our singer
i found your third album
when i was sixteen
among my father's old things
in the attic
a shimmering blue lake
in the middle of a desert
the truth of cracked concrete
and late nights at dive bars
seemed to come to you
as easy as breathing
that night i hunched
over my desk
with your voice
coming out of the stereo
real quiet so my parents
wouldn't wake...
Tuesday 19th March 2024 4:17 am
Also by n.p.w.:
no ship |From Afar
The night seemed dark,
My room had lost its spark,
The only little light present
Was of the moonlight spotlighting
The pine tree outside my window
That pointed its fingers upwards.
My eyes spoke to the celestial bodies
That seemingly replied with blinks
And movements from afar,
And when they faded away,
There tiptoed a new star,
From a nearby region than ...
Tuesday 19th March 2024 1:45 am
Also by Manish:
Waiting for the Sun | Fulfillment | Desire | Another Shadow | Love | Some Things That Matter | Can't Sing Along | Table for Two |Nonet poem challenge
Beautiful leaf prints designed like hands
Natural art, earth given plant
Starts with a seed Nourished ,loved
Consistently cared for
The plant is you ,us
Leaf print, hand print
So unique
We are
One
Tuesday 19th March 2024 12:23 am
Also by Sarah Louise mcnee:
Dry relapse with no high(through the eyes of another) |Smiling Mirages
The sand of the sea, what are they to me?
Smiling mirages that drift by in lines.
Tried building castles but it seems to be,
the waves take them down every time.
I guess there’s a beauty in watching them flow,
like a kaleidoscope, swirling away,
back to their nature where they always go,
leaving me here at the end of the day.
Looking out as the sun sets to the se...
Tuesday 19th March 2024 12:20 am
Also by Jeff Bresee:
Singularity | Memories Etched | Midnight | World History | This Time Around | Pivot Point | End Of The Line | Silent Flight | Quiet Now | Silhouettes | Captain My Captain | Not There Before | No Arrival | Sunset Memory | Empty Seats | Prayer Of The Modern Day Pharisee | Next In Line | All That Will Remain | B'Jangled Tourette's | One Cell | Moments | The Grind | Shallow Breath | He Could Have | Daughter Of God | Confliction | What I've Learned | The Gatherer | Show Me The way | Online Best Of Who? | Secrets | Sides Of The Coin | Same Old Song | Blind | Naive | When The Darkness Falls | The Eye Of The Storm | Reflection | In Trance | One Change | Savor | Pure Water | How Heaven | By The Well | Blue Sunshine | The Clock | How She Sees | What Comes Of Dreams | Not A Single Thing | Lifelong Friend | Circles | One Missing | Reckoning | No Matter | Freedom | Almost There For You | The Day After | Self Inflicted | Chicken Every Meal | A Step Half Made | Don't Get Me Started | Walk Away | Piece That Is Missing | Alone | Relapse | A Final Note | End Of The Dream | 70 Times 7 | Midnight City |Noah's Curse
to turn on a tap
for one drop of water,
so much will be lost
the waste is shameless,
a flagrant inundation
of the original thirst,
and so with words, when
unfettered feverish
tongues spill forth
across a page, all
meaning is lost,
the vital message
undelivered
© Graham R Sherwood 03/24
Monday 18th March 2024 9:29 pm
Also by Graham Sherwood:
Summer Dress |I don't need denial
I don't need love or anything, I don't need any friends
I don't need friends or family, just happy if it ends
I don't need things or clings or flings,
I don't need needy needs
I don't need nothing, clothing, loathing, don't need any more
I don't need no satisfaction, contentment or a whore
I don't need life, I don't need death, I don't need any arts
I don't need science, progr...
