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The Poet who dared
The Poet who dared.
I am a man ahead of my time...
A poem for my old friend, ‘Do’!
When the internet has gone, and electricity is scarce
It is then I will truly come into my own…
You know, my poetry is fierce.
The apocalypse is fast approaching
“Cometh the hour, cometh the man”
And I am the poet, who trust me…
Truly can!
Fore, I will be well hunker...
Monday 9th November 2020 1:28 pm
The Halloween Masquerade Ball
The Halloween Masquerade Ball
The way the silk hugs your every curve
the contours of your body, sublime, every swerve
I could not help but notice as you walked in the grand hall
Dressed to impress at the Count’s Halloween ball
I watched you slowly saunter
down the marble grand symmetrical stairs
Every eye in the place, upon you a fixed steer
But as you stood by th...
Wednesday 28th October 2020 7:22 pm
Silence
Silence.
I ask, nay pray
Let me make something
of this world, this life.
I stand alone and wonder
If this life be mine
can I not divine
What is or is not divine
What ails my soul
that acheth so
What wisdom
that I do not know
Taking time to reflect… repose
To ease this mind
and thoughts so closed.
Like so...
Monday 26th October 2020 10:55 pm
Ying & Yang
Ying and Yang
Message received
and understood
From both sides
of the road
The balance must
be maintained
Else everything
Implodes.
Po.
Thursday 16th July 2020 9:05 am
The best poem never written
The following is in reply to a private message to a fellow poet this morning who ending by saying...
..."I don't even know what poetry is! I just write the words in my head as I reflect on a life spent/misspent"...
Haha!
###### I do exactly that.
In fact, I have written a few poems here that do say just that... Life is poetry mate.
Some of it is hard and challenging. WOL ...
Saturday 11th July 2020 6:40 am
No laughing matter
No laughing matter
This is the tale of a dirty old geezer
Who tried so ‘hard’ but never pleased her
Well, he caught a cold one day,
And almost sneezed his dick away.
He sneezed on poor old Daffney Goff
Who almost cut his dick right off.
She gripped the sheets hard for awhile
Which made the old man grin and smile
Until his sneeze took its toll
Which ke...
Tuesday 7th July 2020 9:05 pm
Chariots Of Fife
Inspired by 'After the Storm' by Julie Callaghan
Chariots Of Fife
Charioteers equestrian came on storms of thunder
Accompanying lightning bolts to dash asunder
Flashing radiantly across darkly skies portending doom from disdainful heights they’d fly
A quadruplet of black and white wild horses, flowing manes, with thundering hoofs and eyes aflame.
Incessant like crashing...
Tuesday 7th July 2020 7:44 am
The Chameleon Poet
5th Jul 2020 09:12
Hello, Good morning Moon.girl
The sun has come out!
Today the third Eclipse I foretold you about,
This morning cast a shadow over our world.
I have complied with your wish…
The Chameleon Poet
I jostle and joke play around with words
Sometimes as a villain, a lord or a bard
Sometimes I am old sometimes I am young
Sometimes a curveball, often I’v...
Sunday 5th July 2020 3:55 pm
HeSheAphrodite
HeSheAphrodite
God and the Devil went out for a drink
I know this sounds like the beginning of a joke
But I sware on a stack of bibles its true
It’s happening in a pub tonight near you!
I’m glad lockdown is easing Dad
said the Devil
What do you think?
God sat for a while having a think
I’ll give it some thought
while you buy me a drink
Wha...
Saturday 4th July 2020 9:10 am
Still
STILL
Death how close
I sense you draw near
Feel the warmth of your breath
on my neck… I’ve no fear
Lost to my lover
at the hilt of his knife
Its point pierces my heart
at the end of my life
Severed… like my aorta
His cross to bear
The true love of my life
so far... yet so near.
So tightly embraced
in his arms…
I’m slipping away
...
