Lough Gur, Co Limerick
A poem’s appearance is of little consequence
But the moon was sad as only the moon can be.
Men in tears seek to flee the nightmare of their lives
We dream that with fingers we can pluck guitars
The calmness of flowers, the depths of moments,
The completeness of a live birth;
White sobs slide into our eyes
Remembering the smile of a mother, a lover,
On the fortunate day of our first kis...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 11:01 pm
Also by John E Marks:
The girl with the flaxen hair | Inside Out | Johnny Keats 1795-1821 | Solace | The northern mockingbird | A thousand years ago | GLINT | Duhkha* | Seppuku* | Stormy weather | To the crags, where eagles soar | Day by the sea | THE GHOST WHO SELLS MEMORIES | i.m. John Donne | The voice of death, the voice of love and the voice of art. | Tableau vivant | A time to leap | Solitary stroll | COVID 19 and the BLACKBIRD | Tempered in the fire | JACOB SAYS | Lost love | An Absence | GROWL | VERBOTEN | Aphorism | hand-in-hand | Roundabout | words fail me | Writ in water | Manchester morning | The Isle of ghosts | CALL IT DREAMIN' | The unpurged imagery of day | Fugue | COVID - 19 PRAGUE | Lifting the Veil |Yearly Remembrance
Who dies on a Friday night?
Years ago now
The silly question lingers
A mantra
Not looking for an answer
Who dies on a Friday night?
A mantra
To scare away sadder thoughts
And complicated feelings and
Unfinished sentences
Who dies on a Friday night?
You did
Tuesday 31st March 2020 9:53 pm
Also by Jeannot:
Virus | Fading | Right side up | Nothing out of me |Too Young, Too Old
Sat here again splaying the phrases
almost photographic, tapping minds
into my aged remarks letting frame
pictures grey those partitions wise,
but the room years pursuit for youth,
dragging that pen for a crayon,
drawing foetal scrawls on umbilical walls
confused written out in blind art,
too young to be theirs, too old to be mine.
Tuesday 31st March 2020 7:45 pm
Also by Hannnah:
I Want To Hold It Close | Being Human Version 2 | This Is Our War | This Is The Worst of Us | Dwell | Constant Belonging | The Papers |I Hate Lying
I Hate Lying
I hate lying;
it’s a weakness.
It shows a truth;
that others rule me.
If I have to lie;
it’s to avoid pain,
discomfort, and shame.
To make you feel good.
Slaves lie to the boss;
to save their lifeline.
But, to hell with him,
and his profit.
I live my life,
to never lie.
My freedom dies,
under your rules.
If I must lie,
you won’t be near.
I love to be ...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 6:03 pm
TEA FOR TWO - with acknowledgments to Irving Caesar
Right you lot...sing along in accordance with the latest government instruction !
..............................................................
Tea for two
And two for tea
Me for you
And you for me
Can't you see
How healthy we would be?
Nobody near us
To see us or hear us
No friends or relations
On viral visitations
Can't you see how happy we would be.
...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 4:53 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
MIN. OF HEALTH INST> COV19 | WUHANDEMIC | AS IS | "I GOT IT FROM AGNES" - LAUGH WITH LEHRER | SELF-ISOLATION - going viral - sing along ! | SO LONELY - a lyric | ADVICE | HOW GLAD I AM | BRISTOL FASHION |Dedication
To save the lives of others is the best thing in the world,
A day in the life as a doctor fighting the virus I have unfurled.
At 7 o'clock in the morning I pack my sleeping bag and clothes,
Whether I will be back tonight to see my family who knows?
I arrive at the hospital after a 10 mile drive,
I check my first patient hopefully he will survive.