Monday 18th March 2024 9:10 pm
Also by Auracle:
Unavoidably Unsad | The Destronaut | Djinni of Dystopia (2) | Djinni of Dystopia | Dystopia: The Rescission(s) | Dystopia: Choppers | Dystopia: ART-ificiality | Dystopia: Glitzched | Dystopia: Terrorism (Poetic License) | Dystopia: Cinema | Dystopia | First letter to my love(s) | Narçis | Considerations of A Troubled Mind in & about this Digital Age | Chame Leon |Deathtrap Deathinitely! ( for rob with thanks )
Almost clapped out Jag
once gleaming red
still red
but with a wide peppering
of rust spots
A corroding classic
that he and she subjected
to leaden footed punishment
They were hammering the last miles
out of it
swerving down narrow country lanes
faster!
and faster!
until
an oncoming tractor
relieved them both
of life.
Monday 18th March 2024 4:58 pm
Also by Bethany Sallis:
The never routinely man | Like flying before falling | Alleviation | For the easiness lovers | Soulmates progress | Brain boggling | Hailing the glory days! | Torn apart |Sun in My Eyes
Sun in my eyes
Warmth on my face
It’s a surprisingly warm day for March
I’m on the beach at Clacton
Mum is on a cruise around the Med with Aunty Jan
They are on the top deck
sipping Malibu and coke
Topping up their tan
Sun in their eyes
That’s what I tell myself
Everytime I get the sun in my eyes
I think of Mum
From that photo of her
before s...
Monday 18th March 2024 4:51 pm
Also by Lee Campbell:
The Tree Man (with live readiing recording) | The Tree Man (with video poem) | Mending (with poetry film) | Used to be |Election
As poor as I am
I can still see the lies
Dripping down from posters
Larger than life
Each party vying for my eye line
Sides of the same dice
Hope, Fear
Progress, Strength
Hate, Together
Each rolling towards me
Saying anything I like …
A tannoy blurts out
Some nonsensical nonsense
flags are waving in the air
and the dumb have becom...
Monday 18th March 2024 3:55 pm
Lovely Problems
I love my problems
I made them myself
one day I’ll solve them
I grow them instead
my bank is on fire
my love is dead
piles of books teeter
only jelly in the fridge
I’ve got these problems
they occupy my thoughts
I should be thankful
for their hours of drama
I see them in dreams
with faces of dead lovers
I ask them how they’ve been
they tell me I know all about it
Monday 18th March 2024 3:29 pm
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Be-Monked | My immediate regrets | I feel seen | How to be Kind | The Women | Slayer | Typing Pool | Good Mourning | General Obvious | Throbs |Something is missing.
Monday 18th March 2024 3:01 pm
Also by rob1967able:
War museum. | Fast car. | Nonsense. | What can you say. | Fallen angels. | Time divided. | Empty. | Road to nowhere. | Sounds. |A Long Way
She couldn't have been farther away.
Even though we were sleeping
here, next to each other.
Slow on the draw, to be sure,
it just took me some time
to get better at recognizing
what empty looked like.
And I understand now
just how far away far away can be
when it’s there in front of you.
Monday 18th March 2024 2:39 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Give and Take | Her Way of Flying | Muse | Consequences | Amor Facil | Cliff House | Satellite | Puppy Trouble |Red Hat Young Boy
I.T.V - B.B.C Match of the day cameras focused on a youngster wearing a distinctive red bob hat who showed all the emotions that the sell out crowd felt inside the Theatre of Dreams watching this F.A Cup thriller.
Football frenzy
Anticipation stirs
Expectations uncertain
Jubilation explodes
Winner scored
Magical moment
Remembered forever
Red Hat
Young Boy.
Monday 18th March 2024 2:21 pm
Also by Nigel Astell:
Seekers of Death Sacrifice Their Own |So precious the need to be sure
Since the heavenly time of our first meeting
secretly
my heart has been asking your heart
is this love?
is it forever?
Through the following days
the mystery remains.