Wednesday 1st July 2020 2:52 pm
Yesterday’s tomorrow
Yesterday’s tomorrow
I took my thoughts and stopped to rest awhile
Beside the sea of red. The fields ablaze with poppy red
Akin to the fields of Flanders bled
The lifeforce seeped from kith and kin
What poetry, justice, longings bring
For written down seem just empty words
Voices that the past disturbed
Here I find reflection
Deep beneath heavenly skies
Memo...
Sunday 28th June 2020 8:12 am
Star Child
Star Child
You watched on, the day we bombed the Moon
Assured we’d sealed you there entombed
Here, at last, you’rd met your doom
Yet even then, we spoke too soon
Sorry often the hardest word
I am so sorry you never heard
Not until our symbiotic links still felt
Did we understand and our hearts melt…
Misled, deceived.
We watched on, as you...
Monday 22nd June 2020 11:12 am
The Asgard
The Asgard
Some people think the Asgard
are just a work of fiction
How little do they know
their part to cease our extinction.
I have watched them in the heavens as stargates opened wide
Heard the screams and cries of lost worlds, watched them as they died.
Removed from existence, gone without trace
From far off distant galaxies through wormholes Asgard come
...
Sunday 21st June 2020 8:25 pm
For Moon.girl's guidance
Lets look at the chart of circular art
21/06/20
Where libra is placed your off to a great start.
Moon.girl, today is pivotal as your horoscope spins
Because the Total Eclipse for you means win win.
As ancient as this esoteric art surly is
The moon casting it's shadow
will show you things before hid.
Po, the mystical astrological enigma
Remember this is only the second... Another is impend...
Sunday 21st June 2020 12:03 pm
Who knows?
Who knows?
History it has been said
Spans back a long, long time.
Looking back we can see that time has changed us
sometimes without reason, sometimes without rhyme
That being said, nature always evolves
Whereas mankind it seems has often devolved
Einstein looked forward relatively speaking
From a huge big bang and Darwin theorized
The origins of man
Wh...
Monday 15th June 2020 9:05 pm
Gaze averted (Grenfell debacles)
Following on from this... Reposted from three years ago... {You may need to right click the link and open in a new tab if you don't have any sound.}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=SQplVg9vE0I&feature=emb_logo
... Three years have past
since lives were changed
A night most has forgotten
Who perished in those flames
The inferno raged leaping high in the...
Friday 12th June 2020 3:28 pm
Chips with everything!
Chips with everything!
What to do, what to do?
We are being misled… Yes, people are dead.
But how many died from COVID 19
What am I saying? What do I mean?
Stay six feet apart
You will be ok
That’s what the experts
continue to say
But what if we deliberately
are being misled
about what is killing
those that are dead.
Playing devil’s advoca...
Sunday 7th June 2020 9:47 pm
Vengeance
VENGEANCE
WE become judge, jury and executioner
We are so certain this is just.
Someone has to pay the cost
We are certain, it is not us.
We just fit the punishment
To the alleged crime
Caring not for justice
It fits our paradigm
Banding all together
‘Strength in numbers’... So we think
We can’t all be wrong, can we?
Tell me, what do you all think...
Saturday 6th June 2020 9:55 pm
WOL and a coffee
WOL and a coffee
This morning reading poetry
Like I often like to do
To start my day off gently
I could be reading you
If you post on WOL
Where often I begin
To see whose posted stuff
I often just drop in
It might something funny
It might something sad
It might be something great
It might be something bad
It might be something current
I...
Friday 5th June 2020 11:36 am
Clouded Judgement
Clouded Judgement
I wandered lonely as a cloud
In sky’s so clear and blue
I wonder what people see, me, or is it you.
Wonderful azure serene and blue
stretching on forevermore...
Or a tiny cloud that’s Oh! so small
and gone within the hour.
Po
Sunday 24th May 2020 7:26 pm
Let me out!
Let me out!
