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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
LAWLESS
A life without rules
No teachers No schools
I actually can't imagine how that feels
No authorities ..difficult to picture
No leaders
No scripture
No currency
Living free
No morals..No flaws Flawless
No rules..No Laws..Lawless
Wednesday 25th August 2021 1:11 pm
The Feminist Friend
Everyone’s having babies
Everything’s just turned up a whole notch of crazy
They must just think I’m lazy
But I too, could really love a baby
Makes me feel quite stupid
I’ve never had luck with cupid
Life doesn’t come with a blueprint
But really did for you, kid
Never been dripping in diamonds
Couldn’t find a man to afford them
And even if he offered
I’d ...
Wednesday 31st March 2021 10:36 am
Britannia Waives The Rules
Britannia Waives The Rules
Rule Britannia?
Britannia waives the rules
Encourages returning to the pubs
Puts students back in schools
One rule for the inebriated
One to avoid uneducated fools
The slavering wolf of commerce
Rolls its bloodshot eyes and drools
Britain’s never, never, never
Shall be slaves?
Burying its vulnerable
In Covid-shallow graves
...Friday 11th September 2020 2:56 pm
NO RULES IN SPEAKING YOUR MIND OTHER THAN BE FREE
A padded patch piled on another padded patch
And another
Tunnel vision of Rome through a classless square window
Inability to look down side to side or up
Just straight forward
Like a race horse wearing blinkers
Rome looks pretty
Although I see no famous landmarks or Roman architecture to suggest this is rome
I just know
To describe what i see through this square portal is quite impossibl...
Wednesday 27th November 2019 3:28 am
CHOOSE GETTING FIRED
CHOOSE LIFE, choose getting fired, choose beating the system, fucking the system, fuck the system. Choose office politics, small talk, polite talk. Signing birthday cards for people you don’t even like. Choose snacking because you are bored, eating cake because it’s there. Filling up the coffee machine, smiling once you’ve done it. Choose getting praise for work you hate, hating work for peo...
Thursday 18th January 2018 2:15 pm
Writing 'proper' poetry
Peppercorn eyes or was it peppermint eyes, does it matter?
Something...orginal eyes! Something blazing eyes...something dreamy and crapper.
Yes, so he tasted of morning breath and the blandness of saliva
but just write that he tasted of strawberries and hope because that sounds a lot nicer!
...Wait... stop! The ryhme is off!
Can you have more ryhme this time, less variation.
Sort...
Wednesday 24th June 2015 7:05 pm
School Rules
School Rules
I have to say with words I play so much it ires some peeps
But those that like to listen still are my friends for keeps
Whilst back in school my rhymes did rule too much from time to time
In English class acceptable but in History t'was viewed a crime
One day we had to tell the tale of Henry and his wives
But I was bored and pepped it up with a few comic as...
Friday 31st July 2009 9:58 pm
Dusty Books
Dusty Books
I'm a poet
Not a mechanic
If the rhyme breaks down
Should I panic?
For each syllable stretch
And stumbling scan
Do I search for another
Or act like a man
Must the purpose I scribe
Be for passing a test
Or maybe some mention
Of a tale with some zest
I think the audience tell
If they like it or not
And may offer a silence
...Monday 27th July 2009 10:59 am
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