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Exile
My dear homeland, with fields so wide
And rivers that carve through vast, silent tide
On green hills where the calm winds flow
I left my heart in your soil below
Where wheat grows tall, and autumn turns gold
I, far from you, in the cold snow unfold
The distant peaks, where bears are hunted still
Sing in the breeze, a sweet, wistful thrill
Oh, my homeland, why did I leave thee?
With fo...
Thursday 21st November 2024 4:06 am
Having exhausted most troubleshooting options
for democrats everywhere,
Nov. 2024
General alarm: the inside
of the machine is very dirty,
and although we thought
the optimum temperature reached,
still the light hasn't come on.
We assumed we were
plugged into the mains,
but the descaling procedure
has failed; the water retains
its hardness, and because we're not
correctly positioned, we have to adj...
Monday 11th November 2024 10:39 am
Ebonics
A child
talking black
to their parents
acting out of character
arguing about upbringing
taken back
some things are best left unsaid…
Sunday 29th September 2024 9:39 pm
america is a beautiful speech
speech of a term is speech of a speech
speech is speech of a speech
speech is speech of america
america is a figure of speech
speech is a term of speech
speech is a term of america
america is a term of america
america is a beauty of a beautiful speech
beauty is beauty of a magnificent speech
beauty is beauty of a magnificent term of speech
a beautiful america is the beauty of america
...
Monday 20th February 2023 7:35 pm
Land of the free?
Through a gape in the curtains
A shard of morning light
slices my bloated belly in two
How ironic, I think
A body divided
The inner, unwanted
The outer, a pathetic addict
And they tell me
MY baby will be born a junkie
Assuming it doesn't O.D.
inside its little toxic den first…
There's dust motes twinkling
in the shard's overflow:
Dead skin can...
Tuesday 10th January 2023 5:56 pm
SAMARITAN
SAMARITAN
__________
Anyone else
Would've left that Far Right
Reactionary sprawled on the concrete
To bleed out, suffer in his
Paroxysms of serious hurt, receive
Disaster of the steel-toed kind.
But not you.
The Good Samaritan
Reflex kicked in,
Wouldn't let you
Abandon someone in need of help.
Distinctions such as
"Friend" and "foe" did...
Tuesday 20th September 2022 5:43 pm
She Chooses
She Chooses
She chooses abstinence
because she won’t risk pregnancy
She chooses abstinence
because she’s not interested
She chooses contraception
because she does not want children
She chooses contraception
because she does not want children yet
She chooses contraception
because she has enough children
...Saturday 25th June 2022 3:55 pm
Pat Ethiopia on the back than stab it in the back
We are afraid
As we give you aid
We have the liberty
To maneuver your head
To the extent your are
Deprived a go ahead
To tend
Your self-development
And self -reliance
Seedbed.
"When money speaks
the truth is silent"
If you want to continue
Our client
Remember you're macilent
So try not to be violent
Fighting back with" Though
I'm poor I 'm somebody!"
'Cause,snobbish, we may ...
Saturday 5th September 2020 7:59 pm
The "Corona" Special
So we all know this is bullshit, this thing called Corona Virus,
My friends and I don't wear masks and now people won't stand beside us,
Damn it's crazy that people still watch the news,
All they do is lie and it's owned by the Jews,
That doesn't make me a racist so please just relax,
Just look up the definitions and make sure you know your facts,
Can't you see this virus is one ...
Saturday 9th May 2020 11:12 am
USA
USA
Empty crucible
Once full of righteous fire
Now just grey ashes
The snake rears its head
Striking blindly at targets
That are imagined
Adopts power stance
Arms crossed - closed for argument
Pin head and big mouth
Thursday 23rd April 2020 1:57 pm
Cleveland Cold
The Cleveland cold envelops me like cellophane,
Holding me as tight as a rigor mortis grip,
It clenches at my joints,
Constricting my movement not unlike a python,
Walking feels sluggish,
Lifting my arms is akin to moving through clay,
I revel in the uneasiness of it all,
Joy
Splattered across my face,
Despite all of the kinks the cold brings out,
A childlike wonder s...
Thursday 17th October 2019 6:58 pm
Return To America
Lit by the distant sun
in a backyard beer-garden
overlooking the meadow
my swimming brain spins out
through adventures of the past
forgotten journeys
by coach, by plane
through unfamiliar landscapes
to the desert
in California
We rode the Greyhound
between the sun-drenched cities
your head lay on my lap
and when we could tear
our eyes from one-another
we'd watch the world pa...
Monday 17th June 2019 10:15 am
Round and round
Galileo once said the earth was round.
Round and round we go.
Why do we cling to broken things.
Round and round we go.
I had a dream it was truth.
