Tainted
She doesn't look, she sees
The black hole. Heading for her.
Scared of unfounded stories
Circulating in her head -
A brain-tumoured-tainted, untrained structure -
Cells multiply, you see, wildly
Deep sea squalls fling
Seas against concrete. Defences breached
By unaccounted time. Rhymes come & go
In this muddled mind of mine, multiples the arrhythmia
Of this, my broken heart, apart from th...
Saturday 31st October 2020 11:33 pm
Also by John E Marks:
Rose | Counting the cost | The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc | Private lives | Locked up north | Memory | Soul music | The Cure | City of the Bee | Diversity | Crimson & Clover | THE VOICE OF DEATH, THE VOICE OF LOVE & THE VOICE OF ART | poetry is... | Inside Out | BEGGAR | Fear in a handful of dust | Questioning? | SAD | DIXIE | Echoes | Something found | A wise fool | Early October |It Is Not About Money
Money does not mean everything
It does not give you the breath to sing
It can be a challenge to earn
Making the heart wither and burn
Love cannot be replaced by money
As it does not make life very sunny
But nowadays it is about the status
Similar to firemen wearing breathing apparatus
Money cannot buy happiness
Maybe just a little touch of tenderness
I canno...
Saturday 31st October 2020 11:32 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Express Yourself | Don’t Be My Guest Covid | Spring's Paradise | Dedicated To You |Loop
There're many questions doing round
Doctor death approaching
So doctor she did not count
Stranger men shouldn't be approached
So they were turned down one by one
Few of his friends made indecent contact
They still offer her to make a mark
Queries on the never ending list
Who should be and who shouldn't be
Told to bloom where one's planted
The right gardener will pick...
Saturday 31st October 2020 11:10 pm
Also by Ghazala lari:
Halloween's lamb | Tonight I pray | Rejuvenating |That's too late
10/31/2020
I know that you're not going to be there for me
I can calm my mind with those words, you're not going to be there for me
With the words that use to send my stomach into waves and hard knots, the drunken realization sinking in now...
That you are not going to be there for me
Again I'm waking up with all reliance on myself and my bones aching for only my acknowledgment of t...
Saturday 31st October 2020 9:41 pm
Also by VHH:
Forget me not | Lashing out | Am I really broken now |SEAN AT NINETY
Cubby Broccoli was there to meet him
Roger Moore and Honor too
Sean reminded Goldfinger
what he expected him to do.
"I expected you to die and here you are"
was the laser sharp reply.
Then they let the cameras roll
just for old time's sake,
the script came up on an autocue
but their minds were needle sharp
and the filmtrack played a celestial song
to a golden...
Saturday 31st October 2020 9:16 pm
Also by ray pool:
MORE RAIN | JOIN THE FEAST | THE PULL OF HOME | DELILAH | MANTRA |reasonable
Just once I want
to wait at a bus stop
I don´t know
for a bus that will take me
to places I don´t know
where I will do things
I don´t know
in front of faces
I don´t know
for reasons
I don´t know
Saturday 31st October 2020 8:55 pm
Also by Liam Osaneo:
switch |The future is bleak
Time thou march on relentlessly.
And influence everthing under the sun.
Seasons change upon thy command.
Nature seems normal.
Human life is anything but normal.
The future is bleak.
Saturday 31st October 2020 7:38 pm
Also by Abdul Ahmad:
Divine forgiveness | Will Christmas 2020 happen? |Soulmate
Walking down the pavement of life,
I turned and slipped on destiny's knife
Thinking how i left the game,
I was blessed by the nature's brame
The light i was longing for,
Actually belonged to a different star
When i saw that gleaming moon,
Then i realized the irrelevance of noon
A touch of shyness in that fire,
Makes it all worthy to inspire
A ...
Saturday 31st October 2020 4:35 pm
Also by Asad Khan:
Confessions |I will make the Devil "my bitch"
As I delve into the devils frontier.
I see that witching hour must be near.
