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Betwixt

Inspired by this time space we currently find ourselves in....

The land of betwixt and between

What's been

Versus 

What is unseen

Next year hints

A clarity

Of vision

Perfect for

Leap year

Decisions!

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Stuck in the middleChristmasNew yearNew decade

Christmas Angels

Their existence on earth

Often so quizzical

A little eccentric

More ethric

Than physical

Sometimes they're

With us

Our lives 

They do touch

When others 

Dismiss us

Their smile

Means so much

They're guiding

Through life

From the smooth

To the rough

Reminding lost

Souls

That they are

Good enough

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4th day of Christmasguardian angel

Mistletoe Mistakes

They wanted to kiss

Yet missed

With Mistletoe

How could they resist?

What he didn't know

Was he'd stood

On her toe

A short lived bliss

 

All of their hoping

Just turned into hopping!

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Christmashumourflash fiction

The gift of words

What you say this Christmas may be even more important than what presents you give ....

Some of them written

Most of them heard

Many are bitten

By the power

Of word

The gifts that 

You've given

Soon they forget

But choose words

With care

Lest a lifetime

Regret

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Christmas presentsWords

Out of body

You know that you are having

An out of body experience

When you find

Your heart and your mind

In a different place

To where you physically

Are

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metaphysicalmicropoem

Solstice state of mind

Dissolved into the dark

Part of it all

At one

With winter

Everything has disappeared

Yet nothing

Is feared

For it's all the same

Not death

Nor riot

Just mind

At last

Quite

Now I let

The light

Back in

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WinterSolsticemeditation

Christmas game of cat & mouse

Twas the night

Of Christmas eve

Cheshire cat

Begs mouse

To leave

Usually I'd have

To kill

But tis the season

Of good will

 Take your chance

Run Away

Hitch a ride

On Santa's sleigh

Let me lap up

His glass

Of gin

And frighten

You

With a drunken

Grin

 

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Christmas Poem

I-solation

Frantically he taps on the glass

Louder as they pass

Now he screams

But not through a window

It's a screen

Nobody knows

He's scrolling

His soul away

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Social mediaflash fictionpoetry

Poetic vision

Reading between 

The blurred lines

Defining sublimes 

Of reality

Noticing all

That others

Can't see

This how

Poets bring

Clarity

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Poetry

Pizza

It's not working

In Woking

Serving 

Deep fake pizza

Do they 

Deliver

Liver salts?

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News

When I remembered

The true

Value

Of some

Experiences

Remains unknown

Until

They reveal themselves

Once again

As a

Heartfelt memory

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Memory

Muse

His muse walked invisibly

Beside him

As she always did

Sometimes she hid

But even then

He knew

She was there

Could feel 

Her presence

In the air

Heard her 

Gentle sighs

In the

Otherwise

Silence

She would

Reveal something

Soon

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Retrograde

Mercury retrograde is at the phase where it is giving us the chance to revisit lost opportunities with a second chance in sight. Useful to take note of whether you believe in astrology or not.

 

 

Clockwise has closed

Now

Backwards beckons

Tocks become ticks

A reversal of seconds

Repairing the wreckage

Reckoning with time

Another chance

Awaits

Before the

Next...

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time

Poements

Some moments

And emotions

Can not be

Caught on

Camera

That is why

We need

Poetry

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FreeVerse

Snow White Updated

Thoroughly Modern

Miss snow white

No poison apple

Would she bite

 

So wicked stepmother

Sent her a gift

Lid off

White box

She quickly lifts

 

Lo and behold

It's an apple....

 

phone

 

This one has

An hypnotic tone

 

And as soon as

Step mom

Gave Snow white

A call

Into  a deep

Sleep 

She did fall

When awake 

She's still

...

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modern fairytale

Smile

A corner is lifted

One on each side

Dark clouds have shifted

Able to smile

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Zen insight

Shadow Of Temptation

As he stood in front of her

She sensed the presence

Of shadows

Behind her back

Light and dark danced

Upon the wall

Every embrace

Created the shape

Of things

To come

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Flash fiction poetry

Craveyard

Many visit the graveyard

What about the craveyard?

