From Kurashiki to Manchester
by Belinda
It’s my last day. I’ll never see the telephone cables, from the corner of my eye,
meshed together, look like crows’ mingling.
Or the
White sheets straggling washing lines, having a barney with futons; bent over balconies,
blowing in the wind, from the bellow of petrol station attendants;
who make rainbows on windscreens with their elbows, egging cars, in and out.
I’ll never...
meshed together, look like crows’ mingling.
Or the
White sheets straggling washing lines, having a barney with futons; bent over balconies,
blowing in the wind, from the bellow of petrol station attendants;
who make rainbows on windscreens with their elbows, egging cars, in and out.
I’ll never...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 8:06 pm
Blue Moon Tonight, People
How cool is this!
New Year's Eve AND a blue moon!
Just in case it slipped your radar.
Happy New Year to You All.
CBT
New Year's Eve AND a blue moon!
Just in case it slipped your radar.
Happy New Year to You All.
CBT
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Thursday 31st December 2009 6:15 pm
Also by Cynthia Buell Thomas:
Prelude to a Music Lesson | The Velvet Conversation | Star Songs | The Christmas Tree | Letter in a Drawer | A Wonderful Day |New Year
by Brian Wood
New Year
Its not all
about the new and nothing about the old
Its really
all about a story that’s always been told.
There’s laughter and tears to be shed
There’s fire
works & champagne before any talk of bed.
Its all
about us and nothing about them
To worry
about the world is far to crazy to pen.
From the
loss of loved ones who we held so dear
To t...
Its not all
about the new and nothing about the old
Its really
all about a story that’s always been told.
There’s laughter and tears to be shed
There’s fire
works & champagne before any talk of bed.
Its all
about us and nothing about them
To worry
about the world is far to crazy to pen.
From the
loss of loved ones who we held so dear
To t...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 6:00 pm
basque
by Ann Foxglove
you make me want to buy a basque
to be wasp waisted
I linger by the lingerie
I need to get a negligee
and mules!
pink fluffy slip-on ones
to go with my painted toes!
and seven push-up bras
underwired and lacy
one for every day of the week
and all quite racy!
and perfume
a bucket load of perfume.
so we can drown together
in scent
and lace
and my cleavage!...
to be wasp waisted
I linger by the lingerie
I need to get a negligee
and mules!
pink fluffy slip-on ones
to go with my painted toes!
and seven push-up bras
underwired and lacy
one for every day of the week
and all quite racy!
and perfume
a bucket load of perfume.
so we can drown together
in scent
and lace
and my cleavage!...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 5:52 pm
Also by Ann Foxglove:
My Nagual is a Narwhal | walking the coastal path with a pair of nail scissors | Apricot Man | HAPPY CHRISTMAS | solstice day | a different sort of person | mementoes | something\\'s lost | never look a Trojan gift horse in the mouth | 1 user on line | Sacred Well | the lost glove | my cat's audrey hepburn | on walking past our old house at christmas | my mum | Bereavement | The Hospital | Nightmare of the Dancing Cats |Happy New Year!
Hi there, all my fellow poets!
I wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
Alain
I wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
Alain
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Thursday 31st December 2009 5:30 pm
Dementia remembered
Before dementia, with its cruel mercy
freed her from those golden bonds
of obligations and relationships
(the chilling question, and so carefully expressed
during the morning wash and powdering,
‘are we… related…?)
she’d carefully destroyed
all the photos of her family;
while leaving all her husband’s…
what did that mean, to that so loving daughter…?
What shames can tho...
freed her from those golden bonds
of obligations and relationships
(the chilling question, and so carefully expressed
during the morning wash and powdering,
‘are we… related…?)
she’d carefully destroyed
all the photos of her family;
while leaving all her husband’s…
what did that mean, to that so loving daughter…?
What shames can tho...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 2:36 pm
Also by michael shepherd:
A Business Trip. A sonnet for Epiphany | Language -- it's all fingers and thumbs | When is a New Year ? A thought from Rochdale | The gifts | That photo of me on my blog | Three of them | Bereavement | A Carol Ann for a Duffy Christmas | For Kit, Justin, Leon, Crispin | barely-rhymed sonnet : Love and Law | ordinary |New Year's Day
A grey veiled humour hangs on this New Year’s Day,
an unrehearsed pantomime that I’m walking through,
clipped wet hedgerows, red berries broke,
squashed and scattered,
lost amongst the uncut verge,
the dogshit and the broken glass.
Three children scat down muddy slopes,
sodden wild clematis beards damply droop,
across our footpath and offer drips,...
an unrehearsed pantomime that I’m walking through,
clipped wet hedgerows, red berries broke,
squashed and scattered,
lost amongst the uncut verge,
the dogshit and the broken glass.
