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Life Tapestry

Each glorious day that we awake, There are many choices we all must make. Every choice brings new lessons for you to learn, If you study well, then ascension you will earn. Choices choices which one should I choose? If made with love in your heart, you cannot lose. Free Will is granted to all so make your own Choice, Some lessons are easier when you listen to your inner voice. Ea...

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Also by Carl E. McClellan:

Path of Tears | A Time of Change | Earth School | Transformation |

ChoiceChoicesLoveHeartFreeWill

On Hearing A Lament

 

No one as simple as I
need claim visions, or tortures
but when you sing it I see it
Oh minstrel, Oh chantuese.
The second worst thing in the world:
the ones I love most driven to tears.

Worst is when I have been the cause.
What wouldn't I do to have it any other way?
How it ever happens is humbling.
And easily, unintentially, repeatedly:
 a nightmare that threatens my sanity.

L...

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Also by Adam Whitworth:

Despondent Correspondent | Why We Die | Holiday | Hello? | Robes Of Red, Skies Of Blue | Our Patch |

Another year passes by..

Another year passes by...
Many a strings I tie...
I shifted to a new world...
Started again in a new mould...
Was it tough?
Was it rough?
I count my blessings for none of the above...
Love can do wonderful things...
It shines in uncertainty like beautiful bling....
I was supported by all those I knew
And by all those I made bridges with anew...
Laughter, love, life...

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The Devil's tempting cocktail (new year fail)

I'm losing it

I'm losing it

I'm stood right here

refusing it

an ice cold one

that shouts-

'get  gone!'

that thrills of 

my abusing it

I excuse myself

a ruse myself

excuses me and

I myself

deny myself

a lift from

this Moscow mule

that i drive myself

I'm losing it

I'm losing it

I'm giving in

and chosing it.

 

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The cloak of nothingness

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Hemingway.

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–1881). Courtesy of the Phillips Collection, DC.

When I look into the mirror
I do not see my face
I see those ghosts behind me,
Trailing blood and lace.

Please excuse my misapprehension,
I do apologise for my fault,
...

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Also by John E Marks:

from swerve of shaw to blend of bray | A terrible beauty | Three blind mice | Inner City Blue | The family face | Torn | AWAY TO THE CRAGS, WHERE EAGLES SOAR | GENOCIDE | Visiting time | Saying goodbye | In defence of the sentimental | The Lorelei | Sonnet | Old photo | Heart murmur | Pink moon | Troubadour | Torn Apart | Empty spaces | The unwritten | Family values: No pasarán! | The never-ending Good Friday | Christmas roses | Written at a time of great cruelty and much hypocrisy | When the poet ceases singing | Wind-blown |

Goodbye 2021?

Will this new year

be a new year?

Or, the same as the old?

I guess, patience is an essence of time

As we wait for what unfolds

 

So, goodbye to covid 

Goodbye to crime

Goodbye to war

Make peace in our time

 

Goodbye to jealousy

Goodbye to rage

Let love be the sunlight

And, Earth, be its stage

 

Goodbye dictators 

Goodbye to greed

We're under on...

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Also by Stephen W Atkinson:

A Winter Escape | I still believe! | The Christmas Tree... | The Last Noel | A Silhouette In Time (re-post) | Dim Tim | The Sixpence II |

New yearhopeloveonerace

NO BONHOMIE FROM ME

There's a breed that won't get New Year bonhomie from me

The culpable controlling Chinese Government Commie!

....................................................................................................

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Also by M.C. Newberry:

CHRISTMAS EVE | GENTLEMAN'S RELISH | WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AROUND - a seasonal hymn | THOUGHTS AT CHRISTMAS - an annual re-post | THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - a song lyric returns | BEATING HEART | CHRISTMAS SNOW - a re-post for those away from home at a precious family time. |

2022 or twenty twenty too?!

So the sun ducks down
Shattered clouds frown
Crimson rays mix with gray
The sky starts the count down

All feather balls are back in nests
Bellies full, they're ready to rest
The restless Venus sparkles again
The Golden Ball is deep in the west

 Another year has come to an end
Wrapping wounds and grieves to mend
Our happy memories brighten the eve
As from the cradle of the Earth Moon...

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Professor Sarcasm reading Reverse Philosophy

Discard your mask

crowded party dance

airless disco club

perfect sensible setting

can't catch me

Coronavirus D J says.

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Also by Nigel Astell:

Living, Loving and Laughing | The Mistletoe Invitation | On a Merry-Go-Round of Happiness | The Short-Sighted Snowman |

bookings are down

Hoopla

 

The hoopla over New Years day
always leaves me laughing,
what is the myth we're dealing with
that celebrates each passing,
Reflect on what we did this year
forgive us our trespassing,
acknowledge we are lucky just
to see more sins amassing.
 
 

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Also by d.knape:

Who Nose | Butterflies | This & That | Sardine | Straw-Colored Grasses | After | The Christmas Sampler | Cedar Tree Christmas | Old Oak | Snail | Arthritis | Afterthoughts | Strange Relationship | Taking My Finals | Dogs & Trees | Purple Sage | Bad Road | Offensive Coordinator | The Protocol | A Land Without | Christmas Tree | Left Handed Compliment | Like Trees | Contented Cows (warning) | An Autumn Day | Mistakes | Mistakes | Proof In The Pudding | The Sun Is A Thief | Handshakes | Opening Night | Small Town Bakery |

ALWAYS THINKING, ME

Now I’ve retired I’ve adopted a routine whereby I get all my chores done first thing so the rest of the day’s my own.  This morning, for instance, I’d read-the-paper and had-the-shit so I settled into my shed in front of the log burner, put the coffee machine on and started thinking.

