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And the sky burned in brilliant reds

as the sun rose from behind the horizon.

I beheld a glorious dawn of days;

a rapture of the soul.

I cried out with the joy

Of the newly converted.

Surrounded by a cathedral of trees,

Crowned by that nimbus of light.

And as the last of the winter leaves

shimmered in splendour about me

I understood a simple truth:

so...

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I have a shelf,
And on that shelf
There are jars.
Some labelled,
Some not.

There is one jar
I've been trying to find
Hidden in
Amongst the others;
Identical from the outside.

That jar
Was always labelled
But now that label's gone 
And I can't find 
The right receptacle.

I opened a few
In my hunt
And have to admit
To being skeptical
Of ever finding it!

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It was wrong of me
to throw my problems onto you.
To tar you with my brush
to expect you to care
to need you to be there.

What are we but a by-product?
The detritus of the life we lead.
And who am I to lay this on you?
To demand more of you
To want a rock to cling to.

And so I let you go;
Cast myself off from your rock
Let the burgeoning waves
carry me far fro...

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I have no idea if this is any good.  Seems mostly stream of thought to me but it needed to come out, so here it is:

 

Life is an affliction
from which we never recover.
Enter the world screaming
And never stop.

Life seems fit to torment;
a torrent of dark abuses
gilded with a veneer
of calm civility

Smiling assassins;
sheep forced into wolves clothing.
We lash ou...

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Feverish desire
Quenched between your silken thighs
Lips on lips, skin afire

 

Lying under stars
Skin to skin we twine in love
Each other; for hours

 

Climactic embrace
A union of...

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One is a carer,
a mender of hearts.
A rock to cling to;
Wise and generous.
 
One is a loner,
forever outside.
Fey and aloof,
He stands apart.
 
This One is a joker,
sarcastic and wry,
witty and glib.
He gives away smiles.
 
Another is darkness;
an empty glass.
He broods over shadows,
cloaked in shame.
 
There is one that was love,
so much to give,
but...

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The old familiar shadows
cling to old familiar walls
as early morning spins round again.
 
I lie, eyes wide open, and listen to the rain
I continue the watch; 4am and all is well.
Nobody is sleeping here.
 
Try as I might, I cannot grasp
the ethereal gossamer threads.
Can't switch my brain off,
I've run out of sheep.
 
I long to lie in torpor,
or slumber for a week
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When the house is still
And every little noise
Is a threat; an intruder
Into my silent home

When the night is cold
And I wrap my blanket
Tight about my body
To fight off the chill

When the days are long
And the nights are longer
And my time is wasted
On melancholy thoughts

When I'm lonely
When I need a friend
When it all gets to much to bear
That's ...

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He struggles against the storm,
the waves high above his boat,
He prays for calm.
He seeks desperately for the coast.
 
What harbour would shelter him?
He, who in the midst of his thunder,
brings disaster to the port, on
the merciless waves of his maelstrom.
 
He cannot give his all to somebody
while the boat beneath him lists
and wildly dives between
the peaks and tro...

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I bleed from every inch of me I bleed for every inch of you Each drop of sweat I weep I sacrifice to you You taste the blood that's on my lips And savour every sip A cardinal sin Stained cardinal red A crimson boundary Painted onto our sinners bed Transfusion of want Contamination of need You're in my veins You're in my head I bleed for every inch of you

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expecting me to be

someone that I'm not

something I can never be.

 

I hate the way I have to pretend

to play nice and laugh along

sick of singing their song

tired of banging their drum.

 

Why is it so hard for me

to be me?

Why won't the world

just let me be who I want to be?

 

Stack the odds in my favour

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The spaces between the lines

Say more than this meagre rhyme

Can ever hope or ever wish.

All the things I need to say

Are held there in the spaces,

The blank, stark white

Between upper and lower cases.

 

It's nothing; it is everything

It's every word I'll ever utter

From the shining stars

To the stinking gutter.

Those spaces will tell you mo...

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Worshipped at my altar,
Made divine in their eyes.
I stand before them,
I hold my arms wide.

I am their Creampie Jesus,
The one they cannot deny.
Reaching out to touch their heads
And offering the sanctity of my bed.

Kneeling at my feet, 
Lips about to meet,
I offer them sacrement,
I offer them release. 

