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Diplopia
When I consider how my light is bent
My two eyes capturing two converging scenes,
I wonder truly how my time was spent
In looking, without thinking what it means.
Before they parted ways, to circumvent
The natural perspective we expect
When Covid’s random danage caused these ills
Which fresnal screens do partially correct
Such minor injury should not deter
...Friday 6th June 2025 7:08 pm
Builder Brain
we are the created
the evolved
the creators
created in the image of our mothers and fathers
creating beings in the image of our sons and
daughters
artificial anticipation
on the precipice of intelligence
reality hits,
all intelligence is artificial
it always has been
in the sense that intelligence is merely a concept
in the sense that a creator bestowed it upon us
intell...
Thursday 6th March 2025 8:31 pm
Rhyme And Reason
There is a reason for my life.
With each new season, I search for it...
It is not in what I may somehow achieve.
It is only that.... I believe.
Wednesday 5th February 2025 11:51 pm
Like Her
I wish I was more like her.
The way she searches the stars makes the fireworks seem cursed.
I felt it since the first time, I laid eyes, I was immersed.
Her beauty was a habit and her love was like a purge.
She cured me from my sadness and all the sins I’d stir.
Trust me it was rebirth, the light inside her soul had given me a burn and then there were her curves.
I never felt...
Saturday 1st February 2025 5:20 am
Hanging
I remember everything, even the type of ring you wanted.
The type of things most would've forgotten.
I was there listening, came through with everything I promised.
That's knowledge for you.
That’s knowledge for you.
You were my favorite subject and I passed all those classes plus I’d hang right after school.
Always hanging onto you, but now we let go and I can’t hang to an excus...
Saturday 18th January 2025 4:51 pm
Labelled
Becoming slowly unrecognizable to yourself and others
Feelings and thoughts take
a hold, giving you the shudders
Memories and emotions that seem to flood your heart
Faces and places making it hard to know where to start
Decisions throughout the day, waiting to be made
Resting again in bed where it all just seems to fade
Urges of wanting help yet not knowing what to say
Triggers causing you...
Wednesday 20th November 2024 10:13 pm
New Years 2023
As the year of 2023 comes to a relieving close
We think over the good and bad times we chose
Memories stack up again and then begin to fade
Thinking up New Years Resolutions to be made
We begin to look to the joys of a fresh New Year
Where we start to wave a huge good-bye to fear
Tears and worries that consumed part of 2023
Are left behind as the New Year brings a new me
With the help of R...
Wednesday 20th November 2024 10:10 pm
Spring
There's something about this season, Spring
Waking up to birds as they, sing
Trees and its blossom show subtle, pinks
Clouds and rain, for thr earth now drinks
The sun reappears, having such a glow
As if it were trying to say, hello
I go to the garden to walk around
To see what other things are found
Butterflies with their colorful wings
How this season holds such beautiful, things.
Wednesday 20th November 2024 10:08 pm
Lockdown
Going to bed then waking up late, what lies ahead?
We ask you fate
Jogs in the winter sun around the area,
Becoming healthy - losing weight
With hope in the vaccine and wanting to be immune
We look to this date
Remembering things of the past, finding comfort
Talking to a mate
Thinking what we have done and future plans
Good and bad times we know await.
Wednesday 20th November 2024 10:07 pm
Misfortune
Letting someone else's light shine brighter than mine, isn't such a prideful crime,
I should listen to what people have to say, to have the attitude of 'come what may',
Speaking my mind being always kind, the truth is what I then, shall find,
I think, I think, I think too much, I would rather not about such and such,
I learned to appreciate from a distance, family and friends, I love within an...
Wednesday 20th November 2024 10:05 pm
Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb [song version]
Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb
When I was very young it wasn’t very hard
You could find rhubarb in every back yard
A ruby red treasure growing from the ground
Worth its weight in gold and so easily found
Your mother would cook it and put it in a pie
But its very best use – and I tell no lie –
Was to dig it up and treat it like grapes upon the vine
By turning it by magic int...
Monday 11th November 2024 11:36 am
This is not a draft
I don’t want to mask my poetry
I want you to understand me
Curse your perfect rhythms, rhymes, haikus
Your lyricism, your literary
When I try to adopt it, I turn mute.