All sorts.

And every argument I had in my head I won by clear philosophical thought.

Now after an hour or ...

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Also by John Coopey:

FAIRY LIGHTS | THE MOORLAND TRAIN | SANTA KRAMPUS | THE TIME OUR GERT FELL INTO THE BARNSLEY CANAL | THE FIA | SCARBADOS | THE LADDER | COME ON OVER TO MY PLACE | AND SO THIS IS BREXIT 3 | 20 YEARS FROM NOW | THE BLEEDIN' OBVIOUS |

That crucial difference

come on down

on crushed spirits

 

bring me your

broken promises

 

I’ll take all 

secret wishes

 

and any

last chances

 

join me on the lost crusade

gone tomorrow here today

roll up for that passion play

staring you and me and everyone else

 

we don’t need

reservations

 

leave behind

hesitations

 

I’ll bring enough 

skepticism

...

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Also by Robert C Gaulke:

Mutual Savings | Thinking about the park when it's closed | The King of Sweet Nothings | Let's go to the store | Characters | North and South | Prove you’re not a Robot (Attachment Unavailable) | Where the logic breaks | The optimist | Libraries | The Underdog | Unless | Convenient Metaphors | Ideology’s for Kids |

New Year, No New News

It’s New Years Eve, the last day of twenty, twenty one
This time last year, we were hoping Covid would soon be gone

One year forward and the news is very much the same
Covid still makes the headlines a new variant is to blame 

We pinned our hopes on the vaccine to bring an end at last
But the rates are rising, it’s spreading across the nation, fast 

Infection rates are at their highest...

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Also by julie callaghan:

Kite | Testing Times | Veil Of Grey | Twixmas | Christmas Robin | Christmas Eve Hangover | Winter Woodscape (is that even a word) | Winter Solstice | Christmas Cheer And All The Best For The New Year (repost) | Ducks | December Moon | December Delight | Speedo Mick | Here You Come Again (Bolly Partyon) | Christmas Past, Present and Future | Molten Lava Skies | Picture Perfect | Brighter Days | The Star Of The Show | Bah Humbug | Three Is A Crowd | Christmas At Blenheim | Christmas Fair 2021 | Today’s Show | Morning Walk | First Of December Disappointment |

White Friday (day of noor)

Every Friday is special for me

It's a day where week finally breaks

The rest for the end that's beginning today

And more so it's a celebration day

 

Fridays are very special for us

A day marked holy in our calendar 

It's like a day of eid every week

Something miraculous we do seek

 

This Friday is all the more different 

It not only ends the weeks boredom

But we...

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Also by Ghazala lari:

Divine love | On my demise | Chapters of life |

Self inside

 

I am more than my sexuality. My job. My pleasure. My image.

I am my past

my future, my lessons,

my life, my heart, my fears.

My skin aches to be loved and my eyes to be seen,

my ears to be heard,

and me

.. me... ME... to be seen.

My passion, is not simply created and finished between my legs,

between my thighs,

but flows within my body like glitter in the wind.

...

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Also by Sarah-Kaye:

Expressions of turmoil |

self worthself lovesocietyperception

2022

As we enter 2022,
What will it bring for me and you?  
Will it be a brave new year?
And not be filled with dread or fear.

Will it bring us joy and bring us hope?
And no longer find it hard to cope.
Where we'll get back to normality,
And this will be our reality.

Will this new year bring us new beginnings?
Where we'll succeed and keep our winnings.
Where we will get on the proper trac...

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Stuart VannerThe new year2022Hope

Time

The health and growth of the human soul

To reach the highest point as pulled from the earth to the light

survival of the fittist 

A dance to reclaim your rights

A dance with the Devil

 spun into the pits of darkness

Alone with only the energy of your creation

The loss of strength

The loss of will

The structure of thought in the image that you have projected

Burned to ...

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Also by New Shoes:

Happy Holy Days |

Spitfire

Skating down cracked sidewalk waves

Shedding this mind enslaved

Shredding in the name of peace

Inner peace, not some short term lease

The real deal, official seal

Watch me steal away down this sidewalk

Hear my wheels talk under streetlight

Disappear into deep night, no fright

Riding concrete waves out of sight

Knowing this feeling is right

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Also by sandbar:

Our rotting green garden |

How, when and where

How, when and where

I lost my laughter and smile

I can't recall the way

It slipped off my face 

And went somewhere else

 

How, when and where

The unity can be sought

The hearts meant to be woven together

Shall find their home on earth 

To live forever together in love

 

How, when and where

Democracy was lost 

Dictators creeped within

Spreading misery an...

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Also by Sunshine:

Assorted | 87. Poem | 86. Poem | Lonely island | 85. Poem | Expectations | 84. Poem | 83. Poem | Marriageable age | Magnetic | 82. Poem | 81. Poem | 77. Poem | Good night | 79. Poem | 78. Poem | 77. Poem | 76. Poem | 75. Poem | 74. Poem | 80. Poem | Finally . | 73. Poem |

My reflection through the glass just makes me walk pass,

No matter what I see it will never be worthy to me.

