Biography
Urmston born Salford raised Poet My poems rarely reflect how I feel on any kind of personal level I like to write about broken hearts dark dreams and things of beauty and sadness....
Samples
And And I walk this street every day of my life visit the same old places see the self-same sorry faces trapped by expression of a useless life Derailed, abject, lost, fucked before they even stood a chance hours traded gladly for a high just to get by Just to make another fuckin day not last And he could be from another decade snot nose covered head to toe in shit and grime 8 maybe 9 fatherless no doubt, mother mostly not around Innocent now only just. And Beneath the bristle eyes sapphire blue meet mine and we two, see cabbage white silk wings, and something passes two hearts stop to hold one breath till at last he claps and she beats away for us just me and him a butterfly Kite How did i ever arrive, this place this age? I was never meant to be here alone. Memories too beautiful to now make so sad. Remember the kite, but the colour is gone. How I wish I could summon the wind from that day to Blow these feelings away Cruel impossible Love. Wonder in youth now old in regret decide. I will never find my perfect other. Thinking herself happy or sad, still lost never able to find me nor me her. Wife, a mother alone maybe, given up long ago the hopeless search for her perfect other me. Did she find solace in just making do? Forging contentment as so many before. Wild flowers countless meadows fill. Unique beauty, each smell a heaven. So alike are we, individual In flawed perfection. Emotional sentient beings no two a thumb print, save the one will never find. Certainty in middle years feeling you close. Foolish daydreams, now cynical older sees truth. Dull the years, death closer, fate set sure in failure. Perfect other, symbiotic light to shade mirror cast. Two halves never a whole. A mapless journey, Indefatigable unknown my search. Wasted agony. One for each of us No more Cruel impossible Love.
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Blog entries by Richard Alfred
Siphon not Syphon (05/08/2019)
You (31/07/2019)
Pondweeds (11/02/2019)
Blackpool (04/01/2019)
Divorce=Loss (03/05/2016)
Magical Boy (12/08/2015)
Beyond an end (17/06/2014)
Hard Of Hearing (10/06/2014)
Listless 2 (29/05/2014)
Listless (13/05/2014)
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Comments
I'm good Richard thank you - haven't seen you for a while - have our paths failed to cross or are you keeping a low profile :-) - I'm at the Cadence festival afternoon in June and going to Bolton on Sunday - are you at either of those?
Thank you :-)
'and Morecambe weeps' - lpvely even in it's heavy sadness x
Hi and thank you for your comment. :-)
Can't do Friday Richard - over in Wakefield for the Rugby League big derby game against Leeds Rhino's - already made my apologies to Jeff - but some things just can't be missed :-)
Ian
thanks Richard - I really enjoyed myself and it seemed to go down OK - thanks for all your support mate :-)
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Fri 5th Jul 2013 22:22
yeh Rich,(re latest on our page)they do thin out,but dont worry,the gems shine through-keep chilled.xx
thanks Richard - really enjoyed it - the Tudor is A.O.K.
Looking forward to the Cadence Cameo spot on the 18th - you will be getting a mention when I read 'that which autumn leaves' :-) will you be open mic-ing?
Oh, ta very much :) Wrote that one for a competition. Got nowhere :D Thanks anyway
Thank you for your comment on "Spring".
Best wishes
Starfish
Hi,
I did intend to do this sooner but totally forgot. I just wanted to say a quick 'thank you' for your comment recently. Glad you liked it :-) Kath
hi Richard, cheers for joining Performance! open mic night at the cadence cafe, see u at the festival!
3rd Annual Cadence Festival 14/15 june
Tyldesley Wigan
Hello Richard.
Danes Dyke - yes. In fact, we've just had a week at Sewerby.
The boats? I'm sure I will have as a kid. I'm absolutely certain about the Hispaniola, though; and bashing the Germans in Peasholm Park!
Richard, thank you for your positive comments about the site. very welcome indeed. came at a good time.
Hi Richard
you're nearly right - I'm on at Cadence on 18th July - it is my book launch event (book is titled 'A Step Towards Winter')but it isn;t really baseds around Poe - although 'That Which Autumn Leaves' is in the collection and a couple of the other poems are quite dark. Hope your reading of 'In The Belly Of The Whale' went down well :-) look forward to meeting you at Cadence
Ian
Glad you liked "Filey" Richard. You're right about so many of those other Yorkshire coast towns (I'm not so sure about Brid, though!). The attraction of Filey for me personally is its memories rather than any intrinsic character.
Hello again Richard. My husband was the stay at home parent for two years. So he has seen the pro and con of at home parenting. Your poem "Mother's Autumn" speaks well of this.
LOL - thank you Richard - I really enjoyed myself last night.
Performance poetry is all about hip action and don't let anyone tell you otherwise ;)
Richard - thanks for the comment you left on "Dambuster". I look forward to reading your "Lancaster" poem in due course.
Hey John kind words as ever, the picture is the profile one) its a beautiful painting, of for me a beautiful place
Thought your Blackpool poem had gone mate,was looking for it then found it here.'Sweet smell from pink hair to eat.Clowns of glass,elephants and rock.' Love it,but didnt it have a posting of its own with the brill pic?
I could taste the candyfloss,feel its sticky sweetness as I read this.'Charm,romance,beauty!nostalgia'
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Fri 10th May 2013 15:52
Thanks for that comment on my write..pleased you found something within that struck a chord.
I have been enjoying your writes, I saw on tv those elephants in Blackpool, holding tails. :(
Hey Richard, Cheers for your comments on TWO a.M.-nice one mate!
Hello, dear Richard! Thank you very much for commenting on " The Autumn Is Coming". I would love you to check out some of my poems (when time permits of course) at http:www.poetryfromodessa123.jimdo.com and ...would really appreciate your opinion and feedback. With warmest wishes, Larisa
Hi Richard, welcome to WOL, I really like both of your poems, especially "Treasure".
I look forward to more of your work.
Hi Richard,
Some nice lines in your poetry;'In a house half built,that can't be entered,find me'and 'glass walls keep reality at bay'.
Interesting stuff,hope to see more posted soon!
John (Love the profile pic by the way)
Hi Richard - a warm welcome to WOL. And good luck with your poetry journey!
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Ian Whiteley
Thu 12th Jun 2014 15:19
Hi Richard - don't get back from hols until around midnight on Friday - so can't make Cadence until S
aturday PM session