Something channels through me
(I’ve never really found the root)
A demanding stream of consciousness
That cannot stop to breathe, let alone
Wait, conceptualise, draft, redraft
I can’t!
...
Monday 7th October 2024 10:25 pm
Timeless Torment
In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear
Why do I feel your words and presence, so close and so near?
Are we doing this again, communicating through signs?
How is this even possible, when I am no longer yours, and you are no longer mine?
It’s been six months, when will this end?
I can still feel you, this connection won’t seem to bend
If we were not soulmates, then ...
Saturday 1st June 2024 11:40 am
Weaving Lines
In script, I chase elusive breath, emotions' subtle pleading,
Such words enfold, deceit swathed in a tender, soft misleading.
To paint the world through poet's lens, the rarest hues I borrow,
In stanzas sail, through mind's vast sea, where verses trade in sorrow.
A tinkerer of syllables, line by measured essence,
Might muse perceive a poet's form, shadowed in your presence?
We waltz beneat...
Friday 3rd May 2024 7:32 pm
The Inner Feeling
The inner feeling
In which they are hidden
There’s no power of healing
The things that are forbidden
A little, tiny, very small
Peeking through the wall
Short, not very tall
The most whimsical of us all
Power we cannot see
The ghastly things are up for a walk
The prisoners are we
Suddenly we’re not able to talk
A dried fiend,
A false end,
At...
Saturday 13th April 2024 10:27 am
Karma's Consequence
Now I’ll be like your ghost
You’ll feel me everywhere
But I’ll be nowhere to be seen
Haunted by my memories
Tortured by my presence in your heart
And I’ll miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And as you wander in search of others
To fill the void, gain a sense of fulfilment
As your luck and name change meaning
You’ll soon begin to realise
All roads lea...
Saturday 24th February 2024 12:27 pm
Penguins, Popsicles and Polar Bears
Astronauts were packing it in.
Wrapping up a long mission
when the ships sensors had a vision.
Beyond the hill of ice.
On a planet deemed to have no life.
A sign of life before them
beyond the hill were penguins.
Sliding down the peak
with Popsicles in their beaks.
A bundle over polar bears
sat watching in folding chairs
on the planet of Coldairus.
Monday 12th February 2024 7:21 pm
Final Farewell
My Darling,
You hold so much sadness in your eyes
I can almost touch the scars of your soul and cry
The twin flame I once saw in you
Turned into a stranger
Whom my heart cannot recognise
Someone I never knew
Thinking of life without you
Makes me feel as though
I will never see summertime again
And the coldness of an eternal winter fills me with woe
No matt...
Sunday 4th February 2024 12:23 pm
Monster in the Mirror
They say that twin flames go through periods of separation
And this I know to be true
For you were right, we did need this time apart
However, I am praying it doesn’t last
I needed to discover me and you needed to discover you
Because even though we are one, our souls have still been split in two
And we needed to work on ourselves separately
In order to reunite anew
...
Wednesday 24th January 2024 2:08 pm
Soulmate Symphonies
If you desire to heal, let yourself fall ill
You desired peace
So undoubtedly, with every hardship, there comes ease
If you only have the strength to believe
I forgive you for doing as you please
I am proud of the changes I have seen
It’s making me believe, perhaps you are changing into the man I knew you would be
I believe you may have read my words
And I want you t...
Sunday 21st January 2024 12:39 pm
Last Lies
I told you I wouldn’t write you any more poems,
And in that, I lied
For don’t you know
You’ll always be the apple of my eye
However this poem is different, it’s unlike mine
I mixed others I’ve read
Hoping you’ll someday see what has been said
May you read the rhymes and know it’s me
But the mix-up of phrases I wanted you to see
That despite my best efforts
The...
Wednesday 17th January 2024 1:47 pm
Desperate Despair
I am trying to move on
As I’ve realised this time you’re truly gone
But what am I supposed to do
When everything reminds me of you?
Every day, I have been searching
For you, my lonely heart has been yearning
With a pit in my stomach and a lump in my throat
I found your account and now I know
All my suffering has been in vain
My broken heart and all my pain
I...
Sunday 14th January 2024 6:21 am
Lost Love
Words cannot express the pain
I feel at your hands once again
My entire heart has been torn apart
Smashed on the ground into tiny shards
Like the Christmas ball that bore our names
Scattered over the floor, all in vain
And while I hurried to pick up the sharps
I looked up only to watch you laugh
In my desperate attempt to fix what’s broken
For you to tell me I’m...