 

I can't stand the sight that makes my stomach tight,

I bite my lips and my eyes are teared up bright.

 

I fear that I no longer want to be here.

Why should I? When all I ever do is give up and sigh.

So please light, take me up high,

Up above the sky to a place w...

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sad poemsdepressionbody dysmorphiasad

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

 

The very roots of my inner being tingle with anticipation

as we make our preparations for the New Year celebration

I possess a renewed sense of profound optimism

as I discard the forlorn cares of past pessimism

My mind is overwhelmed with new and inspired ideas

which look forward to new and fertile fields

I shall cast away the clouds of despair and depressi...

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Also by keith jeffries:

A Glimmer of Hope | Poets | A Peculiar Inheritance | A Decent Folk | The Soul | A Tangle of Tinsel | There is still hope | The Conundrum of Life | Encirclement | An Illusion | World AIDS Day | In my element |

Addictive families

I am fighting an addiction that I cannot seem to shift,

 

Every single time I try it makes me feel like shit,

 

So tasked with making myself better, I reach for another hit,

 

Looks like I’ve failed again, again my mind set split.

 

Round and round and round I go desperate for that ride,

 

The pace at which I’m spinning starts to hurt my eyes,

 

I hold on tight ...

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Also by Luke:

Follow the leader | Redemption |

Wild Woman (3.)

Born of something more than flesh and bone 

She wasn’t of this world 

And maybe that’s why she felt a great deal of pain 

Maybe that's why she chose to be wild 

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Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:

Grief | Losing Hope. | Death. | Pain. | Wild Woman (2.) | Wild Woman (1.) | Home. | Good in Goodbye |

My wish-Happy new year

My wish -Happy new year

Thursday, 30th December 2021

What shall be my wish?

What shall be the words to finish?

I know nothing about the entire world?

some unknown fears unfold!

"Wish all, Happy new year day" my conscious is told

this must come from all

rise and become tall

no disgrace when faces a fall

let everybody have a resolve to scale walls

let march be contin...

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Also by Jadia4708au:

Compares when necessary | Qhat makes you lose? | Mirror of thought-Poet | Less struggle | Rose fragrance | If the wind | Trust your ability | I love peace | Not to be told | Withered tree | Tackle the problem | Love has a action | Poetry-deap ocean | Quest for knowledge | Feel not proud-Death | Feel not proud-Death | If I knew | Rich culture | Heavenly blessed woman | Touch the ground | Crucial test | Make friends | Love nature |

Jadia4708au

Observer

On the outskirts of a sadness

otherworldly that casts one

into the mould of observer, 

a mere overseer of self

who's no longer tethered

to the entity observed, 

the very entity that can

no longer be embraced

as one and the same,

no matter how congenially

the arms are outrstretched. 

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Also by Holden Moncrieff:

Presence | Needs Must | Disciples | Piecemeal | Mosaic | New Stars | Transition |

nightly thoughts

a chocolate Santa Claus

a piece of motivation

a piece of dedication

a piece of dictation

mission failed

a piece of self hate

a piece of failure

a piece of disappointment

a piece of weakness

cancelled mission

new year, new start

mission restarted

self-hate

lose weight

 

goals you have to achieve

goals you can't achieve

goals you must proceed

con...

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thoughtsMidnight thoughtseating disordermental healthnew year

I feel crap today (sorry)

Crouch on a mountain

Of a life times emotions

 

Piled high like contorted corpses

Stretching their hands 

Up to me to pluck them

From the detritus 

 

Rotting from the bottom

Melting into stinking filth

Collapsing under its own weight

Delivering eternal fate

 

Each day bringing layer 

On layer of unclaimed fears

Cemented by rivers of tears

Navigated b...

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Also by Edbreathe:

con fuse shun | bAL-a-NCe | Shdw | Molden Y(ears) | Feet | THEM | Fevvered |

The Gifts of life

To breathe is not a thought
          We do it all day
      Never realised we do
      Since it's a gift of life 

         To love you is easy
               I do it all day
          Never realised I do
Since it's just another gift of life.
    
                       ~D~

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The Wonder

Kicking through the moss
in the cooling evening air
I’m staring down the barrel
of a living Rivelin Valley

Crickets clicking in the tall grass 
bramble searching for a shin
I stoop to flick away
the tickle of a nettle
caught under my tongue

O, why could I not have felt this way
at twenty one
To know myself
my capabilities, my limitations
to feel this comfortable
in my own skin 
...

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Also by Tom:

Ship In A Bottle | The Faintest Farewell |

wonderwalking

The Tower

I built a wall around the shimmer of God. 

Layer upon layer it was layed 

Cast in the blood, And the filth, and the Death. 

Built on foundations of rage. 

Forged from the darkness, the fortress was bound. 

As the molten tread flooded the bank. 

Plastered among the dark shadows of envy.

Built on foundations of pain. 

The tower was high, no crack to be seen

the bricks were...

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Also by Nintai:

Gaia | Tip Toes | Those Who Flicker | The Wave | Watts |

The Quiet Spirit of Christmas

The spirit of Christmas descends with a whisper

Unnoticed by shoppers and revellers

To sprinkle a little of its magic dust

Which settles into the spaces left between

Food piled in kitchens; parcels tucked under trees

Deflated decorations; precious hopes and dreams

 

On Christmas Eve children in pyjamas, wait longingly

Peering through bedroom windows

Hoping to glimpse Sa...