Should my soul be given that beloved task
of discovering the secret
in its own more deeply faithful truthful
and above all hopefully
acceptably answering way
Monday 18th March 2024 2:00 pm
Also by leon stolgard:
December day opening story | Determinism | From a cold start | Making the world shoot itself in the foot | Happily ending horror poem | Dismantled | Towards cessation | Height of futile pointlessness | Obscured country Winters morning | Blessed | And so it goes and always will ( for Manish ) | An X-BOX addict slumped over a drink | Seeking rejuvenation | Smooth approach | Canes for our own backs | When Granddad was............ | In that Swan song world |i miss being your daughter
we were close when i was little
you called me your sugar plum fairy
sat by my bed when my dreams were too scary
I didn't know then that our relationship was so brittle
you have mixed feelings about your own mother
maybe that's why you act the way you do
you rip me apart and then try to patch me up with glue
we both know you wouldn't ever do that to my brother
you ...
Monday 18th March 2024 11:52 am
Also by Violer:
unachievable dreams | chronic pain | supporting the economy | the moon and the sun |A Natural Genius In Poetry?
In a series of weekly blogs I have been researching the poetic techniques of the pseudonymous "William Shakespeare" (See previous blog entry: "Shakespeare's Prosody") in an attempt to determine the level of education the dramatist from Stratford-upon-Avon would have acheived in his short life of 52 years. Generally speaking, poets are by nature extremely egotistical, and none more so than our home...
Monday 18th March 2024 11:09 am
Also by leonidas kazantheos:
Shakespeare's Prosody | New Perspectives on Poetry | New Definitions in Poetry | New Bearings in Poetry |Flock
god has gone
but man lives on
to sing to him
in hymnal song
like fallen tree
in vacant wood
no roots where once
foundations stood
don't build upon
the shifting sand
in hope that god
might still his hand
the church hall scowls
with empty chairs
for like the wood
there's no one there
so in obeyance
man see's the light
and follows on
as...
Monday 18th March 2024 10:25 am
Also by Acamas:
Mackerel |Zephyr to Tornado
I am a tiny little breeze
whipped up upon the hill,
I'm gentle when I'm in the trees
and in the valley, still.
Blow me through a Desert,
a Canyon or a Gorge
repeatedly and over time
you'll see my pathways forge.
I'll twist and rip the very earth
you've built your world upon,
I'll shade the Sun that nurtures birth
till all that's good is gone.
...
Monday 18th March 2024 8:28 am
Also by David RL Moore:
In His Garden | Distance over time | Covenant | Old Model Army | Rising Sun | Joy Riders | Cloistered | Oh Jerusalem, Why hast thou forsaken them? | Beyond The Blinding Light |“Sad Case Sad Taste”
Monday 18th March 2024 6:13 am
To my dad
Most times
The world ticks on
As though
It never happened
And maybe
You’re
Still there
And other times
It’s back
Behind the eyes
Bashing at the heart
Or behind it
Somewhere at least
Rattling the rib cage
And I can see
Where you stood
Where you slept
Your ghost
I guess
Except at least
If there was a ghost
I might
Entertain at...
Sunday 17th March 2024 10:36 pm
Also by Twilbury Wist:
The Magic Mirror |March 2024 Collage Poem: Footnotes in History
Intense embarrassment, gutted love
The fatal attraction of King George’s ruby letters
proved all too much
The accordion follows the footsteps
of the footnotes of history
up the stairs to the heavy door
Evidence washed ashore, dissonance not delight
and whisperings of the dead
estuary water floods over the road – wet feet walk
I Beech tree is a pedant...
Sunday 17th March 2024 5:12 pm
Weekly WalkaboutsVerse, E..G., Poem 99 of 230: ONE RUGBY?
Poem 99 of 230: ONE RUGBY?
With sixth-tackle, knock-on and touchline hand-over -
No scrums, line-outs, rucks or mauls;
The rest (the best of both codes) would hardly alter -
And no splits, due to two calls.
(C) David Franks 2003 - from https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com
Sunday 17th March 2024 1:34 pm
MY LUVE IS LYKE A RED RED POPPIE
(If Burns had been around today he might have written this instead)
My luve is lyke a red, red poppie coursing through my veines
It leads me to a better worlde by dullinge my life’s pains.
Your poppie stands for sacrifice, for blude on Flanders fielde
My poppies for oblivionne, from pain from whiche I shield.
It populates grasse verges of my sorrowes twisting laynes
My luve ...
