You are older now.

You are not just a kid.

Are you regretting the things

You wish you did?

Are life's sweetest moments

The ones already passed away?

Or can you look around

And find joy in your day?

Right where you are at this moment

You may cherish when you are old.

Moments now taken for granted,

Could be the treasures you hold.

One day you may la...

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What were you like

When you were alive?

What did you do

When you were breathing?

Would I have seen you?

Would I have scared you?

Would you scare me?

Would you still be here?

What would of happened

When things went differently?

When we could both breath

When did we breathe in time?

Were we ever both there 

With the same air?

Were we ever both alive?

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There you are 

in my night sky 

like a distant star 

to wish upon 

and suddenly 

problems are gone 

I hold your image 

I sing your song 

protected in my heart 

all day long 

I send a message 

make a poem 

just to make 

the connection strong 

until the morning comes 

again burnt by the sun 

slaving life away 

for some hungry mob...

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Did You? 

Did you gaze into her eyes today

As your hand gently followed the curve of her spine

Did you push back the stray hair

That fell on her face

As you whispered softly

I am so glad that you’re mine

Did you see her?

Or did she simply become

Invisible

And now you are left wondering

Where she has gone. 

Clare Kinnaird, 2024. 

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The summer’s almost gone, already missed,

and waking in her place the autumn grieves

her sister, though they cannot coexist

where russet and burnt ochre bleed the leaves.

Yet in their rigid, regimented ranks,

a growing hesitation brings unease;

whose turn is next they ask, as nature’s pranks

reveal the winter sun and summer freeze.

The seasons’ schedule raises suc...

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If you've never been there how do you know
how it feels to be told to go back home?
The right to remain and the right to roam
should balance each other. It need be so

if we're as intent as we seem to be
on burning this rock to ashes and dust
as though it were fate. Well, isn't it just?
If you'd lost your home, then wouldn't you flee?

If men with big guns were shooting at you,
threaten...

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It's morning. 

The peace I had is suddenly gone.

Creeping into my head is the anxiety and sorrow I always have.

Why couldn't I have slept longer?

Why do I have to wake up?

The day is too long,

The minutes feel like hours

The hours feel like days 

The days feel like weeks.

I can't stop this feeling. 

Feeling of grief- w...

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She frequently left questions behind her answers

so, I stopped asking them.

I don't know if she used the concert tickets I left for her,

the ones I purchased for us before we split,

but I know for sure she used a piece of my heart,

without question.

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To our young men, war is an opportunity

for posturing youthful swagger.

With arrogance and recklessness

head first or by cloak and dagger.

Half-cocked, without a sensible thought.

No consideration for what’s ahead.

Forward. Running into eternity. 

Future decided, they’re already dead.

To our old men, war is considered a just cause,

detached by age from rea...

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"Bonnet in Spring"

In fields where flowers bloom and grow,

A bonnet tied with a bow,

Shades her face in sunlight’s glow,

Soft winds gently blow,

Morning’s sweet show,

Petals low,

In rows,

Flow.

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They try to take the sting out of death:
a grassy meadow, secluded plot, trees
advertising consumers' funereal needs,
but not now. Now, we need a New Orleans
jazz band blasting out the fact that life is short
and can be glorious, but not for him. No, not for him:
too many desertions, too many lapses in care,
too often nobody there to pick up the pieces,
nothing to begin again, It ...

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These are all those foreigners

For whom their dual goal

Is both to take our jobs from us

While living on the dole.

And at the forefront of all this

The Daily Mail notes

Are those who risk their lives for this

Their war cry “Stop the Boats!”

But what they never publish

Which gets far less acclaim

Official figures for this year

Show 30,000 came.

Yet...

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A cup of coffee is the art of blending diversity.

Bitterness and sweetness blend in together,

A duality that creates delight in every sip.

Black and white merge,

Revealing the meaning behind every shade.

Different formulas for each connoisseur.

A cup of coffee becomes an alchemist for human senses.

Bitterness is an elixir for those who crave the essence.

Sweetness is...

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My mind's filled with static energy, my heart's full of dynamic emotions.

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performing exquisite arabesques,

adorably, beautifully,

her arms and hands form a curve,

she steps right, then steps left,

legs flexed, she’s en pointe,

soars up on high,

et voilà!

my heart’s

hers.

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This one with the upside-down mouth

is Mommy; Daddy’s hung over

the end of the bed. That’s why he’s grumpy

when she tries to wake him for dinner –

shouting, crying, pushing him onto the cold,

plastic floor. Me and my sister are stuck

on chairs at the empty table.

It’s Mommy’s turn to go sleepy because

she’s taken too many tablets. Or not enough,

Daddy said, a...