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Also by Brenda Wells:

The Turn of the Year | Midwinter Mistletoe | The Woods in Midwinter | Dark December Days | The Wise Oak - A Celebratory Haiku |

IN THE YEAR

So. We are done with our expierence of the year 2021

What might we do with the year 2022

Well, first we can dry our tears

Brought to us by the pain of the previous years

Get over our misery, and confront our fears

Life as we have known it has reached its end

Time marches on, another year passed, we turn the bend

Forever living with a pandemic is now the new trend

Death at o...

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Also by J.D. Bardo:

THE DIAGNOSIS |

Sorry

I was told I need to filter my words.
Be more quiet, let others be heard.
...and for that I was sorry. 

 

Potential suitors intimidated by my success.

Friends tell me maybe say less.
....and for that I was sorry. 


Scholars pointing out my looks as I tried to study my books.

Was there a step I mistook? 

...and still for that I was sorry.

 

But year after year, my fears ...

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Festival

 

At Aldeburgh you have to watch your back.

The beach is chilled, the Borough vents its wrath,

And whispered, ghostly choruses proclaim

‘Grimes’, as though in agony. Tormented,

A man prepares to sink his boat. Foghorns

Sound on nearby sandbanks. Night shelters shame.

Sweet morning comes, tearing at consciences

Of perky seafarers. Go, cast your nets,

And bring home lost m...

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Also by Stephen Gospage:

Flying | The Shortest Day | A Time to Pray (A seasonal poem) | Matchstick Dream | Public Gaze | Sleaze | Paris | Post-War |

STRANGE MUSIC

It was said by some that the church organ

played of its own accord

behind locked doors with no one inside

to do the playing,

but that was when a hesitant wind

sprang across the stubbles of wheat

stretched the branches of trees to harps

and the leaves of hedges with a - rustling

like an ordinance. 

 

Suffolk byways keep their secrets well

and backs are turned agains...

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Also by ray pool:

STAND AND DELIVER | SELL BY DATE | WINTER WEST WIND | VIGOUR MORTIS |

At ceremony of the poem

I wantted to know of the Violin

How much he suffered from his heart-

The melody of pain canbe heard

The Violin could not answer.

I wanted to know the sun

How long did it burn?

I would he can shine as you as

Even today I have not received any answer.

Profit calulates Lose

Never walk the path

When's I think your nice face at abnormal bored.

This is the magic of good ...

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Kiss Fm

Depression

She asked me

What is it like?

I replied 

You know

Like when you cant swim and you start to drown

So you're drowning right?

But its like everyone else around you can breathe

They seem to be floating on their back with ease

Everyone else has their head above water

Keeping afloat

And even some of the fortunate ones

They have their own boat

Not even touching the wat...

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Also by Mama Lola:

Self Love | Forgiveness | My Dear Beloved | You deserve it all |

How A Heart Breaks

i.m. Martin Cooke (1955-2021)

 

‘Behold the fowls of the air’

Matthew 6:26

 

 

This is the way it happens: a voice on the phone

explaining that one we took for granted

is no longer there, that junk food

and countless pints that wrecked

your balance and strained your heart

became in the end too much –

even at your shuffling pace.

 

Refusing to put a penny a...

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Four Haikus outside at Christmas in Yorkshire

Holding arms open

the snow tickles your shoulders

in a cold silence.

 

*

 

putting on your gloves

you wish you had your hat on

stepping in the snow.

 

*

 

Whispering winter

the snow turns the station white

shunning the moon’s scorn.

 

*

 

Opening the door

boat was frozen in the lake

freezing getting home.

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Also by Andy N:

Christmas Card Poem (2021) |

Haiku

Mutation (2021)

It was running round the House of Commons

With no mask

Handing out PPE contracts to their mates

For a laugh

 

As the population was falling into graves

They gave out party invites

Drunk on festive cheer.

Tears streaming down the cheeks of relatives

Who couldn’t see them go

                                        Ho Ho Ho

 

The lies multiplied, given a boost

N...

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Also by David R Mellor:

Wayward | Not Today… |

Boris Johnson

6 Words of Christmas

T'is a season to be jolly

Dont need a reason to be holy 

Greatful for my shortcomings 

I know greater things are coming

All glory to the holy one 

As we celebrate him as a family

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Christmas Poems

Wolf

Your spark became a flame
Your touch was electric
This heart found a beat
A heart imprisoned in the dark
A lost ancient rhythm
So familiar but forgotten
Eternal
The sound of time
The spine unfolds
The hair stands on the back of his neck
And he howls to the heavens
His curse is freedom
Destined to roam alone
Lethal, restless, unkillable
The world is bleeding him
Only to lick his woun...

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Also by Jim:

I |

Surface value

We become lost within ourselves

Permanently fixated on our reflection upon the water

The image casted out constitutes one’s ego

Look through yourself

Dive into your actions and reasoning

Continually finding ways to stay grounded

Anchor yourself

As there is infinite things to learn below one’s surface

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Also by Cody Roach:

My Marigold | Blindsided |

A fitting reply !

It was Boxing Day and Jenny was passing her local M&S,

She was going to a New Years Eve party and needed a new dress.

She saw a dress in the window which caught her eye,

"Please can I try on that dress in the window?" to an assistant she did cry.

The assistant replied,"For you to try on that dress in the window I would deplore !

You'll have to try it on in the fitting room like ever...