Round and round we go.
One small step for man. One giant leap forward for mankind. Forwards and backwards.
Round and round we go.
The rise and fall of rome. High tides, low tides flow back to the sea
Round and round we go.
This god, ...
Sunday 26th May 2019 2:28 pm
The Big Red, White and Blue Dick
Guns, knives and hand grenades,
Bombs and shells we'll blow them away,
Underground bunkers are no match for us,
United States of America "In God we trust",
Blood, guts and body parts,
Shoot to kill and aim for their hearts,
Chemical warfare is also a treat,
We'll gas them out and leave 'em in defeat,
Put your hands up and surrender now,
We'll shoot you in the face unless you put your gun ...
Tuesday 15th January 2019 8:50 am
White Stick
Summer shower arrives quenching an unknown thirst,
Droplets of release freeing from the worst,
The stubborn blinds slowly drawn back wide,
No longer recognise why there was reason to hide,
Music hits harder, eyes squinted to the new sun,
Munitions of self harm loaded in a holstered gun,
Absent friends, "were they there all along?"
Chemical parole serving right from wrong,
...Tuesday 3rd July 2018 3:58 pm
There Are No Angels Here
There Are No Angels Here
Scraping around the vipers nest,
flaming swords and thrusting spear,
black spiders scuttle to the feast
but there are no angels here.
The dragon crawls into their veins,
hallucinogenic ecstasy or fear.
The demon bares his fangs to bite
and still there are no angels here.
The first-born rounded up and caged,
harvesting the mother...
Thursday 21st June 2018 4:01 pm
Land of Opportunity.
What can I say I'm a little fucking jaded.
Must be stemming from the lies that you stated.
Yesterday's punks should've been today's politicians.
At least then to my generation they would listen.
You're killing our planet and bankrupting your people.
You leave us dying in a ditch and swear that we're equal.
Call me a millenial and I'll wear that shit with pride.
Please don't confuse me...
Tuesday 8th May 2018 2:27 pm
Statues Fall
Before you read the poem... a few more to open in New Tabs!!!
On Boycotting the Sean Mac Eoin Statue Unveiling
Chicago May - the Mary Ann Duignan Story...
Now... enjoy the poem!
Smashing the Nazi Eagle statue in Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria
Freedoms cries brought the statues down
The Reich lay in ruins as a new regime
Promised freedom of a versio...
Thursday 17th August 2017 11:57 pm
Where We Live Today
With so much hurt and hatred prevalent in society,
It seems like crimes such as murder, rape, and kidnapping might be
Everyday cliches surrounding us entirely.
I feel as if no other news is ever happening,
Everywhere I look, murder has become fashion internationally.
Especially in America, 'Land of the free, Home of the brave.'
Technically, just tellin ya, it's the land of the creeps, home o...
Saturday 21st January 2017 2:50 pm
The Parchment, The Bullet & The Word
The Parchment, The Bullet And The Word
It was old,
old and failing,
and it was loaded
and when I pointed it at him
he shrank back
afraid.
I said
“Do what I want
you to do,
because if you don’t
I will use this.
I’m not afraid
To use this”.
He sank to his knees
and prayed
for forgiveness,
prayed to all his little Gods
that I was bl...
Monday 11th April 2016 4:33 pm
untitled
Anarchy runs through my bones, A sanctuary, a mind set in stone, No worth in a life without purpose, Enough people around me trying to surplus, Without reason or must. Society isn't run from home, We're fed a diet of lies and bad omens, A curfew on our personal time, Cursing those who brave past the line, Fucking with your mind. Sobriety is harshly overrated, When the priority is to...
Saturday 2nd May 2015 6:16 am
Mt. Washington Warzone
7 beers deep, sweating that good july sweat on a friends porch.
Redwood planks kissing the leather souls of my second hand kicks.
4 hours of fire works, illegall yet accepted pyro launched into the space between Mt washington and echo park.
We cooked these bombs up to show thanks and respect for those who gave their lives in order to make a home, a new country.
Fun ...
Friday 6th March 2015 10:34 am
In Infamy
Yesterday, a day which now, will live amongst us for all time,
For history has changed its path
And we must fall in line.
For we at peace, with guarded arms, we chose to watch this from afar,
But we, deliberately attacked,
Must no more stand apart.
An Emperor, through wicked lies, convinced us of continued peace,
But sickening deceit was this,
As they slipped underneath.
For yesterday ...
Monday 9th December 2013 10:36 am
Kennedy
Around the shadowed corner, wicked lies,
Through telescopic lens and focussed eyes.
The autumn trees encapsulate the path
And crunch beneath the wheels they idolise.
The building crowds descend before the knoll
To catch a glimpse of this passing idol.
