Poetry Blogs (2021)
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Unorthodox
Heathers above roof
metals are covering soil,
unorthodox way of living
bereft of proof.
Mendacity from preachers
masqueraders evincing sagacity
intrigues the addled nature
to tame the creatures.
Monday 8th March 2021 8:53 am
Also by Nazia Khan:
Cordial cup of tea ☕ | Outset of the earth |Mother's Day Display
Mother’s Day is fast approaching
The Flower Bank are celebrating in town
Fabric grown by Mother Nature
A fitted bark bodice on a leafy gown
Layers of entwined stem ribbons
Weave a material made from evergreen
Beautifully arranged and displayed
Creating this magical Mother’s Day scene
Monday 8th March 2021 8:51 am
Also by julie callaghan:
Another Lockdown Sunday | Some Days I Have A Tale To Tell | Daily Lesson In Maths | Good Morning | Everything Will Be Alright (Version 2) | Everything Will Be Alright | St David's Day |Long Count
I
Oh, what troubles you, old man,
so alone and poorly aging?
Your skin withers on your face,
without your friends engaging.
II
Oh, what ails you, curmudgeon,
So lost and cursed in love?
Your light-staff now is hanging limp
and cannot rise above.
III
I see life’s pain-map in your frown,
and teeth becoming few,
rings are round about your eyes,
dark, without a clue.
IV
I...
Monday 8th March 2021 8:14 am
Also by Brian Hodgkinson Jr.:
Sifting Sands | Before My eYes | Cherished Moon | My Arse Poetical | This Instant | Regrets | It Says 4:21 | Tuning In | Music Street Mob | March 4th | Baggy Time | River Ducks | After Gaze | Sand Castles | Rendezvous | Heaven Can Wait | Gripped | Hodgkinson's Uncommon Sense Maxims | He Ain't Heavy |4th Floor
It’s hot today
People play artificial games
Sunbathing in the plastic Sun
The screen is melting
as they click along
Everyone’s thirsty
They can't quench their thirst
despite drinking
All they want is more and more
What are they needing
And somewhere down the road
It’s raining on the 4tn floor
The water flows down the windows
The r...
Monday 8th March 2021 8:08 am
Also by A Girl:
What if... | A Chair | Statue | The Ring | Blood |Meghan and Harry
Meghan and Harry
So, Meghan and Harry appeared on the unelected
queen of America´s, Oprah, last night.
Banality swam in a sea of phoney weeping.
Harry, the prince, when not feeding, the chickens
had to listen to them and nodding his head.
He cut a pathetic figure.
The gutter press goes after all young royals coloured
or not, Harry´s mother was white as the driven snow
...Monday 8th March 2021 8:06 am
Also by jan oskar hansen:
new ideology | The Mall | a bridge over Entre-os-Rios | the royal sport | the story of an entry | a writers life | the slaughter | the pursuit |Shopping with Grandma
Marie was seven and she was 3 feet tall.
She skipped as she walked with her grandma through the mall.
Grandma’s hand was lined with wrinkles, dark blue veins, and soft as silk.
Time had not yet appeared on Marie’s, for hers was small and pale as milk.
They walked past the glass walls, eyeing every sparkly dress and pair of shoes.
They were looking for the perfect set. There was ...
Monday 8th March 2021 5:39 am
Also by Rebel Elaine:
Birthday Fishing Trip | High | Ghosting | The Circle of Love | Mermaid Tale | Damaging Existence |Is it a problem?
I guess I’ll give in,
A flow of stream,
The non-sensical air.
Because there lays,
Among the brush,
Blood in the air.
Monday 8th March 2021 2:36 am
Also by Alita Moore:
Me |As Yet Untold
The story of my life is not mine to tell,
For it does not matter
What I thought that I might be
And how can I remember
With total accuracy
Anything from the past?
The story of my life is not mine to tell,
For I am so wound around
Other people's lives
And how have I the right
To expose them to the light
And to the world?
The story of my life is not mine to tell,
For it hasn't ended
...
Monday 8th March 2021 1:55 am
Also by Aviva Rifka Bhandari:
Alphabet Soup | Seasonal | Poetry Junction | Invest In Posterity | A War To Be Won | Other Things To Smile About | I'm A Believer |MERSEYPRIDE
Born in a city in the north west of the map
A city with the friendliest football devide
A place of magic on Merseyside
I was raised here
Praised here
Put down here
Gave birth here
Forever loved here
Forever inlove with here
Home of the Beatles
Cathedrals with steaples
The finest of peoples
Culture and art were ever you look
A helping hand if ever you're stuck
Our city of the best
We...