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Also by hugh:

An inhaler error | Love is intoxicating | A haunting ruined credit rating !!! | Act now Boris after Christmas will be too late !! | Life at the morgue | A despicable crime on a lady in her 80's, robbed in her own home in Accrington yesterday | Omicron,new symptoms.A Hugh warning | A meal deal by Boris for his cabinet | "Please be kind !" | The Salvation Army,the light in the window that says somebody cares | Fred Faithful's dilemma | Strictly Come Dancing | Wokingham council draw the lines. Traffic wardens issue the fines !! | Warning !!! |

Absence

Love isn't a burden

until it is gone

A failure of stone

I thought was forever

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Also by Mike McPeek:

Sway | Owl Said | Rose | Letter To St. Nick |

To Swami Girijatmananda

You'd embroidered the Inferno
sewn with the thread
of supple beauty,
endowed Ganguria
with philosophical
profundity and great altitude
of enlightenment.
You'd reconciled
an old skirmish
between disdain
and phobia.
O God, you made
Ganguria an ultimate abode
decked with platonic ideal
of love and mosaic complexion.

 

 

 

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goddivine

So she let the rain set in

So she let the rain set in

 

Alas

When we had nearly given in

Mother nature

Decided she could absolve us from our sins…

So she let the rain set in

 

Her eyes did not water lightly

Instead— she wept a river

She gave us more than we deserved

More than what we thought—she could deliver

 

Everlasting daisies and orchids emerged

In abundance— on the once bone-d...

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Also by Rasa Kabaila:

Fire |

Rainbow

Sometimes I imagine being a rainbow,

Shooting off into the sky and coloring in every perception anew,

Just to find my way back into myself.

 

 

 

 

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Also by M3RK:

Oblivion | pink | hey there |

Believe it right now as in the future you ought to

Jesus' dad through a flying sourcer  

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Also by Jed:

Shabby Corrode | Don't Get Uppity Get A Cuppa Tea | Unhappy |

Happy Christmas Day Mum


 

High above the sky and all its birds.
Hello Mum, please read these words.
With every Christmas bell I hear peal.
An ache in my heart, I begin to feel.

This year I don't care for Winter snow. 
It's early days Mum, that much I know.
With God's help, it'll get better in time.
I will look for a Robin, a heavenly sign.

In such God sent things, I truly believe.
Maybe I'll see one tod...

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Also by Mike Bartram:

The Cloud | 'Can I Come With You' |

Christmas Delight

Todays the day for a great big celebration
A time to warmly welcome family and friends
The table is laid in all its seasonal splendour
I hope this glorious day will never end

It's Christms time and I am feeling oh so fine
Sitting in front of a blazing fire all aglow
Under the mistletoe with a glass of mulled wine
My yuletide heart is bursting don't you know

I'm so delighted and I want ...

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Let me love tomorrow

if by chance I’m here tomorrow

remind me to be kind

remind me to listen

when the birds sing

and raindrops knock against the ground

 

remind me to see

as the clouds

float in the sky

and flowers

as they smile to the sun

 

remind me to love

when love is nothing but a mirage

in a world where love has died

 

remind me to be me

to listen

to see

to...

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Also by Ziba Mahdavi:

May you find peace | Pandemic, May 2021 | grotesque men |

No Note Nor Nowt

No note nor nowt

 

‘E come ‘ome

She were gone

And she’d tekken ‘er coat

What the hell’s

Goin’ on

There were no note nor nowt

 

There were no note nor nowt

No note nor nowt

‘E come ‘ome she were gone

Leaving no note nor nowt

 

Up the stairs

She weren’t there

And her wardrobe was bare

Not a stitch left to wear

Not a jumper or owt

Not a thon...

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The Reality of Partner Dependency

He just keeps pushing your buttons 

He was delusional to have thought that “reset” would fix everything and erase the past

He thought that all I needed was a “reboot” since we’re all a little broken and out of sort

But in reality, I wasn’t able to power on anymore

He used to be my shoulder to cry on

My safety blanket 

But then I dreaded waking up next to him

He used to wipe my...

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Also by Cassandra Louise:

Just Breathe | If Theft Wasn't A Crime | Your Validity Is Past Due | Love & Hate | Psychological Cleanse | Thought Provoking Toronto | A Writer's Will | Heartbreak Guarantee | Rebirth | What Now? |

What is inspiration meant to me?

Inspiration is within in ourself

Which we know: is the energy to move on

During when we feel uninspired

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Here I Come

Here I come

Bringing laughter and fun

To steal some hearts

With love’s fiery darts

Putting on a show

Cheering those feeling low

Throwing flowers in the air

Pieces of me to share

Life is so loveable

Love is not saleable

My heart is available

For you all at the table

A new year is approaching

With challenges and goals hoping

It will bring more success and fa...

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Also by Aisha Suleman:

Take It Easy |

Otter

 

Mini lily pads make way for his playful swim 

He looks both ways then dips under again

 

Tan and green reeds sway 

The way fans watch a foul-shot play

 

Tiny bubbles hint at his webbed-feet wake

Pulling fast through the placid lake

 

His guard hairs soaked but sealed and sleek  

Keeping him warm even in winter’s peak

 

He surfaces again with a swish

Thri...

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Also by Candice Reineke:

Peppermint | Brewing | Here We Are |

Rise Up

Rise Up

 

She laid on the floor begging for no more

Then his eyes filled with darkness and his fist pounded more.