Since I’ve been in ‘lockdown’
it’s been sixteen weeks so far
I invented an imaginary friend
I collected her from the station
in my imaginary car.
We chatted on our journey
back to her new home
She asked where I lived
I told her it was Rome.
I live in Norwich really.
Rome sounded much more posh
"Oh! do you know the Pope"?
see en...
Thursday 21st May 2020 7:39 am
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party
This poem was inspired by a previous one...
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=102521
The Mad Hatter
I wonder if the Reaper likes a cup of tea
He could join us at my tea party
I’ll invite him along to see
He could sample my tasty layer cake
and my posh conserves
maybe he’ll be nice to me
And I'd give him his just deserts
If I need a kni...
Tuesday 19th May 2020 8:29 am
‘Without so much as a by your leave’
‘Without so much as a by your leave’
I called for death, but death just passed me by
and as he did he looked me in the eye
“I don’t have time to stop and chat”
with that, he waived his scythe, and that was that.
No interest in me he had, just left me feeling alone and sad
to ponder on my fate and plight as he drifted off into the night
Come back, come back I earnestl...
Monday 18th May 2020 10:46 pm
Oh! Death where is your sting?
Oh! Death where is your sting?
I have no fear of death
It’s death who doth fear me
For I am invincible
The Reaper can foresee
The day he comes to rip my soul
from this mortal coil
His efforts will all fall in vain
then again he will recall
Oh! dear death you have no hold
no fear in me resides,
you’ll return again, alone,
I’ll be not by your side
...Thursday 14th May 2020 3:47 pm
Signum crucis
‘Signum crucis’ Sign of the Cross times.
The pews are all empty, cassock hanging back of the door
The bible covers closed, no congregation to read it for
No hymns being sung, the cloisters deathly quite
Yet my minds in turmoil, my Soul’s running riot
The bells are all silent, no sermons proclaimed
No prayers being prayed, no candles aflame
Standing at the graves...
Thursday 7th May 2020 9:34 pm
‘Signum crucis’
‘Signum crucis’ Sign of the Cross times.
The pews are all empty, cassock hanging back of the door
The bible covers closed, no congregation to read it for
No hymns being sung, the cloisters deathly quite
Yet my minds in turmoil, my Soul’s running riot
The bells are all silent, no sermons proclaimed
No prayers being prayed, no candles aflame
Standing at the graves...
Thursday 7th May 2020 9:30 pm
Unmarked grave.
Unmarked grave
I will write to you on another side of death that is waiting for many
Laying in a box with eyes covered by pennies
For to pay the ferryman as she transverses’ the Styx
She lies now prostrate' our benevolent testatrix
Charon bends his blades with sweat on his brow
No more tomorrows, gone is her now.
Only her past, to dissolve assuredly through time
Only bones now remain.....
Tuesday 5th May 2020 6:46 am
Hades
Hades
So in time-honored tradition, the poet writes his lines of verse
The rhymes seem to elude him the more he seeks the further from the rhythm he falls
deeper, deeper into an abyss that consumes all light, and the darkness envelopes him.
Hope dissipates with each beat of his slowing heart. The air is thick with a dank all-pervasive stench.
His lungs constrict and contract unable ...
Monday 4th May 2020 11:18 pm
May the forth be with you. by Poda
May the forth be with you.
By Poda
Today is May 4th
Some call this day ‘Starwars’ day.
It does not need much imagination to see why this is... If, that is you have ever seen any of the ‘Starwars’ films. Of which by now there are many.
If so, you will have heard the phrase “May the force be with you” said many a time to many a character in many situations in every single one o...
Monday 4th May 2020 7:52 am
A poem for Jon
Once again I have written a PM to an old friend here at WOL
my reply to him sums up I feel what so many must be feeling at this time.
I know he will not mind me posting this on my Blog.
He has been and still is a constant support to myself and many others here.
So a poem to my friend Jon...
Jon, Jon my old friend I made you cry!
