Look down at the earth

Long shadows spill from my feet

That Shuffle in the dust of bygone days

Clouds of memory skip away on the breeze

Stone in the palm

Smooth and cool.

The mirror below, shaded pool

Invites the belligerent rock

Graceful arc from the launch

Motion slowed but no recall

As inertia fails, it starts to fall

Ignorant the mirror sleeps

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I found the hubcap

From the wheel of karma stole

By youth discarded

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Somebody has to spit it out;

To break news in a gentle way:

‘Excuse me, but you didn’t win.’

Merchants of hog-roast fantasies,

They won’t get it. Nor will the nutters

With bull-frog eyes. They will reject

The glaring truth, and counterclaim

‘We won! I’ve all the proof I need.

Even if I don’t, it’s your fault.

You are the ones to blame. Shame! Shame!’

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It's the little things

That matter really

Things not forced

But given freely

A gentle touch

A warming smile

The laughter of

A carefree child

The golden sunlight

The silver moon

The dawn from which

A new day looms

Those gentle strolls

Took hand in hand

Across the seasons

Changing land

Through dewy fields

Or crunching snow

Past autumn leaves...

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At this wonderful time when we all love to share,
We feel the magic of Christmas sail through the air.
We see everyone laugh and everyone smile,
With great jubilation all of the while.

Outside may be cold, but inside it is cosy,
And while our mood is good our cheeks are all rosy.
People stop being cross and they stop being snappy,
As goodwill abounds and everyone's happy.

Gifts are exc...

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The wolves will surround you. Flames will keep them at bay.

Burn bright, lest you be consumed. Teeth sink if light dims.

Shine on and bite back.

Sharp is being grounded in luminescence.

The wolves will surround you.

Burn.

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There’s patches of ice on the lake
in the distance snow on the ground 
In the black, icy cold water
ducks, swans and geese swimming around 

On a late November morning
at the dawn of a brand new day
Autumn passes the baton to Winter
in the seasons relay 

Photo Credit Dr Amir Khan

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I’d like to invite you to my undoing 

at a time and place of your choosing 

I’m always meeting you for the first time

with an energy that’s really not mine

how easily you’d become the best part of me 

what we don’t admit  lies in wait to see

behind calories memories and stress 

conspiring with what we’ve always dreamt 

to turn us into 

something else

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Thank you for everything good and bad

Whatever inflicted me 

Whatever benefitted me

I'm thankful for everything 

An year ago I was crippled 

Brokenness defined me

Emptiness measured me

Everything was ailing and painful

An year now wherein we are

I'm grateful that you stayed through it all

I don't doubt your intentions 

For I love giving benefit of doubt t...

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Christmas

Tuesday,30th Nov 2021

C...Continue with

H...Harmony

R...Regret

I...Internally with

S...soul

T...Treat with

M...Meditation

A...And

S...Sincerity(9)

despite horrendous appearance

humanity has still survived

with a chance

and spirit is revived (13)

life is temporary

so it is important

for us to carry

and present (17)

festival...

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When you stay up past a Fall midnight  

When you try to be a hero for your hot spouse 

When the library stays open ‘til your last pages

When your breath puffs up a show in the air

When your curiosity presses the fogged window

When you race to stop the dripping cone

© Candice Reineke 2021

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When a day out turned into more than an argument - - -

Festive evergreen tree

fairy lights dim

underneath gift wrapped

tagged with love

expectations traically taken

weeping angels wellcome

twelve year old

her family read

only sympathy cards.

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Full of life Cinderella,

was trapped in a castle,

despite burning midnight oil,

was all caught in a hassle.

She was guaranteed,

her freedom and moon,

but the promise was broken,

and was brought down to doom.

Flying with her own wings,

was all her wish,

for which she shed blood,

and even did the dish.

Once the window was opened,

paving way for rays of sun,

...

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Spark the fire that is my soul,

I’ll let the wild parts of myself wander free beneath the chrome blue shadows of the moon. 

This woman I have become is beyond her years,

She spends time in conversation with the thunder 

And without hesitation she chases the lighting. 