Three children scat down muddy slopes,
sodden wild clematis beards damply droop,
across our footpath and offer drips,...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 2:34 pm
Also by Graham Sherwood:
Twelfth Night | Nativity | Copse |reggae music
longing for that homethe home they were wrenched fromwhen the ancestors were boundbound in shackles and chainsand auctioned like beasts of burdenauctioned in foreign and far away landsthat unforgettable crime against humanity
today the children wail stillthe black star liner did not take them backdid not take them all back homethe messages are profound in the musicthe honey drips from the sufferin...
today the children wail stillthe black star liner did not take them backdid not take them all back homethe messages are profound in the musicthe honey drips from the sufferin...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 2:12 pm
Also by jabulani mzinyathi:
the insider | on my way | stench of arrogance | david livingstone[deadstone] | oil and water | that kiss | dim the light | your cooking | staying afloat | generation gap | giving birth | untitled thoughts | out of grim necessity |Having a shower after watching the news headlines
by Dave Morgan
Having a shower after watching the News Headlines
It’s all about the 40th lime
And how I should rub my head with coconut butter
And every person wasting £400 of food a year
And other big headline claims
And I say
“Is that £400 of food from Aldi or from M&S?”
Who cares, it’s all cow pies to Desperate Dan
And it’s phosphorous bombs and child witches
And it’s Helmand Prov...
It’s all about the 40th lime
And how I should rub my head with coconut butter
And every person wasting £400 of food a year
And other big headline claims
And I say
“Is that £400 of food from Aldi or from M&S?”
Who cares, it’s all cow pies to Desperate Dan
And it’s phosphorous bombs and child witches
And it’s Helmand Prov...
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Thursday 31st December 2009 2:02 pm
Also by Dave Morgan:
The Staff Room Celebrates |Quick Sequence.
by Kealan Coady
Myself, me, I,
Sat, sat-ed
Ran, runned
Remembered - failed to forget
Followed - failed to lead
Watched in watchedness
you, you
Run, runned
Away, gone....
Sat, sat-ed
Ran, runned
Remembered - failed to forget
Followed - failed to lead
Watched in watchedness
you, you
Run, runned
Away, gone....
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Thursday 31st December 2009 12:56 pm
Also by Kealan Coady:
View Of Stale Harbour. | Inside The Mind Of Adolf Hitler. | Accident on Tonight's Street. | Dialogue from a Tragedy | Biography of a Backward Man. |well
well this time
well this place
well this we
forever
for those we kiss
for those we miss
for those we love
forever....
well this place
well this we
forever
for those we kiss
for those we miss
for those we love
forever....
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Thursday 31st December 2009 12:00 am
Also by Tommy Carroll:
The Pretenders | Ballad of Beelzebub | Rage Against The Machine | Christianity and other myths | The Love Making Of Hiawatha | Behind The Event | The shopping of Hiawatha. |here again ?
by Banksy
here I stand
for my sins
at the gates of Hades
along with the other malcontents
walking wounded & living dead -
their death-mask pallor
like so many clammy moonlit
dressing-table mirrors
turning as one
to look over at me
with disinterested dead eyes
and expressionless faces
through the choking sulphurous fug
that passes for air down here,
murderously hot as ever,
- when the unspeakable horro...
for my sins
at the gates of Hades
along with the other malcontents
walking wounded & living dead -
their death-mask pallor
like so many clammy moonlit
dressing-table mirrors
turning as one
to look over at me
with disinterested dead eyes
and expressionless faces
through the choking sulphurous fug
that passes for air down here,
murderously hot as ever,
- when the unspeakable horro...
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Wednesday 30th December 2009 9:09 pm
Also by Banksy:
UK plc | the other world | the nagual | blondie | I'll bring the coke | the whether man | the apple tree | kick-off | what a birthday |CINDERELLA
by Rodney Wood
The glass slipper is no good, neither is
the Fairy Godmother's wand, her spells,
the pumpkin, rat, lizard, rags, Stepsisters,
Prince and newly released Disney DVD.
They'll all superfluous.
What Cinderella wants is gold
but in the Kingdom everything's silver -
the clouds that consciously weep,
the glow of herring and mackerel,
rails marking the limits of disorder,
abandoned dust, t...
the Fairy Godmother's wand, her spells,
the pumpkin, rat, lizard, rags, Stepsisters,
Prince and newly released Disney DVD.
They'll all superfluous.
What Cinderella wants is gold
but in the Kingdom everything's silver -
the clouds that consciously weep,
the glow of herring and mackerel,
rails marking the limits of disorder,
abandoned dust, t...
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Wednesday 30th December 2009 8:19 pm
Also by Rodney Wood:
THE UNTHANKS (a Poem from the Westy number 21) | WEST POEM 20: THE BOB HALL SHOW |Repeat to Fade
Splendered, walking half in sleep,
and with red glasses cupping teeth,
I am a stranger -
photographed like a chimney mooring it's house with poison
steaming it's frames and running the charcoal down my spine.
