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Messerschmitt Death Machine

Messerschmitt Death Machine
Yankee terror bombers fly overhead to bomb our cities and our military targets.
Stop them! Quick, into our Messerschmitt 109G’s.
Take off; rise up to do battle with the infidels armed with their fifty calibre super heavy machine guns....

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Thursday 23rd May 2013 11:09 pm

Tags: america,ww2,weapons,warplane,luftwaffe,nazi pilots,guns,cannon,death

Peter Goes West

by Jonnie Falafel

I do not presume to judge you

Now that you are gone,

The leaf would've fallen anyway

The bird would've flown,

Taking talisman, tarot deck

And Ayn Rand tome,

On a journey to far West

Your spiritual home.

Land of parking lots and desert malls,

Skateboards on the board walks,

Beggars in the bleachers

watching volleyball....

Friday 17th May 2013 5:56 pm

Tags: Loss,Memory,death

OLD HAMMER DIVINE

by nick armbrister

Old Hammer Divine
My anxiety is like an ambush predator.
WHAM! I’m fucked...
...fight back!

It’s fucked.

Would you manage a year in my head?
Would you?
Could you?
Should you?

I think you should...

...if you’re man enough then inbox me.
Into my head you shall go...

A mirror image of my town.
Shame it’s not Berlin...
...under Lancaster air attack....

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Friday 10th May 2013 11:15 pm

Tags: limbo,death,town,life,limbo,people,mind

Animals

by Simon Austin

The Fury
Pitiful the morsels for the feeding of the rats,
Dished out unemotionally by vicious little cats,
Like vermin, out the rats they come and scurry back to hide,
Whilst all the while the fat cats feast voraciously outside.

The Persecuted
In the darkest corners of the high walled city streets,
The rank and rotten souls of human waste claw to compete,
Shuffling through the b...

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Friday 10th May 2013 4:17 pm

Tags: animals,holocaust,death,persecution,racism,hate,greed,poem

Weird Words a new spoken words night

by Freda Davis

In Axilfah on Thundersday we heard a sonic boom.
The rain came down but words held sway within a tight packed room.
They came from Leeds and Lancashire, from Cleckheaton and Hudd.
They raised their arms and voices too and spoke of death and blood.
And local wordsmiths said their piece. What rants and hymns we heard
when Genevieve her coven called to utter Weird Words...

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Friday 10th May 2013 10:48 am

Tags: death,blood,gig,poetry,words,spoken word

Danse Macabre (The Dance of Death)

by Simon Austin

Oh streets, your weeping cobbles shine
Against the moonlight, wailing sirens
Beckon those that have succumb
To fill your guttered lines with souls.
Blistered, bloated, wandering lost
Through invalid eyes – flies feast
On stale skin, as deep within
The eruptions pulse to a deathly drum.
One by one they fall in line
Upon swarming sewer drains,
Stacked, like broken branches...

Wednesday 1st May 2013 11:15 am

Tags: religion,doctor,disease,death,plague,poem

Unto the Somme

by Simon Austin

Entrenched
Behind failing lines,
These curtains of shrapnel and sharp steel
Conceal my misery,
So seamlessly, absently
I go on, numb, alone,
For sensation no longer blesses me.

Relentlessly, I force back my fear,
The absent tears never reach my cheeks
And thick blankets of earth and sand
Choke my cries, damp, pitiful.
I fall to the boards clotted with death
As my breath...

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Saturday 27th April 2013 12:32 pm

Tags: soldier,battle,conflict,world war I,war,death,poem

warRANT

by Ian Whiteley

warRANT

the ack-ack-ack
of sobbing children
a tear
for every bullet
the roll of pressure
heal to toe
erasing limbs
flies swarming on open wounds
picking at the scabs
of wounded families
the searing pain
of widows and orphans
scorched flesh
hurt is local currency
guns from foreign currency
all around the colour red
lies in sticky
coagulating puddles
a glassy eyed gu...

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Friday 19th April 2013 1:05 pm

Tags: destruction,war zone,horror,death,war,war child,casualties

MQ-9

by Paul Sands

seen through the columns of rising smoke
the intention couldn't be clearer

while the tattooed roads wear the organic stains
as footholds for a memory of fallen phosphor rain

yet more caustic the harvest we reap
from the drone-grown, crone wept bones
even as the stone groves grow over the dead hope of
the pebble eyed children in their dreamless sleep

suffer the children our selfis...

Tuesday 16th April 2013 9:59 pm

Tags: greed,death,terror

Italia with utube vid link of my gullivers headline gig

by nick armbrister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4CTUrn3LYg

Italia
Dream of a nation, they built a big airship for Arctic exploration. Things went so well, taking a plethora of readings and photographs till a head wind sprung up. They used most of the fuel battling the wind. Serious technical trouble followed. This would go downhill, fast.
A crash!
Ripping fabric, torn envelope. Smashed control cabin f...

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Sunday 14th April 2013 3:13 pm

Tags: italia airship,exploration,italy,arctic,crash,death,disaster,mystery

Ripples of Detriment

by Ged Thompson/ Liverpool Poet

Ripples of Detriment

I will not mourn your passing, or for that, rejoice your death

As you embark upon the journey that begins with your last breath

Perhaps you thought it proper and in sound mind made your choices

Utilitarian motives? Deafend you? To the sound of poorer voices?

The miners, plebs and working class who became collateral damage

The co...

Saturday 13th April 2013 2:28 am

Tags: respect,politics,Thatcher,death

For Absent Friends

by Darren Scanlon

FOR ABSENT FRIENDS

Somewhere in between,

The waking and the dream,

I can feel you close to me.

