When life gets you down

And you start to frown

You think you're going crazy

But, your life is just a little hazy

You've a troubled mind

When you've a few problems to sort out

And you feel as though you want to scream and shout

You don't know what to do

Or you don't know who to turn to

You've a troubled mind

When you start to hear voices

Telling you of you...

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Being homeless is not very nice,

To the people who pass you by,

They don't think twice.

They think you are a thug,

Spending what little money you have on drink and drugs!

You're not like that at all,

Just down on your luck, no-one to break your fall.

All you can do is sit in the shop doorway out on the street,

Begging for spare change for something to drink and eat.

Thin...

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After what happened recently in Paris I wrote about the killing of innocent people.

Busy people going

About their lives

Fathers, husbands and sons

Mothers, daughters and wives

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Terrorists attack

The public running away

Watching their backs

Shock, horror and disbelief

Children screaming and crying

Wanting a parent or guardian

Loved ones...

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I wrote this poem while in Aviemore on a Highland Creative Writing course.  We had to pick an item of furniture and turn it into somethingelse.  I chose a lampshade and turned it into a hat.

The ladies hat

Was like a lampshade

And it was

Much too big

When she put it on

It altered the shape

Of her wig!

She was hoping to

Go to Ascot

And the races

But, when her hat an...

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After all of the rain we had one year and most of the country was flooded  I wrote this poem. 

It rained for 40 days and 40 nights

I felt like Noah and wanted to build an ark

I had no time to build it in, it was getting dark

There were no animals to go in two by two

No elephants and no kangaroos

Still it rained for 40 days and 40 nights

There wasn't much I could do

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