Tears of laughter... that's the...
Sunday 3rd May 2020 11:14 am
Tracks of my tears
Tracks of my tears
Upon the window
once so clear
I awoke to find
translucence there
With the sinking moon
on natures scale
the fulcrum pivots
a sun so pale
To melt my random
patterned vale
the frost had crafted
with such detail
Till dissolving
almost out of sight
a drying tear track
now marks its plight
This no metaphor
...Friday 1st May 2020 6:00 pm
The old man in the doorway
The following poem was inspired by my friend Abdul's wonderful recent poem...
"Prayer for the safety of the old man"
The Old Man in the doorway
I was that old man who stood at the door
When people passed by they would look at the floor
Or maybe the ceiling to avert their gaze
Less to make eye contact would cause them malaise
As if like a leper, contagious was...
Saturday 25th April 2020 11:25 pm
New Dawn
New Dawn
I pray here on my own all alone
I’m praying for peace for us all
I’m praying for guidance please lend a hand
but as I listen in meditation deep
my thoughts are drowning the words that I seek
Help me to hear with Samuel's ear
I sense you draw near as we speak
a tear starts to fall I know you're hearing my call
and can see all my pain as I weep
The tears t...
Friday 24th April 2020 9:49 pm
Six pack
My bottoms sadly sagging
my belly's almost flat
without my daily pinta
drawn from the vat.
I've got withdrawal symptoms
like I've never had before
Because Corona virus
has got me locked down here indoors.
Po... Not my normal six pack!
Thursday 23rd April 2020 9:15 pm
See told you d.
She is so light-footed
she is so swift of mind
as a dancing partner
She is fabulous I find
I have two feet
both of them are left
they never do what I want them to
at dancing I'm bereft
I don't have the rhythm
Like my poetry never rhymes
I am useless at that as well
at wit, I’m also blind
I can’t see the point
in writing stuff in rhymes
I can’t even think of a word
to write at the en...
Thursday 23rd April 2020 7:37 am
More tea vicar?
More tea vicar?
I am as mad as a Hatter like that character of ‘Lewis Carroll’
I’m having a party, dressed in his apparel
I’m inviting some friends, to come and join in
We’ll be drinking tea, and there are songs we can sing
There will be yummy cakes to eat of all different kinds
and tales to tell to entertain our mind’s
There’ll be joy and laughter, and Oh! so much f...
Sunday 19th April 2020 11:43 pm
Times of yore
Inspired by 'Jason's wonderful poem "Birdsong".
Which I was reading whilst the news was on the background reporting on 'domestic abuse' cases rising., as a result of COVID 19 quarantine’s rules.
Times Of Yore
Unison sings in this birdsong poem
to remind us of 'times of yore'
when the only chatter coming down the line
was the repetition of that old jackdaw.
Or t...
Monday 6th April 2020 8:02 am
A poem for Moon.girl
Walking towards the light
What a waste. What a shame.
Lost and gone before you came.
The spot light dims no shadow cast
behind illumed face or darkened arse.
The curtain falls, the audience leave
disappointed and deceived
Your name in lights bulbs all blown
Dark forever. Not a fate condoned
Your loss because another rises
fame assured, because of your tantalizes
Walking casts a ...
Saturday 4th April 2020 3:45 pm
Ramping it up
Ramp it up ramp it up, the UK’s ramping up
Now it’s all about the Covid checkout
Come on, ramp it up!
It’s the latest Buzz-word used so extensively
at every opportune moment, daily on TV.
Ramping it up, that’s what we're doing...
If you can believe, half of what the PM’s saying
Who could disagree?
A sterling job we all commend
Our fabulous Nation Health
...Friday 3rd April 2020 10:25 am
Cue the manic laughter!
Cue the manic laughter
Following on from my previous blog* there is more I'd like to say
when it comes to Global culls there must be a better way.
Many theorize that ‘Covid virus’ is part of a deadly plan
reducing the population, killing women, children, man.