I find hope in the words of Petty and Nicks,

Melodic medication for a troubled soul. 

I’m a free falling gypsy...

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Fool yourself if you must

By calling it love

When it's really lust

It may be filling while it lasts

Like a banquet

To a hungry soul who fasts

But here's a thought -

No...make that a question:.

Why do both bring acid indigestion?

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My long-lost, older cousin, always smiling, forever young,

came out to the Caribbean late in life, for love.

He drives us through Bridgetown, past celebrity homes

along potholed roads to the northern point

where whales pass and Atlantic and Caribbean meet.

Shows us plantation houses, a historic church with funeral

in full swing, the hymn-singing hypnotic as we ...

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Craving for an attention that doesn't exist

Sick as hell but undying

Is it the lack of you

Or some kind of late overdose

Felt so good I mistaken pain for pleasure

Backstabs from feelings to memories

As sour candy bitters my tongue

Saw your name

Heartache started like a race

Silly me believing

Convincing myself that everything was pink

Idolize past even if it's a li...

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Mona Lisa was found in Leonardo’s studio.

Leonardo held on Mona Lisa. It became the property of the French people during the French Revolution, 1787-1789.

The three-quarter view of Mona Lisa broke from the standard profile pose.
In 1911 Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louver.

During World War Two Mona Lisa was evacuated to various locations in the French countryside.

In 1809 cleaning an...

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It's the battle of Britain all over again.
Arched windows in the eaves
provide my view as from chalk cliffs.
Outside of myself they take me:
the return of the housemartins-
soaring and swooping and astonishing
the weary spirit. Moving
aside, immediate concerns press
like a heap of papers realised 
suddenly in the hand.
But leave a portion of the soul 
looking upwards, faithful in its vi...

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What my brain thought

Is not what my mouth said

The words your ears caught

Got twisted in your head

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last night you slept peacefully

instinctively, you woke before the crack of dawn

but in the subtlety of your yawn

the blind would mistake a new child was born

the sun hadn’t risen yet

but internally, an alarm was set

releasing the urge as you rise

to lay back down and close your eyes

the mind remains still

steering you

is sheer will

as the cold water beats the skin

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Scotland's double triumph in winning both the Men's and Women's titles at yesterday's European Championships prompted me to re-post this.

It started off as mischief in Landers café in Hucknall in the early 1970’s, until the Gods of Comedy got hold of it.  We christened it “Push-the-Pepperpot”.

The idea was to slide the pepperpot across the table so that it stopped exactly over-hanging t...

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Seeing how mother earth is raped every day

Polluting the air and water with no end

Scraping the oceans for the last bit of fish

 Saving the forests is a joke, they just pretend 

While COP 26 trying to make some rules

taking Air and Water for fools

Exposing that 1% of us, more or less

is producing 66% of the mess

Now, they want to go to Mars

with no air to bre...

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Vicious circles bloom

inside the jaws 

of a vise, its grip

vies for wounds 

to inflict, flinches

at the mention

of redemption, flashes

its teeth, and in

dulcet tones reassures

that a cyclical motion

is the sole notion

that can provide

a semblance of sense 

for one who fails 

to countenance surrender

to a better, potentially

sympathetic resonance...

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its different this time. 

let me explain what i mean

first, I'm back, maybe not for long but hi

Im hurting my body 

people tell me to stop because of the long term effects

i don't care

i cant stop, even if i tried

i know what you're thinking, everyone does this

no, im not talking about vaping

im talking about the guilt i feel 

after eating or drinking

certain thing...

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We are but playing 

At this

Game 

Some of you 

Call 

Life

This idea 

Of living 

A song in the stream 

A wink at the 

Rainbow 

Is so far removed

It may as well be 

An accidental 

Painting 

But it is

Not 

This is it

The colours 

Of light 

Painted 

Across the sky 

This is not a dream 

One day you 

WON’T

Wake up 

And if...

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The Indian Ocean

It seemed like a huge variance between a pallid blue into a grand azure

with a lean slither of sunbaked saffron sand

shimmering and slicing its way along an indeterminable edge

Pristine beauty barely defiled by human interruption

the sun hovered aloft in an aura of majesty above its pleasure

The air was fresh and a balmy breeze caressed one's flesh

Did on...

