oh Lord,

Do not ponder expectations of living here,

Give yourself some room to manoeuvre

And sway instead the rhythm of life

As blues take an arbitrary hold,

For we are old and tired,

And sick of living lies.

     All our collective tears,

All our raging hysterics flowing

Salt, water, emotion,

Are not apparen...

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World

     My children’s toys are lay beneath the tree,

A tree placed solemnly in the corner of the room,

And at this time it’s difficult to understand

Where hate perpetuates its claim on many citizens

     And once again,

I am contemplating Earth!

     All so many people tending giving

And receiving, for its Christmas time

Upon The West,

We do our best to e...

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Growing Up

     All I ever wanted was to be a Man,

All I ever sought was maturity and wisdom,

So I tried many things to be

That Man,

     And now,

I am but it has come at cost,

     The ignorance of youth

‘Can’ be a blessing in disguise

For now I am that man,

I am surrounded now by children

     for,

I have lived a life – known lie,

As I have sought...

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An Essay.

PLAYING POKER ON TRAINS

I am told, that a mathematician, once worked out that we could ‘all’ have a house by the sea. He worked out, the total mileage of all the coastline for every piece of land on this globe, and figured we could all have a detached house, and live by the sea. ‘Wonderful’ I thought, for as it stands today, most people are living on top of each other in ...

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Wings

     Those walls could have been

A hundred feet tall,

No, a thousand feet

With every inch taken like breath,

And I’m sure the humility behind them,

The exhaustion to climb them,

Would take the deepest intake of air,

     Still,

No walls knew this man,

No walls could keep

Boundaries of forfeiture

To see the stars tumble

From looking on in despair,

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The Dying

     There was a time,

Dawn brought promise

To a new day,

There was a time

When sleep would

Willingly bestow

The fresh face to see

The New Morning,

     In those days,

There was sunshine,

Rain, rainbows and seasons

Would appear on time -

Without prompt.

     A Spring was Spring

And a time of joy

With new hope,

Summer, was bless...

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TV People

     People of little importance,

Find nowhere to go,–

Nowhere fast in slow towns

Of ignorance and they wish,

Wish to have a life - celebrity,

To be adored like The Stone Roses sing,

     But they’re watching,

Listening to the bolstered ego’s

And drones of those who

Make money from bright lights

And soft lenses,

And they treasure every word

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Thembi

She walked slowly,

Lumbering swaying –

Upon ancient migratory

Paths now worn

By their own intricate networks,

     She groaned;

A slow rumble from

Deep in her hungered belly,

The acacia trees

Looking too frightful

To venture food,

She had left behind

Her young son,

Somewhere back there

Where ‘they’ didn’t care,

The thirst proving

...

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As it is rememberence weekend, I just thought I would post you this, in honour of many a soldier!

                                                Oh the Hypocrisy

            Someone get me a cloth,

For someone shat on my screen!

I’m scoping now,

Scoping with a full magazine

Of thirty-two rounds –

The foresight blackened

By my gun oil to assassinate

T...

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Exile of the Injured

     My eyes see the snarl,

Viciousness and horror,

A face like stone

As my body - feels the blows,

And my mind,

Numbed against a tyranny

That’s muted in our society,-

Accords only condolences

And sorrow.

My whispered thoughts,

Sharp trailers as if shot by tracers

Through a dark night sky,

Makes incoheren...

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Ode To My Bro

A personal homage!

     You’re my brother!

And it’s sad that you don’t come round

For offerings of food –

Perhaps a Sunday roast,

It’s always got to be at your home

Or neutral ground,

     And the coldness

Is like that of stone –

Polished to a high degree of status,

But I’m your brother man –

And though we fought like

Cat a...

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On Isolated Ground

     The devil, or god, or both or one

And the same struck

Me with a lame condition

That drains the brain

Of all coherent thought,

     For I have a kink

That sidesteps the predicate

And hones in on only

Each outcome each,

Elective ending and it’s like

Bending time

That folds in on every

Action – every provocative reac...

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They’re Blaming Themselves

     A couple argue over something trivial,

And the snarls - rants and discord

Reach fever pitch

     Until,

They are left to part

Their own silent corner

Of a damp tired home,

     And it’s a sad fact of life

That we argue at all,

But here in the deepest

Troughs of poverty,

The stress management can reach all

...

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The Biggest Word I Know

     These rules govern ‘they say,’

And only paper substance and brass –

Shiny bits of metal,

     Control to a point

Regarded as expressionless,

For we have lost something valuable

While entertaining value

For gain of wealth,

     And it’s only a five letter word

On the tips of most people’s minds

And blind,

  ...