The hunters moon, on Haloween did appear.
Alerting me danger is near.
But, to my plan I must adhere.
Its J.D. the ghosts and gobblins will fear.
When I take the Devil by his balls,
And shove his fork up his rear.
With the Devil slain, and over his career.
I will take his throne, and his angels ...
Saturday 31st October 2020 4:24 pm
Also by J.D. Bardo:
Missing you. | The LIGHT, | Like a grain of sand | Tears on the Typewriter & "WORD PLAY" | Our Future | Prepared | The Mirror | Going Places | J.P.`s "RIDE" | The skin we are in. | The "beat" | THE KILLER beside me | Give and Take | Infinity | THE BUG | My view | Worn out | Clouds |To Breathe (Is To Burn)
There is so much more to this.
The music does not make song
but the foetal space
amongst famous walls
filled with such au fait grief
and there a beast floats
to see the fear fleeting
on their new found face
in some unfailing destiny,
there she silently screams,
a flame away
God so violently benign
in his passive spirit-
He forges her-
to breath truly ...
Saturday 31st October 2020 1:44 pm
He had a whale of a time
There once was a Welshman from Ebbw Vale,
Who wanted to have a good ride on a whale.
They returned from the ride with the Welshman inside,
And a smile on the face of the Whale.
Written by Morfil
Saturday 31st October 2020 1:04 pm
Also by hugh:
A rush to his funeral | Happy Halloween from Amelia the young witch from Sabden Lancashire | A deeply depressed witch deprived of trick or treating in tier three | A heart-warming act of kindness by Sally Anne an N.H.S Nurse | A grave Halloween tale | "A home I pray for before I'm dead." | Covid and the witch | "When will I get to see my man ?" | "I love you, your mine." | Made in China | The tears of Diana | Lost for words | A bloody misunderstanding | Scary scripture words | The skip a day diet | A delve into the mind of an evil virus | Lady Luck gave me a chance | Jake's coronavirus cover up | Well done Naomi Jupp aged 15,a newspaper delivery girl in Dorset. | 21 | When will I see you again? | Margaret Ferrier M.P. | 6 penalty points and a £200 fine! | A vaccine is on the horizon somewhere in a scientist's head | Flogging a dead donkey |The Negotiation
even in the cruelest pain
she kept her sense of style
until they put in the catheter
she kept her dresses organized
while he was dying on a battlefield
he was thinking about that night
when his dreams came true
under a different moonlight
hostages with terrorists
come to an understanding about holidays
children with parents
compromise on ho...
Saturday 31st October 2020 12:50 pm
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Your Role | Hairline Cracks | Tarof | The middle-aged uneducated white-american male | Clarification | I woke up wanting this | Music Work... | The Confidence Trick | My Project | Terrible | The Female Form | God Responds | Carbon Dating 2 | The Burden | What the book wants |Zombie Halloween
Full moon tonight
will light the sky
it's Halloween
and passers-by
used to come knocking
on our door
due to Covid though
fun is no more
No gangs of goblins
in the night
no monsters who
give us a fright
no buckets filled
as were before
Covid changed all that
forever more
Who killed this night
this hallowed time
who called an ...