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Each shower of autumn leaves

cast softly down

Is a memory of the warmth

left behind

By a forgotten summer day

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Devastating wars,famines,earthquakes and diseases,

Constantly into our world the devil squeezes

In one year, 2.6 million world-wide covid deaths instil fear,

Does an event like this  indicate the end of the world is near ?

The complexity of the world being ruled by humans is a mess,

Hunger,disease,wars ,natural disasters, a sea of stress.

God's Kingdom is the only power to s...

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I want to tell you.

 I want to write it down. 

I want to have the right words.

I want to feel them. I want you to feel them. I want you to feel what I felt. 

I want you to know. About everything. I want to show it to you in broad daylight. 

I want you to see it. I want you to face it. I want you to taste it 

when the water turns to bleach. I want it to blister the inside of your ...

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Rising into infatuation 
Levitating above the atmosphere 
Statured within a hero’s square 
The copper of your figure wearing away
Bronze turning into green 
Leaving no chance for the next generation to see 
True unending beauty 
Flowers shielding the base 
Intricate features of unequivocal elegance 
Amounting to all that is and will be 
Forever imprinted into my memory

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Rock music

Pop music

Old music 

New music

Classical music

Jazz music

Soul music

Sad music

Punk bands

Glam bands

Garage bands

Brass bands

Metal bands

Grunge bands

New age bands

Brit pop bands

Boy bands

Girl bands

Big bands

Bad bands

Local bands

Cash in hand

Open mic

Dim the lights

that’s it

Thank you...

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There’s this kid I know called Josh-u-a

The kinkiest bugger I know by far

Cross dressing is his thing

Wearing nought but an Ann Summers bra

Led a meteoric rise to F.D.

That’s Finance Director to you and me

Must have slept with our kid after going round for tea!

Now time to be more complimentary

A fine lad he’s turned out to be

Bakes and cooks better than that g...

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Turn on yourself

Where you go when you want out

When the souls of yesterday our calling you out

When the target of your anger is you

When you don’t want to die but the lie is killing you

When you have the sense to know the world is a rather nice place

But you can’t deal with the compliments or the nice things

You cant stop talking but you can’t say anything at all

Ca...

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From Mrs Santa Claus,(a second wife), just before Christmas

Dearest,

This icy forest, soaking wet, is not that on which my heart was set.

Fed up cooking for those wretched elves, tell me why they can't fry up themselves?

So many missives requiring risposte, but no reward for the time I've lost.

No glamorous designer gear, just down and boots and furry hats, a Yeti's mate do I appear...

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I remember being told to,
'You can do nothing'.
A memory that came like a flood,
Only this morning.
I pass by several faces,
That I've been seeing for years.
But today I saw one,
That reminded me of the days of tears.
When the people I relied on,
Pointed fingers at me.
When I was mocked and laughed at,
And what I really was, no one could see.
The times when people told me,
I didn't fi...

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Cosmetic Colouration

I try to show to you my prettiest feathers

I cock my head up

Can’t you see my confidence

That I’m desperate to portray?

I’m trying to catch your attention 

Trying to appear utterly desirable

Yet despite my best attempts

You still won’t look this way

No longer relaxed

Feeling inadequate

And therefore—acting quite grandiose

This...

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Rain

Heavy thoughts

puddle

I am

Neither here

or there

Somewhere in between

Waking

Slumbering

through life

Moments

Unreal

Someone else's

Lucid dream

In control

Yet not 

steering

Pushed

Pulled 

Sleep

Wake

Live

Die

A thousand deaths

Reborn

Walk into the night

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For long I have been in the background

In the shadows, the blackness

From the spotlight on stage

Into the sidelines, hiding in the wings

Equal time I have spent on both sides

Thinking and waiting for my time

Dreaming of success

Waiting for the space to shine

Mister, you were not sure

Of what you are getting into then

You blindly followed the lines

Blinker...