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Gentlemen of the Cotton Towns

     I had flown with the best of them,

Fresh faces – lean with a look of hunger

And all to do their bit for Queen and Country,

I had leapt too,

Felt the mighty currents of air

Roar through my ears at terminal velocity

And I could run like the very wind itself,

And I had walked with comrades

On grounds that could take...

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An Elusive Natural

     All that matters,

Be the endearment of others

To see a particular point of view,

     And it’s neither grandiose

Nor too expressive for people to understand,

For it is an acknowledgement,

A knowingness plain as day

That all feel underneath

The wealth of lies being sold as life,

And that is,

That is,

     This is...

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Mental Ill Health, is like a scab we put a large plaster on, not to treat the wound, but for fear of contaminating ourselves!

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Tones of Love

More than human,

More than the humour that’s stricken,

More than invasive partisans can tell,

She still sings through broken chords until,

Those very broken chords become discernible

From her melody,

Become faint as her voice

Takes over all feelings and emotions

And no soprano can touch her,

No alto, tenor or bass for,

Her uniquene...

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An Indistinguishable (Distinguished Only in Deformities)

He sits not knowing how many he’s touched,

Never conceding his own life of bitterness

As daily he wishes only for the pain to stop,

He like many, joined a chorus of discord

Where harmonies were never

Sweet but, fraught with tensions

And atmospherics,

     Only gave hint of a dying space

Wher...

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The Makings of Kings and Pawns

     Would you like to play a game?

The computer asked through sterile blips

In the soft tones of a lure,

     I thought of tic tac toe

And Wargames but then,

I figured,

Do I really want to be

Placed belligerently without

Care or warning

Within the new Bauhaus,

     ‘Games’ are not what I’m about’

I repli...

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Cut!

We all want to live,

We all want to experience a world of love,

We all want to triumph and

Are enthralled by movies

Where good conquers evil,

     But they are just movies!

Sometimes, we think ourselves

In the movie,

     We play like the thespians

We have become,

Bargaining an Oscar,

Or maybe a BAFTA

Or even a GRAMMY

As you pla...

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Headlong

     I hear them,

I hear them calling out in the street

Issuing calls of despair and asking for help

And I would,

If I could,

If I had the power of legions

And armies and,

No, that just wouldn’t do

Any good at all,

Not anymore where

We are - fearing the worst

For a world where war,

Has become the only winner?

     You ...

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The Thief of Creation

…………a trillion years in the making –

We’re staking our claim to this ball,

     But there ain’t nothing left of

The green and the blue,

For it’s all become degraded

Material going back to soup,

A life-cycle finished

By greed and industry, commerce

And we’re diminished of all responsibility

For the death of the Whale

The shr...

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*BEWARE, NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH! 

In Only A Contented God

     We say we love our children,

But we’re making love in secret

While openly selling them war,

We’re all complicit,

We’re all thriving as writhing

The Gods ejaculate hate for our being,

We’re all spunked in the head by dark forces at work.

     We’re researching

Chemicals to thro...

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Okay you lot, you know me by now. I am one terrible miserable poet! So to prove I can be a little more lighter on the foot so to speak; I have posted this ambient track for you all. Something to break up the usual.

Words and Music by me (including the singing).

Have a great day y'all!

Mike

x

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                Natural

     Crimson tides come and go,

But none are predictable,

None are a surety like the rhythms

Of the moon,

     But when you’re free;-

When the dullness and sharp

Intakes of air subside,

We are an honourable proclamation,

We are not the hesitant

We may often be.

      Biology can be so cruel,

Both you and I know

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     Asleep

     My eyes are cursed,

They belong to a world

That destroys what they love,

They have no barriers,

No forms of protection

Against what they see,

     When blindness comes,

It will not be a relief,

For my sense of sound

Within the dwellings I live

Bare no fortitude too,

Within this city

There are makings of many

A ...

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Operation Safe Haven 1991

It ain’t much fun,

Not much fun at all

Squirting water from your buttocks –

Ten to fifteen times a day,

     But that’s how it was,

Shaking your ass while squirting

To stop the flies from settling on your anus,

And I’ll be blown –

The detector paper has changed again,

Another incoming bout of chemicals

Downwind to see y...

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Moments of Calm

That smile that shone today –

Neither anticipated or deserved,

     yet,

I found myself missing

The Smile a stranger can play,

Found myself subtly thinking of it

As the day drew to a close.

We don’t see it so much

These days with everyone

Hankering a beef with God,

We neither smile or laugh sincerely,

Neither give it al...

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The Accepted Way of Being?