I check his venilator and ...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 2:08 pm
Also by hugh:
A pupil of the past | A clap of thanks | Panic buying we all have a role to play, lets wipe it out and flush it away | Pot luck | A warmer planet [Written for the kids off school] | A pregnancy precipitated by a grudge | A superior view | A little bit of flirt | An age shock! | Guilty or not guilty? | A coronavirus cure might lie in a bat's brain | "White ,"said Fred. | Re John Coopey's latest disgusting blog | Problems with pupils | An eye catching experience | Wash your hands keep them clean. | My dad is getting old | The loneliness of Lucy |People At A Higher Risk
People who are at higher risk
are poets
especially old poets
who have serious emotional
relationships to their poems
Poets so wrapped up
in their work
they have no idea
what is going on
in the outside world
poets who live
secluded in their words
and seldom come out of their shells
except for praise
a good round of applause.
Tuesday 31st March 2020 1:09 pm
Also by d.knape:
Common Cause | Silhouettes Of Trees | Cheeto Stains | Trash Days | Remembering Yesterday | Tree Tunnels | Still Life | Behind Bars | No Hugging Allowed | Waiting In Line | Boys & Bikes | Sheltered In Place | COMMUNICABLE POEM | SOME | When Things Were Nicer | Always Hope | MADE IN CHINA | God Had No Wife (Warning: Could be offensive to half the population>) | God Had No Wife | Face Masks | CORONA | Stationary Bike | Acting My Age-A Poem by O.L. Buzzerd | LEAVES | NewAgePoetry | Voices In Another Room | An Idle Life | How To Apologize To Your Wife | The Reunion |Glass Fruit
Sitting in the steel bowl
like pearls of wisdom:
Glass fruit
Glass apple
Glass pear
Glass pomegranate
Yes it’s there!
Glass orange
Glass banana
Glass grapes
No wear, no tear
No teeth marks
I swear, in my
Glass house with
Glass table and
Glass chair
Glass ornaments
Everywhere
Blondie singing
'Heart of glass'
On a glass turntable
from d...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 10:35 am
Thankyou Sire
Thankyou Sire
This poem will self-destruct at midnight.
Do you wish to take up the challenge and write another?
I do
Go forth and multiply my poet
Thankyou sire
Don Matthews Last day in March 2020
Tuesday 31st March 2020 7:57 am
Also by Don Matthews:
Gun Stores Closed. NRA to Sue | It Jolly is Frustrating | UK Corona Can't Come Down | Have a Nice Day | Stockpiling | The Adventures of Mary (she hopes it helps to brighten you up) | Cock A Doodle Do | Why Cannot It Be Two-Way ? | Interesting | My 'Light-Bulb' Ideas on Coronavirus | Flutter Flutter | Urge | Also Spake Samuel | We're Animal Lovers Through and Through | Do I?... Or Do I Not? | Lockdown | Latro Spider Robot | Problematic | Billy's Problem (LMS) | Intensify Your Efforts Governments | Bonkering Aound on the WOL Site | Coronavirus and the LMS Theme Park | Bookmark Page 64 | Unmasked...At Last | White Blank | It's the Australian Way | The Enigmatic Poet | Concrete |Die a mortal or Immortal?
A day will come when we will get older,
Our scars will be printed as wrinkles,
Vultures will sing us a lullaby,
The fallen leaves will abscond from its roots,
The wind will whistle our demise,
The day will cry,
The night will fold its mat,
And rivers will stop running helter-skelter.
There will be a moment of silence,
Our sweat will be sweet as honey
For no sweetness can stand its...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 7:06 am
Also by David:
Is failure an impediment? | Solitude |Ludford Churchyard
The Ludford in question is the one on the Lincolnshire Wolds, not the one close by Ludlow in Shropshire.
Ludford Churchyard
Bellowing past the close mown grass,
big wagons thunder at ancient stone
to drown a chorale's seeping. Prone,
the organ's praiseful chords sublime
are couched within its sanctuary; crass
conceiver of everlasting life: His, not mine.