Sunday 7th March 2021 8:19 pm
Also by Sarah Louise mcnee:
ASK THE BEATLES | MAGIC MOON TREE | ANTHEM TO MY LIFE | SIMPLE ME |Is it me, or am I now living in a Rumplestiltskin world?
For me,
nothing bites!! anymore
I mean, really bites!!!
everything about anything
that used to move, me
remains as though preferring to hesitate indefinitely,
the biting cause for an omg!! or a jaw drop
has been seemingly dulled
but for how long?
My desire for excitement
remains unbitten, unperforated
there is no letting of pleasure blood!!
...
Sunday 7th March 2021 8:13 pm
Also by Rose Casserley:
Crumbled pomposity | WW1. My brave ( fibbing about his age to enlist ) Great Grandfather. | Literary hoard |Back to School
As we start to relax the lockdown rules,
All children now return to school.
While most parents welcome this change,
To some children this may seem strange.
While older children must wear a mask,
To social distance must be quite a task.
And as for safety much has been invested,
Twice a week they'll be Covid tested.
Some may like school if they are smart,
And some are glad sports and cl...
Sunday 7th March 2021 7:19 pm
The First Stirrings of Spring
When the darkest days of winter
Draw grudgingly to a close
When snows and frosts disperse
Warmth spreads slowly through the earth
Woodlands and hedgerows awaken
From the deepest of slumbers
Beneath a heavy cloak of
Decaying late autumn leaves
New life begins to stir
Seeds move in the now fertile soil
Dark brown wrinkled foliage
Turns away from the sun
...
Sunday 7th March 2021 6:28 pm
Absolute Zero
The girl who iced her emotions.
Her physical and mental being out of motion.
The coldness within her grew,
induced by solitude and failure.
Causing sadness to flow through her veins, thus only negativity remained.
As her tears fell like snow, weathered by disappointment.
Because everything she once cared for let her down, and people wonder why she carries...
Sunday 7th March 2021 6:03 pm
Also by Your Royal Poetess:
Hold ya head | The Algea | Imago Dei | Volume | Untitled | PTSD |Cash in hand
If you pay me,
I’ll say daylight is black,
I’ll say the sun is blue,
The moon’s held up with glue.
If you pay me.
If you pay me,
I’ll say the square is round,
Your friend fell through a crack,
The world is safe and sound.
If you pay me.
If you pay me,
I’ll give you the nod,
Get you in the squad,
Make room up on the stack.
If you pay me.
I...
Sunday 7th March 2021 5:02 pm
Realization later
Realization later
Sunday,7th March 2021
It becomes too late
to realize the importance of life's gate,
where will it lead?
if we fail to read the mission
the first thing we concentrate
on life's security and state
in no unclear terms
and turn on financial stability
our whole life is spent on amasses the wealth
this causes deterioration of health
wh...
Sunday 7th March 2021 4:26 pm
Also by Jadia4708au:
Peace-Our priority | Noor(light) | Escape route-Spirituality | Safe distance | Love self | Play neutrally | In an idle state | The good explanation | Love in the eyes | Women power | Philosophy-Its adoption | Move forward | Age declines | Our role | Life is wild horse | He is awake | Displeasure from | Power makes |Squeaky Shoes
My wife has squeaky shoes
they make an awful sound
as she walks around the house
squeak squawk squeak squawk
the most annoying sound
they are athletic shoes
and she wears them mostly for walking
as a result, she walks alone
even the dog refuses to go along
that squeak squawk irritates his ears
but the one good thing about those shoes is
those squeaks tell me
...Sunday 7th March 2021 1:01 pm
Also by d.knape:
LIMBS | LOVING PARENTS | SEEING | SNOW GLOBE | FLY | Of All People |A ghostly experience
"My wife was incredible in every single way,
A different talent emerged every married day.
One night on coming home I'd lost our key,
"Don't worry,"she said,"leave it all up to me ."
She walked through the unopened door and picked up the post,
It was then I discovered I'd married a ghost !"
