YOU
On this day, I read these words
you will only see me once
On this day, I thought to myself
not a chance
You became my crayon box
where I can pick a colour for the day
and as time went by, I opened my heart
for you to come and stay
You inspired me to colour in my life
sometimes outside the lines
I became my own Picasso
You became my Mona Lisa
To l...
Friday 3rd February 2023 7:12 am
Partitions
During the absent days,
although you were near
but at the same time
in some other place,
love may have been there
but I had to guess
most of the time,
and I was terrible at it
Friday 3rd February 2023 4:38 am
Also by Mike McPeek:
Possessions |the lines on my face
i have no idea how to reconcile the fact that,
i knew people once, like i know the lines on my face.
people who now fade so far into my memories that nothing reminds me of them.
my mum says, thats the way it is.
that life is about the fading and the renewal.
the old memories being old and never present.
but i cant stomach it!
it makes me completely sick.
i wish i knew eve...
Friday 3rd February 2023 12:40 am
Also by Nadia Coia:
2023 |How Unfortunate
Besides gray,
I hear a voice,
Saying to step beside,
As a wall stands by,
Silent to the tragedy,
What a travesty,
Holding down a flower,
What a world that eats more and more,
I heard my ears ring today,
They stood beside on angels,
Dead dead deadly angels,
Barking orders like mad,
The ravenous things between your seat cushion,
The very thought can drink you whole,
In mind and in my m...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 11:48 pm
Out of the blue
On this beautiful spring day in February
with delphinium-blue skies and cheeky
crocuses splashing purple and dazzling
daffs nodding agreement in this mild April
zephyr of a breeze – then do fongen folk to go on pilgrimage
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands.,
Our pilgrimages tend towards interiority
& still seek relics of a past that cannot last.
I imagine that if ...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 11:17 pm
life is beautiful
i would fall from heights
shaking Lucifer terrified
for Luna's starry skies to linger,
in a Jashar night, by your side.
floating on Chopin stroked ivory nocturnes
swimming in deep ruby pools of Pinot Noir
dancing on your flowering lips,
sweet with vanilla cigarette smoke.
life is beautiful.
phosphorus waves of purple patches
carry me from seas of stormy eyes
onto shores sanctuary ...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 10:57 pm
SBL
simply being loved
a way to not get caught
this crazy disease
pleases me to say the least
signs came way to late, i cant leave
weak to even speak about the boy in the bubble
world wide seperation of church and state
neverending heartbreaking stories of former sex slaves
passed on to the next messed up in the head bad to the bone we all know human waste just to replace and e...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 9:04 pm
Image in the Mirror
I saw a version of myself
In the mirror
Only caught by my peripheral vision
But the dark circles around his eyes
Showed me what lurks
In the shadows of my mind
Not representative of who I am
But all the pain, the hurt that I've seen
It's easy to fall
Into a corrupted state of being
But to learn how to bring balance
Between darkness and light
And see the h...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 8:39 pm
Surrounded
I am surrounded with the ghosts
Each and every day I blame
The heartless bodies on my toes
I am surrounded by some dust
That has always been in their eyes
They look but just cannot see
That their life is full of lies
Do you ever wanna be surrounded by the mud
Wherein their souls are stuck
Shall we draw this sharp line once again
Between our minds that have already g...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 5:16 pm
Theatre
The theatre of war
Is two steps from your chair.
You watch it on the screen,
You calculate the odds
While weighing up the form
And placing your next bet
On where the bombs will fall.
Those in the know predict
That Kyiv is odds-on.
The news comes through at six:
Bulls-eye! Time to collect,
For your holiday cruise.
But please, gamble responsibly!
Thursday 2nd February 2023 4:56 pm
Fragments Of Suffering
She had been suffering,
The broken relationships
under the cracked memoirs
Bones almost plundered
With the fearful hopes,
anxious, doubtful all the way
So I slowed down a little bit,
With fragments of kisses
With delicate touches
of makeover trials
With the letters denote
something like love or etc.
Smell of nights,
music of movements
Written...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 4:38 pm
Also by NilavroNill Shoovro:
Fragments Of Revolution! |The needle and the sun
He dips out from the world of swords and spears
Dropping his shield
Dropping his head between his knees
He watches the colours floating behind closed eyes
Swarming and flooding the well-worn tears
The claustrophobic chain of events played out
Twice three times a day
Until with all of his heaving sobs he jumps right in
Into the numbing pools embrace
Lost in a journey of u...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 3:40 pm
neverending no
it creeps in like hope
love clinging
safe sound
stripped
the veiled shape of it
flowers watered in
fears denying all expected
witherings
crinkling snakeskin
discarded aimed star-ward
like a voice
bare
toneless in the void
...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 2:35 pm
Love Song
I love you so much
I am a splattered mess on the floor,
waiting for strong gentle hands to whisk me away.
