Hi,

Just want to wish all poets a very merry christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Let's hope it blossoms into a year 'we all' would cherish. It prolly won't, but, don't give up hope.

A poet without hope, is a redundant poet! After all, it is the hope for change that keeps us going, keeps us writing.

Have a gooden.

xxx

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21 Grams

     What is this thing we bare upon the World,

What exactly is housed between skin, bone, muscle and blood?

Is it something we know is inherently good,

     Or is it there just to deceive,

To trick and cajole,

     And imbue -

Sad lonely wishes?

Dr Duncan MacDougall would have you believe,

In something more than carbon,

Something more than h20,

...

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Therein The Beast Lies

     How complicit are they,

They that propagate the hate

We serve beneath?

And you my friend of World,

Are you in allegiance

With deceit and power and,

Should and does it matter today?

     Do we allow reality

Befall us all,

Or do we turn our back

Upon its value,

‘Consider’ only ourselves

And not,

     The World

In whic...

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The Yearning - Broken

     A headline,

Breaking news to a breaking people,

     ‘MISTER JONES FELL OFF HIS STEP LADDER TODAY!’

Three rungs up he were it seems,

Three rungs up for a three foot fall and only if,

Did I want to emulate his fame.

     Names of celebrities graced my

Paper of international worth,

Someone new had made it to the top,

Someone blue had...

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The Drum

     Where do they go to,

When silence deafens,

     Do the multitudes swallow them

As if, like us, we are all,

Zombies of a decaying paradise?

     To see him sit there silent,

Makes notions of absurdity,

And yet, many adorn tiring attire -

And dust and,

     It is African,

Not meant for sand to gather

But be polished from its form

And tha...

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Congregation of the Parasites

     Just to put things in perspective,

Just to tell you all how dire we’ve become,

I will bestow upon you a truth now,

That’ll have you beckoning a gun!

     In death the Father dies

And says his last forever words,

But the love is never granted;

Never acknowledged as his worth!

     Instead a parasitic object

Becomes...

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A Pint of Bitter, A Pint of Mixed, And Some

     Change for the Pool Machine Please!

     I will not cry upon your departure –

Hard man,

     I will neither bury my head

In hands or upon her false buxom,

     But I will remember,

     I will not sing praises

And platitudes of honour,

And lie like a bastard –

Perhaps the bastard I am,

But,

     I will r...

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An Evolution of Attitude

     Mistakes are common,

They can make you strong

In realisation,

     But it takes dignity

And courage to admit when wrong,

     When philosophies and norms

Are backed by authority

Truth becomes only a whisper

That disturbs, for many

Want believe without question,

And it’s long in the day we have

Followed antiquated conventions.

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Mercy

     It isn’t just paranoia,

It becomes more than that the moment

Your ravings and ramblings become true

And it’s so powerful,

     So powerful the term intuition

Be only a slight at what it is,

For it is to many

A cliché written by others

With a hint of the macabre,

     For the struggle for recognition

For what you know - be more

Than fiction c...

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Liar Liar

     A hundred apples fall from a tree

And each – their behaviour remains the same,

Sixty seconds fly by in a minute –

Their time constant, but

We’re hoping to bend its nature!

     Empirical knowledge is under threat

For no-one believes each other’s words,

We’re looking for truth in a world filled with lies

And doubt is written upon the youngest;

...

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The Unreported Crime

     I’ll not forgive,

Not this system of abuse,

For it seems the brightest stars

Be engulfed more ferociously

By the darkness,

     It seems such a waste

And no recovery in sight

While psychologists and

Psychiatrists leave their own

Branding to add to the violence,

     And still the voices

Persist an onslaught that makes

No sense t...

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The Silence of the Natural

     I am having trouble stemming the flow of truth

That's engaging your conscience,

That's devouring the heart you and I say

We have,

     For it is plausible,

More than in fact,

That your denial be

My heartbreak,

     There are so many fakes

So many playing to the gallery

Mistaking the audience’s

Cruelty for adoration!

 ...

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The Last Aurora

     I’m told

There is a future warrant

For my arrest,

A piece of paper

Drafted by the feds

To imprison a life they detest,

     And it doesn’t matter

I am human – full

With emotion and

A wanting to live

But they don’t forgive anything

Different.