These are my lines.
No fashion on a sleeve - I have worn it with plague,
smothering mad, and falling like a crippled ballerina's smile....
and with red glasses cupping teeth,
I am a stranger -
photographed like a chimney mooring it's house with poison
steaming it's frames and running the charcoal down my spine.
These are my lines.
No fashion on a sleeve - I have worn it with plague,
smothering mad, and falling like a crippled ballerina's smile....
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Wednesday 30th December 2009 5:53 pm
Tags: WOLOP.dec
Also by Marianne Daniels:
Lachrymose Nesting | Names | Bettie Paige in Snow | Violin | A Mass of Contradictions | Andromeda in Waiting | Mothers |An Apple Leaf
Her
First glance
Round brown eyes
Following the every long shadow of day
He
Was never too far away
Tangled
Twisting
Tissue of lies
Sighs that numb the inner heart
Bruise feelings
Reeling spinning
Yesterdays
Long gone
Lost
Love
So well remembered
Lays broken
Forgotten
Into her pillow
Words
Unspoken
Oh!
Yesterday
Curling overedged
Brown
Brittle...
First glance
Round brown eyes
Following the every long shadow of day
He
Was never too far away
Tangled
Twisting
Tissue of lies
Sighs that numb the inner heart
Bruise feelings
Reeling spinning
Yesterdays
Long gone
Lost
Love
So well remembered
Lays broken
Forgotten
Into her pillow
Words
Unspoken
Oh!
Yesterday
Curling overedged
Brown
Brittle...
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Wednesday 30th December 2009 5:06 pm
Tags: love
Also by Augusta Darling:
The Edge Of Time | So Long Ago | A Wild English Rose | Hunter\\'s Moon | The Loveless |The Present
Ribbons unravelled
and paper torn,
unfolding ruffles from tissue
wrapped around a velvet pouch.
Unrolling reveals
a bed of woven silk
sewn in cotton threaded pearls
on which a silver sixpence lies
enamelled, timeless
currency captured for all eternity.
Reflections swallowed
on a carousel, spinning recollections
in the blink of an eye....
and paper torn,
unfolding ruffles from tissue
wrapped around a velvet pouch.
Unrolling reveals
a bed of woven silk
sewn in cotton threaded pearls
on which a silver sixpence lies
enamelled, timeless
currency captured for all eternity.
Reflections swallowed
on a carousel, spinning recollections
in the blink of an eye....
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Wednesday 30th December 2009 12:39 pm
SITREP!
Get Flash to see this player.
Sitrep
…………..Sunray this is not a civilian,
And sunray this is my sitrep!
I can
hardly contain my rage,
Could eat me a chinnook
All battered and hailed in bullets
And
fekk it,
No-one knows me,
No-one knows the camaraderie
Like the man you made.
Sunray this
be my epitaph,
A man I once knew still kills for lust
Yet a...
…………..Sunray this is not a civilian,
And sunray this is my sitrep!
I can
hardly contain my rage,
Could eat me a chinnook
All battered and hailed in bullets
And
fekk it,
No-one knows me,
No-one knows the camaraderie
Like the man you made.
Sunray this
be my epitaph,
A man I once knew still kills for lust
Yet a...
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Wednesday 30th December 2009 2:42 am
OASIS
by Isobel
As I walked around its edges
studying the crystal depths
the question haunted me
‘Was this really an oasis?'
It was, for sure
bright, dazzling, enchanting
winking in the sun like cut glass
blinding in its reflection
Skin dried, parched, wasted
like a child, I had crawled
walked, run to it
basked in its waters
revelled in its showers
splashed, jumped, gambolled
thrown handfuls t...
studying the crystal depths
the question haunted me
‘Was this really an oasis?'
It was, for sure
bright, dazzling, enchanting
winking in the sun like cut glass
blinding in its reflection
Skin dried, parched, wasted
like a child, I had crawled
walked, run to it
basked in its waters
revelled in its showers
splashed, jumped, gambolled
thrown handfuls t...
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Tuesday 29th December 2009 6:59 pm
Also by Isobel:
WOLOP for November |Limerthick
There was a young poet named Stan
whose poems were not up to plan.
When asked why this was
he said, "it's because
I always try and fit too many words into the last line".
whose poems were not up to plan.
When asked why this was
he said, "it's because
I always try and fit too many words into the last line".
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Tuesday 29th December 2009 6:02 pm
Edging forward
by Dave Bradley
Impeded
frustrated
edging forward
coasting in neutral
some minds playing
over past events
others planning or praying
others listening, talking, phoning, moaning
some going low speed
enough to read
some plotting, some jotting
Sometimes the way clears
or a joke is cracked
there is movement, there is laughter
there is
happiness.