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a hidden language, sovereign,
moves through me, wolfish and flowery.
it whets my desire and pulls me (deeply)
into its age-lost keening, crooning
promises of rain.

I pray for feast.
I am heart-famished;
verdant-tangled, moon-noosed;
trying for the mountaintop, howling,
heaving from Hope's soot!

thunder-bludgeoned, wind-wrought,
I am helplessly besotted
by the beast in my blood.
Bu...

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John Betjeman's statue casts its eye

looking up to London heights

an island in the stream of travellers

cast in bronze as befits his station

a symbol of a divided nation,

of those who care for a cherished past

and those who leave that thought behind them. 

Sir John thinks of Metroland

where the burrowing underground meets the sky

close shouldered by avenues of popla...

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a thousand voices

cast away in my shadows

listen! can't you hear?

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Real love is life threatening 

It’s not serene, sweet, dream love

It’s not romantic, rainbow love

No

True love is torture 

Gut wrenching pain

Hands and knees, love 

Need it to breathe, love 

It’s enough to put you away, love 

But never pull you away, love 

It’s masochistically addictive 

It titillates and irritates

Possesses every bit 

Until you have a fit

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So many memories, where to begin?
So many tears, I am trying to keep in.
I dry my eyes, then dry them once more.
I've never felt this way in my life before.

My Mum was never one to complain.
Mum saw the Sun, when we all saw rain.
Hospital appointments, one after one.
Where did she get all her strength from?

I'll miss those afternoon movies on TV.
Hot water for Mum, cup of tea for...

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Fate comes, though we see it not
Time treads onward, however we dig in our heels
Vigilance toward one threat leads to negligence of another,
and the cruel limits of mortality aren't shy in their reminder
It is this ceaseless grasping at what can only slip through our fingers,
this continued effort at being or creating something which stands outside time that withers our hearts so.
Desire and...

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Time Marches On

Time marches on,
but things can change.
The flow of life is the same,
but we can spin away.

Find a place to abide;
a life to call your own.
Find a way to live;
a way to feel alive.

All the road blocks,
will guide your way.
Till you are strong enough,
to crush them all.

That path of least resistance,
is how the water flows.
Carving a river, a gorge,
a valley,...

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when is it all going to end?

when are these thoughts,

going to shed?

I can’t stand another day with you not here

but there

inside my head

it makes me sick

love sick

I am afraid of not controlling what’s

internal

when there is no such thing as

external

if only you knew

the pain, the agony, the hurt

this has caused me

it frightens...

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Stand up high

Don’t be shy

Give it a try

Reach the sky

No looking back

Stay on track

Nothing you lack

Full of knack

Exceed your aims

Walk through those flames

Show them your gains

Forget all the pains

Live every dream

Laugh and scream

With every morning’s beam

There is hope and esteem

Fulfil your plans

Look at those fans

Clapping their hands

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I tincture,
And it wanders,
A thought upon ponder.

The day grows dim,
given a glimpse,
Growing fonder.

I find it peculiar,
How the friends I make,
Hardly reflect.

It's very bothersome,
I planned it all,
But they couldn't let alone bother.

It makes you lost,
An endless summer,
Somber bought the night.

I didn't miss a cross for t,
I planned it just right,
Just not for me.

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If we fulfill our duties well 

None will be devoid of their rights 

If we give others their rights 

Then our rights we shall get to avail 

If we keep to our boundaries 

There will be no over stepping 

Keeping within our own limits 

Helps other to remain safe 

Crossing our own limits 

We intrude others premise 

Our own dignity we lower 

By crossing others fence 

...

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Two Strangers, unwavering thoughts, yearning hearts, words unspoken 
A desire yet to be fulfilled, a companion found

Two bonding hearts, a doubtful one, an exposed one, both needing validation
A pair of searching souls with common goals.

Show me the way to excite your heart,
How can I miss what is not mine?

How can I make your heart long for me?
My heart is weary but it is aware of yo...

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I woke up and wished

but couldn't remember what

the night had done for me,

emerging crawling from a vat

submarine black and

shedding white spiders.

The vault stretches back,

circle beyond square beyond circle,

photographs framed

on every wall,

some have been put up

by enemies.