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I sometimes wonder about the things we'd have done if we'd had more time. I sometimes wonder about the things you'd say about your life, and about mine. I wonder if you would have agreed with each decision I've made. If you'd have offered wisdom, cautioned patience, warned against greed. I sometimes wonder where you are I sometimes know all too well. I sometimes wander to wher...

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If life is like a box of chocolates,
why do I get all the coffee ones?

Now people will say that they like the coffee ones
but not me, you can have mine.
I'll just have some chocolate limes.

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Here I stand in my lonely field of dreams

The grass withered, parched and brown

I turn and gaze at the fence over which I jumped

And see the grass looks greener over there

 

Where are you when I need to share this field?

To bring it to life with love and care

Where are you when I need to feel arms around me?

When I need someone to tell me it's alright.

When I...

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Chances missed and chances lost.

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

stolen glances weigh up the cost

of moments left unclaimed;

of touches left unexplored.

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Explosions of insight

Light up the sky

As I lie here in the rain

And wait to die

 

A poignant moment

Frozen in time in my mind

The start of all this;

The end of all that.

 

The flash of lightning

Makes my pupils blow

And my tortured, beaten body

Lies broken on the floor.

 

I fought as best I could,

I played my part;

But I was o...

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I wrote a poem today For some one I care about a lot. it wasn't the plan, to care a lot, It was supposed to be a simple fling A silly little thing, really. But it's not. She doesn't care about me, At least not in the same way. And that shouldn't matter; But it matters a lot. I think I make a fool of myself Everytime I see her, I can't seem to help it. I chat and I flirt and all...

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Breadlines, deadlines I can't find the right lines To speak to girls; or women, For that matter. I'm on the breadline, the sideline Always looking on and never playing. Always ready with a good whine To inflict on anyone with the time To listen to this shit. I'm a baseline; rock bottom. Frozen in line, at the back of the queue, Towing the partyline and hating it. Watching like ...

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Hope springs eternal, or so they say From Pandora's box, all the horrors Of the world were vomited forth. Only weak, litter-runt hope was left With nothing else to stand in its way. Out into the world it crawled, Blind, mewling and twisted A bitter stunted mutant desperate for attention. It turned to man for succor and love It begged and fawned and prostituted But man was busy e...

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She reflects upon the surface

As the cold wet arms of the lake

Take her in their deadly embrace.

She feels the cold tendrils curl

Around her calves, her thighs, her waist.

 

The water pales her skin,

It darkens her lips

It shadows her clear, serene eyes,

ecstatic in its aqueous grip.

 

The darkness envelops her,

the currents caress her

as the ...

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If I had a single ounce of your bravery
A single ounce of your strength,
I could move mountains.
To struggle and to persevere
When those around you fall.
To be thrown to the ground
And beaten and abused
And still you find the courage
To stand tall, to strive to rise above it all.

You can find the perfect words,
Set the perfect tone and, hidden in shadows,
You let the world glimpse you...

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It starts with a cut Into tissue already scarred, Grown pink and ugly over time. With each laceration We feel the sting more keenly A fire through our nerves To remind us we're alive. We slice and we peel Until the body does not remember The bite of the pain We no longer feel. Yet over time, scars heal And flesh regrows anew Knits back together With the skin of new beginni...

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Credit for the 'difference between sanity and madness' line goes to Alan Moore, I just borrowed it:

 

A burning sky lights the cry,

as the world looks on.

They see the pain, the maddened stare;

they walk on and do not care.

 

I scream for them as much as me,

I scream for them because they can’t see,

that ‘the difference between sanity,

and madness

is ...

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Tugged by heartstrings
twirled around her slender fingers.
His heart is made to dance
to her siren song.
 
Drawn by her promise
of regard and warm affection
ensnared by the cool touch
of bewitching fingers
 
He remains,
bound by a connection
that bids him to motion;
the dance of the marionette.
 
A twisted puppet of devotion,
a tool to boost her shallow ego.
A ...

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She measures her time in memories
and through the lines on her face.
She waits for him impatiently
As if frustration could quicken his pace.
 
They are not strangers, she knows him well
He has danced through her parlour
Many times before.
He has danced for mothers, fathers, friends
He danced for her husband, whose hand she held
until the dance reached its bitter end.
 
S...

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If I could take all the flowers
that bloom in the springtime,
bind them together with care
and twine a multi-coloured crown
to sit atop your sun-kissed hair.