It can be amusing or just
interesting
to watch o...
frustrated
edging forward
coasting in neutral
some minds playing
over past events
others planning or praying
others listening, talking, phoning, moaning
some going low speed
enough to read
some plotting, some jotting
Sometimes the way clears
or a joke is cracked
there is movement, there is laughter
there is
happiness.
It can be amusing or just
interesting
to watch o...
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Tuesday 29th December 2009 4:34 pm
Also by Dave Bradley:
Huntington's Chorea | So sensual | Softer | Rules |trails
by Daniel Hooks
Trails I leave fingerprints in houses proof that I was there I leave love
letters in postboxes to be delivered proof that i care
my poems i
publish on the web digital thoughts for people to stop and read i leave
paper trails, bank statements receipts of transactions for things i
need I am of course more than the sum of my parts but leaving trails is an art paper trails, thou...
letters in postboxes to be delivered proof that i care
my poems i
publish on the web digital thoughts for people to stop and read i leave
paper trails, bank statements receipts of transactions for things i
need I am of course more than the sum of my parts but leaving trails is an art paper trails, thou...
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Tuesday 29th December 2009 10:07 am
Tags: trails,dan hooks poet poetry alienpoet
Also by Daniel Hooks:
The domino effect |The Climb
Silence surrounds us.
Wind whipping hair, sun shining down.
The trees a rustle in the autumn chill.
Yet still we climb, climb this hill.
Our laughter evades the pores of the earth.
Sinking deep into its burning heart.
A lark it darts, flying free and high
away from the shackles of fate.
Tell me, why cant we?
Horse harsh breath flies as the bag we carry fills with stones,
Picking ou...
Wind whipping hair, sun shining down.
The trees a rustle in the autumn chill.
Yet still we climb, climb this hill.
Our laughter evades the pores of the earth.
Sinking deep into its burning heart.
A lark it darts, flying free and high
away from the shackles of fate.
Tell me, why cant we?
Horse harsh breath flies as the bag we carry fills with stones,
Picking ou...
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Tuesday 29th December 2009 2:41 am
Tags: the,climb,cliff,friendship
Secret Memories
Susan held that summer long
As long that summer was
A secret that enthralled the girls
Captivating them because
Love was such a wonder then
When innocently viewed
That Emily and Laura-Jane
So eagerly pursued
“What news!” they cried “what news have you?”
Excitement filled within
Those promenading afternoons
Of gently browning skin
Of barefoot days and carefree ways
When sisters...
As long that summer was
A secret that enthralled the girls
Captivating them because
Love was such a wonder then
When innocently viewed
That Emily and Laura-Jane
So eagerly pursued
“What news!” they cried “what news have you?”
Excitement filled within
Those promenading afternoons
Of gently browning skin
Of barefoot days and carefree ways
When sisters...
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Monday 28th December 2009 11:46 pm
Also by Christopher Dawson:
Expectation | Don't | hum ko hus nay ko acha lak tha hai |Ready To Sail
Get Flash to see this player.
Ready to sail
Heavin' away
Succubi wail
Mizzen masts sway
Open yer mind
Bare me yer soul
Together we'll find
The treasure I stole
Ready to sail
Wi' ghosts of the dead
Scurrilous tales
Adventures ahead
We'll visit places
Both magic and strange
We shall meet faces
Unknown and deranged
What say ye mate?
Do we have an accord?
We're ready to sail
So jump ye aboard!...
Heavin' away
Succubi wail
Mizzen masts sway
Open yer mind
Bare me yer soul
Together we'll find
The treasure I stole
Ready to sail
Wi' ghosts of the dead
Scurrilous tales
Adventures ahead
We'll visit places
Both magic and strange
We shall meet faces
Unknown and deranged
What say ye mate?
Do we have an accord?
We're ready to sail
So jump ye aboard!...
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Monday 28th December 2009 11:28 pm
Tags: pirate,comic,humour,odious,ode,mingo,backhair
Call Me the Evergreen
The frost kicks
A jolt to my tender ribs
A cough of angry and perseverance leave me
Leave me, alone in this frozen hell.
My friends all left when the weather turned.
Cowards, each and every one
But what’s done is done.
I’ll just call for a god in this hallow
It’s desolate.
But I’ll withstand this winter.
Call me the Evergreen.
Glory h...
A jolt to my tender ribs
A cough of angry and perseverance leave me
Leave me, alone in this frozen hell.
My friends all left when the weather turned.
Cowards, each and every one
But what’s done is done.
I’ll just call for a god in this hallow
It’s desolate.
But I’ll withstand this winter.
Call me the Evergreen.
Glory h...
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Monday 28th December 2009 9:39 pm
Also by Ridge A. Dillard:
Poetry Is... | The Love Poem | Free | Show Sympathy | Trapt | Lost through the grips of time | Kiss From A Rose | Light | My blood, my wine | The Faceless | Old Man | D, G, R | Perception |evolution......
by JEFF.W
THE LIGHT IS BRIGHT...