She had been there before, but couldn’t walk out the door 

Now here she is begging, just like before.

He promised her the best, but he’s just like the rest

Now here she is begging, hurting in distress.

She prays for better days, but it is all a haze

Now here ...

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A Christmas Wish

A Christmas Wish 

 

I wish I could go back for just a day

I wish there was a magic way

To twenty years or so ago. 

To christmas past as white as snow.

To little kids in soft pyjamas, 

Christmas specials of telly dramas. 

Excitement sizzles in the air, 

Gifts from loved ones soon to share.

Special baubles cover the tree, 

Children waiting full of glee. 

Santa’s m...

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He's the one

So, there I was minding my own business keeping bar

Cleaning glasses and looking no where

But everywhere if you get my drift

The place is heaving

And in he walks like he has been a week in the saddle

But all dressed to the nines in fancy rags

The best money can buy

From head to toe

He comes up to me and says he has travelled far

With his two friends outside

The camel...

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Also by Martin Elder:

The easy air |

Welcome New Year-2022

 

We may cheer or may not cheer

We may share or may not share

We may fear or may not fear

But we have to welcome

And gladly say, “Welcome My Dear”.

 

As we know, “Time and Tide waits for none”

December will leave and gone

And say bid “Goodbye” to everyone

Including me and you

It will never be with anyone.

 

We can’t have a break or ch...

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Also by ajay kumar sahoo:

Policy and Politics | (untitled) | A Blow in the Blue | (untitled) | PAST |

"Musing"

Now, through the fog of the mind's eye
I see monoliths and mountain crypts
appear and disappear in a Stygian sky;
ghosts of song and dream, tales of past
thread my sorrow; death-pale, yet hopeful
somehow..
 

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Also by psylentskog:

"The Old Raven" |

THE BUS TERMINAL

The Bus terminal is overcrowded,

but I feel alone

The noise coming from old buses

it is multiplied by people chatting,

And silenced by the crunch of my ruffles.

 

I am sitting on the cold bench,

Smelling the black smoke:

Intoxicating for ones

And sweet-smelling for me,

For me, it is the smell of freedom

Freedom along with elastic chains,

but freedom, after all.

...

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Morning Sip

Beep, beep, beep

The alarm goes

Creaakkkkkk

The bed goes

Pop, snap, crack

The person goes

Drip, drip, drop

The coffee goes

Sip, breath in, ahhh

The person goes

This is the

Morning Sip

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Also by Jason Phillips:

The Rain | Been a While |

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Every kiss

Every kiss …

Every day

We would write

My love and I

Often

Many times a day

And every letter

Every message

Ended 

With multiple kisses

XXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXX

And I said to my love

Every X is an IOU

That must be repaid

With interest due

And, I am pleased to say

We repay the debt

Every hour

Of every day

And never has there been a debt

I’ve be...

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ADVENT

ADVENT

Purification
World of all souls mistletoe rose
Christmas tree healing

Joyful emotions
For giving the heart is key
To the wealth of health

Colds can be deadly
If we lack immunity
We are all fragile

Viruses present
Unwanted gifts at Christmas
To all believers

And of none but we
Shall remember those who died
In hospital wards

Last gasp for the world
Can our patient...

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Also by 74 19:

DARK SKY | PEACE TO THE WORLD |

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Dead Bird Crawling

words left unspoken must

turn to song

like a dead bird

learning to crawl

 

becomes the ants that eat it

pieces carried off like loot

from the shop of God

laid at the fat queen’s foot

 

those who snap your brain, nip your heels

those who have never seen these hills

those atomic archons will

die under the weight

of their own making

 

casually flinging ...

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BUT WHAT IF SHE DID?

A boy came

too irresistable to walk away

no wonder she fell

regret already in her hands.

 

And it was a fall worthy of others to look around

no shame, just mighty want

and he walked away

he tried

but he was her ray

how could she let him go his way?

 

And there were others

oh, there were others

girls standing lines to let him

break a piece of their prid...

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Also by nessixa:

SHE WENT THERE |

Christmas rock’s but once a year!

Champagne corks that squeak and pop

Santa Baby and Jingle Bell rock

Boom out through the karaoke machine

The biggest party ever seen

Seasons greetings bringing cheer

Christmas rocks but once a year

 

Alpine scenes with trees and snow

Holly berries, robins, mistletoe

Dominate all the cards we send

To all our loved ones and our friends

Good will messages bringing che...

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Also by Rick Varden:

Fairies, Elves, and Goblins |

A Normal Christmas

“For all of the people like me that are hoping and planning for a normal Christmas, I think that’s where we’ll be, if we just keep playing our part.” - Sajid Javid, 25 October 2021

All we want is a normal Christmas,
not like it was last year.
One where we won’t have to choose 
between the people we love to see.
Won’t have to save a place at the table
for a logged-in laptop screen,
and may...

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Little Rabbit

Despite time moving quickly around it, the little bunny rabbit goes slow.

All the other little rabbits hop in time but this one falls behind.

No one knows it's there, no one really cares.

Feet so small they barely make a sound.

Inferior to the rest.

Although the sun lights the way, the finish line is still far away...

 

but the little rabbit carries on.

Desperate to get to ...

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the poor boy that had no Christmas

 

 

the poor boy that had no Christmas

 

a young boy lived in the country

looked forward to Christmas

a special time when a tree was cut

and strings of popcorn were hung

 

the family had little money

but the boy always received

at least a present or two

from Santa Clause when he

and his reindeers flew by on

Christmas Eve

 

the young boy’s best fr...