Filled with creative cravings

That were denied

Then turned to stone

And died

Each one engraved

With what might

Have been

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Halloweenrandom thoughts

Nonsense

An experiment in your observation ...

Having the grace to explore the alchemy of my soul

I was in the black, out of control

I'm strong enough now, to please 

Just myself

Shouldn't be easy for anyone else

 

Take a look at how

I've become so astute

Jumping and singing

Just like a cute newt

 

Flying high up off the ground

Slightly ruined 

But still around

...

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inspiration

Developments

Their romance was like

An old fashioned photograph

They clicked straight away

But their love took

Longer to develop

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Flash fiction poetry

Writing Moment

Finger and thumb

Wrapped around 

A pen

Wrote a few words

Full stopped.

Then started again

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Zen exerciseMeditationWriting

The Vaper

He was her dragon

Didn't have talons

But their 'nomance'

Dragged on

He kept

Her waiting

In a 'complicationship'

Reputation of 

A reptile

Scaly, bit flaky

A hazardous lizard

Still

In a puff 

Of sweet vaporised smoke

She was sucked

Back in

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modern fairytaleFlash fiction

November Horoscope

November begins on a point of tension

Now the political stuff 

I'll not even mention

Mercury retrograde has just begun

It can make a fool of anyone

You might be misunderstood

It could cause a delay

People from your past

May come back your way

Mars and Pluto in the boxing ring

Watch out for trouble

If you've had a secret fling

November 8th will touch your soul

...

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HoroscopeNovemberpoetry

Scorpio season

Early darkness

Nights draw in

Scorpio arrives

With a tail

That stings

Clocks rewind

More time

In bed

Land of

The living

Meets depths

Of the dead

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GMTclocksscorpioautumn season

Robotic

Recapturing who I was

Before my microchips

I used to be a human

Now it's electric bits

Back then, 

I had less memory

I needed to 

Use my brain

Subjects like maths & physics

Were such a struggle

A strain

I remember

I used to wear glasses

So much I wasn't seeing

That's all in the past now

I'm a supersonic being

I used to get 

So tired

Energy leve...

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emotionfuturerobot

Drunken Monk

On hearing a story about 'Auto-Brewery Syndrome ( ABS) 

 

There once lived

An incontinent monk

He never drinks

But still

He gets drunk

The doctors

Were flummoxed

For he

Brews beer

In his

Stomach

Now they

All want

To squeeze out

His trunks!

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humourous poetryNews story

Winter knows

Spring had sprung

Butterflies in

Her tum

Followed by

Summer's overwhelming

Heart melting sun

But then

The fall

In love?

Or 

Not at all?

Only

Winter's snow

Truely knows

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Love stagesSeasons change

Cold calling

A bit of poetic free styling flash fiction

 

Phone rings

It's him

She recognises

The tone

'Are you alone?'

He moaned

Sounding 

So far away

 

'Please, don't 

Hang up

Stay'

He says

Funny how he never

Called when

He was alive

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bad romanceflash fictionHalloweenhumour

Dumb and dumber

We used to chat

On a green screen

In the pre teens

On 3310

As it was 

Back then

SMS texting friends

Was the 

big trend

So relieved

To read

1 Message Received

During break

Used to

Play snake

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communicationHistorymobile phones

Do it anyway

Expressing isn't always about impressing

Sometimes it's a confession

Or the regression of a memory

 

It might even be

About a maybe

A one day me

 

That I only see

Approximately more clearly

When it's put into words

 

It could seem absurd

When it's read

Or tis' heard

 

But they must be released

In order to cease

My mental marathon

 

When a...