The parable or, myth and belief,

Well, there be so much truth within,

It says something,

Something that many come to know;

     If you’re born

With the markings of your herd

Arranged just a little different;

Then the herd will peck away until

     Your death!

     The plight of so many children

Goes the same way;

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The Borrow

     ‘Oh how the mighty have fallen’

     They say,

Referencing the frail, the fat, the fucked,

     And,

You couldn’t wait to bring them down,

Watching till they’re frail, they’re fat, they’re fucked

     Yet,

You never really knew,

Never knew the sacrifice they made

     Still,

     You’re envious,

Laughing with scorn labe...

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Their Future Day

Go on,

Why ever not,

Succumb to the latest passion –

Expose your child to violence!

Go on,

Ask upon these casualties their age,

And when upon reply you see they hide,

Don’t be alarmed at the lie they say

To cover up the hurt!

Five, maybe Six years old

They say behind the tears,

Yet for all their fears,

They k...

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Money’s Killing Everything We Owned

I simply cannot do it

I simply cannot bring myself

To place my faith in rocket ships

Racing to space to bring upon

The Earth the resources we’ve squandered,

Laundering the bounty of objects

While we cannot feed our own,

     I simply cannot believe

We’re marketing the universe

While there’s a universe of hurt

...

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Born – The Long Sleep

I am, for all intents and purposes;

An emasculated man,

Some would differ,

Some would snigger,

     But I know it,

And I guess you too.

     Mockery is my middle name,

My only name perhaps

For those that drive the knives home,

For there are those,

Who have learned to hate

Made it their sole purposes to hate

An...

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This World We Now Lost

     Do you remember Christmas?

Do you remember when Mom and Dad

Loved one another in that brief moment of time?

Do you remember searching the heavens for Santa,

Unsure if it’s true,

Wanting so much

For magic to happen

That you were sure

He was there with all of his deer,

Do you remember what it once was;-

To be a Ch...

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Don’t Hold Sway With The Obvious

Distractions, pose only the question; what is it, ‘they’ don’t want you to know? Currently, we have distractions everywhere and most, don’t seem to know where to look for the truth. We can sit and watch the terrestrial broadcasts, but when we do, we often get a ‘whiff’ of something missing in the content. Still, for the working classes whom struggle to...

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Signs of Recognition

He’s busy watching all the titles

Each one linked like a slow

Train to Hull,

     But they keep

Rasping and grating,

Faking the cargo within,

Not many would he -

For a free meal

Or drink of nutrition,

     for,

He knew,

He knew he was alone

Like others who

Thought that peace would come.

     All alone,

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THE RADIO TELEGRAPHIST

     It doesn’t come easy,

Being a Radio Telegraphist –

For the MOD,

And when you’re done,

When you have finally

Had it all drummed in,

     Your ears are opened

In ways a civilian just

Wouldn’t understand,

     You’re sat there

In the back of a soft-top

Or a four three two

Or you’re out on patrol,

But yo...

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     The Whispered Spite

     Voices,

They come and they go,

Boasting only an intoxication

Of the macabre,

     Their caterwaul

Their constant intrusions

Upon my every waking minute,

Inspire only a longing

For a premature grave,

     And it’s not that I have

Misdemeanour,

It’s not that I have thoughts

Bargaining a quarrel with law,

I...

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The Greyhound

We’re all hemmed in,

Kept like cattle ready for cull,

We have no freedoms within the

Confines of our homes and everyone,

Is under surveillance,

     Yet the wealthiest

Are fiddling our kids

While you’re keeping the rich, rich!

And you know there are,

Many intellectuals amongst

The poorest,

Many whom know

That you know...

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Leaving

I don’t doubt,

I don’t doubt at all that

Atrocities are carried out by

All who claim to know,

For they feed it –

To each and every-one – still,

When you see the big picture,

The real story behind the gore,

You’ll not want for war,

You’ll not want the macabre images

Hollywood cries for,

I saw once upon many moons ago,

The re...

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Bearings

     An albatross can circumnavigate

This world,

     Its wings

Beating only few

And far between Islands,

Do we leave it behind?

Do we let it witness

The growing algae and

Beached Whales?

     Atoms for the Hadron Collider

Go round and round,

Finding their destiny

As spent offerings for breaching

The Galaxies,

...

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The Worst We All Feared

Do you really think,

Do you really think that you

Are allowed a place in Heaven -

     After all you have seen,

After all you have experienced,

Do you really think you will

Take these memories with you??

     What is left of us,

What is there that goes beyond

The place we are tortured?

More than that,

...

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Missing

How tall,

How do they look today??

All the love,

All the enticement

Of sharing tomorrows,

All the years denied,

When someone goes missing………

Michael J Waite 23rd April 2013.

