When I was young, it made sense

The lights, the candles, the innocence

Misty eyed, fretting with excitement

I feel like now, I knew what it meant

Memories like a radiant dream

With all the colours in a warm stream

Images flicker in the fog of now

Like a scared and lost dessert cow

Golden sights and sounds

Chopping Brussles to a ground

Presents wrapped with a...

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Every year, around this time

A certain feeling swells of mine

Like a rugby ball stuck in the gut

A Christmas shell explodes and cuts

December 1st, plan a list

Of all the things you hate entwined

Gifts, toys, you know the score

Dec 12th, what a bore

Surely music can help bring the feeling

But a random playlist leaves me reeling

Old crooners return to haunt

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The lights you seek are not these ones, these are mine

I shall explain more in time

As I have searched far and wide

Yet these are the most beaufitul I find

Unique, like tears in the snow

I share these lights with the Emporer, Leopard and Crabeater

With an hour of sunlight, there's nothing more sweeter

Than to sit and watch the carnival of light above

On my own, as the ...

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The wind bites at the death of hope

Beautiful mountains stare from the distance waiting

A town scarred from a fire lingering in mind

As the silence quells the last of hope

Soldiers, guns and tanks roll through

Seeking opposition on a path straight through

Fortifications find footing, scarring the beauty of those hills

Where evil lurks and killing is a thrill

In am...

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Hello, can you hear me?

I'm writing so you can see me

Type type type

My words are ripe

Without a thought or planning

An idea is hatching

Could it be good, could it be sad?

Only time will tell

If I can make it sell

Down in my basement, I type away

Day after day, I hear them say

As if I'm stone deaf

Without words, I'm dumbdead

So many profiles, f...

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I saw you my friend

Looking toward the sky

I thought you knew you, my friend

Things aren't supposed to die

Loner Bird

Why did you have to die?

Londer Bird

Why did you have to lie?

I saw you again

Sitting upon the edge

Of the same window cill

As the past thousand times

Loner Bird

Why did you have to die?

Londer Bird

Why did you have to lie...

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She left home like a stranger in the night

No goodbye for the parents behind her

Shattered, broken and distraught

This isn't what they thought

Estranged and departed

Seperated and disheartened

Where do you belong?

Now you know there's something wrong

Meanwhile the parents stay

Like sharks circling at your bay

Only time will tell

In heaven or hell

...

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From the lover you'll never know

A note scribbled down in tears

sits atop a mound of colour

Trying to work out these forgotten fears

From a family torn and lost

Flowers that soon will rot

Your teddy sits upon the mound, arms wide open

Melting, muddy and forgotten

For the journey now cut short

With an ending some had thought

If only you could see things

How b...

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I lobe u

You know this

The feeling is strong

Even if the spelling is wrong

My tiny stubby fingers

Take little time to linger

Over the disproportionate keys

Stubbing along with a head full of bees

You ask what I lobe best

As if I'm not up to the test

But my lengthy gaze tells you

It's me that sees you

Especially when the words arrive late

I lobe...

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Tired, neutered and flat

Drowsy, battered and crap

Scatered, ears ringing and wondering

where did my weekend go?

Gigged out

Spat out and hurt

Load-in, set up in dirt

Sound checked, rain and disturbed

Darkness, smokey and curt

Irritable, sweaty of course

Days lost to the night

Hungry, beyond "alright?"

Midnight arrives

Still loading out in drove...

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Amphibious assumptions

Acuse us all

According to our actions

Aquatic astronauts evoke reaction

Architects assault

As antigen runs around

Amplfying aural aspects

As ants ascend 

Awful attempts at assumptions

As words aren't affecting

Ashamed and arriving

Aren't you glad

As it all ends 

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The evening wears on

While outside in the garden

Golden leaves cling on

The light is just right

For us to enjoy the night

Cradling a belly of joy

Not a girl or a boy

Crisps, dips and all the chocs

You are mine

A love on the rocks

Binging another show

In the warmth of the TVs glow

Mine is growing

increasing, expanding and showing

My telly bel...