Saturday 31st October 2020 12:25 pm
Also by d.knape:
Life Lesson | Culture Cancer | One Of Those Days | Seasons | Death Sentence | Dollar Store | Family Of Four | Slow Leak | Toothless Wonder | Telephone Poles | Stray Thoughts | When You Write It Down | BRINGING MORE READERS TO POETRY | CROSSES | The Sundown Syndrome | Of All The Years | Old Ideas---a poem by O.L. Buzzerd | When Someone Dies | Follow The Wind | Looney Tune | Saving Grace | Chicken Fingers | Notice to Poets | Crow Conversations | Getting By | Poetry Pill | Your Happiness | The Nature Of Man | Silent Killer | On Hold |Dahlia's Scalpel
Part-time embalming is joyful
Not enough to get you down
Leaves time to appreciate life
Freed from that bloody gown
Embalming can bring surprises
Cadavers turn up you once knew
This happened to young Dahlia
Its a sadistic geezer she'd blew
Chopped up in some car crash
His wife wanted a restful look
Freed from the visible causes
Her nerves would not brook
...Saturday 31st October 2020 10:40 am
Also by simon lucan:
I'm Wallowing In You Now | Empties | Forgetting Me Suits You | Jars | The Pedant | Crossing | Shade Darkening To Shadow | Custard Creams | Confetti | In The Foyer Of Hotel Lonely | Best Supporting Actress | Eternity Always Wins | The Cellars Of Your Heart | In Chains Of Faded Flowers | Skip Hire | Aversion Therapy | Photos | Shredded | Fusion | I Saw Ice In Your Farewell | The Conscience You Never Had | The Lantern | Ashes Are Better Than Nothing | Shattering | Chiropody | Stairs | Horizons Dont Wait For Anyone | Fearful? | Relict | One of the Chosen |The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun
Ujjal Mandal, India
The setting sun says me:
"Tomorrow I'll rise again ;
I am going to have such a sleep
That lets me always keep awaking ".
O, let's dip in the true West
To rise up in the motherly East.
Saturday 31st October 2020 10:39 am
Also by Ujjal Mandal:
The Setting Sun | The Motherly Sun | Life on the Bed of Love | Why does the rose BLOOM? | Love | The Irony of Fate |Unkept Promise
I had promised myself
No running after the elf
However, twist of circumstances
We may have our share of differences
The heart pumped the emotions
And the mind couldn’t refute…
Even though we stood separated by distances.
There was a tussle between me and me
Me – the myself within, and the face outside – me.
We had arguments since the promise looked mock
By our pr...
Saturday 31st October 2020 10:18 am
Also by ai ou:
Keep The Monsters At Bay | Notes of Inner Reflection | Chemical Expression of Love | The Salwani Fascination |Injuries
Vitriolic but justified, even necessary
words had been hurled as stones
intended to do the same damage
they were not stones but boomerangs
the sharp edge coming now
to claim their painful bullseye
one student of aeronautics, scarred
had a boomerang painted
hung on the wall too good to use
through a storm of hissing skies
the maimed stagger on as ever
but our student at last i...
Saturday 31st October 2020 9:56 am
Also by Adam Whitworth:
In Flux | Friends Like These | Every Day | Goodbye To All That | Congratulating Louise Gluck On Her Nobel Prize | At The Station | You can't see the join | D.S.O.T.M. |Scream It's Halloween
I go by the name of Henry and I have a torrid tale to tell
The date was Saturday October 31st in the year 2020
A day I will never forget a night of pure living hell
A pretty young thing called Camilla caught my roving eye
We had dallied and danced for a couple of weeks
About time I invited her over to wine and dine oh my
The scene was set and I cooked up a delicious storm
She ...
Saturday 31st October 2020 9:47 am
Also by Tom Doolan:
October 10 |George Inspirational
Brainwashed by white noise
Brainwashed marketing ploys
Brainwashed by the masses
Brainwashed in the classes
Brainwashed out of thinking
Brainwashed into sinking
Brainwashed blocks the soul
Brainwashed no longer whole
Brainwashed by the day
Brainwashed work for pay
Brainwashed pay the bill
Brainwashed makes us ill
Brainwashed see them walking
Brainwashed eatin...
Saturday 31st October 2020 7:29 am
Also by Dean Fraser:
Now Is The Time | 1971 | Jacques Brel Would Be Shocked (Amsterdam) | The Water Diviners | Never Meet Your Heroes | A Healing For Gaia | Magic Gems | Acting Upon a Dream | The Shaman In The Park | Eyes Open Wide | Turning Back Time In Margate | Stanley |Without Warning Death Comes Calling
Ghostly remains
serial killer
evil spirit
rotting coffin
violently shaking
another victim
forcibly taken
joins devil
for company
inside multiplying
Halloween grave.
