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Happy new year to write out loud!
A poetry site standing tall & proud
So much versatility & lovely folk
I can assure you all, this site is no joke!
So, all the best for the year ahead
And we toast to those in their heavenly bed 🥂
Let's hope next year your wishes come true
And peace, love & hope is the light that comes through.
All the best
Stephen x
Sunday 31st December 2023 4:58 pm
Leave Yourself Behind
A decade on, decade long
a journey
I’ve been filling this space with lines
you can follow them if you like
I’ve gone from ‘putting out’ only
to taking in, to loving others’ work
and learning
I hear their voices in my own words now
I’ve been leaving myself behind
these past ten years
writing wrongs
trying to find that spark
It’s said ‘don’t stay in any place too long
when you’re ...
Saturday 14th December 2019 11:30 am
"Poetic Rules! Are you really serious?
Rules a plenty and all so we can maintain order of our art of thought
Express yourself through a template that someone else just published
Middle class lives, aspired and achieved and desired and lived
I will give you 50 lines today and 50 lines tomorrow and 50 more on your fucking birthday
No more romance without some cash and an agreement now
Negotiate in the car or bar or online, but no...
Thursday 17th January 2019 9:52 am
December Collage Poem: Waves
Swansea waves words at passing poets
The twenty-fifth day is long and in others souls,
A week later we enter the next chapter with
New raging goals.
Kissing capitalism's ass and not mine
Highway traffic moves in waves,
Or should that be it crawls like a crab
Marrying a woman from East Texas
She cooked Christmas pudding for dinner each night
In peanut and r...
Monday 11th December 2017 11:24 pm
July 2017 Collage Poem: Old Photographs
An apt public hanging, packed treasure
Not like mine
The past zooms into focus in blow-up
In camera obscura
No-one spoke,
And the silence said volumes
Spuds and carrots and don't forget
To pick up the horseshit!
All sit in Domino rolls
I never told my students of stories
Waiting to escape
Pictures of matchstick men
Waiting to escape...
Monday 10th July 2017 11:11 pm
Easter WoL Collage Poem
A riotous toast to Queen Victoria
the lighter the better, under the table
black dagger stabs my heart
Oh! To be in Anglesea;
so beautiful -
death, rape, law, sacrifice. The more things change...
And still the penny rolls like a sunset
cascading what it simply used to mean.
We worry not, for our lady still holds
the sky whilst she sings.
The anxiou...
Monday 13th April 2015 11:49 pm
BE GRATEFUL
Be grateful for the dark days
And when one comes in sight
Don't waste your time in wondering
When life will turn out right.
Be grateful for the dark days
And when one comes along
Forget about despairing
Over how it all went wrong
Be grateful for the dark days
They're made to make you glad
When everything about them
Makes you think you shou...
Tuesday 6th December 2011 3:23 pm
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