The ...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 7:05 am
Miss You
as my loneliness grows, so too does it’s presence in my mind
and thus in my writing as well
I think about you more when I have nobody else to think about
it’s like a disease
beginning slowly in the places we spent our time together
spreading to the riverside and the little town that surrounds it
above every head is a dark cloud
they’re not aware of it, but their world i...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 7:02 am
Also by Robbie Christian:
Funnel Cake | Metanoia | High Noon | Solidarity | 95 | Kingdom | Monologue | Blackjack | Drive | Life Form | Lost | Growth | Phone Call | Pandemic | Sonder | Bay | Tarantino | Yours Truly | Ego Death | Beacon |An Active Mind
It's good when your mind is Active . It gets you through life . Letting you create and survive . Survive most problems . And helps you see through . Feelings or worry's you have . Just helps you get through .The lonely days .The long days . The Remembering . The lonely and also the happy days . Memories for you to Remember .
Tuesday 31st March 2020 4:06 am
Also by Wendy A Higson:
My Friends | The Faithful Blackbird | Embarrassment | My Inspiration | We Will Survive | Seventy Five And Reminiscing | All Women | We Will Survive |I am from..
I Am From
I am from eye wear
From variations of frames, colors,
& fancy cases
I am from the city of angels
busy, loud, sometimes
chaotic!
I am from aloe vera
spiky, slimy, beneficial.
I'm from festive family gatherings
& food aplenty.
Demonstrations of generosity
in their offering & sharing
brings much satisfaction!
From Antonia and George
I'm from the skillful hands of my fa...
Tuesday 31st March 2020 4:00 am
Also by AbSo2021:
A poem to my bff |AN OLD NURSERY RHYME
"Ring a ring of roses
a pocket full of posies,
atishoo, atishoo,
we all fall down. "
What goes around, comes around.
Monday 30th March 2020 5:56 pm
Also by ray pool:
OUTCASTS | ISOLATING THE SELF | WHAT IT'S LIKE OVER 70 | WHEN LOVE COMES KNOCKING | A MUG'S GAME |The Thirties
The Thirties
In nineteen thirty, Bradman piled on runs at Lord’s;
We sprinted from the bus to beat the hordes.
Our fancy was the first place in the queue.
Did we know then those sharpening their swords?
We should have checked, to see how much was true.
In nineteen thirty-two, the worldwide slump took hold;
There was no fuel to save some from the cold.
We sheltered...
Monday 30th March 2020 3:53 pm
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Last night, through the window |Beating myself up
Is there something wrong with you?
Here we are again, back at square fucking one.
All because poor little cameron can’t seem to control his feelings.
Pathetic.
Do you have a few loose screws?
You literally choose to love people who just don’t care.
And when you cry at night, does it feel good?
Relapse, do you think you should?
Because as far as I can tell,
You’re going t...
Monday 30th March 2020 3:50 pm
Also by Cameron Bounds:
what loving you was like | If it ain't you |Astronomer's New Year
This old Earth has taken another spin around the Sun. (1)
The Solar System continues its endless circle in the Milky Way. (2)
Andromeda has come closer (3)
as the Milky Way hurtles toward the Great Attractor (4)
Welcome to another year, another turn around Old Sol,
as we wobble through familiar yet unknown deep space
and spend more time with the music of the spheres
that resounds silent...
Monday 30th March 2020 3:47 pm
Also by David F. Freeman:
My Old Sweetheart | Green Frog with Gray Hair | Fine Wine | Battle of the Bulge | Corona Virus AKA Covid 19 | How Can I Tell You | Canyon Raven |Bringing up Luke
My mother always said "confidence is key"
Dad said "don't grow up like me"
My grandfather maintained that " the best things in life are free,
My grandmother would always incline to disagree.
So what advice will I give when it's needed,
will my views at that time seem somewhat concided,
they wont see the struggle that Ive had, or the or the times I proceeded.
Now, would you b...
Monday 30th March 2020 11:58 am
Also by Luke:
The life and times of us. |Fever of silence
They all turn into madness.
Fear, the poison, injected too often.
A vaccination to prevent you from optimism,
from being an individual,
from the hope you kept deep inside.
You are infected with gloomy thoughts and panic feelings,
a fever of silence.
Only your own mind can set you free,
let you heal and open your eyes for beauty, kindness
and the hidden truth.
cop...