Saturday 31st October 2020 2:25 am
Also by Nigel Astell:
Once in a Blue Moon | A Sunset Dawn | Masked Up Outside House Bound Inside |Momma's Only Son
All my momma's dogs died fat and ugly
She loved to spoil them
She loved to spoil me too
There's a certain damage done
When you're momma's only son
And every sins forgiven
Before it is begun.
So now I simply live inside my fiction
If I'm writing about thieves, I steal candy bars
If I'm writing about a foreigner I change my diction
If I'm writing about love
I just s...
Saturday 31st October 2020 2:04 am
Also by Michael Triandam:
Your Poem | Things My Cat Will Never Think | Talking to the Trees | Famous or Something | Dreams of Chumash Indians |Of Little Concern
I can't take much more lock down or bubble.
So much destruction, can you see the rubble.
Mounting debts come with every locked door.
We've had enough, people can't take anymore.
Into the wilderness of isolation, people will rot.
Nibbling away at our sanity, till they rob the lot.
Watching our freedom trickle down the drain.
Mental illness to follow as a result of the strain.
The most vulne...
Saturday 31st October 2020 12:58 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
The Deal | Puppet Masters | Something Has To Give | Stop Yer Talkin n Start Yer Walkin! ( Mental Health Day Fund Raiser 10/10/2020) | Behind The Mask | Pictures of Liverpool |WORLD COURT ORDER
The earth is in complete control
Despite the mischief that humans may cause
The laws of nature would never relinquish
Man's ability to amend said laws
Friday 30th October 2020 7:52 pm
Also by Joe Marcello:
PICTURE SHOW | I THINK, I HEAR | MIND SET MATCH | AN ARMY OF TONGUE |The Crimson Queen!
(Happy Halloween everyone!)
She rides upon a crimson horse
Its eyes as black as tar
Pray not to hear her whispered name
For she'll come to where you are
Her skin: as white as fresh-laid snow
And twice as cold to touch
Her hair: as black as night itself
Hold your breath now, hush!
For if you hear the galloping hooves
Coming to your door
Run with all ...
Friday 30th October 2020 7:04 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
Oh come to me! | Such Dreams as Stuff are made on... | Cooking Pot! | Head Space | The Darkness And The Light | Bed Of Bones | Above The Clouds | Seven Little Girls... | Ethereal Streaming |This Must Be A Nightmare
This must be a nightmare
But I’m not asleep
All kinds of feelings
Are starting to creep
But as the demons
Torment my soul
The devil he laughs
The werewolves they howl
I’m running, I’m hiding
Deep down into the woods
In the shadows they lurk
My heart pumping blood
Sweating and gasping
I’m struggling to breathe
Head all in a panic
I don't want to believe
Scratching and scrapping
Dee...
Friday 30th October 2020 5:32 pm
Also by curiousdud3:
Tightrope |Oxford In The Autumn
As autumn's rusty fingers begin
to push their way through tired trees
So, the early dimming light
and spectral chill conspire
to gently sweep me back in time
It's Oxford in the autumn
nineteen; with eyes opening
A new life unfolding
cycling through the leaves
and sighing under bridges
Oxford in the autumn
that brick so old around me
broad streets, illogical lanes
busses and puddle...
Friday 30th October 2020 2:29 pm
Also by Tom:
Rooftop Reverie |Moonlight Halloween
A frost chilled dim moonlight night
Putrid air, no stars in sight
Just sheer black sky’s we have
and eerie sounds that shout out “MAD”
It’s moonlight Halloween
It started out as a Christian festival
Priests and Rector’s in their vestibules
The congregation on All Hallows’ Eve
Candles lit for the graves of the dead
No meat eaten, soul cakes instead
Then came ...