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THE SALUBRIOUS MR STEVENS

By the Urban Poet

He’s moral, ethical,

good, clean and nice

Virtuous, pure

Innocent and chaste,

He’s encouraging, edifying

righteous and upright 

Upstanding, high minded

But never gets uptight

Non violent, not erratic 

Honest, just and noble

Respectable and decent

Chivalrous and honourable

He’s proper, correct, simp...

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Shall no one weep

Shall no one cry

Shall no one come to say goodbye?

Not a single tear

Not a voice to hear

Not a stone to say, this is where I lie?

I am music without sound

I am nowhere to be found

I am a leaf that falls to die

I am the periphery of your eye.

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Have you heard the word ‘Jamberine’?

If so, please tell me what does it mean?

The Dictionary was my first port of call.

But nothing listed…anything close at all!

Alexa had no idea and Google not a clue.

I’m running out of things to try and do!

Could it be a relation to the tangerine?

Or musically similar to the tambourine!

Maybe it’s something you put on bread.

...

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Tears

Trickled

        Down her cheeks

        At the sight of

               The empty stocking,

               The house, unvisited.

                      While, next door, Father Christmas

                      Looked at his watch, zipped up his bag

                     And roared home for breakfast in his Jag.

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Why do you always peck at each other?

Why don't you live like sister and brother?

Why don't you live like some dogs and cats?

Why do you bite each other like rats?

Why don't you share the luck and the land?

You share the way that the others get less,

You never suggest a friend's loving hand.

You count money when your soul is in a mess.

Why do y...

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And so, in the vastness of the ether, it rises
From the primordial silence, a resonant sound
Like thunder that splits the distant skies
The voice of the Infinite is born, unbound!
No longer the void, nor the endless shadow
But the living flame, the fire burning bright
In the dawn of the cosmos, a mighty song
Where life and death in dance unite

In the womb of the earth, the first cry
Mad...

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Cascading Lies of Cruelty

     You trade children here,

the dopple for real and, mum and dad are

   not to know.

     You trade children here like

angels and demons exchanging souls

   over a game of cribbage or, poker,

     the bar tender alive with lust for profit

   as the cocktails and scythe eye forsake -

         ‘the very life itself.’

     ...

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Seven minutes past eleven,
Heaven.

Just before midnight,
Bright.

An elder speaks of death,
Breath.

"Do we wake in the skies?"
"Only love never dies."

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Neither could it express, nor could my heart contain 

Now, if I dare to speak, how do I start ?

In the daylight, my heart goes insane 

Please tell me, how do I reveal the mystery of my heart .

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Autumn nips at my door
another year begins to come undone
Somehow, the change of light 
sends my compass spinning
I question where I am
One anchor torn
while others persist
but where to next...

Autumn brings a tenderness
to the boundary of all I feel
Somehow, this drop in temperature 
sends me reeling
I trace the path of how I got here
Quietly lost and searching
in a moment of shif...

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I'm cozied up at home.
Lonely nor alone. 
The wind is howling happy
and I'm not feeling crappy!
The Psalms from Sons of Korah
are rhyming like the Torah! :D
And while wanderers may roam,
I am happily at home :D
And you may find me daft
But The Princess Of Europe Is Loved

https://youtu.be/ivPEKaBHjYA

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Wrapped in sky and heathered hills

caressed by briny horses wild,

so far from dark satanic mills

survives the empire's favoured child.

Once stripped and starved of tongue and god

its people slaved and banished cold,

crofts and mànas razed to sod

that none who dwelled there might grow old.

But land in time calls back its own

disgorging tyrants, killing king...

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Laughter is the key…

Whatever the situation may be…

Without it, life is incomplete…

Making it bitter, instead of sweet…

If problems arise, just laugh it out…

You will solve it without any doubt…

No need to hide yourself and sulk…

Just smile and giggle like a giant hulk…

Treat laughter like an important medicine…

Whether you are a woman or gentleman…

It is required for...

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Boy was I fooled

by those brown eyes of yours

you had my friends fooled

that you might want something more

but go ahead and play with my heart

you know ill let you

you say all the right things

but your eyes are on another

how could i be so foolish

to think it was me

that your heart desired

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I don’t want us hiding

in coded conversations,

where the “ … “ of a heart’s yearnings

remain unspoken, but lingering

like frankincense

anointing a room

A multiverse of musings

swirling in my mind…

I’m in a crowded bazaar

I feel myself sliding

Into this place where I becomes not I

and dig my heels in…

We glance... and pause.

Gliding, around...

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Everyday is the same old

We talk and laugh full of love

And then everything goes cold

When is it ever enough?

I tell you about my day, you listen

You talk, I smile- it’s a routine now

But why is there so much tension

How much more can I allow

I hate this wall that we always come to

We used to strain from it, it never found us

Now it turns all our days dark a...

