didn’t finish the story 
didn’t get to the ending
never found out what happened 
to the monster or the princess 

you were called away
by stupid adult things 
I’m sleeping on my own
it’s gotten scary 

need you to come back
right away
don’t need anybody else
to feel safe

I wonder why 
you ran away
in stories for kids 
of all ages

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     The Magician 

She tried to say 100 times

How She wanted just

 to be near you

She stood in the fire

Only to drown

Waiting to be the reflection in your eyes

You'll never know

How much you did for her

How just a smile opened her

Maybe it wasn't really you

Maybe she just remembered 

Maybe she found her own way back

Truthfully it does...

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If you are killed while working for the government

Determine assassination or murder is what we face

Do we consider your grand significance or influence

Or should it be more about job title and salary based

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Guiltily guiltily think
the thoughts are soon what stink
the mind is like
a rusty trike
with pedals out of sync

Victory victory now
there isn't a method how
the present is
the place we live
what's now we must allow

this subtle trickery lie
to think we must comply
the truth is one
the nose will run
a lie we must defy

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Life -Tidal waves

Friday,30th April 2021

We are all stage actors

we have to perform and disappear

no matter how difficult is the task

we need to think and got to start

life may remain good

or cruel to be understood

whether you are in soup or trouble

you got to make a way out or struggle

there is no need to pass on the blame

and claim innocence

or ...

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Poems, deep on many levels,

May end up nowhere near enough.

At such a time, we should give thanks

That Mister Larkin did his stuff.

It’s true he had a gloomy side

And used the odd indecent word,

But nobody would claim his work

Would better be unseen or heard.

He wrote about the everyday,

Of unspent childhood, wedding feasts,

Sullied posters, non-co...

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They called you the Swedish baby,

With your white blonde hair

And bright blue eyes.

A Surrey Scandinavian.

But your skin tone was more southerly,

As if you’d spent your first two weeks of life

Sunning yourself on the Côte d'Azur.

A pleasant surprise, given your pasty parentage

The eyes and hair remain, twenty years later

But alas the sun-kissed look was short lived

Ja...

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Unfreeze the heart, make it soft

Thaw the frozen love, melt it now

Sew back the brokenhearted 

Stitch back the broken wings

Stick back the broken pieces

To how it was earlier, amazing

Unfreeze, thaw, melt, sew, stitch

Words few incantation repeated

Unfreeze, thaw, melt, stitch, sew

Let these words rotate until it gathers dew

Revolving around the mind of the frozen pie...

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Unless something changes

I am not changing

I am against change

yet things always change

whether we like it or not

no matter how much we try to stop change

it occurs inevitably

and even change changes

I could change my mind on this

but for right now put me down as a maybe

I am ambivalent about change

but that could also change

things are always subject to ch...

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An elf knocked on the back door of a house,

Said,"I am so hungary I could eat a mouse."

"Go away,"said a lady,"I would never feed an elf !"

"It's all right" said the elf,"I can feed myself."

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The Covid crisis in India
It is heartbreaking beyond belief
Seeing the sick starved of oxygen
Unparalleled, devastating grief

Unimaginable suffering
Unaided, gasping for every breath
Suffocating out in the fresh air
The pandemic causing so much death

Feeling helpless, useless, overwhelmed
There must be help sent and very quick
This disaster is a worldwide threat
We need to help all ...

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I made it!

(#NaPoWriMo 2021 - #Haiku of Life (2021)

2021

Becoming Forty Nine

I enter another year

smiling at the past.

(Concluding this sequence, I turn 50 next year and will face it like

I have done with the rest of my life with a smile and a

drink to friends still in my life and those who have moved on)

(Full archive - onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com - a ...

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I will sleep tonight too
with memories of a good time
packed in the suitcase of the past.
Until the almonds from my eyes call to you
while we learn to live
life will pass in a desolate void.
There will be pros and cons
for all goodness, sins, mistakes,
for one skipped storm
for an eternal life.

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hale steam engine 
shuddering bowels of parts passed
melton jambs of an engine 
vaguely in the shape 
of what was once the idea in the head of 
a mere man. 
a meagre man. 
a meek man, 
squandering his inherited earth.

slewn of all charred flesh
the tracks build on, and on. 
and you can see doom coming 
from miles around;
what a spectacle -- 
what an awe

truly, we are the coals 
...

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I stood in the wind for you,
The gale that blew my love away.
You watched me from your crazy world,
And still I stood alone.
And then the rain fell, like my tears.
Still I stood upon that hill.
I waited for the sun to shine,
But still it never came.

I stood there while the white snow fell.
I stood there in the darkest night.
Yes - I'm glad you're warm inside,
I'm waiting in the freezi...

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Minutes run and hours pass

Just as sand in the hourglass.

What was black, now is gray.

Carpe diem, seize the day.

If you wait until tomorrow,

This will only bring much sorrow.

Do not forget to breathe fresh air

And escape the banal world's affairs.

Can you find what really matters?

If you do, your chains will shatter.