I love you so much
I want to shower you with everything I have
like Santa Claus at Christmas delivering toys across the sky.
I love you so much
I am obliterated with hope that every good thing will come your way.
I love you so much
so much
so much
that the spa...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 2:04 pm
Also by Hélène:
Trust & Renewal |DESIDERIUM
Passion, Warmth, Peace, Desire
Who knew such words could mean alot.
Yet, the mere thought of it, keeps me up at night.
Lately, I can't help the thoughts that clouds my mind;
'Of us enjoying the beautiful stars
While I enjoy the sweet sound of your voice like velvet mixed with honey.
Or the sturdy outline of your neck,
I can't help but want to trail kisses on it.
Just the ...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 12:24 pm
together we fly
but we are not birds
navigate through darkness
but we are no bats
together we traverse all the world
but we are not clouds
ascend to the heights
but we are no angels
together we leave the worms behind
but we are not astronauts
finding bliss in weightlessness
but we're no aliens
and in freefall together
we seek no safety-net
the sky could not be bluer
while closer we hold each ot...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 11:04 am
Also by Adam Whitworth:
First, Listen |Countryside Path
A walk down a countryside path
bathed in the morning light
Trees still deep in their winter sleep
the ground still frosty white
Above the far horizon
the sun is slowly rising
A moment of mindfulness
that only nature can bring
Photo credite Dr Amir Khan
Thursday 2nd February 2023 10:30 am
JUMP
He looks like Will from The Inbetweeners
His friend doesn't seem to have a face at all
They are on holiday somewhere warm
They aren't talking much
Not arguing or anything
But there is something not being said
They don't seem to be having much fun
They are mostly just lazing about in the sun
Jump to their hotel
Then immediately to a large Georgian House
They are w...
Thursday 2nd February 2023 7:38 am
Tranquility
The tranquility
Loves passionate fantasies
Night of the full Moon
Thursday 2nd February 2023 2:30 am
Flawed
The day's parlance
lacks all patience.
So many seem
to need a sceptre
on which to balance
all that incompetence.
And the potion
in the cauldron
aims to animate
nobody but the zealot.
But what if
the very premise
is flawed, crumbles
at the mere mention
of a wrathful god?
Thursday 2nd February 2023 12:09 am
On Muckish Peak
‘Cross springy grass with sodden shoes
where mountainside and valley fuse,
up zig-zag paths where slopes are steep
trod by the hooves of countless sheep;
and now we too traverse and climb
through clumps of clover, strewn with thyme.
Around the scree, across the rocks
and wind-whipped dandelion clocks
until atop that final knoll
where motionless we stood in thrall,
...Wednesday 1st February 2023 10:35 pm
Well-beings #7
Well-beings #7
#1
I’m seeing well-beings,
being more body conscious,
conscious of the way they look,
looking into the cosmetic mirror
as they contemplate consider,
which teeth they can reconfigure,
liposuction, and a slight tummy tuck.
#2
I’m seeing well-beings,
being mindful and meditate,
meditate into a transcendental state,
stating online rhyming couplet...
Wednesday 1st February 2023 4:27 pm
The January Rebellion
The dishwasher is reading Kafka.
The toaster has taken to drink.
The freezer has joined the picket line.
The whole kitchen is in the sink.
Wednesday 1st February 2023 3:09 pm
Imperfection
You’re imperfect
so imperfect
I worship
the idea of you
in practice
things go badly
in my mind
it always works
I need you to be strong for me
in those moments when all seems lost
I’ll be whatever you want
in our hearts we know we’re not wrong
just imperfect
so imperfect
we’ve got our work
cut out for us
for a li...
Wednesday 1st February 2023 11:14 am
THE GENGHIS KHAN OF CAS
The first time that I saw him I heard his scooter beep
He made a big impression then which memory I shall keep.
I copped him outside Flavour’s (sic) (Apostrophe Abuse!
Grammatical precision here is played with fast and loose).
For this is downtown Castleford where orange Tigers prowl
And few here know the difference twixt consonant and vowel.
But thats another story (sic) so, hel...
Wednesday 1st February 2023 11:08 am
It's been awhile
Nature has a way of making you take a break
Your back begins to ache from laying in bed all day
The pile of snot filled tissues overflow onto the floor
The pulsating pain with every heart beat reverberates through the noggin
Eyes can't seem to fixate very long on the screen before the strain is unbearable
Even a thought hurts
Dishes pile
Animals still need fed
It's not...
Wednesday 1st February 2023 2:28 am
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