Sunday 7th March 2021 8:36 am
Also by hugh:
"Doctor please will you give me a kiss ?" | Robbery, due to a lack of police presence | The police are searching for a killer | "£10,000 pound reward if you find my dog." | Fully recovered | A bill shock at the dentist |Sunday, March 7, 2021 12:33 AM
In this oversized jacket
I hold a feast of burdens.
Yet, the pockets are so large
they barely bulge.
Maybe they sink a little
under the weight of it all,
but the fabric, old and worn,
bears the burden placed upon it.
The tight, woven synthetic polyester
has held together for so long
with unrelenting strength.
Staying intact just enough
to remain a comforta...
Sunday 7th March 2021 5:40 am
The end of me
Wonder shining in my eyes
like I'm three years old again,
I will rise, like today,
Talk to children, sometimes.
The sky - the real sky -
Shall shelter and storm the earth, still;
Black soil shall breed many satans, still.
Azure clouds, from which no rain falls,
Shall mass on far-horizons, threateningly.
Large drops of rain shall fall, freezing into ice;
Angels shall lie about thei...
Saturday 6th March 2021 9:52 pm
Also by John E Marks:
Loss has no end |Beauty is a fickle beast.
Where has it gone to, I'd like to know?
No precipitous flight, but a gradual perishing.
But then I see the young girls flirting in the park
who must have magically stolen it away.
Chestnut hair, lapislazuli eyes, petal skin,
dècolletè with pomegranate breasts,
hourglass waist, now just a waste,
once able to pick and choose.
So you luscious lasses, heed me I beg.
...Saturday 6th March 2021 9:20 pm
Galaxy 3
Your face changed so rapidly
its like the seeds who were planted a long time ago
breaking through the strategy of being reincarnated
so many times before
Gone were the blinds that blocked the moment of truth
you once lived for
Ancient beings once roamed through our claimed spaces
Laughing at us for being so childish in our search
Kids who dont know what the hell it is all a...
Saturday 6th March 2021 8:24 pm
Also by Rudyard Kooistra:
The human race. | Rage hard. | Blind for a night. | Book of the death/chapter ending. | No title for a son. | No title is good enough. |someone's forgotten cottage
someone’s forgotten cottage
walking in the woods
I discovered
an old deserted cottage
weeds and thicket grew all around
the windows were gone
old curtains blew in the
breeze seeming to enjoy their
almost freedom
old chairs sitting in front
of the cottage wasting away
in the rain sun and snow
if I look hard enough might
I get a glimpse...
Saturday 6th March 2021 5:57 pm
Also by Clyde McCulley:
woods filled with snow |Lament For A Constant Companion
Everyone knows the difference
between prose and poetry
is the difference between
words and song.
I say it's the difference between
birds and the Moon.
Birds can but follows their own agenda
meaning neither good nor ill.
The mysterious Moon will lift the tides
we catalogue as though we know-
until overwhelmed by the deep.
I fear those who support megatonnes of rock,
their Moon of f...
Saturday 6th March 2021 5:30 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
Apple Tree | The Land |WEEKLY WALKABOUTSVERSE, E.G., 23 OF 230: ABOVE EVEREST
Poem 23 of 230: ABOVE EVEREST
When flying from Nepal to Thailand,
I was given a “good-side” seat;
And, as I looked out the plane window,
The view I saw was really neat.
For breaking through a thick sheet of cloud
Were the high Himalayan peaks;
And, rising the highest of them all,
Mount Everest - heaven bespeaks!
(C) David Franks 2003 - https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com
Saturday 6th March 2021 5:08 pm
Arrogance
Being arrogant is the worst behaviour
It is not an ideal quality for saviour
Thinking you are always right and the best
Maybe it is time to take a real test
Why behave unpleasantly towards others?
Trying to shove people under covers
It is a sign of losing contact with the reality
Because you seem to be living in your own fantasy
Having a foolish pride and feeling ...
Saturday 6th March 2021 4:15 pm
C'est la guerre?
They plucked the feathers
Of the white dove,
Smothered them in tar,
Took pliers to its nails,
Scissors to its tongue;
Then cried when creation
Eerily laughed back...