Sunday 17th March 2024 11:41 am
Also by John Coopey:
THE RED WHEELBARROW | BEAKER FOLK | "DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?" | FROM EAST-NORTH-EAST TO WEST-NORTH-WEST | EXTRA-TIME BLUES |UNHINGED
What we love lives:
plastic does not live,
nor does metal commit
plastic terrorism,
metal does not live.
Y’know skin lives
eyes live,
thoughts live
music lives,
living
teaches us to live
more fully.
Quantum mechanics has a half-life
Iike dark stars;
I love the atoms our bodies are composed of;
black holes live
and challenge our stupid linear view
of time and space
You ca...
Sunday 17th March 2024 12:29 am
Also by John E Marks:
MELT DOWN | The girl with the glorious soul | UNDER WHITESPREAD WINGS | The bridge of sighs | SMALL HOLDER | L'après-midi d'vn favne - after Stéphane Mallarmé | Tongue-tied at the sea-side | WHISPERS |A portrait of Inma
To paint a portrait of you I would have to
Borrow, as steal is a word not suiting you,
From the greatest artists pick inspiration,
And create an extraordinary combination.
From Klimt shining and hollow beauty,
Liars screaming about diamonds and superficiality,
When pairing the brilliance of your mind,
Sacred body asses the most desirable kind.
From Kadinski organised randomness contour...
Saturday 16th March 2024 8:26 pm
Everything, Together
Everything is divine,
can you see the threads of love
connecting everything together?
Oh, you thought you were lost,
moored on an island of hopelessness.
But no, I tell you, there is a life boat waiting for you at the shore,
there is a chorus of birds singing you to safety and well-being.
Fear not!
You are as precious as each leaf growing bravely on a winter's branch,
th...
Saturday 16th March 2024 5:58 pm
Also by Hélène:
Looking for the Rainbow |TALES OF OLD HOLLYWOOD
Whole crypts ransacked
preserved body parts found re-examined
attics and cellars raided for cans of film
inhabitants of nursing homes grilled to despair
whispers and wills plundered for half truths,
and all the while the ghosts of narcissists recalled
assembling in long galleries of haunted houses lit by arc lights.
Private beaches combed for evidence of washed up
car...
Saturday 16th March 2024 4:06 pm
Also by ray pool:
THE NET CLOSES |bee keepers waltz (03/15/2024)
you make me feel
like a bee in a dandelion field
nourished and sunny
and
scattered to the warmth of the wind
that carried the ocean to the plains
to above the lakes
to the cracks I'm the sidewalks
where we met
where we keep meeting
where you held my hand
and keep holding
through the rain
Saturday 16th March 2024 12:01 pm
Also by Zach Dafoe:
hospital print (02/04/2024) |Death 'From the 7th Seal' comes acalling (Version 1)
Haunted by the sunlight
He unspooled them all
Around the hillside in a frantic dance
Then rubbed in a cold shower the sea
Then over the clouds
Leaving them staggering
And dangling to each other
Like pale ghosts on a rose bush
Spinning their lives before them
Whether he came for them
On the beach or home
In a fragmented hush
Counting their names an...
Saturday 16th March 2024 10:41 am
Also by Gray Nicholls:
Yesterday's Journeys | Not a love poem | No need for words |frog
You killed me in myriad ways,
I hoped it'd come from any other's blaze,
But you, with my heart held in your hands,
Left me a shell, ready to crack in barren lands.
Inviting the world to a once-sacred space,
I never thought I'd fall for your embrace,
Like a frog in dreams, transformed by a kiss,
Only to learn life's not a dream, but a twist.
In blood, you opened my eyes wide,
A frog re...
Saturday 16th March 2024 9:30 am
Also by racha:
(untitled) | (untitled) | (untitled) |For You, Wherever You Are
It was on my first of many elevator rides
up from the basement floor
I met a woman with short, red hair and a leather jacket,
who I only ever saw
just this once.
I don’t know whether I ever responded
when she spoke to me
or to God
or to the elevator door
saying:
three years ago, now,
they had given her six months to live.
saying:
three ye...