Friday 30th October 2020 1:33 pm
Also by Rick Varden:
Love, Hate Relationship | MEMORIES? |Modern Witching
The woods still hold their magic;
mischievously they call
Our addiction is quite tragic
it often drives us up the wall
Thrice a week we head towards
a clearing in the trees
Light a woodless fire
and enjoy the eerie breeze
We're not sure why we do it
but we don our pointy hats
and on our way, I hate to say
kidnap the neighbours' cats
Sometimes we get a black one
but a siamese wil...
Friday 30th October 2020 1:02 pm
"3.5"
You are far but you are here.
I can hear you breath in the in-between.
I am here,
ever waiting to be touched.
My entire being is but a timepiece,
counting down,
until you return,
lovingly,
you and I,
Earth and Sky.
Friday 30th October 2020 12:27 pm
Detachment
Looking from the other side of the mirror,
Seeing through dirty glasses,
There is something not real about this moment
Like looking at a reflection of a reflection of a reflection….
Something just undefinable,
A gap between my here,
And their here.
My now,
And their now.
So fine as to be invisible but so wide
That one is unaware of the other.
I’m existing in their ...
Friday 30th October 2020 11:36 am
Also by Wandering Biku:
W.H.O. | Irlen Syndrome | Easy Fix |Green
Green
Green with envy
The color that haunts me
The color that burns so brightly it might be inside me
Inside of my head
Better left unsaid
Just put it to bed
The anger fills a deep void till I become red
Red
Like the color of your face when there was distaste
Wasting my time afraid to fight
Your love was just like the light
The light of traffic so green and red
...Friday 30th October 2020 5:29 am
Love Happens
Love happens when you least expect it.
When you have your eyes closed and are looking in the opposite direction.
Love happens even when you shun it.
Even when you curse it from the pits of hell love happens.
Love happens and it knows why it came and how long it plans to stay.
When it happens it takes you by storm
Love happens and with no words
Love happens and when it does
...Friday 30th October 2020 1:11 am
Lost in the Lyrics
I remember getting lost in the lyrics when I was a young girl. I would stop and start my record or cassette a hundred times while I wrote down every word so I could sing along to the song.
Lyrics was my escape when I had no place to go.
I learned lyrics, meter, and rhyme, from the best poetry teachers of my time...
Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, James Taylor, Bob Seger, Barb...
Thursday 29th October 2020 10:09 pm
Also by Vautaw:
Seahorses & Dreams | Matriarch | Whine or Shine | Falling | Flow | Petrichor | I Am Poetry | Gravity |Likewise, never been as stressed over Job application that required me to get a SMARTPHONE!
JOB REQUIRING DAMN SMART TECHNOLOGY
Cut down barrier
That bought attentive
Down to shoe ground
That connection put off
Faustian compromise ran down
Working hours digitally mapped
For payment justification
And only a half decade's
Pay As You Go equipment
Quick thinking plans discussed
Financial sacrifice
Emotional gesture
Desire to recompense
So C...
Thursday 29th October 2020 9:54 pm
Also by Aaron Murdoch:
Written two days ago. I've never been as at peace as writing it! | Tribute to 747 Fleet | Hispee Named Full Oligarchy Day! |Underground (Part 31 to 36)
NB. Six x New haikus from my Underground series of haikus
31
Harmonica led
He plays guitar with it once
Then a second time.
32
Breaking down again
You are not sure whether to
Wait or drive to work.
33
Shivering in the cold
You can see her there wishing
She had her gloves.
34
Drawing on your past
The past becomes the future
...Thursday 29th October 2020 9:30 pm
Also by Andy N:
Consequences VIII | Underground (Part 28 to 30) |Smashing teacups
A sentence and a cell,
the American dream of hell,
melted Liberty bell,
getting sick of the smell,
can you tell how long it's been?
do you trust this cage you're in?
do you trust this rage within?
initial impact then spin,
centrifugal friend,
soul bouncing inside cold, dead, skin
Thursday 29th October 2020 9:06 pm
Also by Patrick Kennon:
Implement in increments | False floor |Funny Man
He used to send onlookers wild
When doing his impressions;
Was known to smash a gross of plates
During his late night sessions.