THE DARK IS NIGHT....
THE SEA IS DEEP....
THE RIVER IS SHALLOW...
THE SKY IS FULL....
THE GROUND IS HOLLOW....
THE MOUNTAIN IS STEEP...
THE HILL IS MELLOW....
THE MOON IS GLOWING...
THE SUN IS DIMMING....
OUR VERY EXISTENCE IS JUST THE BEGINNING....
(c)2009 jeff.w...
THE DARK IS NIGHT....
THE SEA IS DEEP....
THE RIVER IS SHALLOW...
THE SKY IS FULL....
THE GROUND IS HOLLOW....
THE MOUNTAIN IS STEEP...
THE HILL IS MELLOW....
THE MOON IS GLOWING...
THE SUN IS DIMMING....
OUR VERY EXISTENCE IS JUST THE BEGINNING....
(c)2009 jeff.w...
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Monday 28th December 2009 6:34 pm
Also by JEFF.W:
all about you..... | price of christmas.... | dust lust..... | recycling | silent but deadly | volcano.... |new poem i wrote in pub for my open mic lol
and my new plane art too! drawn while drunk in abbey pub before my open mic
DON’T MOCK FATE
When you think you have it all and you smile knowing you’re the king of your own little world, an empire of your own making made by you. You do something that separates you from this life of your own making and what you have – a house with a mortgage paid for by your job in the City, engaged to...
DON’T MOCK FATE
When you think you have it all and you smile knowing you’re the king of your own little world, an empire of your own making made by you. You do something that separates you from this life of your own making and what you have – a house with a mortgage paid for by your job in the City, engaged to...
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Monday 28th December 2009 4:41 pm
Also by nick armbrister:
nice happy xmas poem for you lol:) | poem | a poem... | plane poem |it isn't poetry
by Wytchewoode
This isn't poetry
and nor is it politics
it is neither and both,
political and poetical
because poetry is pretty
whereas politics is not
but let's see where it takes us
and maybe we will end up
in a better place
not poorer but richer
for the experience of both
poems and polemics
are but the transport of ideas
whose media are words,
words of love, words of hate,
words hope, words of trust
and faith...
and nor is it politics
it is neither and both,
political and poetical
because poetry is pretty
whereas politics is not
but let's see where it takes us
and maybe we will end up
in a better place
not poorer but richer
for the experience of both
poems and polemics
are but the transport of ideas
whose media are words,
words of love, words of hate,
words hope, words of trust
and faith...
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Monday 28th December 2009 1:55 pm
Tags: poetry,politics
2010 - A Year for Peace & Goodwill?
by Dave Dunn
A new year dawns as many before,
will 2010 bring what we ask for?
A peaceful future that all can share
with the wealthy showing that they care?
In my hopes as ever that would be the plan
for without compassion what distinguishes man?
We may have tools and brains to embrace
technologies to help the human race
But if those minds just persue all with greed
then we ignore those with more pressing ne...
will 2010 bring what we ask for?
A peaceful future that all can share
with the wealthy showing that they care?
In my hopes as ever that would be the plan
for without compassion what distinguishes man?
We may have tools and brains to embrace
technologies to help the human race
But if those minds just persue all with greed
then we ignore those with more pressing ne...
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Monday 28th December 2009 12:54 pm
Tags: Peace
rejection
I couch myself, crouched arse out, towards you,
Smooth and perfumed, polished clean.
Your eyes should travel down my back, flared like a cello at the hip.
Down the length, white and shining of my legs
To the shiny red heels.
See the contrast, white and soft, warm dimpled
And the shiny, brittle, violent, vinyl shine.
Ohh, that you would be the hard to my soft
Tense to my dimpled
Taut to...
Smooth and perfumed, polished clean.
Your eyes should travel down my back, flared like a cello at the hip.
Down the length, white and shining of my legs
To the shiny red heels.
See the contrast, white and soft, warm dimpled
And the shiny, brittle, violent, vinyl shine.
Ohh, that you would be the hard to my soft
Tense to my dimpled
Taut to...
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Monday 28th December 2009 12:05 pm
Also by Rachel McGladdery:
Little Clock | Stockings | Sunrise Over England | Where the Wind Sweeps Down To The Sea |Review of a cd wwhich one of my poems appears on
by Cayn White
A review of a cd which I appear on, taken from "http://www.fungalpunknature.co.uk" Check this site out 'cos Dave is one of the very few people who are still supporting the bands no one else would give a second glance at and definatley deserves all credit.
PHOENIX RADIO - PUNK IS THE BEST COMPILATION
Phoenix Radio - what a gift to us lucky punkers it is too. Well, one show in particular! Punk a...