Monday 30th March 2020 10:18 am
Also by Magical Whispers:
Fairy dust | The flower in my hand | The end of the world | Someday | Freedom | Escape. | Escape. | Freedom of movement | The real danger | Ghost spring | Music in me. | Release and cords | Fear is the real virus. | Rain. | (untitled) | Ruler of fluids |Pandemic Equality
A ruthless killer
Far-reaching as the sun
Rides upon the wind
Partial to none.
There's no distinction
Between great and small
Minion and lord
Together they fall.
A time for reflection
-though terror is rife
Men are equal in death
Why not in life?
Monday 30th March 2020 10:02 am
Robert Johnson
start more stories
than I can finish
love more women
than I can sleep with
intentions misplaced
plans mislaid
savings decimated
faiths betrayed
I burn decades
like paper
cutting out lives
for later
I don’t claim to understand
what I’ve done it doesn’t matter
I guess I never thought
I could hold onto something so elus...
Monday 30th March 2020 3:17 am
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
The science | All having had the same idea | Friends | Bleh! | Before the world came in | bully | Quiet Contemplation | The family you don't have | things called you | Posing | Our dog years | You're so expensive | I lose everything | Your Gong | The 26 | isolated tracks | Haptics | Lunch with Tomorrow |Thinking!!
Every thing goes wrong when
Every thing is going to get better
Was it my destiny or I screw things up
Is there a good future lying ahead
Will I be able to ever make it to my dreams
Will I ever be able to survive the ugly situations
Struggling alone isn't an easy task to seek
With God's power everything becomes easy
Unless patience and faith is imbibed within blood
Nothin...
Monday 30th March 2020 2:48 am
Passion
Listen I'll never be a hero
A hero could never do the awful things I've done
See I've lose everything I loved
I'll never see the days when I'll be happy
So I'll run from the darkness that's in the light
Just look at how far I've when
I tried to kill myself
I only failed because
The bullet jammed the gun
So don't tell me I should move on
I put my passion in waiting for her
I hav...
Monday 30th March 2020 2:26 am
Also by Mikey V Kinsey:
T,O,A,I,D | Space Cowboy (Twilight Melody) | Unkind | Theories of a Madman (Experiment 432) | Space Cowboy (the goddess coat | Space Cowboy (A Ghost Monument) | Firefly Mounment | Window | Biohazard Relationship | No Halo | Drug | Broken Heart 1 | Never (song lyrics) | How Does It Feel? | Nothing Good Here | Death Bed (Not a Love Poem!) | Stupid Boy | Sad Trap Bass XD | Petty I am | He Needs Her More Then She Knows | (untitled) | A Disturbing Fear of Bitter Blasphemy Broken Upon All The Wounds 2 | A Goddamn Vacancy 2 | A Goddamn Vacancy | Coffee Dreamer |Antigen
Antigen
He knocked at the door
Shouting ‘let me in!’
Tempting us to go out
With his whisky and gin
He hid around corners
Under tables and chairs
Trying his best
To catch us unawares
He was sitting on benches
Where others had sat
He was on garden fences
Where we’d stop for a chat
He was hanging around
Tesco trolly parks
He was all over door han...
Sunday 29th March 2020 11:31 pm
Also by Ian Whiteley:
All We Left Were Birds | Grave | Is There, In Truth, No Beauty | Event Horizon | End Of Days | Chinese Whispers |The observer
She usually sat alone, Sitting away from the crowds.
She watched how the dribbles dropped down from the mouth of the one who spoke too often.
The weakest one.
Sunday 29th March 2020 11:05 pm
Also by Emer Ní Chorra:
The whole of me | Sapiosexual | Yellow green iris | Dedicated to my Mother (Happy Mother's Day) | Sunshine-19 |~ADMIRER ?
“I want to taste your thoughts while tasting your lips , I want to taste your skin on my tongue, put my hands in your hair .
If only I could get close to you. Smell your body close up, trace my fingers down your spine, outlined the curves that trips my mind.
You make me dream with my eyes open, like a lion hunting his prey. I watch from the shadows, afraid of the light you give off, I want y...
