I think I like you,

I think I do

I like your auburn hair,

Your deep brown eyes,

The way you look at me when you smile,

I think I like you,

I really do,

But I can’t get caught up in my naive thoughts of you,

I don’t know you really, 

No not at all,

I don’t know your favorite color,

Or your biggest fear,

What you think the world will come to when it ends,

I wan...

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I had a little talk with me-myself-and-I:

The Mirror-mirror exercise, and all such invocations.

Affirmatron, Egoïtron, and Dogmatron of course

the roboticks in psycholitic schizzle.

And then The Holy Trinitron, firmly cast aside

this schmizomatic megolith of self-inflicted curses

to somewhere-somewhere particles no longer associate

dissociation with disassociation. 

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Sometimes I’m a critic 

I try not to be a cynic 

I’ve been spun by life 

too many times that 

I’m not always with it 

I look for a narrow line 

I don’t find it every time 

but I often see you there 

and I’m so happy 

to share the moment 

I block out 

more than I take in 

as the glass remains 

almost full 

got a lot to work with 

I don’t g...

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These days George is a binge drinker,

wears his red cross tabard down the pub;

not much of a religious thinker,

worships footy with his Sunday grub.

Pawned his knightly armour long ago,

gave the lance to pay his bookie’s bill.

Golden Dragon, Saturday he’ll go

with his wayward mates and drink his fill.

Monday morning finds him back at work,

hiding from the gaffe...

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DEDICATED TO JOHN ( COPULATING ) COOPEY ESQURE

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As this squalid room entering 

and all too obviously ageing prostitute

had doddered in and closed the door behind her

I remarked ( lying through my rattling dentures )

' what a sexy dress! '

thankfully covering most of her scrawny body of too many years

being alcoholi...

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I kept flattening a bump on my newly aquired pumps,

It was annoying,the most uncomfortable of lumps.

I kept putting pressuure on the kink. hoping it would go away,

I decided to return the pair to the dealer ,£100 I did pay.

But one morning the sock on my right foot started to smell,

I pulled up the sole and underneath a dead mouse did dwell!!

My cat regularly brings in ...

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His dad was Greek 
His mum Palestinian 
Born in Turkey 
He grew up a Syrian
He’s a man of fighting age 

He’s handy with a sword
He’s on a small boat
Coming over here 
Red cross white coat
He’s a man of fighting age

They stuck him on a barge 
In Portland harbour
Lobbying hard 
For his departure
He’s a man of fighting age

A soldier 
In a foreign army
We’re not racist 
To say ...

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Well, who would have known and celebrated that this year 2024 represents the 460th birthday of the pseudonymous "William Shakespeare" who apparently was most likely born on St. George's Day, the 23rd of April, or was it? There is a tendency among Stratfordian academics, eager to establish themselves as viable researchers and literary authorities to embellish, embroider and stitch together elements...

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I spoke of fear and conjured it

a coil of smoke into a vent,

a spark inside an oily pit

flamed oxygen within a tent.

Like breathing is to living

intoxicants abound,

our fears are unforgiving

we hide yet still are found.

Is it best to face the beast

when to cower seems the way,

to fight when hope has all but ceased

to rise and seize the day.

W...

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for ages

we couldn’t agree

us being rather old,

too limiting you said

too expensive to buy

and keep I thought,

a lot of trouble

health-wise 

and the breed we’d like

are rare nowadays,

both sadly true,

but Glenda has arrived

my virtual puppy, she

doesn’t need a walk

food or a poo,

doesn’t bark or want to

sleep on my bed and 

always comes on command...

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My aching is collecting dust,

Hidden away in the place I buried it.

I tell myself I do not miss it,

That I do not want it back.

But there's something in me

That reaches out toward it.

That breathes in and breathes out,

So the dust blows away.

I don't want my pain

But I feel it is a part of me.

I would not exist without it.

I would not be whole

without ...

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Nothing works 1 & 2

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She sits silent in the tacky room.
The television volume loud enough to rumble windows, the flickering light casts eerie shadows dancing around the room. She doesn't notice.

Room 304 is her home now. Not many visitors, and when they do arrive for a visit, it isn't a lengthy stay and they don't say much. Sometimes, not speaking at all. Too busy. She doesn't notice.

She wasn't always brittle....

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In her garden she wasn't alone
The wind was her compass and the dirt was her soul
Birds sang
Trees wept
All that surrounded her made her feel at home.


-Happy Earth Day! 🌱

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Crooner blue

melancholic voice

sending azured soothings

deeper, so pleasingly, into my soul

audibly, I absorb the slow smoothnesses

that leave the lips

awakening, beautifying,

dreamily inducing the senses

carrying them along on honey toned flowings.

into whose oceanicesque depths,

I wantonly submerge.

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I saw it on the telly and I thought it looked like fun

Our Gert, though, wasn’t sure – she’s got the sex drive of a nun;

“Oh no! this really isn’t me” she said with coy reserve

But “Bugger that!” I thought “This is a treat that I deserve”.