     I’m an outsider,

A none belonging in a world

They only want you to conform,

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An Interrogative

     Grateful,

They say we should all be grateful

     For this life,

     But I’m asking you,

     Pleading with you to admit

The truth;

Would you want to carry

All memories of this World –

     Unto the next?

     Further,

Are you given authority

To vet which memories stay

And which are lost in your future

Conscience?

     ...

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Internalizations of the External

………today I thought I could,

I really wanted to

And I almost did,

But then I hid beneath

The covers and declared

The morning lost.

     Midday came,

I thought of food –

Maybe a cup of tea

To wake me from my slumber,

But the kitchen seemed too distant

To venture, too cold

And far removed from warmth.

     I toy...

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It Takes Courage

You’re wondering why

And I’m wondering why not??

But more than that

And more than this,

I am wondering why you haven’t

And I am still to succeed,

Because, in truth,

We’re living lies!

Michael J Waite 5th September 2015.

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The Haunt

     You see the little box you place bits of your heart,

They ain’t the cure for your soul turning hard,

     You see the Polar Bear

Eating her young to survive,

They won’t fuel your car

When the oil has dried and,

     Being blind to the world

Passes the boy on the beach,

Dead in his skin,

Drowned and condemned

And spent so cheaply,

     So chea...

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10

     We ventured in for ten minutes,

Our little circle of Globe Trotters and SAS Sigs,

But there was no life,

     Just acrid tobacco smoke

And stale alcohol,

But the Rebel MC was having none of it;

A Newcastle Pub dead as a dodo

And nowhere to go-go!

     So we pissed what we could

And let fly a dance,

And before we left the whole

Pub was in trance...

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Adventurous, Forthright, Calamitous, Old!

     A man came to be one day,

Speculating his worth to The Gods

Seeking only quandary he could beat

     His submissive stance -

Becoming more and more apparent

     His stride – sterner still

Than the passive look in his eyes

His conviction knowing only

Victory, feeling each and every

Whimper, beneath a multit...

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An Oasis of Heart

     Are they born there God?

Are they born with my tears?

What about you?

Are you happy with my sorrow?

Do you feel  - cherubs be

A waste of  our strength?

     Be I strong to witness the child

Of Hamas hung in your faith?

Be I strong to encapsulate

     A child of Mossad;

Do I bring her to The Red Sea?

     What choices Reign

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Domino Theory or, Who’s Next?

…………there’s ten in the bed and the

Little one says……….

There’s ten little Indians

All sitting on cake,

But the candles are out,

There’s nothing to blow

Except dead air,

     And each little Indian -

Each child to sleep

Wonders in haste

If the drink that they took

Be laced with hate,

     Ten in the bed and the little

One ...

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COLD

     Such a sedate journey,

The one six three from Manchester to Bury -

Taking in all modern sights Ken Loach

And the Ward Brothers claim in fame,

     And the top deck don’t half

Smell so sweet,

     The green pungent air -

Turning your ‘guts’ inside out

And provoking a whitey -

(A rizla a roach a green with the baccie).

     I’m listening to Dae...

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In Love, In Faith, In Honour

     The best Dame in the World,

Is the one that knows when you’re beaten,

Yet still remains with pride -

Right by your side,

     And the best Man,

Be the one that knows they

Mistook her for a whore,

Yet strides to clear the mines,

Before their solemn walk!

Michael J Waite 13th July 2015

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     This Garden of Skipton

     The accusations are muted here,

No more audible

Than a gentle summer

Breeze through the branches

Of trees that shimmer in

The sun,

     I can gain some

Peace until once again

The making ready of the gun

Signals the end of tranquillity,

     The brief startle

Breaking reverie of freedoms –

Now subject to despondency

And...

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Pray for Beer

Drink beer men,

Drink beer until your death,

From the Bishops Finger to Mashams Gold,

Drink beer and never stop.

The schools have took your intellect,

The estates have robbed your pride,

So drink the Guinness at arm’s length

And know the Brew has never lied.

Drink beer even if it’s out of date

And hope the drink doth quiet your brains,

...