Saturday 16th March 2024 2:21 am
Towards a brighter future
James had always been a driven and ambitious person. As a young man, he had big dreams of success and was determined to achieve them. However, his past relationship was a stumbling block in his path to greatness. He had been in a toxic and controlling relationship that had consumed him and held him back from reaching his full potential. But now, years later, he had finally moved on and was truly h...
Saturday 16th March 2024 12:54 am
Also by Sunshine:
Comedy of errors | An apology | Starting anew |replay, bell & howell 8mm
larger-than-life moon fills the sky
a band
connecting forefinger and thumb
I can’t miss tonight
dew cast from the disappearing sun
coats my lashes
touches the round
knoll of my cheekbone
conditioned by the wet sensation
to take down the giant
I’ll close my eyes
and we’ll both
rest in peace tonight
Friday 15th March 2024 7:47 pm
Also by Landi Cruz:
field of play | objective oversight | sixty-seven rejections | amnesiac 2 |Under Heard Announcements (Nonets)
This is a secure announcement. If
you do not hold a valuable
ticket, you may be issued
with a Penalty Fare
or face possible
persecution.
See it, slay
it, sort
it.
Due to today's wet weather, please note
that services may be slippery.
We are experiencing
some cankerous delays
and luggage may be
terminated.
See it, slay
...Friday 15th March 2024 2:21 pm
Also by John Gilbert Ellis:
Haiku: Bacon Sarnies | Time Was II | Palace of Tears | Shop Now Open (Sonnet) |Happy world sleep day,sleep is essential for good health
One of the best pre bedtime activities you can do,
A warm bath will bring sleep to you.
Your body temperature dips at night,
The cool down you experience when out creates a body delight.
Meditation can be a key to falling asleep,
Listen to music,relax and breathe deep.
Activities such as reading,watching t.v. and eating in bed should be banned,
As they condition the brai...
Friday 15th March 2024 10:27 am
Also by hugh:
One charged and the other let off | Older people are among the biggest losers of Jeremy Hunt's Budget |November
I’m gonna win big, so big, this time;
I’ll notch up a record score.
There’s no way, trust me, there’s no way
That the other side will get more.
Our democracy is sacred,
To say otherwise is a sin;
So I will accept the verdict,
Provided, of course, that I win!
If I should lose, I will cry foul,
Alleging there was massive fraud;
I don’t need any evidence –
I...
Friday 15th March 2024 7:34 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
The Braithwaite Boy | Alternative Facts | The Gap | Deal |In Case I Lose This Fight
I almost killed myself tonight,
I ran out of reasons to live and reasons to fight.
Each day is a battle just to survive,
How is it that I am expected to thrive?
The loneliness in this house is overbearing,
I feel like a fool for even caring.
All I need is to be loved and feel wanted,
But my reality is the opposite while my brain is haunted.
Nothing I say or do wil...
Friday 15th March 2024 1:43 am
Silhouette.
A silhouette staggers,
searches for clarity,
knows it can't be
fully-fleshed yet
abhorring being
a wraith, just
asking to be seen,
craving that legitimacy
of witness; if Elysium
can't be reached,
then, at least, ward
off the obsolescence...
Thursday 14th March 2024 10:59 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Farce. |Poetry Non-Stop
I'm on the Poetry Podcast 'Poetry Non-Stop' today, thanks to Patrick for featuring me which I of course do sneak in a reference to my novel 'Birth'
https://soundcloud.com/user-821268013/andy-n-poetry-in-all-places
Thursday 14th March 2024 7:55 pm
Peace
Watching fluffy clouds float in the sky
Or watch the people passing bye
Distractions to pass the time
On this day so sublime
So warm and sunny
Just right for me
To relax
And find
Peace
Thursday 14th March 2024 1:20 pm
Also by Tim Higbee:
Depression | You Can’t See Love | Finley's Favorite Ball |Thorned Verses
My home is upon the wind
My life has been exscind
I fall at the sands of impermanence
Suffering the reality of permanence
I write lines of fire
The ones laced with desire
Words that dissolve slowly
Showing my sins and folly
The skyline goes red
I look for punishment blood red
Under the scorching blazing sun
My lowly body simmers and burns
The ...