PHOENIX RADIO - PUNK IS THE BEST COMPILATION
Phoenix Radio - what a gift to us lucky punkers it is too. Well, one show in particular! Punk a...
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Sunday 27th December 2009 1:28 pm
Also by Cayn White:
My First Christmas Poem | A Random Poem Inspired by the Bickering of Poets | Gigs, Court and More Gigs |My Voice “Let Freedom Ring” 7/12/09
by DKastro~*
Liberty is unlimited expression,
Intuition followed by rightful actions
Escape from the grasped clutches of guilt and resentment,
Replaced by optimism and courage!
Loud and proud speech with a conscience,
Not listening to cynics who capture it!
Upmost best of your ability- not under scrutiny
To explain your declaration of independence in the face of adversity!
Break open the shackles- soaring se...
Intuition followed by rightful actions
Escape from the grasped clutches of guilt and resentment,
Replaced by optimism and courage!
Loud and proud speech with a conscience,
Not listening to cynics who capture it!
Upmost best of your ability- not under scrutiny
To explain your declaration of independence in the face of adversity!
Break open the shackles- soaring se...
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Sunday 27th December 2009 1:22 pm
Also by DKastro~*:
Daily Grind of Commuting 24/11/09 |On These Streets
An Old Poem:
Cracked sidewalks
follow the stampede
of the craze
of the holidays.
Rain drops as tears
down onto pavement
as the stampede
continues to gather
their gifts
and spend their generosity.
In all the midst
of the holiday spirits,
they never look down.
They never stop to see.
Here they go again,
frantic to buy
for those they love,
but what about me?
When they go,
all I w...
Cracked sidewalks
follow the stampede
of the craze
of the holidays.
Rain drops as tears
down onto pavement
as the stampede
continues to gather
their gifts
and spend their generosity.
In all the midst
of the holiday spirits,
they never look down.
They never stop to see.
Here they go again,
frantic to buy
for those they love,
but what about me?
When they go,
all I w...
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Sunday 27th December 2009 12:48 am
Tags: help,money,streets,economy
JUST ANOTHER WAR (A message to Barack Obama - Nobel Peace Prize)
They started a war - a war in my name
the truth - they had to bend it;
they tore out the heart of integrity’s soul
now who will come to mend it?
Attackers came forth from the land of the sand
with a plot that the West vowed to foil.
They went to off war in freedom’s name
but the sand was not free from the oil.
The men in the suits in the sleek Cadillacs
looked out to the men...
the truth - they had to bend it;
they tore out the heart of integrity’s soul
now who will come to mend it?
Attackers came forth from the land of the sand
with a plot that the West vowed to foil.
They went to off war in freedom’s name
but the sand was not free from the oil.
The men in the suits in the sleek Cadillacs
looked out to the men...
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Saturday 26th December 2009 7:20 pm
Also by Barrie Singleton:
WHAT FOR | FALL OUT |That’s just emotion
by Nefertiti
That’s just emotion
Tears fall against the itchy redness of my face. A customary reaction, expression of my uncontrollable emotion. The death of me? He probably will be, cause for us both to exist in this is close to nil. Like having double Spider men, only one wins.
So once again, the contents of my torso bounce on trampolines and force me to present my breakfast for the second time, an...
Tears fall against the itchy redness of my face. A customary reaction, expression of my uncontrollable emotion. The death of me? He probably will be, cause for us both to exist in this is close to nil. Like having double Spider men, only one wins.
So once again, the contents of my torso bounce on trampolines and force me to present my breakfast for the second time, an...
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Thursday 24th December 2009 10:01 am
STONES
I want to make a place
that is not of pain.
Built of life and built.
Not of earth
but of heaven
a shape of creation
built together
with spirit rubies
and other precious stones.
I cant explain
but I try to understand.
It is called .....righteousness.
that is not of pain.
Built of life and built.
Not of earth
but of heaven
a shape of creation
built together
with spirit rubies
and other precious stones.
I cant explain
but I try to understand.
It is called .....righteousness.
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Tuesday 22nd December 2009 10:03 pm
Why So Blue, Sweetheart?
by Thom
Sweetheart, you're black and blue
Sweetheart
From the things I've done to you
Now your dead arm swings loose
And your bruised eye won't open
Sweetheart
These things I've done to you
An evening among friends, descends
Now we're alone
Sweetheart
Now you start on me again
Buttons all pushed, again
You try to stand your ground
But I'll always shout louder
Sweetheart
Surely safer to just settle down?...
Sweetheart
From the things I've done to you
Now your dead arm swings loose
And your bruised eye won't open
Sweetheart
These things I've done to you
An evening among friends, descends
Now we're alone
Sweetheart
Now you start on me again
Buttons all pushed, again
You try to stand your ground
But I'll always shout louder
Sweetheart
Surely safer to just settle down?...