He did not like the audience;
He hated every second.
He used to cry himself to sleep
As fame and money beckoned.
His routines dated far too fast;
His jokes fell over the edge.
Washed up and tight, he would be found
Underneat...
Thursday 29th October 2020 4:21 pm
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Cold Fiction | A prisoner's verse | Creating the illusion of flight | An English tale | Better people | Critic's choice | Daleks at Fenchurch Street on a rainy day | Bodies on the battlefield |A bump in the night...
the voice comes to me
as a phantom in a dream.
as i write
the voice channels
from him to me.
laughter vanishes
to staring at the sea,
to the house
that no longer carries
his childhood dreams.
vacanies searching for occupation
from passing through stations
to platforms holding onto memories,
all of it comes to me.
in my internal screenplay,
is he the playwright...
Thursday 29th October 2020 4:21 pm
Also by kimberly:
Sheltered in Place | Summer Love Swept Away | You Never Knew | The Season of Changes | Tears of a Poet | unease |True North
True North
We often sublimate ourselves
to conform and meet the
expectations of others
We aim to please but seldom ourselves
always others
Life can be spent in such a charade
which brings damage and no joy
We must enter into our inner selves
to face reality and come to
accept the truth of our identity
to do so with courage
The real me and the real you
No...
Thursday 29th October 2020 12:15 pm
Also by keith jeffries:
People Watching | The Curtain Falls | November is here | Luis | Blessings Abound | A Dusty Road | The Dinghy of Hope | An Account | The Eternal Void | A New Horizon | The Ecclesiastical Empire | Mendicants Slumber |Our Sun
When we walked in the sun, it shone for us;
Radiant, radiating warmth and love, I held you close.
Had I the chance, I would never have let go.
I don’t know what was brighter, that day:
your smile, or the sun’s rays colouring the world a sweet, rose hue.
Had I the chance, I would never have let go.
Radiant, radiating warmth and love, I held you ...
Thursday 29th October 2020 12:10 pm
Also by J. C. Fleming:
Ode to Music | Regret - a spacial haiku | Desolation | Reflections | Serenity | Sanctuary | Salvation | Elysium |kings of leon এর use somebody শুনতে শুনতে আর জী. দা.'র নির্জন স্বাক্ষর পড়তে পড়তে এই বন্দেগী
এমনিই ঘুরতে ফিরতে ছিলাম
কি একটা ঘটনা
কি একটা যে পেরেশানি হলো
আগের সকল চিনচিনে না পাওয়া— এগুলি কোন ব্যাপারই না
এক তুড়ির নিমেষে তারা তুচ্ছ একটা ঘটনা হয়ে গ্যালো
তুচ্ছ একটা যেনতেন ঘটনা—
আগের সকল বেদনা, বেদনার কারিতাস—
এখন একটা রুমালের মতন ভলিউমে এরা পকেটে পড়ে আছে
একটা আদুরে বিড়ালের মতন লাফ দিয়ে নতুন প্রেম এলো কোলে
শীতের সকালের মিষ্টি রোদ মাখা তার গায়ে
একটা আদ...
Thursday 29th October 2020 11:39 am
NEW YORKERS
Americans are reluctant to remember (or keen to forget) that whole towns were loyal to the British Crown during the War of Independence. The most notable of these was New York. (But don't mention it to your cabbie there)
They fled from the murrain that fell on East Ham
By Plymouth and Boston they brought us
And on to this place they called New Amsterdam
To sire we grandsons and...