Wednesday 3rd January 2024 1:22 pm
Ice Hockey
A snowflake hits the moonlit pond
freezing grounds before the dawn.
The pond will ice from shore to center.
Frozen puddle, solidified by winter.
Daylight comes, the children rejoice
over hockey games on the pond of ice.
Thursday 28th December 2023 7:53 pm
Message in a Bottle
Coconut oil suntan lotion
slathered on my skin.
Motion of the raging ocean
a fire brews within.
Adirondack on the boat deck
letting the sunbeams in.
My note to you
in a closed glass tube
I sent it for a swim.
The day you find the note I wrote
will surely be my end.
Tuesday 28th November 2023 5:29 am
Plane
How many planes are on cocaine?
The pilot shoots powder into his brain
This private charter is fucking insane
My pilot parties like Jeff Tremaine
Our landing abrupt, we stopped in a lake
The pilot was dead, I was in shakes
The cops combed the scene
Didn’t find anything
The coke on the pilot
was washed by the stream
He laid there cracked open
A ter...
Thursday 16th November 2023 12:24 am
Kitty
Tick tock the cats tail
swings from the steel nail.
Kitten nailed to the wall
tightly secured, as not to fall.
Eyes open wide
digitally displaying the time.
Thursday 9th November 2023 7:56 pm
Be nicer
As I watch the news I see a similar trend.
Many mass-shooters with one common thread.
Felt shunned by their peers
for many a year.
So, if you are kind
you surely will find
a life filled with many friends.
Wednesday 8th November 2023 7:13 pm
Sadie the aquafox
Sadie the aquafox leaps from the lake
giving its body a shake
A boy throws a ball
the aquafox takes chase
The ball lands behind the shed
aquafox stretches its legs
across the bright green lawn
Zigging and zagging to fetch
Wednesday 8th November 2023 2:10 am
Milquetoast
Sycophant milquetoast
running from your brown nose
Everyone superior
looked down on in the mirror
Apologetic worm
undeserving of a turn
to be clearly heard
Thursday 2nd November 2023 2:54 am
Starlight
Starlight
Shine bright
Roll the dice for me tonight
Lucky charm of the sky
Burning light-years high
Out of reach
Of my motorbike
Cruising under citylight
Sunday 29th October 2023 10:01 pm
Fried Chicken
Viscous heat bubbles at my feet.
A drum of boiling oil lies beneath.
My body sweats
I dangle like a leaf.
From a wrought iron cage
I watch with rage.
They chop my friends.
Then, they soak and bread them
Feed them to the grease.
I'm a bird trapped in the tree.
Never to be free.
Until, it's time to eat.
Tuesday 24th October 2023 6:17 pm
The Lamp
a golden relic of prior days
they tell tales of djinns and genies
how did this object receive the name
it'd make an ideal canteen of gravy
my room does not illuminate
I've rubbed till wrist was cramped
when filled with oil, the blaze did rage
why do they call it a lamp
Monday 23rd October 2023 5:39 am
100 Batmans
soldiers take the field
foam swords and shields
Costume City troops
dressed in batman suits
they paused for lunch at noon
the battle to resume
when a glass of tea
and one grilled cheese
are happily consumed
Monday 23rd October 2023 5:36 am
violent death
beyond sunsets of tangerine
past seas of aquamarine
crimson pouring out of me
I face my final color scheme
darkness comes
Thursday 19th October 2023 4:36 am
Snuff
make a corpse, make a scene
make 'em scream, make 'em sing
as you funnel the chlorine
down the hatch on Halloween
make a movie, make a scene
may they flock to the screen
watch the torture and abuse
hang a man by their own shoes
solid noose of double shoestrings
coming to theaters, this Halloween
Sunday 15th October 2023 1:30 am
Artificial Ignorance
how embarrassing it is
to be from a planet
that created artificial intelligence
not because it was hard
but, because we're too stupid to think for ourselves.