Saturday 6th March 2021 3:53 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Travel Brochure | Catastrophizing 101 |Set Your Sights then go for The Kill
Slimline tonic
bronze tan
workout body
lover's confrontation
brazen outburst
personal take
getting involved
outrageous bitching
controversial matching
high-flying
jet-setter
rival sorted
clear path
killer move
crazy flirting
boundaries broken
who's watching?
Saturday 6th March 2021 12:53 pm
Also by Nigel Astell:
Can't Put It Down | Whiter Than White |SWEETLY, SWEETLY DONE
I’ve never been the sort of bloke that needs to end up as the hero in one of my own stories. Rather, I quite enjoy being “done up like a kipper” as they say.
Take these two examples.
Some years ago I had the pretentious urge to buy a fob watch for myself. I saw one on Bawtry Market and after examining it thoughtfully and with an entirely unwarranted professional mien, told the stallholder ...
Saturday 6th March 2021 12:16 pm
Also by John Coopey:
THE BATTLE OF TOWTON | CORONAVIRUS CIRCUS |Supernova
As much as I love mystery
It's how you make a galaxy
But I think I'll hit the road
Cause something is about to implode!!!!!
Saturday 6th March 2021 11:52 am
Also by Kevin T.S. Tan:
Let's lay aside our weapons | Stars | The Suffering Is Over | Constellation | Sahasrara | Nothing |Prone
no ruin can come to me
my status is fully secure
parameters are normal
air-supply made secure
warm feelings suffusing
my body and its pain
voices echo far away
fever roasts my brain
images memories of old
before me life's flashing
re-living old times amid
a future thats crashing
all I have is in thoughts
vegetable activity level
limbs still ...
Saturday 6th March 2021 11:28 am
Also by simon lucan:
Switching Off | His New Partner | Amazed |When I think I know you can see me
So I am imagined -
as Angel González said -
being reflected
inside your brain cells.
A circuit of fibres
that sees me standing
‘within’ your thinking:
briefly flickering.
Momentarily there
inside you like some son
waiting to be born
and floating oblivious.
Warmed by your heart
perhaps lighting up
the deep sea fishing nets
which are the mind.
...Saturday 6th March 2021 6:47 am
Just a corner away
The proton energy pills aren’t working today
Little less pep in my step
But knowing you are only the next corner away
I glide through my day, sliding with happiness
Feeling old and cold
Never gets a grip
When I feel you near
A soft embrace
A whisper in my ear
Soothing calm of you
overwhelms all anxiety
you bring me back in the sweetest way
Stay wi...
Saturday 6th March 2021 2:14 am
Footprint (A New Haiku)
The sound of laughter
is carried in the soft breeze
a footprint in time.
Friday 5th March 2021 10:27 pm
My name is Silence
I used to range unchallenged on this hill
keeping mankind under my surveillance.
I watched as you discovered
the wonder of the wheel
and ways to traffic goods along the rivers.
You harnessed blameless power from water mills
but we became estranged.
My name is Silence.
Once I was your day-to-day companion:
the backing to your birdsong at the daybreak
and as t...
Friday 5th March 2021 9:56 pm
Limbo
Have you ever had that feeling that you’re living life in limbo,
that nothing much has happened since you finished work for Chrimbo?
The world has passed you by while everybody’s stuck in lockdown,
and waiting till these artificial barriers are knocked down.
Have you ever had that feeling that you’re living life in limbo,
while your aged mother’s watching, standing there with a...
Friday 5th March 2021 9:48 pm
NO CALM MEANT
When dealing with issues in your family
It's easy to get overrun
Seems a cinch to make a lot of people angry
Then it is to please everyone
Friday 5th March 2021 8:08 pm
Something's Creeping...
Something comes creeping
Through the dark night
I look from my window
But it's just out of sight!
Something comes knocking
Knocking at my door
I slowly turn the handle
But, it's there no more!
Something comes crawling
Crawling so slow
Shall I turn to look?
I no longer know!
Something is breathing
Under my bed!
I dare not look
'case it loo...
Friday 5th March 2021 7:54 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
Little Dickie's Poo-Pot |POETRY EXPRESS
I've written all the words I wish to impress,
thought every thought on the way.
But still I join the poetry express -
where it'll end up is anyone's guess
and tomorrow's a brand new day.
Friday 5th March 2021 4:27 pm
RECYCLING
There's something about recycling
That provides a rich reward;
Washing out those bottles and tins
And slicing up cardboard.