If I could catch all the April showers
that fall in the springtime
and pour each glistening drop
into a pitcher filled to the brim
from which your honeyed lips could sup

If I could take the freshest breeze
that blows in the s...

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So I stand and I smoke in our little ‘Smokers Quarantine Zone’,
I listen to the birds as they sing in the trees
and just for a moment, the drone of the cars
is transformed into the crashing waves of the sea

And I could almost be free, could almost be
in a different place, with the sand beneath my feet
and a cool breeze on my face.
The cars and the trees and the cigarette ends
...

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She takes baby steps;
one foot after the other, after the other.
Her bare feet crunch on broken glass
and she winces as she walks.

She is surviving; striving
to turn her life around
breaking her cage and removing her chains
turning her face to a bright future

But as the rain streams
over gargoyle faces like tears,
she yells to passers by for help
and her calls echo back to her

T...

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It surrounds me like a fog
A blanket, a miasma
A cloak of shame.

It coats all I do
Colours everything I am
It begins to define me

It is not something
That I can prevent,
I only hope to resist

And in that hope 
Lies a desperate wish
A far off dream

A dream lost in haze
Trapped in a maze
Of depression.

My depression
It surrounds me like a fog;
My own cl...

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I move through my stop-motion animation life,

surrounded by broken porcelain dolls.

Their glass eyes and twitching mouths speak to me

but I don’t hear their words, I don’t hear their words.

They move too fast, they speak too fast, too fast

for me to care.

 

They pass me in their fast forward lives,

empty chatter on the trains, in the streets.

Chittering and t...

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Press on me your emptiness,
your barrenness; your empty
feelings of desolation and regret.

Force on me your willingness
Your need to pull me down
with you, into your decay.

Keep from me the happiness
That surely I deserve? The things
That give me comfort and succor

And I will give to you my loyalty
and the hope in my heart. Base
my desires on your creative spark

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"My son is a chav"
She says
as she sits and she picks
at the fluff on her new,
rip off, Versace bag.

"He'll have an ASBO in no time"
She laments
as she traces the outline
of her gold sovereign rings
one for each finger of each hand.

"I got him one of them Burberry caps"
She whines
To whoever will listen.
"But he says it's SO 2004!"
and he's right.

Because ...

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Some things should be left unsaid, and the silence that fills that void, should have to suffice instead. Some things should be left unsaid As the words rise to my lips, I know the mistake I’ve made. I hesitate and speech stumbles, catching in my throat and burning, with intensity and consequence. The way your eyes scold me, whenever you are near. The way you stiffen and become g...

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And so it ends like this
Not with a whimper
And not with a bang.
A century of terror silenced
By the wood that sprouts from my chest

I watch you move around me
My eyes filled with terror and rage
And if I could smile I would.
Irony has not forsaken me
And no doubt that
From beyond her uneasy grave,
She is smiling too

Was it too much for you?
My poisoned love?
D...

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Hold out your arm, sweetness
Run your blade across the wrist
And press it to my lips.
Let me taste as the life flows out of you
Let me know you like no other.

Let me take my dark communion
And taste your holiness in my mouth
Let me soar in perfect rapture
Through the blood red skies of your mind

Let me drink from you deeply
And let me experience you completely
Everythi...

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I am like the last empty jar on a shelf
Dusty in my forsaken corner.
I am the ignored, the forgotten
I exist only when you choose to see

I live only at the whim
of a fickle quirk of fate
And persist only at the lack
Of drive and ambition

I am the one who does not care
Enough
I am the one who will not try hard
Enough
I am the one who almost ran,
A now lame horse
T...

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It starts,
As these things always do,
With the smallest of things.
A remark from me
And a comment back from you.
 
And suddenly the game commences
The battle lines are drawn.
We bolster our defences
Man the cannons and ready the guns
 
The gloves are off
The claws are out
With swords unsheathed
We join in war 
 
Love is forgotten
As vitriol grows
Only the win...

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I want to be going
To a place
To a place where I can rest
Where I can leave my life
Far behind
Where I can sit and breath
Where I can cleanse the soul;
Maybe, maybe not.

I want to be going
Far away from my world
To a quiet, still place
Where nobody
Is sick of my face
Where nobody judges
And nobody cares
About the mistakes I made,
All the bad choices.

...