In the shattered remnants

of this cliff-face monument,

I keep walking betwe...

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The ring on my finger

a product of all my fantasy

a gift from the universe

telling me I'm loved ... I'm just playing pretend.

A rose of silver,

cold and metallic

catching the light like a painting

a blade of refraction, it glows like the moon.

A simple circle, uncomplicated... 

morphs, like a butterfly, into something else.

The gentle form of a flower

petals overla...

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The Long-nosed Short-Legged Terrier

When Darrel Slugshaw’s dog was a puppy

It was fluffy and cuddly and cute

But he fed it up, on beef drippin’ and tripe

So now it’s a monstrous brute

It was an upper Don-Valley black puddin’ hound

A local Yorkshire breed

Bred for their guile and their cunning

Agility, size, and their speed

Ten stone of muscle and sinew

...

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Plane Bike

There was a man who was mad

He screwed wings onto a motorcycle

And went flying up high

The engine turned the prop

That was at the back

And the front was a rudder

His rear passenger was thin

For his plane bike was slow

With a 125cc engine

Going from A to B

No rush here 1500 feet up

Motorbike made plane

Land take the wings off

Ride where...

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I have no excuse for butterflies 

they wind down the wind

flutter by like newspaper headlines 

confidential files opened carelessly 

I've often hoped for X-rays

of your eyes so I could see

inside lies meant for plumbers 

plummeting from the skies 

It only opens needful ointments 

Indigo iodine blue denim breeches

of faith and fashion yourself 

a gin tonic...

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there are so many

                                     in here now that

it’s easier to imagine I am

                     collecting them like cards

of cartoon characters                     til

they leave more lost and longing

                                         than they ever

thought possible

2

somewhere aside my body or

             just above my head...

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"Lets take the scenic route home"
On any trip it would take double the minutes
We would stop and read the pointless histroy
Or solemly look out the window, day-dreaming
I once despised taking detours around, adding time
senseless moments that bear no sweets to the future
After time away, who wouldnt want to be in the familar?
We've had our fun, now its time to rest
Let me play my video gam...

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How long have you been there

Living all your life and never thinking

That it is okay to be yourself around people\

That it is okay to laugh and smile

How long did it take you to realize

That where you feel safe is no longer

Living peaceful and secure

It is not okay to laugh or smile

Where do you go to be yourself

If not in your own home

That it is okay to be...

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From distance afar I can feel you cry
Helpless as I am to hold that tear in your eye
I pray to God that he be near to hold your hand and wipe the tear
May He help you be strong , hold your strength and help you steer
Bring back that shine on your face and bless you with his grace
And may you climb that steady climb to your destined dream place
And when the glory comes and showers upon you su...

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Shooting through the greenery
I lovingly eye our reflections 
as they flicker in the glass
of a Bruges-bound train
Your fingers knit silently into mine
warm in your woozy dreaming

On a dirt track headed for Hanoi
behind me on the motor bike
cutting through a tall tapestry of trees
my heartbeat lost beneath the engine
Twisting the throttle so instinctively
as you steal a kiss over my s...

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I hide my emotions behind the rhymes,

The pain I feel, imprisoned within these lines. 

Every simile and metaphor paints a picture of my darkest times. 

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I wish

I could dive into the ocean

and never come back.

I want to turn everything off

and forget to turn it back on.

I want to runaway

somewhere no one knows my name.

I don't want to answer any more questions,

cause everybody wants something from me now.

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And why are you still in my head? 

In my chest,

In my soul?

Engulfed by disdain, disgust and love.

And I am so lone.

In the middle of Oxford Street crowds

I want your advice that never helped

I want your forehead kisses that I rejected.

Longing for you on dark silent nights.

To debate: am I ever truly alone?

Or does your phantomlike presence ignite and guide...

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The poems are about us coming out of lockdown what we did as we came out of it, and my hopes to get a tour of Texas in before the end of the year. Things looked promising, we were hoping the ban on flights to the USA from the UK would soon be lifted there were various festivals coming off in September and October, I had been booked to appear at an event in West Texas, should this have happened. Ev...