Sunday 29th March 2020 10:10 pm
Just the two of us captured
Flicking through images
Time had confined to history
Memory rewinds and fast forwards
The past to the present
Captured on Morecambe Bay's
Stone jetty
Our shadows
By sun's sorcery cast
The canvass appears incomplete
A flock of people _
Painted out
A squabble of seagulls _
Erased
A stew of oystercatcher _
Brushed out
Just the two of us _
Capt...
Sunday 29th March 2020 10:07 pm
Also by Abdul Ahmad:
Shall we be friends? | Judge not too harsly | I would be nothing without you | Really _ the dead woman was her mother! | The Rainbow | The drop of water that made the Silver Birch blush | The final destination | Silence isn't always golden! | Was it really she? |The unchosen path
Do not seek the armpit of distress
Bury your head
Lock the door
Draw the curtains
And pull up the drawbridge of despair
Do not fear the uncertain breeze
Of cough and of sneeze
Be the people you are destined to be
Meet the challenge
Light the light
Of love and of hope
Don’t run like frightened hungry rats
You are not one of a pack
You are part of a fami...
Sunday 29th March 2020 5:07 pm
Also by Martin Elder:
Alone together | Mr and Mrs Death |Earthereal Enlightenment
What if the Sabbath weren’t a day
but a state of being
that permeates our earthereal Eden?
What would you keep holy?
Sunday 29th March 2020 3:00 pm
Also by Ushiku Crisafulli:
Herd (Co)Mmunity |Boy Without A Story
He doesn't ride anywhere
not a flying horse
or one fashioned in gold
he has walked these hard streets
apparently every day
have you seen him?
Too shy to sing out
no will to write
no telling his past or future
he stood where doors were closing
and still when lights went out
who knew?
Not recognised in the mirror
nor noticed in the dream
he has taken clouds for his friends
a...
Sunday 29th March 2020 1:55 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
The Matter Of The Heart | today's poem- | Another Chance | Alternative Vow |atlantic/s (03/28/2020)
imagine doing the thankless job of rivets
hold together, you beleaguered son of a bitch
hold together, this heaving, creaking hull
this, sinking, stinking patchwork glory
made at the end of so many stubbed cigars
held wet, by the mouth
while two busy hands
idled towards retirement , pounding away
christening by the light of midnight oils, annointed
(10 in 1!)
in the warbled so...
Sunday 29th March 2020 1:32 pm
Also by Zach Dafoe:
placeholder for something darker II (03/25/2020) | you can probably guess the title, there's a theme going here (03/09/2020) | a placeholder for something darker (03/03/2020) | Recycle (03/02/2020) |WE NEED A SENSE OF THE UNITY - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
We need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity with the cosmos so that we can connect with Reality. But we also need a sense of individuality, for the sake of our own dignity and independence and of the loving care for others. We need it to appreciate each natural form, each animal and plant, each human ...
Sunday 29th March 2020 7:44 am
Invisible Enemy
oh where, oh where can the virus be.
It's in your shopping carts
It's your use of money
it's in the hands of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, world leaders and the heads of the universal banking anthority
out to colaberate
out to orchrastrate
out to compose the new world order
I hope you're plugged in
'cause if your not
you won't get to be a part
Oh where, where can the viru...
Sunday 29th March 2020 7:41 am
Tennessee River
~He pretends the river is an ocean
When one can't have the potent dose
One makes do with the diluted potion
Caught between two jagged green coasts
The murky current slowly propels his motion
If he has a good, sturdy boat
He might just last to see his ocean~
Sunday 29th March 2020 6:09 am
Also by M3RK:
Mosaic | LLJ | When will I see you again? | Love Letter to a Stranger | Plastic Razor Blades | Invisible | Summer |Drove to See You
I drove down to see you
stood in your doorway unannounced
you were there with another
I again felt like an outsider
I didn’t belong
after I wrote you at length
many love songs
My poems wrapped in a box
delivered but only to be forgotten
my heart still in shock
you were going away
never to be seen again
until the month of May
when I would fly thousands of miles
just to see that smil...