I took her swinging

Our first time swinging

Which started with us innocently mingling;

But it wasn’t long before

She had got beyond the ...

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I remember you soley,

make me your only devotee

when your rememberance dies,

you may take me.

Before then I only hope to be your devotee.

Forgive me.

I only seek refuge in your resplendence.

Take me away from the corruption,

That I may worship you only.

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Black woman you’ve come undone

Carrying the weight of the world on your weary shoulders

The pied piper has come to collect your last remnants of sanity in exchange for sleepless nights 

Constant thoughts flood your mind’s eye

Strong, Independent, Sassy, Abrasive

Adjectives assigned against your will 

If only they knew you were

soft, needy, earnest, kind

In a hopeless state ...

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The way she lies

I can tell in her eyes

Can’t make her mind

Always acting so kind

Calling me a player

But she is like a slayer

Saying she has feelings for me

The next day is a different story

Very difficult to understand her

She makes every situation blur

She is not my type of girl

Not an angel or a pearl

Two months of good sexting

Was the only good thing

...

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I've being doing it for years I know how to drive
According to you were in a death race trying to survive
Yes of course I saw the big blue road signs
And I've stayed safe between all the white lines

I'm not to close to that car in front
At this speed I'm sure it would be faster by punt
You grab the dash at slightest move
Can't even use the radio for some clever groove

I do know wh...

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Some days, all it takes is one cup

Hot, cold, black or milky

I just need it direct to the face

I'll need some space

I don't have time to unwind

Read a book, unfurl the mind

Hot, cold, black or milky

I just want it direct to the face

I call them the beans of life

Grounded or whole, they relieve my strife

Hot, cold, black or milky

It's the only way to live

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That cherry blossom day,
thunder in the air,
unmiraculously, everywhere:
a stutter in the Gaia,
a low rumble, a terrible tremor,
an unholy roar begins to build and build
and sucks out the very air
total devastation
on that final day
when this very earth was undone
the land began to shivver and shake
uncontrollably, delirium tremens
...

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Our house might not be the same now that I’ve slipped away , you might feel oh so empty and not sure how to fulfil your day . 

We shared so much memories , time and love .If you’re feeling lonely talk to me and I’ll be listening up above . 
Don’t be sad too long or grieve on the question why , I needed my time of peace but this isn’t us saying goodbye . 

You will hear me rustle through the ...

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The time approaches to mark England's English day,

And bring to mind memories that somehow find their way.

We are not a perfect people, equal to many, better than most,

How else to explain the alien host that heads for our island coast?

An American poet of other days knew this when she wrote

Words that robustly resonate, still surely worthy of note...

 "I have loved England, and ...

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Don't try to interfere with destiny,

don't worry about failure and loss,

everything self-corrects in its own time.

It is all written in the Book of Life,

your own,

their own,

yours is yours

and theirs is theirs,

no need to boss people around

and stir up the dust of anxiety--

they will discover how and what to do

in the expanse of time.

Just reach out and encoura...

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She could not stop questioning why I loved her.

How could I choose her? She used her scars as weapons,

cutting the offering into ribbons of doubt and hesitation,

never able to accept my assurances with her cutlass drawn.

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A Special People

We fought a war against a nation

who thought they we the Master Race,

and we the untermensch, the sub human race.

Now the world has the chosen people

God's elect and highly favoured,

with land carved out for them.

We are now the gentiles

the Goyim or the pagans.

It would seem that the majority 

of us cannot win as members of he 

Human Race.

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The Mirror You Can’t Hold

Rejection, deflection

Projection, projection

A profuse push of blame

With profound misdirection

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most insightess of them all?

You say it is me?

No —  it  just could not be!

I am the truth

So why can’t you see?!

Everyone has done me wrong

My feelings are because —  of what you —  put me thro...

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Partygoers reluctant to depart.

Last stragglers of the colony line

the turf below the lighthouse.

The engine’s cut; August

wind chills faces. Some still

clump in, puttering outboard

motors frantically clattering

over us and terns on the rocks.

Wintering on the ocean,

returning with sand eel cargos.

The chicks spend years at sea.

What makes us think of them

...

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‘If you must’, 
us teachers told,
‘do it appropriately’.
You from Japan.
English language lessons.
Sitting shy at 
back of class.
Gentle Japanese man.
Summer-intensive class,
you bought calm.
Learning English to 
study Violin at
Royal College London.
Moment seeing you 
smile at my 
lucky dragon shirt.
Blue cotton shirt
with three dragons.
Number three is
my lucky number.
I wore...

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I sat spellbound in the Dog and Whistle public house, as my ‘friend’ Vanessa ordered fish and chips, with baked beans, and it suddenly struck me that she had a very sexy voice.

The barman was so stunned she had to ask twice, unaware of him admiring her slender body, a result of hours on her mountain bike, so she now fits easily into skinny jeans.

I’d applauded when she told those so-called...

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Two horses or four,

Depended on how many

Passengers were to board.

An indestructible carriage

Made of lancewood, 

To carry some adults,

Their goods and brood.