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Beat the clock

Rush to the dock

Smash the shuttle

Give the rebuttle

Stand firm

Give the new terms

Crush the enemy

No more friends for me

Or pace yourself

Think of your health

Be kind and calm

Be free of alarm

Yoga it up

Fill up your cup

with love and sadness

Then stir it all up

And find your gladness 

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Whatever you've done today

It doesn't matter now, the sign states

its time for a parade 

for the tiny tippy tappers to escapade

You've seen the sights

Blinded by all the flashing lights

You've filled the senses with a pungent repulse

Tollerated the tube and the intolerance

Now you're back to the place of dreams

Where walls and ceilings go bump in the night

H...

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Walking around an empty hospital

Hearing voices, standing still

It's a strange feeling

Knowing there's no one on these grounds

Empty beds are blocking

As painful feelings are unlocking

Buried away in their homes

Scarred, anxious and alone

Yet the voices are protruding

Rebounding and allusive

Screams of fun and play come across

From another world now at a ...

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I hear there's a festival outside,

Laughing, joking, jostling and frolicking,

But I'm OK, I'll stay inside.

I heard they've brought Freddie back live on stage,

To rock and roll, it's all the rage,

But I'm OK, I'll read about it sometime.

I hear world peace has broken out finally,

Dancing and singing wildly

But I'm OK, I'll Youtube it later

I hear it's that...

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Planning away, sometimes all day

Words on a page, moulding like clay

Toward your interest, "I'll engage" you say

I should of known it would go this way

Travelled around all week through

Sometimes I'm spinning and I don't see you

Learnng the lines of a script I have written

Walking the mile but somewhere you're hidden

Delivering is easy when you've got the tools

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My iPad is thirsty

Well travelled, rugged and dirty

In need of a clean

And with its blue squidgy exterior

It's a sight to be seen

You are brave

Going places where no iPad has gone before

Where young people fight and snore

High care can be dangerous for all

But my blue squidgy friend

You will be there till the end

Stimulating and engaging

Its you they're i...

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So soft and new

Soft babies brewed

For months waited

Excited and anticipated

You are not mine

Yet close enough to build a shrine

Encompassing a wonder and love for you

Looking forward to meeting you two

Dinosaurs, mittens and tiny onesies await

Cute hats and warm baths you'll hate

A warmth of well wishes and love in abundance

To tuck you in and bathe in t...

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Sometimes I go to my car

Which isn't very far

But during work time it can seem strange

As if I'm lost and out on the range

Sometimes I forget things

Important, useful, essential things

To do my work or I'll be lost

Can't have that now at my own cost

So I return to the vehicle

Luckily today I didn't cycle

To retrieve my cherished, beloved and innocent phone

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You say you're "no Angel"

And we're left in a tangle

Words expressed with feeling

Still searching for their meaning

Does this give you a license so freeing

You can do whatever without stressing?
Responsibilities old and frayed

Distressed, dismayed and betraying

Keeping everything so tightly wound

Is bound to cause a rupture

Spewing the pain you strive the concele

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Walk the wight

With all your might

through sights similar to Honiton

which isn't too unlike Hobbiton

Names and faces are carried through an aching 33 miles

With care and thought all the while

Here we reflect and remember

the lost souls of our dark Decembers

We start off four in our fellowship

With hopes of seeing off our hardship

To cross a finish line is ou...

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Clean and beautiful they once were

Our ears now so dirty with no cure

Music used to sooth and curess

Yet now our ears are pounded and stressed

Is there only one tempo now

For all to March to with a scowl?

Lost in the reverb of modernity

Scarecely heard through uncertainty

Our house was a very nice house

With variation of sounds waving through

Not pounding or...

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Black and white, they rest in place

held in their wooden tomb, lost in space

a haven bathed in bright moonlight 

in a sports hall on a quiet night

A break in time can be so rare

Capturing the now from the glare

Free at last, I roam the grounds

To bathe in light and glorious sound

A feast for the eyes and the soul

The waves fill my unworthy ear holes

Such a b...

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All this time I've been waiting

Sitting pretty for you

But today has been strange

Panicked, lost and deranged

What is a lockdown?

I've only heard of a knockout

Never mind, you'll all be back in this shop

Money ready with a skip and a hop

I'm the newest thing you know

Laced up, beautiful and ready to go

Talk of the town I will be

When you finally return an...