Thursday 14th March 2024 8:15 am
Time
What is a day but a measure in time
don’t you hear your own clock chime
You might think it's not so simple
So refuse to act on this impulse
just to think of what others may say
But now is the time to seize the Day
Your future is earths worm food
For our life can’t be renewed
Our ashes will be left behind
That's how it's all designed
So live the life you ...
Wednesday 13th March 2024 5:33 pm
Also by Robert Shersby:
My Brain | The Leaf | The Liar | The Ridings | Road Rage | Goole | The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled is convincing the world he doesn’t exist | The Greatest Ever…. Cup and Ball Trick | Wonka Land |Breathless
Is it asthma, is it covid?
For a whole year we lived to hide
Yet some of us are still stuck inside
Afraid to step into the light
I watched the drama on tv
In three parts on sly T V
A tale of fiction for all see
As if none of us were there to see
Millions dead, betrayed and forgotten
As if our minds have all gone rotten
Spoiled by the debris of our own lonelines...
Wednesday 13th March 2024 1:02 pm
Also by Rich Brew:
Lady Lolly’s late |Let Soul free
Pen in hand, gracefully crafting,
Soulful ink on paper, gently bleeding.
Heart whispers, aching and screaming,
Words entwine, a tapestry weaving.
Poetry pours from within, emotions flooding,
Unlocking the depth, feelings overflowing.
Each verse unlocks the heart, secrets unfolding,
In each line composed, emotions consoling.
Calming, serene, a spirit undying,
Heart alight, soarin...
Wednesday 13th March 2024 11:31 am
take the wheel
And venturing out
as an artisan model aircrafts
... enthusiast
is a larger than life recreation
to somebody
who
fell in love
with
Amelia Earhart's
figure 8
Wednesday 13th March 2024 12:06 am
Also by Shawn Garcia:
makeup sex |All The Exes
A message for all the exes out there
Your religion, background or gender, don’t care
Some good memories to treasure away
Though I have moved on without any delay
Some beautiful lessons have been taught
Regardless of the times we may have fought
Some kissing, touching, foreplay and sex
Living life without making things complex
Wishing you all the best in what you do
The h...
Tuesday 12th March 2024 11:45 am
Life of a child
Daddy said he couldn't get sober, couldn't get sober,
even if he tries.
mama said the marriage ain't over, marriage ain't over,
till the day she dies.
I said I just want normalcy, just want normalcy,
it will suffice.
daddy said he couldn't get sober, couldn't get sober,
god knows he's tried.
mama said the marriage ain't over, marriage ain't over,
for all the tears s...
Tuesday 12th March 2024 9:30 am
Family
Family. Oh how wonderful!
Well sometimes, not always
Raising the kids,
teething and school days
Seeing them flee the nest
Oh what bliss, time for a rest?
But hang on, five years later
All over again you’re Mater and Pater
as yes, the Grand kids arrive
Nappies, bottles, as they grow and thrive
Arguments about how to bring them up
Nursery, the school run, oh ha...
Monday 11th March 2024 5:28 pm
Also by Rick Varden:
Hold On | Life Cycle | Urban Poet Rap |A foreign wood
The empire called for more men, and they came.
Shipped from sub-continent
to western front,
Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa,
largest volunteer army in the world.
They weren’t ready for the cold;
couldn’t understand new officers
when theirs were slain.
Some wounded, shipped to England,
died and were buried
in a corner of a foreign wood
with Muslim honours...
Sunday 10th March 2024 8:05 pm
Also by Greg Freeman:
The 'rules' of modern poetry |meese
theres a strange space between me and the world.
i feel like i could hold it if i wanted to.
maybe i need glasses.
my dad says i care too much about myself,
and he's right, i do.
but its hard not to when you are so scared of dying.
theres a girl in my work who reminds me of me,
though she's timid and slight, and im harsh and stocky,
she has an odd air about her.
lik...
Sunday 10th March 2024 7:32 pm
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