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Tuesday 22nd December 2009 2:18 pm
Tags: WOLOP.dec
Also by Thom:
Sewing It Together | Sailing on Firewater | Then Give Back | One of These Years | Raining In Darlington | An Actor Writes From His Dressing Room... | Lay Down Your Guard | Your Poem Is Still Young |There’s something going on making me feel fearful
I’m sitting here alone
in a dark and creaking house
I’m sure I heard something,
stirring inside sure not out
and I’m staring straight ahead
I’m trying hard to hear
that sound I heard just now
the one that made me scared
In a dark and eerie house
every sound is amplified
was that another sound
or was it just a little creak?
No, I’m sure I heard it then
again, it’s c...
in a dark and creaking house
I’m sure I heard something,
stirring inside sure not out
and I’m staring straight ahead
I’m trying hard to hear
that sound I heard just now
the one that made me scared
In a dark and eerie house
every sound is amplified
was that another sound
or was it just a little creak?
No, I’m sure I heard it then
again, it’s c...
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Monday 21st December 2009 8:51 pm
Season\\'s Sonnet
Sonya,I got your comic Christmas card •
In a bed-sit Santa irons red suits alone •
But I hear tom-cats screech in your back •yard
And Santa’s smile conceals an inward groan.
For while you wrap bright parcels,show good cheer,
Weave plans to please the young and innocent,
Under lock and key you store a secret tear,
And out of bottles ,pour your merriment.
When to...
In a bed-sit Santa irons red suits alone •
But I hear tom-cats screech in your back •yard
And Santa’s smile conceals an inward groan.
For while you wrap bright parcels,show good cheer,
Weave plans to please the young and innocent,
Under lock and key you store a secret tear,
And out of bottles ,pour your merriment.
When to...
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Monday 21st December 2009 11:09 am
A sell out i am not.....
I get it now...., You have to sell your soul, Just to make a bit, Take shit and hand ''the man'' your ass, While he rapes it, Fake it, Something like a serpant in the snake pit, Pretend to be a friend, But bite with pure hatred, Ive seen so many people selling out,in abundance, The concept of keeping it real becomes redundant, I often wonder what inspires the thought pattern, Of lifes...
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Monday 21st December 2009 7:52 am
Opening
As sure as back streets caked in snow
melt and go,
so the stapled cardboard box locks,
as too the thumbs push further in
a thumbnail clicks.
Remember the time your thumbnail clicked
as cardboard panels stood their ground
the time you had that panic attack
nail bent back
just think: thumbnail bent right back. Snap!
It left a curved white line across
a keratin shell over soft blood an...
melt and go,
so the stapled cardboard box locks,
as too the thumbs push further in
a thumbnail clicks.
Remember the time your thumbnail clicked
as cardboard panels stood their ground
the time you had that panic attack
nail bent back
just think: thumbnail bent right back. Snap!
It left a curved white line across
a keratin shell over soft blood an...
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Sunday 20th December 2009 5:19 pm
Lest we forget to remember: Chapter 8
A foreigner has no rights. A foreigner is an alien. Not the wondrous scientific one, but the loathed filthy one. A foreigner is a non-authentic nonentity of no identity. The life of a foreigner is not an easy one. It takes courage to survive in strange lands. Lands afar from the place of your birth. In lands far beyond where the culture, way of talking, food, and women all in their way differed f...
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Sunday 20th December 2009 3:17 pm
Copenhagen
by Malpoet
In the 18th century the people of Easter Island worked hard
creating the statues that their information showed
were absolutely necessary for their future.
In the 19th century Easter Islanders realised
that statues were a useless waste of effort
and put all their energy into the obvious need
to worship the birdman.
In he 20th century the stupidity of the Easter Islanders
was obvio...
creating the statues that their information showed
were absolutely necessary for their future.
In the 19th century Easter Islanders realised
that statues were a useless waste of effort
and put all their energy into the obvious need
to worship the birdman.
In he 20th century the stupidity of the Easter Islanders
was obvio...
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Friday 18th December 2009 11:14 pm
Tags: any old crap,belief,climate,copenhagen
Also by Malpoet:
In Poetry | Harry | Tiger in the Dark Woods |PAAARRRTTTYYY!!!!!
PAAAARRRTTTTYYYY!
“Ey up owd lad, tha does look glum!” Peter said one day, (he’d spent a while up north near Leeds, that’s why he spoke that way.)
“What’s to do? Tha’s sittin there wi a face like milkman’s hoss. I’ve nivver seed thee look that way, whatever ails thee boss?”
His boss looked up, all ashen faced, a pallor on his skin, and whispered “Pete, I’ve had e...
“Ey up owd lad, tha does look glum!” Peter said one day, (he’d spent a while up north near Leeds, that’s why he spoke that way.)
“What’s to do? Tha’s sittin there wi a face like milkman’s hoss. I’ve nivver seed thee look that way, whatever ails thee boss?”