Just before times hands,

Reshape the desert sands,

I can feel you reach for me.

In the blink of tear stained eyes,

Watching, weary, to the skies,

I can hear you call to me.

In the breaking of the dawn,

In the dew upon the lawn,

I can...

Sunday 7th April 2013 7:17 pm

Tags: Loss,love,death,suicide,missing,tears,pain,lonely,alone

Untitled

by Simon Austin

Withered flowers fastened to a wasting bench,
Its plaque and pickled paint are weathered long.
The buckled slats curl flecks on harshest winter's freeze.
Where age defies intent to which it did belong.

As passers-by whom in their daily cues entrenched,
They, wrapped in woolen shields, look blindly on
And notice not the broken petals on the breeze,
Nor sense the echo of a parte...

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Tuesday 26th March 2013 11:51 am

Tags: poem,Memorial,loss,death,sadness,soul,love

Humanity Lost

by Simon Austin

I freeze,
And fall to my knees.
The earth is cold tonight, my sight
Is sorrowed as I place my hands on its frozen surface,
No furnace to warm me, but bereft.
Here, on the borrowed hour
Of my death.

The frost seeping through my clothes
Chills my bones, I’m lost here, alone.
The precipice in front of me is wide, and deep
But full. I keep my head dipped,
Knowing they wa...

Thursday 21st March 2013 9:59 pm

Tags: poem,war,death,holocaust,humanity,fear,hate,racism

From Virginia

by Ian Whiteley

From Virginia

He sat and watched them
draw from pipes of bone and clay,
eyes closed in peaceful
meditation. Cast in clouds
of bittersweet transcendence.

I sat and watched him
turn into a hollow man,
wrapped in shrouds of grey.
His constant, shuddering, barks
cough your epitaph, Raleigh....

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Wednesday 13th March 2013 10:24 am

Tags: walter raleigh,smoking,death,cigarettes,virginia,native americans,epitaph

Waves (A Final Letter Home)

by Simon Austin

I lie and let the waves wrap 'round my feet,
As midnight skies perform the second act,
Where black and blue so effortlessly meet
And force the waters cold around my back.
I feel the sand bequeath my buried toes;
To let the grit defy my sodden skin
And as the open door to my soul grows
I let the frothy waters trickle in.

The moonbeams push my head into a daze
And buckle up...

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Tuesday 5th March 2013 10:57 am

Tags: soul,ocean,sea,soldier,love,loss,poem,war,death

Decay

by Jamie Barton

It can be said that fate waits for no one
It is almost a certainty in fact

But darkness with its spring heels waits alone
In a recess seldom visited, we go there in shade
Curtained we go there and raise suspicion
We go when there is blood to sacrifice
We come back when there is left only bone

Like the needless prayers of a mother
We disappear in to the warm night gone
And saturate t...

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Wednesday 20th February 2013 1:15 am

Tags: Poem,poetry,decay,death,sonnet,dark

Amy

by Simon Austin

The breath had left her, not long ago.
Her face, pressed into the pillow
Drained black tears onto white linen.
Her fight had been lost; the long battle had ravaged her
And her iconic war paint scrawled ironic defeat in tracks
Down her pale skin onto paler sheets.

A motionless husk; as she lays there;
Her raven hair, unravelled from familiarity,
Fall's delicately on her back,...

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Friday 15th February 2013 2:27 pm

Tags: poem,celebrity,fame,london,loneliness,alcoholic,addiction,death

Sniper

by Simon Austin

I felt nothing at first.
Just the loud crack of a distant whip, the echo
Bouncing through the crumbling streets and fetid alleyways,
Painted with the stench of unintentional sacrifices
And scorched by the Middle Eastern sun.
He can see me, this one, even now,
Staring down the lens like a wayward sailor scanning distant rocks for Sirens,
Tempting him to death.
He’s watching me...

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Sunday 27th January 2013 11:59 am

Tags: poem,tragedy,youth,death,warfare,war

Sonnet on Death

by Irina

This is an ekphrasis on L'Agonie by Felicien Rops.

Sonnet on Death
Demons clutch at your rib-cage ladder
Grasping the arteries, choking your veins
Your bones are now fragile and ready to shatter
Oh dear, you're looking quite pale.
Your bloodless skin is as thin as paper
With cavities where worms slither in.
A struggling heart still resisting the Taker
Until the last light of y...

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Friday 25th January 2013 7:53 pm

Tags: Death,Felicien Rops,L'Agonie,Ekphrasis,sonnet,necrophilia

Oh Darkness, Sweet Darkness

by Simon Austin

With my acuminous arm
I saved her wretched soul, like the others,
I drew the blood through clotted veins
And lay her down upon the blackness.

I cleaved the meats from her ivory.
He knelt with me and watched her filth, her poison
Pour through the cobbled streets
Into welcoming drains.

Plucked from the cadaver,
Her vessels of virility are no more;
The erroneous allocation o...

Sunday 20th January 2013 12:25 pm

Tags: Ripper,London,Murder,Death,Darkness,killer,poem,poetry

Mortality

by Simon Austin

I see him at my window tonight.
The moon, full and bright
Casts his dark shadow onto an icy wall.
A familiar silhouette, unmistakable,
Pressed against the pane.
The cold melts his breath into feathery diamonds
Running in thin veins down the thick glass.
His face, hidden and veiled in black
Glances my way and nods;
I nod back
Acceptingly. Suddenly,
The glass no longer divides,...

Monday 14th January 2013 4:43 pm

Tags: poetry,Death,mortality,humanity,loss,lost,fear,passing,poem,reaper

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