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Ghost

There is an uneasy silence

Within the four walls that need

A touch of paint,

    There is a hope,

A faint offering of freedoms

To consider the rest of life

Without abnormalities of thinking

While hearing voices,

Voices that are at present;

Quelled awhile,

     For a time now

They have eased in intensity,

They are there ...

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To The Bogus Caller

Yeah I’m an Ex Tom,

And ex squaddie – a soldier!

I served in Central America,

Africa – The Middle East and The Balkans,

     But now I’m home and dry!

Home? Dry?

You couldn’t be further

From the truth as distilleries

In far-away places draw me closer

     And,

I guess I’m self-medicating again

To prevent the o...

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Spent

She’s gone now,

Gone to roam the avenues and backstreets

Of forgotten Manchester,

     Touting her wares

And looking hardwearing for all to see,

I can still smell her

Taste her and feel her,

But I’m left feeling cheap

And dry like the used ash tray

Before me,

     It’s there on the

Bedside cabinet,

And thinking of the a...

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On Listening

Sometimes, no in fact many times I wish they would go away. ‘You have two ears and one mouth!’ Some say; ‘use them in the same fashion,’ but, I cannot! I wish I could though, I really wish I could but my living days and even my nights are spent trying to drown out the cacophony that prevails. I have listened in the past. I have taught my ears to locate the distant voice o...

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Just Another Ode To Be Ignored

I’m not much of a poet me!

You can tell by the way I’m ignored

And don’t write the petty romantics

Of those with their heads in the clouds,

I ain’t too bothered about whom

Gave the first look of sleaze over

A cheap chardonnay,

Bought from

The supermarket,

     and

I am done with pathetic fallacy

Of ...

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Wings

Those walls could have been

A hundred feet tall,

No, a thousand feet

With every inch taken like breath,

And I’m sure the humility behind them,

The exhaustion to climb them,

Would take the deepest intake of air,

     Still,

No walls knew this man,

No walls could keep

Boundaries of forfeiture,

To see the stars tumble

From looki...

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Have you ever woke-up one day, and examined in detail a word you have used over and over again? It’s like, you have said it all your life, but you have never looked up the definition before. It could be a well-known phrase that you have repeated to yourself and others, then one day you try to locate its meaning, and you find the word or words a little strange, so you look it up. Then you ...

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Middle Eastern Man

I was a soldier once,

Then a communicator,

They say you’re a soldier first and foremost,

Before reaching for the radio,

Yet, before all this,

There was a history that started a long time ago,

I was a Human Being once,

Then a Christian yet I add,

I was always a Human Being

Before the being of Christian,

And yes, it ...

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Stop!

The sabres are rattling again,

Big hefty meat cleavers

That shrink flesh

And fry the soul,

I thought,

We thought this was done,

No more the battle

For whom has the biggest gun,

But it seems the powers

That be are once again

Playing a treacherous game,

A game we know

     Can never be won,

X on X off,

     Your t...

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Hysteria

It’s very intricate,

Attaches itself like spiders legs

Around each and every victim

As it swims even among

The most concealing pools,

     It is,

Unrelenting and fears

No other,

Its cold touch

Clammy with moisture,

And none know of

Its coming until swept

Seawards in a tide of hate,

     There is a new sickness in town

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Travelling

Beyond the architects,

There are different colours

Shapes and forms,

Beyond the architects,

Where duality has

Ceased its confusion,

There is a benevolence to

The life we know through death,

Beyond what you term

As good and evil;

The light we see through darkness,

There is more to learn,

Than the teachings we have,

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Falling On A Crutch

I feel like retreating from a world of Lunacy,

Feel like taking myself to the higher ground

To gain vantage over all the madness,

     But in doing so,

The sadness for what I’d see

What I would hear – sense and feel

Even from up there,

Would bare my soul

To a deluge of tears,

So many tears

The ground below would

Rem...

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Through Broken Glass

     We’re born in peace,

But leave in broken pieces -

Like glass that shatters

At light from the Sun,

We arrive as cherubs

Idolized as babes with new wings

But, we cannot fly unless

We’re faced by enemy and all,

Are taught the loving of the gun!

     Love, is corrupted!

Taken down as fallacy -

As an Achilles...

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Warnings

Storms!

We’re all going through storms,

From young to old you can feel the maddening -

Is this the insanity before a cull?