Peeling off the plastic bag
From its council-issue provision
And filling it with content
That demands domestic precision.
Sometimes one - or two tied together
Get carried down to the street
To wait like weekly offerings
To the detritus deity ...
Friday 5th March 2021 3:30 pm
Pesticide
The devil pray for the light again
He was assumed by rage when it did not beckon
His fears dried up like dust the world crumbled around him
We found him bleeding upon his grace
Still, he was petrified from his actions
The man inside realized he was flawed
What a fate worse than death
Anxiety misled me with a doubt
The devil inside is killing us
So pray to Angels all you like
You forg...
Friday 5th March 2021 11:50 am
Also by Damon Blackery:
Breathing | Going Back Home |PLANNED FOREST
EDITED BY:
THE MAMMOT OF A JUDICIAL POETS (JUDICIAL POETRY GROUP) NEW BUSSIA NIGER STATE
Dear death, look at him like hump
But mind you,
You can’t take the nook out from his hook,
Oh my book is in my bag resting in its pillow of reading
Taking studies like a forbidden fruit which I threw at the roof top.
But the root of the guff has formed a golden name called Ruth…
...Friday 5th March 2021 1:56 am
SPIRIT ,LEAD ME
Spirit lead the way ,
I'm ready to swim into the depths of the bay ,
And cast my play ,
Let me not be like Ray .
I have a price to pay .
I am ready .
In the darkest hours you showed me light ,
In the sorrow times you gave me strength .
Into me you came unaware,
Yet I'm ready .
No fears shall mess my destiny .
Nor shears to stop me .
Spirit ,take me deep int...
Thursday 4th March 2021 11:22 pm
Macedonian sky
I pass by someone else’s rainbows
I move my soul
in a small suitcase
and forget about all the stones
that came
from those who doubt
that I arrange the cubes correctly
in this life game.
I dream under an alien sky
and I hear unknown voices
while the stars
they speak to me in Macedonian.
Thursday 4th March 2021 8:46 pm
Also by Sanja Atanasovska:
Passion flake | All the Lights of the World |The Closest I'll Ever Get To A Love Poem
I couldn't help but notice when we met the other day
You're absolutely horrible and vile in every way,
I cannot think of anyone less likeable than you,
But no one else will have me, so I guess you'll have to do.
Thursday 4th March 2021 7:08 pm
Warmouth
In the valley of Indus, green flowers blooming, ever consuming
Hostilities brewing, no undoing the doing, bones entombing
Blood stewing in streets, red stained white sheets
Cannons from fleets, artillery fills beats backwards
The unheards, cut words, pills scored on billboards
Falling on our own swords, invoking false lords
Burning all the bridged boards, diving in after trellis
The lie is ...
Thursday 4th March 2021 5:11 pm
The Train Won't Wait
The Train Won't Wait
The train won't wait in the station,
Its four-faced clocks command
While I clatter past startled travellers
Threadbare luggage in hand.
I watch as a carriage begins to slide
And my race is almost run; oh
The Devil's work without a doubt,
A scalding in place of fun.
The scene dissolves in disorder,
The station crowd's undecided;
...Thursday 4th March 2021 2:00 pm
Triumph
I may not know,
Owning triumph by betrayal
But I know I emerge triumphant,
whenever I am myself and not someone else.
I know I emerge triumphant, when I don't assassinate my principles for the triumph of my greed.
And that I emerge triumphant, when I walk my way myself, with my wholesome faith in my creator, rather than expecting support from a mortal being.
It is largely true, that the ...
Thursday 4th March 2021 12:49 pm
Along the avenue
Along The Avenue GLA 2021-03-04
Can you see the picture in full view, to get from A to B from chapter two. Watch the signs ahead, don’t get led into the blue, or give up, keep on going when you do.
Regret and sorrow follow you, revisiting old memories, to suffer once a...
Thursday 4th March 2021 12:42 pm
Also by Grant Aspinall:
One wish too far |The Life of a Cenobite
The Life of a Cenobite
I was called to the monastic life
to a place of meditation and contemplation
The way out of this mortal coil to true inner freedom
Far from the material and into the spiritual realm
I had no one to counsel my wandering soul
lost, I became caught up in youthful desires
I had conciously waylaid myself
The world about me I began to discover anew
...
Thursday 4th March 2021 12:20 pm
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