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Also by Clyde McCulley:

the tattered old man on Christmas Eve | waiting for the first snowflakes | things one can't forget | summer of '42 (deja vu almost) | a walk at robert frosts old farm |

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Where am I?

what do you mean transform?

Rejuvinate? Vitality of emotional well being?

 Is it true?

 Yes. 

and more.

I guess you're wondering where ive been,

i Definetly wont tell you 

and i sure as fuck wont let you in.

ive awoken

from the spell you cased upon me

of lies, of torment

such ungracegul deads.

But now i confess

my actual Voice,

Which in this case,

is NO...

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Time Helps

I have never doubted my fathers love for me

While

I have always doubted my own love for him

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Before

A still, clear pool like unmarred ice 
A two dimensional window into fathomless depths 
Time not yet begun it’s relentless wheel, stasis offered to your awestruck eyes 
Dare you toss a stone to shatter the time before? 
The innocent beginning of all, cast into the yawning void, the birth of a universe held in ambivalent grasp
Dare you not toss a stone to shatter this eternal before? 
Causali...

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Also by john A Giordano:

Congress of Mind | Lake Placid | Frayed blanket end |

Abstractmetaphorphilosophy

Ghost

12/14/21

There is a difference between alone and lonely.

I know how to be alone. I am comfortable with being alone.

But I am lonely.

I am invisible and I feel as if I would be knocked over if I didn't move to the side in a crowd of people 

And in turn my face is hard and my body language is guarded. 

Because I feel unseen in everyone else's scene.

I feel like a ghost that my s...

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Also by VHH:

I can't remember |

Have a Try

Hi I am Mary and my cat is Bill

who’s green and fat but never ill

he loves to talk and can’t sit still

and often colors to get his fill

drawing pink penguins and orange

dolphins of each both had a million

cousins I said

“who could imagine that…such a funny cat!”  

“but it’s easy,” Bill replied without fear

“all you need is hold what’s dear”

so don’t be shy do have a t...

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Also by Tara Suri:

Completely New | Clever Tara | Blue Cow Delight | Big Package For Little Dink  | 100 Feet Tall | Best Friends | A Good Book |

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Me Vs ME. A Dual Reality

every day is another to learn

and indulge in whats present

i figure there is so much that is pleasant

sometimes i have to just sit back and take it all in

disconnect

in order to reconnect

this place is quite lovely

especially, as i realize im starting to love me

so much thats happening

i can get lost in both of my worlds

i l...

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Also by Prince Ali:

You | Through The Pen I Grieve | Just Another Day in the Coffee Shop |

lovepoetryduality

You for others

To see with eyes and listen with ears
is a blessing from the greatest engineer. 
but those needn't an eyes to see and ears to hear
are even blessed—for they know what's true and what's near. 

To feel with the heart and be touched by the words
sends swarm of butterflies, a flock, or even a herd. 
that of which feels greater than being blessed
by limbs to just sit and hands that allow viole...

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Also by Arjaf M. (2):

So , is she? |

you felt, I changed

i didn't care for hugs, until you were giving them.

i didn't care for stars, until i saw the way you gazed up at the night sky. 

i didn't care for the sunlight until you described the way it felt on your skin.

i didn't care for myself until i saw the way you see me. 

 

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Also by bw:

crying is for kids |

Not So Stupid, After All

I watched it waddling through the woods,

   A feathered freak, a frump,

As proud as in the picture books,

   All pigeon-like and plump.

Aghast at such a sight I gasped,

   "I thought you were extinct."

"Precisely as we planned, old boy,"

   The dodo said and winked.

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Next Up on Heartbreak FM

Since when was every song
on the radio about broken hearts.
Have I been singing to the beat
of our hearts entwined for too long
to notice the world burning at our feet.

I keep finding scraps of you
in those melancholic melodies,
and as love songs turn to haunting screams,
I sink deeper into despair,
clutching the once comforting words
of a wedding song
I guess I’ll never be able to p...

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some things are scary (but maybe not)

some things are scary

like a shadow behind you at night while you are walking home

or a strong noise  in the kitchen when you are home alone

or losing your mom at the store when you were little

and the fear is a strong feeling

it freezes you

it makes anxiety come

and everything seems blurred 

and it's hard to breath

and your heart is beating loud

and you can't hear an...

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Also by mona:

The warrior who no longer fights |

December 2021 Collage Poem: Chariot of Obscurity

The exact translation for the exact word for snow.

The winter night was the start of a new fake world,

with the death of truth and lost poets caught in the deep wild minds of hope.

How can butterflies and mirrors and snow be possible while hearts are breaking?

I thought of howl and the shadow of gunman sinister betrayal.

It was a dusky farewell

A monarch butterfly landed on Boris...

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December Collage Poem

Wander

I've sat among the stars 

In the vacuum of space

Breathing stardust into the cosmos 

Creating entire galaxies 

With like-minded creators 

Whispered sweet words

Through the void 

And had them echo back 

With no hope of reaching you 

I drift among the floating rocks 

And imagine myself 

Having not existed

And see just how nothing changes 

I've made no impact 

...

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Also by Eric Berard:

One |

what i call home

 

I’ve lived around the world.

In fact I moved when I was 18,

I left my home and found another,

 

But was that home?