If you press your ear to the floor,

You can hear a silent alarm,

A variable bass tone resonating through

Our world,

It’s cold,

And the chimes from tree ornaments

No longer soothe – no longer imbue

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Truth Hurts

Just twenty-two you say,

Still making excuses and pointing the finger

Well my dear lady if that’s what you’re called,

Standby and dig in for home truths coming round,

     At twenty-one my very own birthday,

I was calling in search and rescue

On jungle patrols,

At twenty-three I was part of Gulf Operations

And at twenty-five I was pres...

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The strongest liquor,

Comes packed in flimsy a box that says ‘fragile,’

While the most fragile of souls – drinking all to forget

Leaves - packed in the strongest of box!

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She claims she loves children,

Has certificates to prove just so

And people believe what they want

To believe but hide themselves

From truth,

     Aye I could talk all night me

But nothing of any relevance to you

Would be said unless,

Unless you asked me to - and

How are you feeling are you

Still reeling from jilted days

The summer haze caused s...

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Do the Fekkin Maths God

    I spent over two thousand days as soldier,

Two thousand days and nights

And then more,

I fucked up though,

Gave my tears to a woman

Who only wanted to fight,

     But she had grabbed my

Heart and stole my loins,

One night she came and rubbed

The deed in my face,

One night I’ll never forget

I committed the ac...

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Falling Petals

1.

     A flower is not just a flower,

For if it was, it would be only one

When there are many,

Many different shapes, sizes, colours,

Some grow tall while others so small

You’d catch your stride to see it

Reach a sky that Spring and Summer;

Once boasted blue.

2.

     We can tend our flowers -

We can tend all...

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Mathematics

This planet used to be my stomping ground

And I been seen in a few far out places

And like many I thought I knew the Lord,

Thought I knew it all with tales of sorrow

And tales of peoples whom many

Would never come to meet,

     And my eyes would sparkle with pride

Holding my weapon to dictators throats –

Glad for making a stand a...

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Midway and Beyond

They fly in their numbers,

Tend their chicks on far off shores

Jealousy can only waste;

     As their young - die before leaving the ground

And still,

     We are throwing our effluence

For they to eat;

Our bottle tops and razors

Thrown seawards for the gull to swallow,

     And it aches inside this power become,

Wh...

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The Intention Was All Yours

Your heart says ‘run’

But you’ve lost a leg,

Your soul says climb

While your arms are behind your back,

     Your heart says love,

But the violence conditioned you for war,

Your mind says reach,

But they didn’t teach,

     and

You’re caught in a prison,

But you long to be free,

This is what society has...

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The Iron Cloth

Brought up by wit

And his own mistakes,

He couldn’t have been more - wise,

Couldn’t have been more inspired

To fly away to distant shores

Where welcoming eyes shined

The applause for saving life,

But the tapestry – flawed and fraught

With imperfections that were his life’s

Own tarnished decree,

Wouldn’t allow the escap...

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No Gainful Loss In War Except the Feeding of the Purse

Yeah, I sit at home all day,

Crippled within my infancy

Now living disability,

     But I still afford a luxury

When the bills are paid!

I’m busy watching the world

Tut its head at the current

Refugee crisis,

     And we’re all sat at home

Within the West reaching for

Our purse,

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Proligue

Okay fine folk of Write Out Loud……….and Nick! It was bin some time nuw that myself have written anything of umour, most of my werk pondering the more makaber of lifes machinashions. To this end, myselv have conduced a piece of wirk that gos some way into eleeviating the prejudism that is a-ssosiated with the more eldery of our populous. It is a werk that took some...

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The Sad Loss

I have spent too long on the ground,

Too long wondering,

Too long with a frown that

Arcs across the brow

Worn upon a humbled

Pitted face,

And now the race is done –

The battle won by cheats;

I cannot begin to tell you

All the promises now slain,

     There was a time upon this world

Where none knew the desperat...

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Out of Darkness

Chancing there be sunshine,

A host of crystal shapes and forms –

None of them the same,

Sends multitudes of rainbows

Against a slumbered room,

     Footsteps in the dark,

Those echoes of her yesteryears –

Her ballet shoes, her ballet shoes!

     She’s spinning now like clown

Pitching bids for freedoms

As the gho...

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                    A Planet Soul of Solitude

You make it so hard for us,

So hard that in time we give up prayer!

     And we never catch sight of you

Never see The God we can’t help

Believe exists,

For we’re asking to be granted

Rights to life,

Asking like condemned

A man upon his last breath

Before we’ve reached

An equitable age,

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This is not a poem, and I apologise if this offends you. But I feel the need to share this as it needs exposure so more people can understand the problems many ex soldiers are going through whom have served in the Middle East. 

It is very real; Gulf War Syndrome! I served in and around first Gulf Operations of 90/91. Prior to embarking in the Middle East, I had a BFT (Basic fitn...

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