Thursday 29th October 2020 10:58 am
Also by John Coopey:
COVID FATIGUE | PARALLAX 29 | DONALD THE ELEPHANT (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP) | WriteOutLoud Women Blues | "WE-WON-THE-WAR-IN-1954" | CLOTTED CREAM, SCONE AND BLACKCURRANT JAM | SOBIBOR | WE AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE | ASHES TO ASHES | "WE'RE GOING UNDERGROUND" | OH HAPPY DAY! | RUBENS |stones in my suitcase
this never ending baggage i collect
the memories i hoard
these stones in my suitcase
are heavy hands clinging to my ankles
begging me to remain in what was
distracting me from what is
and making it impossible
to get a glimpse of what will be.
this never ending baggage
packing to leave before i’ve settled
my eyes adjusting only in time
to register an outlin...
Thursday 29th October 2020 1:52 am
Also by bonystark:
spiral |Damnation Trail
Damnation Trail
Through forests dark and shadowed vale
He follows the damnation trail
Along the river’s twisted course
Through bracken thick and clutching gorse
The ancient path cut through the land
He walks with devil’s hand in hand
And where his steps flatten the crops
No more will grow the wheat and hops
For he has footsteps cast in death
He steals the fa...
Wednesday 28th October 2020 12:25 pm
Also by Ian Whiteley:
Corruption | CrowLore | Prophecy | Lazarus Curse | Resurrected | Apothecary | White Witch Of Winter | The Pumpkin Queen |The Predicament (reupload to fix formatting)
She's not my first love, but she is my first attachment. I can't help the fact that I constantly fall in love with the idea of people, but this time is different. I'm not in love with the idea, I'm in love with her. Genuinely, honestly, completely in love with her.
The whole situation is foreign to me. She says she loves me and I whole-heartedly believe her. I've never taken anyone serious whe...
Wednesday 28th October 2020 11:42 am
Also by Just another writer:
Forever 19 | The thing they left out (part 1) |"Crossroads"
"Crossroads"
Heart pacing here and there
Like a pregnant deer in labour
But fear throws its bands on her
So truth is born a stillborn
How do I begin to bare this hopes
Woven around my mind like tensed spider webs
For their is no freedom in being free
It only strengthen the chains that desires to bind us.
Freedom call is desirous
Letting caged word...
Wednesday 28th October 2020 10:58 am
Also by Emeka Collins:
"Armed Men" | Bloodshed in Nigeria | "Soro Soke" (Battle Cry) | "The Struggle" | "The Soul of Freedom" |Will
Will you raise your voice for the oppressed
Will you demand Governmental redress
Will you speak on things that truly matter
Will you allow this illusion to truly shatter
Will you plant the seeds in the ears of youth
So they can discover the yield of truth
Will you speak up Will you scream
Will you have faith Will you dream
Will you turn up your volume for the silenced
Wi...
Wednesday 28th October 2020 7:45 am
Poem for my big sister
A poem for my big sister about our grandparents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Once upon a time there were two sisters
One dark
One fair...
You
And me
And we shared
Sweets
Dreams
A bed
A room
A home
A family
An abuse
A neglect
A secret
A history
And yet here we are
So very different.
We shared so much
And yet so very little
You were
A coconut ...
Wednesday 28th October 2020 6:15 am
Also by Jain Gawne:
Annuver poem | Message to a racist |27/10/1932
“I shut my eyes and the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again”
Sylvia Plath
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Tuesday 27th October 2020 10:39 pm
Also by Raquel Lacayo:
Very little did I know | In honor of -World Mental Health Day- | The Sunset- it's the keeper for every secret- |Won’t Take Too Long
How do I climb the next step?
When all hope is gone, when all strength is gone,
With barely even a wisp of will left to go on,
How do I climb the next step?
Why should I even try?
It seems like there’s answers for every question except one, “Why,”
And that’s the only one I really need but I ask and, no reply,
So why should I even try?
And what if I don’t want to climb?
What if this step, ...
Tuesday 27th October 2020 8:41 pm
Also by Jason Bayliss:
Take My Hand | Owning Stones | Gire & Gimble | The Bitter Pill | Open | Captain Of Your Soul | Here And Now | The Witches Of The Pond | Hush The Winds | Rome Lays Charred and Smoking | Clay |
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