Friday 13th October 2023 10:02 pm
cumulonimbus seas
Two dark fluffy eyes
enormous in size
made of clouds in the sky
stare back at me
Straight above me
an ocean so lovely
dense and fluffy
cumulonimbus seas
Friday 13th October 2023 9:31 pm
Holy War
passionate generals boom their blasphemies;
aim thy cannons at our godless enemies
burn their homes, set fire to the trees
kill every last living thing
start with all the "human beings"
kill every doe, bird and bee that breathe
breeding in the miasma stream
in their demonic energy
fear not, for
heavy is the hand god feeds
waifers and wine
defenders of the make be...
Friday 13th October 2023 4:28 am
My First Prayer
I pray every one of their children is gay.
Lord, make it so.
I pray one of their sons
murders them in cold blood,
while the rest of their kids cover it up.
Maybe I've spent too long
not focusing on the problem.
Lord, make me ungay.
I want to be taken seriously,
get off this disability.
publish poetry in Braille,
and give all my earnings to charity.
If I promise to pray for your sake,
...
Thursday 12th October 2023 1:47 am
Stress Related
Nicotine,
burning in the corner of the restaurant.
Bleaching,
every key on my laptop.
Staining,
QWERTY keys with a yellow gunk.
Rotting,
teeth like licky licky lollipop.
Comatose, you fill my nose.
Fill my mouth
with fizzy fizzy sodapop.
My breathing stops.
It's no trouble,
I'll just bubble
for these TV docs.
Googling 5 bed cabins
on the mountaintops.
I tell you of my ailments.
D...
Thursday 12th October 2023 1:42 am
Your Parents House
the tempting bite
glossy wax mushroom
two hours after consuming
your body is still buzzing and booming
feet are cruising, not stumbling
head is alert, mellow and bubbly
you're at your parents house
sitting cozy on the couch
President Nixon turns and whispers
did you know the moon landing was motion pictures
eyes sweep left to right
goodnight panorama
breaking out in hives
that wax w...
Tuesday 10th October 2023 1:47 am
Scent Memories
charred scents linger
within the astronaut's mind
suits, boots, glove fingers
leave scent memories behind
reek of burnt toast and sulfur
a vacuum occupied by scientists and engineers
what Earthly scents trigger
the olfactory bulbs of space pioneers
acid burns, fireworks, the scent of torched meat
the bakery that burns a rack of bagels
on the putrid corner of smelly Smogstone Street
the ...
Tuesday 10th October 2023 1:45 am
Salvia
Salvia on the tongue,
mind a fuzzy buzz.
Brick wall opens before me.
By firelight I see through.
On the back porch age 17
pondering reality.
Saturday 7th October 2023 4:16 am
Starlight Ever After
Wild rattlesnakes wrestle with their shakes.
Slithering through the decay,
of a rusted red Chevrolet.
Roaches top the food chain.
Gargantuan size and strength
with razor fangs.
Everything turned prey.
You told me you want to die
in another time and place.
When and where the starlight
still shined through space.
Friday 6th October 2023 7:14 pm
Ruler of Man
You have a phone meeting at noon,
address the issue head-on and soon.
Lobbyists are clawing at the doors.
I set up a press conference at four.
Jerry wrote you a speech
he typed it with his feet.
Suppose, he would have used his hands.
But, they were amputated per your demand.
Wednesday 4th October 2023 5:50 am
The Fall
Derek plummets from the summit
paper feathers attached
fashioned wings upon his back.
Lift him high through the clouds
gently swaying to the ground.
Each trip up the cliff
is a daunting grind.
Daily, Derek makes the climb.
The woods reveal a blissful calm.
But, nothing beats his daily fall.
Tuesday 3rd October 2023 1:19 am
Sunburn
Lawn mowers blast Arcadian cacophony.
I flick a mosquito off of me.
Sitting on my front porch step
nails painted in bright red.
Turning all the pages
of my science fiction.
Working on a suntan.
From dome to collarbone.
Cropped top and a houndstooth skirt.
Subjects, objects, and verbs
come and go
Monday 2nd October 2023 8:35 pm
wayward seasons
summer brings slurries
wicked sticky sleet drops
puddling, pooling, icicles dripping
slush gushes from the frosted rooftops
winter heat fries the egg
cracked on rocky road
melting the cream
burning the orange cone
Melbourne Falls, darkness dawns
sixty days of night
madness in the streets
kingdom of crime
Tamura Springs, sky rains cancer
the sakura flower lost
our beautiful reminder
...
Monday 2nd October 2023 8:32 pm
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