Sunday 29th March 2020 5:43 am
Also by kimberly:
Three Little Dots | Our Story is Done | The Truth Within | A Pause... | Deep in Thought | Words At Night | The Haunting | Learning To Forget | What Really Matters | A Sea of Red | Start with ‘Hello’ | Knowing Limits | Heartbeats | Little Baby | The Disposables | Another Love Poem |F*****G STAY AT HOME
(Warning: the audio is unexpurgated)
It’s been a source of some regret that I had missed my chance
To be a superhero with my kecks inside my pants.
I wanted to be Batman and to fight the city’s crime
I’d get hold of The Piddler and I’d make him serve his time.
Or whizz around like Superman, on guard by day and night
Looking out for phone boxes in case my pants got tight.
...
Sunday 29th March 2020 12:58 am
Also by John Coopey:
WE DON'T NEED NO VENTILATORS (Brexit Before Breathing) | LP's, SINGLES and 78's | MY SWEET HOARD | I'LL BEAT THIS VIRUS WITH TOILET ROLLS | I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE | UNSKILLED LABOUR | CORDUROYS | A BLOWJOB A DAY | TORY BULLY | CRADLE - A TRIOLET |For the Staff. Let Tests Give Us Hope
HEAL PARK
The skeletal frame of a Rollercoaster
Onto which fitted wheels, seating
Garish moulded plastic coloured
Inert silence no power from running current
Except for birds in the sky theme park
Abandoned except for giant tent building
The envelope opened up hand around throat
Sent to every house in town
And from source iron doors
Air conditioning to breathe ou...
Saturday 28th March 2020 11:45 pm
Also by Aaron Murdoch:
Hi, I used to write in pen and type up afterwards. That was until I wrote this piece annnnnDDDD THE POWER!!! THE INFINIT- |Out of the Darkness / Into the Light
- Days ago, when the darkness found a way to creep back
I must admit that guilt pours through my veins on days like today
When inside of my head, all seems hopeless
I may no longer be clinical
But depression doesn't care that I was healing
It doesn't seem to matter that for a few weeks I was doing better
Despite the distractions I threw in its path
Through the dark ...
Saturday 28th March 2020 10:04 pm
Also by Cait Abbott:
reincarnation in the debris | Final Closure | Plans for the Future | Hindsight | Dreamland | Coping Mechanism | it's all okay, now | Linger | Decadence | Of Something Good | 21:59 | Small Beginnings |EXPRESSIONS
What if we manage ourselves,
Then,
We play extra time
And we both ref,
What if we decide the lineman?
What if I omit lonely from thine chambers,
What if sadness is rid off,
What if no one is able to fill this space,
What if my rainbow isn't complete Without your daffodils?
What if I meet your quest,
What If I'm the map to your shape,
What if your happiness is within,
...
Saturday 28th March 2020 5:34 pm
Facades feat. ZTK Space
Mister Phillip Glass Sir, please forgive me but, I thought this piece would make great an accompaniment to your very thought provoking works. If it upsets you, I will remove the piece but, I am a fan of your works and hope you understand how it most definitely feels valid and sits well.
Facades is an Orchestral Piece written By Phillip Glass.
Thank you.
Saturday 28th March 2020 4:23 pm
Also by ZTK Space:
Guess Where Daddy's From | Going Home By Candle | A Prayer To K-Pax | The Silent Commodoties Born Poor | The Fashions of a Yeehaw Man | Tommy by Rudyard Kipling | Tin City | Transcode - The Return To Middle Earth | The Loan of Bread Now Stale | The Dance and Trickery of Evil |A Truck Full of Turnips
Grandma used to tell this story, how she drove a truck into a wall,
in the war, when she was in the Land Army, a truck full of turnips,
knocked down a wall, and Grandad said he saw his mate die on a
boat, right next to him, shot stone dead, right there, right next to him,
just like that, right there. And I tell you about how, in the 80s,
the shops couldn’t open on a Sunda...