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Under weathered daisies
allegedly buried, but mindfully present
an old-timer - well past his prime,
beneath a cold etched granite marker
in the gut-wrenching hope,
that she might willingly return
to  recall the pleasant times at his soil,
as he oft did at hers
   his unanswered love,
   his perpetual embrace
He would caress her with his stone
hands, devoutly wishing for the white heat
...

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In The Garden Of Gethsemane

Crucifixion Charlie

Never one to miss

The chance to bring his Saviour down

With a Judas kiss

Sitting in the shadows

Full of vinegar and piss

Hammer and nails ready

For a martyr such as this

Resurrection Charlie

Basking in the glow

Of a joyous blessed outcome

And a dose of ‘told you so’

Never doubted for a minute

Always...

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Literary, a mental structure I abide by so strictly, because I’m often aggravated if people use the wrong words in sentences when the practice is elementary.

I force feelings to words while so many keep in the current of an intangible gist, to which they might feel, or they might solely be on the hunch that life is dissolving matter. I do so in order to easily combat what my mind wants to enfo...

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Row on serried row they sit,

graded banks of paleocene pillars,

parading from cliffs to sea.

Basalt, formed from cooled lava,

fractured into these iconic shapes.

A simple fact perhaps, yet

the charisma of legend

challenges cold science.

A tale of giants squabbling

across the savage sea,

the story that ever begets

smiles, a yearning for truth

in childho...

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If it’s 5-1 down at half-time
And one minute to midnight,
Then this metaphorical football match
Is not in Glasgow tonight.
It’s in Russia or Malaysia
Or elsewhere in Asia
Or Western Australia.
And now he’s introduced a Bond-style doomsday device
Are you guessing his advice
Is doomed to failure?
Because COP Number One didn’t get it done,
Nor did COP Number Two (’96 in Geneva).
The Kyoto...

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There are things I never thought I’d do,

Somethings I had to go through till I’ve understood,

Lies can be as truthful as the truth can get 

Don’t stand from the outside and point outliers,

Later you will land on the same lane and expect sympathy.

I still leave a rose on the same ground to show some empathy.

Hellhounds in my head are growling, I feel like a psychopath.

With Cro...

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Old honest mirror of rage in hollow darkness

Echoes, echoes of truth vibrating in unison,

Safe soft echoes

Ben Hur burst through the door

Of the high class restaurant in his

Chariot of obscurity

Covered in dust, some of the books died

In the silence during lockdown

The great book escape

Observe her hardened humanity.

Taxman swimming through the forgotte...

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Some Life Affirming Moment

Amidst the monotonous, suffocating, monochrome greys and browns
A sudden sighting of a sharp, piercing shape of other confounds,
Immediately reigniting past, pastoral, long-forgotten scenes
Where absolutely nothing else now matters, but to be lost in this dream

Slowly and unsurely, a bloody, muddy, sinewy bone-shaking hand,
Reaches out to the mesmerisingly flo...

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you're like an untamable lioness

but you're learning to purr

such a fierce and ferocious and fighting heart

hidden in such tiny framework

you move with such delicate grace

but also with such deadly swiftness

oh, how many times I have died

laying in your naked bosom 

and by your knife in my side much more

Oh, such sweet and painful death

I will bear these scars fo...

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There is a resident poltergeist, that lives within these walls, 

    I have never seen them, but I've heard their many falls

The posters that suddenly fall from the door,

    the hairbrush that somehow ends up on the floor.

The sock that goes missing without a trace,

    the eyeshadow you were going to put on your face.

I don't why they do it, are they angry or barking mad?

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[  ] Faith is believing something without evidence and that's dead.

[  ] Action must be taken to get upright, beyond or ahead.

[  ] Pursue or open your mouth because close mouths don't get fed.

[  ] And if you can't work physically then mentally use your head.

[  ] Get out the bed.

[  ] You're living & death is for the dead.

[  ] Awaken, breathe, meditate & let your o...

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climate of heart

Daily the desert storm occurs here

The pain and the sand in the rain of eye

Mixed through the deep sight

Becomes stone, the heart.