Within the valley,

He sees two

Lovebirds marry,

Reminding him of 

A bygone matrimony.

The evening passes by

Reminiscing,

And a whole lot of

Missing the missing.

The night cal...

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Too heavy is the burden to save you, 

Too true are my reasons to try, 

In my failure I gave all the strength that I had but would stand up and look to the sky.

On our bare backs we carry our known worlds,

Helping others to prop up their own,

Collaboration will make the load lighter allowing us to make our worlds a home,

Was the time that we spent wor...

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Everyone’s  a  C*NT

I see the teenagers

Throwing things on the floor

A protest

Leads to the finger

Everyone’s a CU*T

The internet is down

They said they’d send someone round

Nobody came…

Everyone’s a *UNT

They’re blaring out music

On a crowded bus

Chatting to friends

Until ears start to bleed

Everyone’s a CUN*

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I devour darkness...

Unlike a black hole's greedy maw,

I gulp down darkness with silent awe.

To shield the world from the depths of night,

To keep the world bathed in a glowing delight,

I munch on darkness,to let others shine,to keep them bright.

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The fall in full swing, summer has closed shop and sent the South Easter winds on holiday.

The moisture absorbed by the sun during the last days is spread like a blanket over the city. We woke up in a mist of clouds, and with no wind, the fog made its way down to the streets, playing hide and seek between the houses, daring the sun to chase it away.

Winter is unpacking its light north west...

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In realms where dragons dance and knights do roam,

 In lands of magic, mystery, and chrome,

There lies a game where tales unfurl,

 In pixels, dice, and imagination's swirl.

Heroes bold with swords in hand,

Venture forth to save the land.

 Their destiny written in lines of code,

 Their deeds recounted in the digital ode.

Monsters lurk in shadows deep,

 Guardians...

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Where has it brought me

To the point of hatred towards my own kin

Less in thought and more of it on me

Why do I hate my mother 

She’s taken my youth and discouraged my future 

Left to take hold of her addictions 

Copying what I know I don’t want 

So why do I carry on 

Doing things that I know resemble her

Cursed by a course of action

Product of a design 

Disgusted ...

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Moon eyed she goes 

She is one of the stars

Lonesome she is 

In the presence of Mars

Soon her reflection renews

She is a planetary part apart 

Memories become brand-new 

She is solo in this system 

And as the lights dim 

He becomes hers 

She sucks us in 

Until everything’s hers 

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 Come to me with your bucket of hope

Bring it quick, please do not refrain

I need your help if I’m going to cope

In a world gone mad, gone insane

I once carried a bucket just like yours

A pail full of promises and lofty dreams

Personal things you can’t buy in a store

Tokens of aspirations I’d hoped to redeem

People blindly began rejecting common sense

To the point where ...

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Pain is pleasure and pleasure is pain
There's no difference when you ride an emotional train  
Heart is aching and breaking in two
Soul is lost in the wilderness what can you do
World keeps turning the planet will survive
But I'm lost in outer space more dead than alive

Searching for the answer to all of my woes
Should I be grateful heaven only knows
Paint me a picture of a perfect day
...

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Slight stroke gentle touch

Cautious safety shot taken

Tactical advantage game on.

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That was once our view.

It was my perfect view;

Out of the blue, a tree grew.

From then, there was no perfect view.

After that, our lives closed in,

And you, with your arrogance,

Your new-found taste for sin,

Plus your innate flair for spin,

Emphasised the symbolic side

And, harking back to sweet evenings

When we listened for the early owl,

Became impatie...

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if twilight stir me to reason

and night then move me to passion

the daylight burn me to ashes

and darkness come without season

then this is the hour of patience

–I know morning will not be withheld

either by faith or the faithless

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The swan: no more song,

Marsyas: into silence flayed;

Hark the hand-wringing...

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Be not a leaf

falling from a tree

Be a branch...

part of the trunk

with roots

to ground you. 

By Lynn Hahn

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(Part 2)

The monsters find a way.

Those precious years that followed 

Were summer fields of fragrant flowers 

Where dreams, thought long forgotten

Had returned to fill the hours 

We had a princess of our own

Kept the witch & the goblins at bay 

For, if they knew we had an heir

They would, surely, take her away!

But, somehow, they found her Mother 

Cr...

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Two stones banged together 
To create a misplaced spark
Forget about the weather
Never mind the dark
Harnessing that fire
Gave Neanderthals a thrill
They could build a funeral pyre
And keep out the Ice Age chill

Down countless generations 
The flame remained intact
As in various locations 
Wood was splintered, split and stacked
By Maasai on the Kenyan Plains
In Uluru’s mystic glow
...

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Eight thousand puzzle-piece
butterflies
fill the memory carded banks
of discarded blank
cyberspace Alzheimers.

An empty room with silhouetted views,
creating illusion imitating
hallucinations
of a promise to reinstall the words lost
to safety proof
false parachutes.

Without canvas-sized,
indestructible evidence
or ink-based remembrance -
only erasable by flames,
flood or
unsign...

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