He, showered from all sides with the applause
And peppered from above by seasons fall.
Idyllic is this scene to which he greets,
As smi...
Friday 22nd November 2013 9:10 am
September Sisters
Twin sisters, both alike in majesty,
In New Manhattan, where we set this scene,
From arid lands flocks an old enemy,
To scorch the earth of this, a western dream.
From fateful skies the fatal flights descend,
But none the wiser to their pending fate,
The man and child, to happy affairs tend,
Their future sealed beneath a veil of hate.
Through vacant city clouds, their path...
Friday 13th September 2013 12:25 pm
Messerschmitt Death Machine
Yankee terror bombers fly overhead to bomb our cities and our military targets.
Stop them! Quick, into our Messerschmitt 109G’s.
Take off; rise up to do battle with the infidels armed with their fifty calibre super heavy machine guns. ...
Thursday 23rd May 2013 11:09 pm
You can't Streep poverty under the carpet... - NaPoWriMo Day 9
A silence fell upon the city,
contorted shadows twisting moonlight.
Stuttering in a speakeasy seemed so misplaced
bottles rattled flickering like Fedora feathers
in an unforgiving wind.
The wretched odour of deprivation
a stench that sticks and degrades ones existence.
Even by day this city remains a lifeless sap
and by night the vampires feast on th...
Tuesday 9th April 2013 4:44 pm
Thirteen Shouting Americans
Kennedy shouted “We do things not because they are easy but because they are hard”
Then they shot him
Martin Luther King shouted “I have a Dream”
Then they shot him
Bob Dylan shouted poems of Love and War
He politicised a whole generation
Timothy Leary shouted “Tune in Turn on and Drop out”
California relaxed
Billy Graham shouted “Come on Down”
Causing many...
Wednesday 6th March 2013 9:08 pm
The Gun - a response to events in the US
I wrote this piece after the events at Newtown and crazy reaction from those deluded enough to think that more guns equals safer country. They have 300 million guns and one of the highest murder rates in the world. As a poet, as an American who is also british, as a father, I wrote this response.
HOW MANY MORE?
Where can I start, but the young ones, their hearts
Ar...
Sunday 30th December 2012 4:50 pm
FIGHTER PILOT
FIGHTER PILOT
My mum once told me that my dad was a fighter pilot
Flying over Vietnam and Laos
Dropping bombs and killing.
He got five Migs
Before the missiles got him.
Yeah, my dad flew a Thunderchief.
He flew two hundred missions
Over that hell of a country
Until the missiles blew him away.
I never saw my dad
But he died a he...
Tuesday 19th June 2012 3:22 pm
DYING PRETTY
DYING PRETTY
Why now do I look at the Tupolev 160 White Swan and Rockwell B-1B bombers in a new light? Taken aback at how pretty both jet bombers are. Their World War3 mission is a dark job, end of days stuff. Not to be taken lightly, unless you're Dr Strangelove.
Less people die when the American B-1 goes to war. Her nuclear mission is taken over by the B-52 and...
Saturday 24th March 2012 5:21 pm
AMERICAN MIGS
AMERICAN MIGS
We lost Hugh. Flying such a beautiful little airplane in a blue desert sky, what a nice handling jet. Do what you want with her but no high speed turns too tight, might hit invisible wall in the sky. Dogfight every American jet fighter built none can beat the Mig17 Fresco. Turn on a dime, Russia did this almost right. Ultimate aggressor trainer, what better than to...
Tuesday 6th March 2012 5:44 pm
ICE FLY
ICE FLY
How many pilots died and old aircraft lost when they flew over jagged snowy peaks in the remotest corners of the world? Doing a dangerous job knowing the risks and trusting in fate and luck to bring the through. Some never made it, there planes impacting vertical mountain sides in sickening crashes. Bodies lost forever, frozen in the time of death. Icily cold and otherworldly ...
Thursday 23rd February 2012 1:48 am
Home
They say home is where the heart is
and my heart is where the art lives.
So where is my home?
Art lives within us all
and begins an internal/external exchange...
a process
like humanity to trees.
We stop, relax, breathe
as one.
So where is my home?
First Contact was my spiritual home
gave meat and marrow to
broken sp...
Tuesday 8th November 2011 11:33 pm
FUCK UP FAIRY
FUCK UP FAIRY
What an amazing site I behold –
Confederate and Damnyankee armies locked in battle,
Pittsburgh burns and war visits everyone.
Ruined houses, burning tanks, screaming airplanes, bursting bombs.
A hand waves in death as a tank moves forward,
bloodily glued to the tracks. Cannons roar
and men in butternut defend each and every house in morbid violenc...
Friday 16th September 2011 3:44 pm
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