Saturday 28th March 2020 4:23 pm
Also by Joe Williams:
Urban Pedestrian |বেদনাদায়ক নৈরাশ্যে উদীয়মান আলেম সমাজ
বেদনাদায়ক নৈরাশ্যে উদীয়মান আলেমেরা
আব্দুল হান্নান
সামাজিক যোগাযোগ মাধ্যম বর্তমান সময়ে পৃথিবীকে আমাদের হাতের মুঠোয় এনে দিয়েছে।এই সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া আমাদের পুরোনো সেই দিন গুলোর কথা ভুলিয়ে দিয়েছে, যে কোন এককালে আমরা চাইলেই আমাদের প্রিয় জনের খোজ এত সহজে নিতে পারতাম না।তবে দেরীতে নিতে পারলেও তার সুদুর প্রসারী একটা প্রাণ আকর্ষন ছিলো।বাড়ী হতে দূরে থাকলে আপনজনদোর একটা চিঠির অপেক্ষায় থাকতাম।চিঠি ...
Saturday 28th March 2020 2:00 pm
Also by Md Abdul Hannan:
ওমা মাতৃভূমি | গুহাবাসী যুবসম্প্রদায় | THE THINGS ABOUT DEFOLIATE | ধর্ষণ বনাম আমাদের সমাজ |One's own company
In the etherical fabric
Something resides
Fears knit together
Truth mixed with lies
Silence is loud
Feeling out words
Reality & fantasy
Suddenly blurred
Inner world becomes
More real than outside
We ran from ourselves
Now we can't hide
Saturday 28th March 2020 1:31 pm
Also by Ruth O'Reilly:
Spring! | Earthling Evacuation | Friday 13th just got serious | This Tree | Life In 2020 | Bird table |Hare’s death
I remember death
The hounding of life;
the moving into stillness
The pounding presence
of reality
Then the;
quite in the stillness
The ringing of ears
The fill of anxiety;
the hack of the flesh
The dripping of time
congealed in my blood
Saturday 28th March 2020 8:30 am
A Heroes Hero
Turn not a blind eye
to the homeless heroes
among us.
Give a voice to the
desperate and downtrodden.
Acknowledge their somber silence,
lend a helping hand.
Stand up, be counted.
It’s about more than solos
in the end.
Saturday 28th March 2020 4:57 am
Also by Vautaw:
Smiles | Leisurely Life Lessons | Shall We Dance | Tuning In | Lucid Dreams | When I’m Gone | Artists & Critics | Unmasking the Ego | A Poet's Prayer | Brick Roads | Shadows |Surrender
The future is uncertain,
The past remains unchanged,
Only the now is truly forgiving,
Worry is a burden,
Regret drives you insane,
Surrender both to the moment and start living.
Friday 27th March 2020 6:35 pm
Also by Jason Bayliss:
Sing | Ring-A-Ring O'Covid | Covid Kiss | Let My Rock Be Hope | Dissociated Grocery Shop |2020 Trev's Texas Tour (Not)
So called because of the Coronavirus my trip was called off as country after country shut down as it swept across the world. Everything started out as usual, plans were made, put into action, events recorded in rhyme. Reaching 1500 travel poems would be easy, by the time I'd finished it could have been well over 1600 but it was not to be. I decided to carry on writing and make 1500, it did turn o...
Friday 27th March 2020 5:21 pm
NHS Workers
All remember and do not forget
Those to whom we owe our greatest debt.
They help us when we are in distress;
It is all of those who work for the NHS.
Around the clock they are always there,
And all this time they surely care.
Though it is something that we just expect
From those who deserve more respect.
Each worker endlessly strives
To cure and save all of our lives.
So sure...
Friday 27th March 2020 3:57 pm
Also by Stuart Vanner:
Moving Forwards | Honour | On the Up | Spring |IN THE TIME OF QUIET
IN THE TIME OF QUIET
No one’s told the daffodils about the pause to Spring
And no one’s told the birds to roost and asked them not to sing
No one’s asked the lazy bee to cease his bumbling round
And no one’s stopped the bright green shoots emerging through the ground
No one’s told the sap to rest, deep within the wood
And stop the sleepy trees from waking, wreathed about in bud
No one’s tol...
Friday 27th March 2020 3:52 pm
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