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Wrap me in your chains of lust
Draw me into you
Surround me with your want
Enfold me with your need
Take me to where only we can go
Let me linger there
Your breath in my ear
Your name on my lips.
I take your need, your lust
I make it my own
I draw it forth to encirle us both
Wrap us in your chains of lust
Where nothing is forbidden

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On the third day

In the shadow of Alexander

the Legions marched

Roads forged, fields parched

Eagle held aloft, carried with zeal

Her majesty was not amused

And when the world was subdued

beneath her gilded heel

A new eagle rises, a new power

Born from the ashes of towers

To forge the world with fire and steel

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With thanks to Emma Robinson for her collaboration:

 

And on the 2nd day, there was haiku

 

Blank canvas is stained

Minds eye bears beautiful fruit

Artists souls remain

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I am the worst kind of only child.

With a boxful of toys, I sit and play

Tinker, dabble, twist, defile

consorting them, contorting them.

I scheme and plan.

 

Unhappy unless I get my jealous way

Which toys life can I wreck today?

How many ways can I bend and warp?

Toy with their emotions without a thought.

 

I am the worst kind of only child.

And I...

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Give yourself to me

Everything you are

And everything you have

Give it over to me…

 

I need you to need me

To want me

To feel me inside of you;

Around you,

Surrounding you,

Enveloping you.

 

My hand on your skin

Your hot, delicious skin

Your touch so tender

And yet so wild.

Brimming with passion

Your lust burns me

 

I w...

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Inspired by the painting, Guernica, by Pablo Picasso...

 

A twisted mass of flesh and death

A monstrous congregation

gathered under stark electric light

and a burning, uncaring sun.

 

Death has come to Guernica

And horror follows in His wake

 

Tears shed, blood bled,

vision is distorted.

As war and thunder sweep this land,

life is aborted.

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In-between raindrops,

I listen for your voice.

In-between raindrops,

I almost smell your sweet prefume.

 

In-between raindrops,

I miss your face, your eyes,

the gentle touch of your sighs.

In-between raindrops

I wipe the tears from my eyes.

 

In-between raindrops,

I kneel and crawl and shake.

In-between raindrops,

your life was not His to ...

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I am out in a wilderness

Amongst trees, bare and jagged

Amid rusted car bones

jutting obscenely

Where half starved,

nervous animals skitter

Quickened in their distress.

 

I am striving, surviving

just surviving

With every misplaced step

Each stumbled approach

My brightness slides away

 

Now as the fingers of youth

slip from my grasp,

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He rolls another cigarette.

Fingers aged with time,

Coloured yellow with excess,

Curl then smooth the paper.

As eyes, dimmed with the years,

Watch the world pass him by.

 

He has no need to hurry.

He watches

Just watches

As the souls dance before him

Their decadent, self serving song

Is no longer to his liking

 

He sighs

Breath stale a...

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He remembers, does our Tommy

His days at the beach.

With bucket and spade in hand,

His brothers all around him

Those days of warmth and happiness

In summers endless reach.

 

Now he's going to the beach again,

Our Tommy

With his brothers all around him.

No bucket and spade in hand this time

Just a gun and a pack

that almost breaks his back.

 

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I press my face to the glass And watch the world go by Stiff fingers leave marks of desolation Marring the wall with my presence. It is not my world out there It is not my life I see. Not my life I ache to touch, To taste, to breathe in deeply. The world outside is vibrant, Joyful, full of passion. A merry-go-round of song and fun Laughter and high spirits. The ticker tape rain...

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The cut of your dress
As it clings to your curves
Slices my vision
Like a blade across my heart
 
With each nervous step
I move closer to you
The weight of the moment
Makes my feet feel like lead
 
Your look turns heads
All around the bar
And that green eyed
Old friend of mine
Growls

But then I'm with you
And the world flows on
Just you and I
the sounds ...

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The breath frosts in front of her face
As she shuffles through the snow
Under a bridge for some kind of shelter
She couldn't find a better place.
 
She sits and shivers as the snow piles high
She doesn't have a better place to go
And she needs to stay warm, needs to stay dry
 
The lights on the streets say it's Christmas
But to her it's just another day
Another fight for s...

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The breath frosts in front of her face
and she smiles as she walks in the snow,
along a bridge where she slows her pace
 
To stare in wonder at the star filled sky
The biggest grin pulled wide at the show
Of a brilliant shooting star passing by
 
The star might be Santa, riding his sleigh
And as she looks up and watches, she can almost hear
The jingle of sleigh bells fading ...

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