 

Layered bricks and walls with posters,

soft warm bed and candles lit by it

to make it

home-y,

 

But was that home?

 

‘a house is not a home’

yet I still feel like I really miss

my house, where my mom and my cat

are waiting patien...

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homehouselove

Holly Bird

It’s sunset time, all the birds came
Back their nest quietly
A quell’s fiancée not back yet now
He forwarded everywhere seem to
 
But couldn’t find him now ever
There is a little family
So far from the jungle in a village.
An angle girl playing in the ground
 
Nearest the bamboo’s den
The quell still staying on this
Angle girl look at the bird at a glanc...

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Ascent of Man

WRITE OR WRONG

All the social media companies in the world 

Unfortunately had to react

They handed all the people a pen and a paper

And decided hey, you can't write that 

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Warm heart

You give money to homeless, 

your soul is moved by sad and poor, 

waiting for a bit of kindness

you peek through the cracks of sore,

that unkind words have caused before. 

Language you use is warm and respectful, 

never rude and never untrue.

Like you would realize each carries a burden,

that becomes lighter when talking to you. 

Your gentle hands slip through my body, 

...

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The War

Momentary peace is a thing,
Lifetime of peace who has ever gotten?
And there exist people who haven't witnessed a single spring,
The fruits they've reaped off life are all rotten.

Time lingers on, it takes small sluggish steps,
While the war seems to last for an eternity.
And though the mind's tired and body's started to sweat,
There seems no concrete vision, no certainty.

Innumerable ...

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Also by Mahira:

A tryst with self |

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United We Stand & Together We Thrive

[  ] Listen To Wisdom & Become Wise


[  ] Knowledge Is Power Only A Fool Can Despise


[  ] We Were Once Driven, But Now We Drive


[  ] Men & Women We Are, Now We Provide


[  ] Neutrality We Should Choose, Not Blindly Picking Sides.


[  ] Prayers, Heads High, Eyes To The Sky


[  ] Oh Beautiful Universe Be Our Guide


[  ] Thy Say Time Is Forever Now It's Our Time!


[ ...

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SHADES OF SMYRNA

SHADES OF SMYRNA

Athens

Past refugees

haunt the streets of this city.

Pavestones cover forgotten lives,

each district conceals

a trail of hardship and loss.

 

Their dreams are long eclipsed

but surface when the moon comes up

invoked by timeless music

from bouzoukis

 

as people dance in clubs

or couples chat

in sleepy kebab shops

over barrelled wine

...

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I think of you constantly

I think of you constantly

The sound of your laughter comforts me

As I envision you smiling from ear to ear

I open myself as if you're suddenly near

The thought of you leaves me in tears

When I open my eyes and I see you there, not here

What I would do to have you holding me, loving me, but all I know is you leaving me 

I will be who you want me to be, do what you want me to do

...

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Whispers from Pandemonium or Once In a Blue Midnight


There were whispers that the reaper king Mortimer once lost his human form, his body, his shell. Among the reapers, rumors changed it to his soul being stolen.
This is what really happened,
Blake Alexander bowed to his audience from his stage so did his partner in his magic act Max Starfire. They dematerialized and rematerialized in their dressing room backstage.
"Max you never do things righ...

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Also by Rachel Lawson:

The People From The Center of the Earth | The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls | Audio books made easy | Author advise (updated version of all in one page from my website how to publish free book) | Requiem | Sky Diamonds | The Mystery of Night | Ghost Light | The Reign of Rain | Death's Token | The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. | Bad Omens or the insane unfortunate ravings of a mad chicken | Dark side of the moon | Rogue of Honor or The Assasin | The Haunting of the Necromancer | A Moon Shadow Nocturne | The Shadow of the Wind | Nocturne or the music of the night : Extended | Stand and Deliver : In the Moonlight | Vivienne and the Reaper: The Mortal Coil |

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Poetry Up In Lights at the de Young

Never thought I would ever see my poetry up in lights, let alone on the prestigious Deyoung Art Gallery in San Francisco, USA. 'Mihalakis' is one of the first poems I wrote in the late 1980's. Big thanks to Illuminate Reggae Sundays and my long time bredren Steffen Franz for making this happen....This is one of those moments in life....see the video here..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0MlLe7ZRt...

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Haji Mike

Starshine (V.2)

The stars shine brighter than the books say they’re supposed to

And the tall grass ain’t as green as the other side had proposed

I was too drunk to see the starshine

In the daytime I saw their glimmer spark and melt into some bronze eyes

Two rings of lulled dreamscapes I near missed when I fell into a low tide

 

I writ in song so that the stanzas, you can’t read them, but you li...

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its all in my head

They say the pen is mightier then the sword

Then why am I writing about feeling cut up

Mamma am so wounded

I can’t help it

Oh, and for you Kate don’t act like your any different

Love is love, whatever that is am not sure

Am just an sober addicted who’s mind is still wet

And know that the mistrust from a misunderstanding has turn to paranoia

Let the games begin the d...

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Also by Keith Byrne:

get me out |

Toxic drink

looking down my feet

regrets entangling me like wines
struggling hard

chocolate makes me vomit

sugar cubes into my glass

sipping alcohol with hidden thorns in it

drooling blood but can't manage to stop

I should sit

glance up for a seconde

realizing i broke my own reality

is this some kind of guilt

but most importantly

May I order another drink ?

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Also by Natchy:

Ending Blink |

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