Well there is a flaw in this plan if you think this through
whilst we’re locked in quarantine, we know what many wil...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 9:12 am
Baby Boom
The latest scientific research seems to point to the fact that if your parents did not have any children you are 99% likely to not have any either.
In nine months time a baby boom ( I know its a tautology )
will be resounding across the world
During all of this captivity, much sexual action will unfurl
Boys and girls will be popping up like there is no tomorrow
Bringing lots of...
Monday 30th March 2020 10:42 am
bleat bleat bleat
bleat bleat bleat
i have to say I find it strange
when folk get angry, become estranged
it’s not as if its a big surprise
to see the death toil daily rise
if now you can not find a bed
or medical care and end up dead
it's not as if you were not warned
this pandemic virus spawned.
flatten the curve being chanted
politicians platitudinously daily chanted
...Saturday 28th March 2020 8:05 am
Another Victim
Another victim
.
Tearing though the sinues in my skull
sucking all the air from my lungs
Gasping for breath.
I could feel my very soul departing with each exhalation
Drowning in a vacuum of hopeless turbulence and despair.
As I stepped out upon heavens stair.
Nothing... Nothing now of me remained
Except, engraved upon felsic intrusive igneous granet
‘C...
Friday 27th March 2020 8:05 pm
Ovid on the Covid
Ovid on the Covid
In Augustus times Ovid wrote
many a poem about sore throats
He was truly inspirationally to a lad like me
I searched the library for this cononical poet
For yes he was one, if you did’nt know it.
I feel like Ovid myself now... banished in exhile
because of my ‘carmen et error’.
How I enjoy his elegiac meter and erotic themes.
I am re...
Friday 27th March 2020 7:36 am
Two Steps Away
As some of you are aware I work in a ‘key field’
If any of you watched ‘Murder 24/7’ on the television earlier this month you will have seen how we can track people very accurately via several different methods... very accurately to within a few feet, and within seconds, in real-time!
‘Hypothetically’ potentially if you are having a BBQ and there are more than two of you we could add your n...
Wednesday 25th March 2020 9:24 am
Far Cough
People must not cough near you
they must cough far away
If you hear someone coming
Tell them to...
FAR COUGH !
Po. 24/03/2020
Tuesday 24th March 2020 9:34 am
Closed minds
Closed minds
My hands reach out to touch you
To break a binding spell
That grips you oh! So tightly
How far my friend you've fell
So insidious and commanding, compelling you to obey
Implanting words inside your mind, the things you're meant to say.
Thinking these thoughts are yours… because this is how you think
Your eyes opened wide., and yet so easily hoodwink...
Sunday 22nd March 2020 8:32 pm
Masking the problem!
Good morning Doctor, I have a nasty cough
Can you sign this chit, so I don’t get laid off.
How long have you it had it, I’m duty-bound to ask
and, since you are here, take off that silly mask.
I am just being responsible as we all should do
Unlike you, you silly arse, you haven't got a clue
Where is your face mask to protect you from the goo
I can’t f’n get one, because o...
Friday 20th March 2020 11:21 am
Dying for your touch
Dying for your touch
The music saddens her heart, her eyes well tears of sorrow
that leave indelible tracks upon her cheeks so pure
Her red lips tremble as her body quivers.
Last night, last night she dreamed once more
About that man upon that distant shore
Never again will she feel his tender embrace
Or the warmth of his breath as he kisses her face
Their tw...
Thursday 19th March 2020 11:26 pm
Cheapskate
Cheapskate
So home from work another day over
switching on my laptop
First stop, WOL... It looks like a hostile take-over
Every comment on the right
my name is there to see
I spent a while commenting,
‘Poemagraphic’... that is me
I read a lot of other’s poems
some are rather good
so I leave a comment,
Cos. I think I should
If you find I’ve wr...
Tuesday 17th March 2020 10:58 pm
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