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Made For Bad

     I felt the removal of its power

And dared not move an inch until,

I realized that to die like this

Would be the quickness I desired,

     The aura tested,

Sought to know what was left

Of a detested man

And I waited for the slump,

     Alas,

It returned its

Grip upon my being

And I remained

Within the confines

Of my shell,

   ...

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Dead On The Beat

     I could be a deadbeat,

I could be a deadbeat but,

The beat is dead before me,

I have marched,

Carried the weight of a world

That hates itself,

     Insists each and every

Human screams till death,

The noise of the kill

Like the radio that never

Goes away and remains

Constantly triggering

The pain inside your head,

     And I...

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………and they say I’m mental!

     I hate to say this People,

But you’re all being watched

For your lies and deceit,

     And if you knew,

If you knew just how disgusting

We’ve all become,

     You would know that

When they play the footage

Back, your very own self

Would give you the creeps.

     You’re saying one thing to yourself,

And differently ...

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Such Indescribable Hurt

     All human dignity is gone,

Shattered into billions of sharp

Fragmented pieces for her to swallow,

     And the taste of blood and pain

Like metal that cannot be chewed!

     She dreams she has been

Forced through a meat grinder,

Bone and gristle pulped

And oozing contagion

She fears may season all,

     And she longs to touch

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To Rescue Them  All

     I’m a little cold tonight darling,

Perhaps too cold for whiskey and ice,

Maybe a beer though,

Chilled with a frost – just,

To keep me sane!

     Would you look

At the magic,

Can you see the larger

Than life personalities

Here in the garden?

     It’s not dark my love,

Not dark at all within

Their majesty of light,

Look at...

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Laceration of Souls

     My eyes are cut,

Slashed with metal;-

A blade so sharp -

It could cut The Earth,

     And then,

It does!

     I look again,

Hoping the imagery will change

And there I see a familiar face,

Familiar feet walking

Bare and bloodied

On thorns with no shoes,

     And I’m feeling his tears

With tears of my own.

     His ...

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Does The Light Cry?

     Our biology,

Our human mechanism

For negotiating pain,

Wasn’t merely thrown

Slovenly into the mix,

     Wasn’t just created without

Thought and understanding

Of the nature we become,

The nature we already are.

     When a human becomes

Hurt, they cry,

They cry perhaps the saltwater

Of the seas we once belonged,

     And n...

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As Suns Set

     We’re very young you and I,

We’re sat each of us upon thrones of bulshit

And juvenile, we’re

Propped up by excrement,

And sit there glad of its warmth

As we meander down life’s cavities of truth,

     So hollow it is to die

Upon spectres of life,

Viewing the multitude of ghosts

Like, like, like we mean them well

When all in all,

     W...

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....................hello you lot. This isn't poetry, I am just helping create some width here. An interlude as you post and browse the many talented. I hope you like it. 

Keep posting and keep on keeping on, Spring is soon upon us.

Much love

Mike

xxx

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Notorious

     (This Kingdom in Denial)

     An emperor stepped out today,

Greeting throngs of disenchanted

Peoples with waves as if;

     As if they were all so jubilant -

To be within his orbit.

     Walking streets in clothes

A saint could not afford,

He’s scanning all for approval,

     But loathed to admit

His jealousy for the ‘tracky’

And the ho...

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No Other Way But In Fantasy

     My eyes sting as if

Pepper had been sprayed,

The tears warm upon

Cheeks so cold they could almost

Sit comfortably in the cavern

Of Man-kinds world,

     No deed had been done –

No spat with an authority that

Lacks a heart to confess –

But then; we’re all busy

Remembering the lies we have told,

     We’re all keeping

Hones...

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One Wall - Two Sides

     You never knew him,

You never cared,

But you thought it best his image to be shared,

     They threw him down

And stripped him bare,

Put a round between his eyes –

And called him foe,

     And peace be just an easy fellow

Who knew a wealth of wisdom,

But thwarted still – the simple life

With wife and child;

And the building of...

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     Sprint

     My legs are tired,

They cannot bare the weight of iron in the sky –

And I,

Couldn’t, wouldn’t,-

     Shouldn’t have had to have lived this way!

     Searching every crevice,

The intrusive beam made blindness

Seem welcoming,

For we needed sleep,

But the whir and the fumes -

(and screams);

     Set insomnia the home

We never had,

 ...

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