His boss looked up, all ashen faced, a pallor on his skin, and whispered “Pete, I’ve had e...
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Friday 18th December 2009 7:35 pm
Tags: religion,humour,Christmas,peace,love
Dirty Weekend
Dirty Weekend
Chipped china cup half washed up
Rests in her hands
Forty a day smoker stains
Tepid tea sloshes down the drain
Sodden biscuit crumb remains
Glistening like fools’ gold
She never dreamt she’d be this old
And to have to start again
Without her man
Wedding vows aren’t worth a damn
I do’s give way to the big I am
Voices raised, front doors slammed
A...
Chipped china cup half washed up
Rests in her hands
Forty a day smoker stains
Tepid tea sloshes down the drain
Sodden biscuit crumb remains
Glistening like fools’ gold
She never dreamt she’d be this old
And to have to start again
Without her man
Wedding vows aren’t worth a damn
I do’s give way to the big I am
Voices raised, front doors slammed
A...
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Friday 18th December 2009 5:46 pm
The Voice
The Voice
How lucky I am to have my voice
With all its possibilities
I give it charm I make it sing
I can denote hostilities
How lucky am I to have a choice
To take this voice most everywhere
To express meaning, give voice feelings
Show my leaning when I dare
How lucky indeed to sow a note
And reap a song, when nature inspires
And good things conspire
The feeling’s strong
Ho...
How lucky I am to have my voice
With all its possibilities
I give it charm I make it sing
I can denote hostilities
How lucky am I to have a choice
To take this voice most everywhere
To express meaning, give voice feelings
Show my leaning when I dare
How lucky indeed to sow a note
And reap a song, when nature inspires
And good things conspire
The feeling’s strong
Ho...
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Friday 18th December 2009 9:55 am
Dreamtime
Get Flash to see this player.
We might evolve into a species
With wires from our ears
So we don’t have to listen
To other people’s noise
Now every man’s an island
And everyone’s divine
Cos we can disassociate ourselves
And live in Dreamtime
This isn’t really happening
We can block reality
Put your plugs in your lugs
And live in MTV
And if th...
With wires from our ears
So we don’t have to listen
To other people’s noise
Now every man’s an island
And everyone’s divine
Cos we can disassociate ourselves
And live in Dreamtime
This isn’t really happening
We can block reality
Put your plugs in your lugs
And live in MTV
And if th...
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Thursday 17th December 2009 8:12 pm
by John Coopey
Tale from the North Country
As we crunched through snow together
In inclement Arctic weather,
I brought to mind an Old Icelandic song;
There’s a saga of the Viking
You need to heed when hiking
That “Pissing in His Boots -
Keeps No Man Warm for Long”.
Already you’ll be gleaning
A second, deeper, meaning
That short-term paths will, long-term, turn out wrong
As...
As we crunched through snow together
In inclement Arctic weather,
I brought to mind an Old Icelandic song;
There’s a saga of the Viking
You need to heed when hiking
That “Pissing in His Boots -
Keeps No Man Warm for Long”.
Already you’ll be gleaning
A second, deeper, meaning
That short-term paths will, long-term, turn out wrong
As...
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Thursday 17th December 2009 3:55 pm
The Busker
by John Aikman
'He's more rapist than harpist',
I joke as we approach.
We calculate the etiquette,
Of rewarding each wrong note,
I crack, and throw some shrapnel in his case.
The music stops, he lifts his face.
One useless eye,
Poking like a sea scarred stone on ravaged beach,
But ears that figure in a flash,
The sound of seventeen pence,
Cash.
Jx...
I joke as we approach.
We calculate the etiquette,
Of rewarding each wrong note,
I crack, and throw some shrapnel in his case.
The music stops, he lifts his face.
One useless eye,
Poking like a sea scarred stone on ravaged beach,
But ears that figure in a flash,
The sound of seventeen pence,
Cash.
Jx...
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Wednesday 16th December 2009 4:17 pm
Also by John Aikman:
She Put the \\'Tog\\' in Together |Big Fish in Masvingo Lake
by Greg Freeman
There’s a big fish at the bottom of Masvingo lake.
Old, fat, and ugly, it won’t be caught
I glimpsed it once, on the end of my hook;
Thought I had it, saw its cruel, fierce eyes
The fishing isn’t good in the lake.
The big old one has eaten almost all the others.
People still come to try and catch it
Maybe if the lake dries up
It will be found there at the bottom...
Old, fat, and ugly, it won’t be caught
I glimpsed it once, on the end of my hook;
Thought I had it, saw its cruel, fierce eyes
The fishing isn’t good in the lake.
The big old one has eaten almost all the others.
People still come to try and catch it
Maybe if the lake dries up
It will be found there at the bottom...
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Tuesday 15th December 2009 9:46 am
Tags: Africa
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