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Are you alright?

Losing lines in my spiralled speckled sight

Out of hand, edging the paint

Were you ever in control?

Same route, different day

What is there more to say?

Maybe this day I'll tune in outside

And see what the world is trying to hide

It's a beautiful day, if you want it

Keep the cold wind somewhere in

Whether you like it or not

The sun is the...

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Some days, all it takes is one cup

Hot, cold, black or milky

I just need it direct to the face

I'll need some space

I don't have time to unwind

Read a book, unfurl the mind

Hot, cold, black or milky

I just want it direct to the face

I call them the beans of life

Ground or granuled, they relieve my strife

Hot, cold, black or milky

It's the only way to live

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Scuffing leaves on the ground

With no other soul anywhere around

Hands in my pocket, keeping warm

My feelings swell to an indignant storm

Life at home isn't quite right

The yelling and shouting gives me a fright

"Best apart" says my instinct

But it's not like me to kick up a stink

Night times leave me cold, fearful and small

Ear to the glass, glass to the floor

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Every loss is felt

Just as a ripple is spelt in water

Ever decreasing, calming asunder

A clock ticks in a house even emptier than before

The dark lingers in a hall still and sure

The cat rules now

Wondering why and how

Water weeps from a pungent wound

Never to be cleaned but to neglect and fester

Such a thought no beautiful sight could hinder

Leaving the los...

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Is there something to explain?

Is there someone left to blame?

Do you know why you are here?

Would you rather disappear?

As there's so many young people out there

Looking for the same thing

And there's so many young people out there

Trying to play the blame game

So listen up young people

Tell me what it is inside

Trying to cut away your heart strings

and ...

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A problem shared is a problem halved

and of knowledge I am starved

so here I am Dr Google

Seeking support, not a Doctors' retort 

You are there for me 24/7

Delight in a worriers heaven

A different diagnoses every night

hoping this search might be right

Speaking face to face is overrated

Full of judgement, bile and hatred

while my toy gives the answers

loo...

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It must be cool to be in a band

Everyone says so

The adoration from the crowd

It shouldn't really be allowed

We're all idols in our own time

But some need more 

Time after time

While ever rotting at the core

Musicing is now a verb

But it always has been hasn't it?

Plucking, strumming and picking

It hardly warrants any thinking 

I find it an ever d...

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I'm qualified and ready

to teach you nice and steady

Music is the session

It's yours with no pretention

Bespoke, tailored and informed

By experts, assesments and the sought

I'm even trained in Vdt MOCA

So there's enough in my locker

Yet I'm met with refusal, indignance and betrayal

How on earth could I fail?
Your engagement is essential

To know if I'm succe...

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Mother nature painted you by hand

Blue swirls traced along your land

A wonderous heaven lost to nature

May you still yet hopefully have a future?

You sway innocently in a dead void

Whille your cost of living is toiled

The aliens still infect you

Spewing out the innocence that held you

You are a blue green marble

A child's tale, a cherished fable

But waiting ...

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Is it asthma, is it covid?

For a whole year we lived to hide

Yet some of us are still stuck inside

Afraid to step into the light

I watched the drama on tv

In three parts on sly T V

A tale of fiction for all see

As if none of us were there to see

Millions dead, betrayed and forgotten

As if our minds have all gone rotten

Spoiled by the debris of our own lonelines...

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I see her every morning

And she runs without warning

In her arms is her lollypop

and no one dares ask her to stop

She's running for good reason

As it's definitely the season

To run with the tide

But for her, there's definitely nowhere to hide

She's running late 'tis lady lolly

Amongst the herd is our Polly

The stream of kids is never ending

But it's her b...