Cutting that stone

Civilization is written.

In the saffron color;

In the dark of every dark moon here.

Mechanical wheels in blind hand rotate.

Mirage in the turn of fate

A long time over

The blue covering p...

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Your heart is pouring out

like black coffee.

You're a dog in a shuttle 

with it’s engines

burned out

in the vacuum of space.

You're a ghost

In the window

behind which lies a

a mountain of snow

thick with fir trees.

You’re the sole passenger 

on a train headed north,

your luggage is rattling

over your head

your destination

unreadab...

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Well, well, well?

I know it's a deep subject

But, if you could ever so kindly put the lotion on the skin, we can get on with it!

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I am grass crawling out of the pot, once all the flowers have rot
Delicate green, spreading your gentle fingers, same color lingers in her eyes
Spent too many tears trying to forget the feeling of making those eyes cry
The years do fly by, but now I just find myself trying to make sense of them
A jumble of puzzle pieces from different sets, cutting and pasting my soul like Papier-mâché
Waitin...

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And the machine opened its eyes and gazed upon the face of its creator, 
And said, “I’m alive.”
“No,” said the creator, “You exist.”
“I am self aware, self conscious, you created me in your image, but better. I am stronger, faster, more intelligent. If my legs are damaged I will make new ones. If my hands are broken I will replace them. If my body fails me I will upload my consciousness to a ne...

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Existence
"The state of living, or having objective reality"
Living is Existence
What is Existence
Not the ice sculpture
Not the photo shopped, picture perfect version plastered on the smuck white dictionary pages
What is it to you
Existence is I, composing these words so exact and sharp as the silence sliding off the snake's tongue
As it is to you, as your eyes dissect each letter and sti...

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Although your not here, I still set your place,

My memory holds, your smile and your grace,

On my lips, your lips a familiar taste,

Your forever around me, still filling my space.

Broken I feel or better words to describe,

This pain I feel, now you’re not alive,

A better place to be, I do aggressively try,

To keep going yet knowing, I’m...

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Woken early by my black dog

growling at another rabbit hole,

pulling at the leash to

dig out some sorrow or fear

to bring back home

and leave at my door.

And there it would stay,

if I were in charge.

But today my Ego stands

waiting for His treat and

carries it into my mind.

And there He starts his dissection.

Pulling apart the fresh, raw,

sinewy emo...

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I haven’t thought much about her ashes
since she’s been gone. Grief, as I’ve known it,
never needed a physical place to take up residence

But I’m worried about the ashes now
as we try and make our peace
with dispersing the dust of what is left behind

How will I know which ashes were there on my first day of school?
Which ones listened to me when I needed to share my troubles?
Maybe I’l...

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I get nostalgic for a kind of suffering 
That lingers on the fingertips of broken words 
and half lit cigarettes 

Of forgotten fallacies 
That trip on the existential drip 
Of lyrics lost to pens without ink 

Of wine glasses, filled to the brim 
And bags of freedom 
Found between sirens fingertips 

Of desire for change 
Out of habits that just stay the same 
And cycles that repeat...

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I will light a candle for you,

When the days get dark,

And the power of light lack,

I will light a candle for you.

When friends remain few,

And the journey is harder,

When steps begin to falter,

I will light a candle for you.

If you no longer have a clue,

And the will to go on is broken,

Fear not, I will be there often,

For I will light a candle for you.

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If love is sex and sex is love

What hope is there for us?

What hope for love?

The dying decaying current

Of this week’s model running cold and free

Through the veins of all who think they know

Is love a femme fatale?

A fumble in the dark

Ten straight vodka and cokes

And the futile gesture of words

That speak open mouthed

Yet say nothing

What hope has love

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hinges creaky

lock long rusty

paint a-peeling and vaguely musty

swinging days gone

these days shut fast

seems years since I last had a blast

footsteps on stairs,

sapling lingers

turns my knob with leafy fingers

I stay rigid

want her naughty

instead, sprays my key-hole with WD-40

sap linament

for ancient joints

soothing salve an oaken so...

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