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Writingwriting for funpoetry

Astral Travelling

The projection

Was watching

It's physical form

As it lay there

Sleeping

Looking 

Well worn

Now spirit's

Set free

Of age

Gender, race

In all places

At once

No more

Shame

Or

Disgrace

Astral travelling

Sends back

Dreams to

Main brain

Explores the

World faster

Than a

Train, tram or plane

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AstralSpiritthe traveller

Blank Canvas

It's attitude was neutral

Neither here, nor there

Just a bare canvas

That stands without care

A vast space vibrating

It waits without rush

Filled with anticipation

For the stroke of a brush

Allowing anything 

The artist desires

Till the picture appears

For all to admire

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Artartist

Calculations

Calculated mathematicians

Multiply their suspicions

Adding assumptions

While subtracting

Satisfaction

It all sums up

To a

Dramatic divide

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jumping to conclusionshumour

Thinking

Lost in deep thought

Not an astronaut

Yet walking in space

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Deep thinking

In short supply

 

Sometimes you just have to give yourself a break from feeling bitter and give yourself a chance to love something. This isn't just about romantic love.

The best kind of love

Is without conditions

No doubtful suspicions

Or painful omissions

There is no one reason

For the feeling

Never defending 

Or pretending

It just is

With No Ending

 

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unconditional lovekindnesscompassion

Model Words

Some words pose

Only showing

A poet

How to

Paint them

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Art of poetry

Be Yourself

Deafened by definitions

About who we

Should be

Becoming blinded

By beliefs

We can't see

 

Consuming assumptions

Of society's strangers

Persistent peer pressure

Tries to

Rearrange us

But to yourself 

You belong

You cannot

Be sold

There is

Nothing wrong

In breaking free

From the

Mold

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Be yourselfOriginalauthentic self

A Taste Of Romance

Sweet at the tip

Then flavour slides

Take another sip

Sour at the sides

Swilling around

Taste starts 

To lack

Now all

That's left

Is bitter

At the

Back

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romancesensationtaste

Gaming Addiction

On hearing that the NHS are setting up new clinics for teenagers who are addicted to playing games online

N H Chess....

A different

Game to play

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Newschessgames

Birthday Flowers

Harsh words were spoken

A vase was then broken

Their only shared token

Of love

 

She'd waited for hours

For him to bring flowers

But instead he'd brought

Gardening gloves

This is not what she needs

Yet a packet of seeds

Is her gift

He'd practically bought

Without loving thought

And that was the

Start of their rift

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missed opportunity for romance

Gloomy Monday

More of this

Ordinary

Nothingness

Dreaming

Away the day

Yearning for more

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monday blues

Halloween Hiring

If you find yourself applying for a soul destroying job maybe...

A job's just come through

From Monsters UK

It's Halloween soon

There's demons 

To slay

Equal opportunities

Be you

Woman or man

Main requirement

Being that

You can

Handle

Sharp fangs

Bring in your CV

Be it real

Be it fake

These Evil hearts

Need your 

Hammer

And stake

 

...

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halloween poemJoke

Armchair Travels

Around the world

In 80 websites

Cutting the costs

On all those

Long Flights

Threw away 

The suitcase

& the rucksack

No more clothes

For me 

To un pack

You see

I'm minding my

Carbon

Foot

Print

Nah

It's just a 

Posh way

Of saying

I'm skint!

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Joketravel

Brexit psychosis

Yesterday the first official case of a new mental issue termed 'Brexit Psychosis' was diagnosed, this will proberly continue long after the deal like a form of PTSD......

 

Brexit psychosis

A new type of 

Hypnosis

Caused by

An atrocious osmosis

Of Nothingness!

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Brexitmental health awareness

Let's do this thing ( what is it again?)

On hearing the speech....

C'mon this is fun

Ideas? I have none

Yet premiership I have won

Might not be in

That long

So my

Promises are far flung

But these words

I've carefully strung

Let's Get Brexit done

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Brexit news jokes

What will we talk about after Brexit?

From Article fifty

To

Area fifty-one

A spaceship Invasion

Once Brexit

Is Done!

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BrexitPoetry jokesspaced out

Invincible

 

Living like we're Invincible

Convinced that the inevitable

Will Never Happen

To Us

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DeathHealthLife

Invisible Driver

On hearing driverless cars witll be on the road by 2021, a bit of poetical flash fiction....

No foot

On the pedal

No hand

On the

Brake

Was this

Driverless Journey

The last one

They'd take?

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Carsjourneyunknown

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