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There's a phone at my work

And you might think me a berk

But it calls me from a mindful zone

A place I like to visit alone

Ear to the top

As sounds fizzle and hop

It is a direct line

To feeling fine

I hear wind, birds, hussle and bustle

A universe unexplored in the rustle

Even in short bursts, it quenches my thirst

Distorting my mind toward what's first

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The streets of the past have a golden hue

Known to only me and you

Forgoing the shy starlight

A golden youthful yellow delight

The nights were littered with gold

A yellow wind left to behold

Sunlight at night

What a golden honey sight

People, cars and dogs

Streaming through a yellow fog

Christmas fairs and hot chocolate

A warmth and love now forgot

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Darkness shrouds the train

Blue flashes flicker in the rain

Alone with strangers left to hide

As a man lies down on the line

Time stands still when death enters

The breath becomes hard to centre

My luck at catching the last train

Becomes silence in the rain

Everyone is on the line

Phones in hand, not the time

Words turn inwards

Soiled and sinful 

...

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In the lush green lies an opportunity

The chance to explore just for me

But is it new or old?

Main thing is, this grass cannot be sold

There's uncertainty in its belonging

A nervousness in its colouring

How long will this chance last?

Will it lead forward or into the past

To Travel it does not require desire

But courage and bravery are not for hire

It is hop...

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Location unknown

No flesh or meat on the bone

Bereft of all comforting thought

This isn't what I was taught

I once knew a place

Where I knew every face

Now cold and dark

No warmth and no spark

I travel around in the void

Wondering round like a lost boy

And although I am able

Fully trained yet maimed and unstable

A ghostly belonging

Of betrayal ...

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Doomsday

Grey clouds roll in

The Sun sets in

Long ago was the summer of smiles

Now dark brooding anguish riles

Only the forgotten battlefields remember

The light green and the fond Heather

While with winds kiss

The clock winds and begins to hiss

The ticking is louder than ever now

As we wind our lives further down

While far away the threat is real

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Red laces

You tie red laces for me

So sweet and innocently

Another bond to savour and share

With love and tender care

They grow with every knot

While, in my fingers, they get support

Swaying in the air

From heart to heart, we cradle and share

The film rumbles on

Shared faces reveal the con

While knowing laughter knows best

As red laces know the re...

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Back of the pack

I often walk at the back

This helps me to avoid attack

A sheep among a pack of wolves

Safe and sheltered

Staying cool

It seems I just can't keep up

As the front seems in such a rush

While the middle latches on in hope

But the back just has more scope

Sometimes I get lost

My feet drag in the ground

As my eyes roll freely all around

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Busy team

Hustling and bustling

Opinions jostling 

Fighting for position

Striving, determined and strong

Never once are we wrong

Volume intensifying

Voices increasing and thriving

The noise groans in to view

The minds spew an acid stew

Passing the time until the end

Every foe and every friend 

We are the lost ant in an army

The child forgotten aft...

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This is my seat

From where I can feel the heat

The colours whirl and spiral

Exuding the passions and ideas of all

And the individual

I sit many ways here

travelling light years

Through fields and fears

Hoping tears clear

Comfortable and not

Alone in a crowd

I feel every sound

Hurtling to the end

Where danger transcends 

Passions and pride

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As a young boy

there was a toy

A game if you will

My joy and my thrill

E9 was the key

two buttons liked me

exchanging my metal

Expectant and feral

Sweet joy and relief

With beggars belief

as it birthed my candy

So tight in my handy

but one day you were gone

No sign, not one

What would I do now?

As my face drew a scowl 
 

Another lesso...

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The work has been done 

The visas are set

Those traps have been sprung

Finally, freedom for some

Every face and every name

Scorched in my mind

Pleading and tortured

They must run to hide

The beast rolls through the hills

Bringing deadlines and kills

Saving everyone if we can

Is my only plan

Eight trains so far

Gives strength and hope

To fami...

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Pass the glasses if you please 

I’m told I need them as a tease 

To see back through into the past 

And read the words so clear at last 

Must I be so old to see 

A world lost so mournfully 

Faded echoes of ghosts on show 

A world I knew long ago 

“Work from home” I was told 

As I saw the world unfold 

The screen burned and flickered with lines 

Burned in ...

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Hoody, vape and tatt

All night I've been sat

Another coffee will wake me up

Here's a magazine, take my cup

Alone on the ward, feeling bored

My eyes crush a matchstick hoard

Marks and scuffs on the walls

Remind me of times, restraints and all

Long days and nights settle in my thoughts

Old faces, names, and incidences haunt

Decisions made, young people blamed

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