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The observant amongst you will no doubt have seen my latest poems being posted as music tracks. That's because I've rewritten a number of poems that I had previouly posted about my home city of Wakefield and added music. I've done this alongside a brilliant guitarisr/instrumentalist, John Kettle, from indie/folk band Merry Hell.
There's a range of music styles on the album - and although the subj...

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The leaves come down

And they’re orange and brown

And they fall in the forest

And they tumble in the town

And they clog up the gutters and gather in the grates

They're  the colour of butter when they shine on slates 

And they crinkle and curl as they silently lie

For this is the time when the leaves all die

In Autumn gales 

They are blown and tossed

As the sun tu...

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I held you tight 

telling you the pain would end

I held you tight

while your heart stopped

Now

I hold you tight

in my heart

Forever you will be

alive in me. 

By Lynn Hahn

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond daily life.
~ Virginia Woolf

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I have this indescribable need to be heard,

like I’ve never whispered a single word over the course of my life,

like I’ve never uttered an incoherent syllable under the light of the dying sun,

like I’ve never looked into the eyes of another and truly felt seen. 

Am I alone? 

Am I floating here, lost in the waves of a turbulent sea,

waiting for a lifeboat that will never...

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Build a better mousetrap, people said
And the world will beat a path to your door
So, we built a better mousetrap, like they said
And the fat cats beat a path to our door

People bought our mousetrap, happy to choose
Between a cheaper, worser mousetrap
And a dearer, better mousetrap
That everyone was giving rave reviews

The fat cats were happy, ‘cause they had shares
In our mousetrap f...

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You do not necessarily need to ‘see’ something

in order to be a witness. Implicate myself in this ordeal

through oral connection by means of

conversation with my inner voices

Self-reportage bestowing upon me

a certain involvement and moral dilemma

The pins started to fall one by one in domino effect

Now my continual fight to be heard and seen

must take an involunt...

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As I walk towards the evil, I see a jungle filled with branches, going upheaval. 

Will I remain myself or just a see through?

I’ve never acted out. 

I don't want to free fall from innocence, so I'm moving with diligence.

Hearing the sharpness in their instruments. 

All I feel is a rush, knowing I'm considered an immigrant, to sorrow and the mischievous. 

There's no looking back.

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Expand your mind

beyond the confines

of the physical,

feel the light emanating 

from your being,

soar up to the sky

and down across the valleys and mountains,

happiness awaits

in this realm of freedom.

You are so much more

than the limbs that walk

and the lungs that breathe,

you are part of the drumming of the earth

and the illuminations of the stars,

you ...

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Don't let the fun die young

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Every soul is exclusive I gotta bump Dizzy Wright's new album, Red Ochre in my backyard, Random high 5's How you gon convince them to buy a cup ? Lemons can be seen as a life hack.. Something about me, Lemonade on a hot day what...

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The road to my destiny,  
a winding path,  
filled with shadows and stones,  
thorns tugging at my sides.  
But then,  
a bright sun rose,  
its warm embrace  
chasing the darkness away.  

The storms that rattled my spirit  
quieted at last,  
the waves that crashed around me  
stilled,  
leaving only the whisper  
of my own breath,  
steady,  
like a heartbeat in the stillness.  

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But who’s to blame, when the soul is seduced

By a beauty that’s both dead and loose?

I, a mortal fool, beguiled and blind,

Chased after shadows I’ll never find.

Lol ok ok I'm done 🫰🏿🫰🏿🫰🏿

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I love to go delivering along the streets and back

with L plates on my box behind and many a tasty snack,

deliveree, deliveroo, delivera, deliveroo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

deliveree, deliveroo, my life is now on track.

A freelance guy i'll do or die, my contract is my life,

with all good speed i'll duck and dive embracing urban strife.

Deliveree, deliveroo, delivera, deliver...

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No winter fuel payments this year,

A freezing future us pensioners fear.

As winter fuel plans unfold,

The shivering aged ,old and cold.

As the  winter cold knocks on our door,

Our banks will not receive this saviour no more.

A plan deployed by our Chancellor Rachel Reeves,

A cold war plan wherby many a family grieves.

The choice between eating and heating we will ...

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Are you clearing your good name?

Blowing up all the ammo before setting fire to the barracks as planned?

Who is it that needs to know

Which song

Originated years back?

Me? Him? Her? You? 

Who

Of course i knew

I knew already i heard them before i heard all of them

But sure seems bits got tweaked here and over there,

As you might do to cull your former recent roman...

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Truer now 
As it has always been
The grief that comes
When I am alone
Beyond the threshold
I’ve forgotten my place 

‘Are you okay? I’m always here if you need to talk’

To mobilize the loss
Into a feast for us all to share
I give the pearls of my heart
And watch you eat them 
Chew them
Grind into dust
And wipe the iridescent spit
On my eyes
So I can be something pretty
And lovin...

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