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TORMENTED BY DISABILITY

SHE SWALLOWS 

SANITYS

NUMBED

EXISTANCE

A HOLLOW

SHIELD

PROTECTS

HER PEACEFUL

PAIN

UNDERSTANDING

BLINDNESS

SHE DEEPLY

STARES

BEYOND

IMAGINATIONS

GRIP

FOCUSING

DEEPLY ONTO

AIR

SLOWLY DRIFTING

AWAY

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After World War Two in a ration-ridden rubble strewn land

The baby-boomers arppeared and quickly made their stand..

With a parental generation that had shown the world the best,

They in turn showed their intention to be up to the crucial  test

To drag this nation up by its bootstraps to prosper once again

And see a land that was on its knees stand on its feet and obtain

A future ...

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Dreich day late April, wind

keening from the Thames,

outside drinkers huddling

under frail, flapping,

dripping awnings.

Vauxhall interchange, maybe

one of the most inhospitable

places on God’s earth, now

intimidated by gathering gangs

of threatening towers

that look almost exactly the same.

Is this the way a capital ends,

not with the bangs of bombers,

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A leopard's leap of faith

For the ability to claim

A primordial goodness

In the collective nous,

When the cable ties of comfort

Dictate the deleterious refrain,

Whereby a barrage of bullets

Signals one is thrice betrayed

Right before the rooster.

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Tendrils of sight swim
memories from my child mind
vast Graveyards flash past
the coach windows
as I sat alone, 
my split-self bristling
against the fabric seats
My school friends chatter
then later they climb
into sleeping bags, safe
I brought my heart out
into the moonlight, breathless
learning how not to wake
others with my grief
whilst you took your half
of my heart
high up int...

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she would swear curses

at adversaries she hated,

enemies got bad scrams,

their prospects down-rated

I'd smile, it seemed a joke,

her mother's just the same,

superstitious nonsense,

some daft witches' game

yet was it really so silly,or

was there something to it?

some victims took poorly,

there was never a minute

free of tragic local news,

some o...

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So Much For the Everyday

The music of silence is the sound

Of our souls breathing.

Their slow, strongly rhythmic cadence

Is that of vigorous but frail hearts beating.

But you must listen, carefully, should you wish to hear it;

The tumult of living can easily drown and overwhelm

That steady breath until, almost exhausted,

We lay down our burden and just listen.

...

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She liked to play Lola on the Juke Box

At the local dance club

And shake her behind for all the lonely guys

She,  the over-painted,  fake breasted

Long,  tall,  "Knock-out"  with lust in her eyes

Her words of choice,  from her funny,  feminine,  deep voice

Was one of many signs,  to which I was certainly wise

In front of all the others,  I asked her to dance

She was shocked

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I had seen him on tv in bygone times

Finding his art entrancing in my childhood

He seemed a little mad and I liked that

Wanting to understand

My mother became my oracle of knowledge

She also worked herself as an artist

Teaching me together with discussions aplenty

I came to know him a little

Fast forward into the noughties

Persistence of Memory seen small as life at...

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Triangular fixtures,
On the glass,
Just between cold mist and fog.

Slipping between,
The midnight fright,
Aching back in the morning.

A waiting world,
Drooping of a leaf in tea,
Melting eyes of shadows.

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My light, forever

Bright, proud, and true.

Would surely know if he was untrue?

His words a balm to desperate ears.

My body only what he holds dear?

Oh heart, emotions be.

Craving sweet shore of security.

Safe arms, to pull me close.

Cherish my heart, essence close.

Play and laugh with carefree joy,

Dance our hearth, 

Not destroy.

My warmth is strong to warm us b...

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Several of the formative experiences of my earlier years took place on Friday afternoons in the Admiral Duncan, Hyson Green, Nottingham.  The place would be crowded with blokes awaiting the arrival and subsequent deshabille of the day’s stripper.

A particular favourite of mine and many of the others was a woman in her late 20’s I’d guess, whose name has faded into the mists of my youth but whos...

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You should medicate it,

you can hospitalise it.

I recommend crucially, that you avoid it,

and never, under any circumstances,

tell it the truth:

it would break.

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Mask free, I breathe in the fresh air.
I hear snide comments, people stare.
As death on every corner, I see no sign.
But if you disagree with me that's fine.

So please respect my views, let me be.
Just cross the road if you ever see me.
To stand by my convictions, I am proud.
I won't bow to liars, who preach out loud.

Their idea of Passports...liberty to steal.
They want us to grovel ...

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Once all our honey has been spread
once the little moments are learned by heart
routine a debt that stalks our steps
and suggestions nag more than they ought
then the waiting boat will take me
to a wooden shack by the ocean
and there, I’ll start again, alone

Once your touch no longer prickles
once our conversations are to walls not through them
no sound but a ticking house that counts u...

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Can you trust an occasional table to still be the same in the morning?

Or will it like a lover slip away at dawn, and transform without warning?

If it took God six days to complete his work, was he made redundant on the eighth?

Or was he put on furlough, and Armageddon Friday is his new starting date?

Are black and white not colours so achromats can see Zebras at the zoo?   

Or is i...

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An old man sees a young woman
Who is careless of her beauty and he feels
A sort of envy but kinder, It is not mourning
But a sad-happiness that spreads within me,
Feeling happy that the blind do not confront the dark
And that the wind that tosses her blonde hair,
As she talks animatedly with her girlfriend,
Is the same wind upon which I catch her perfume. 
I am so glad she can't imagine th...

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The crack was going up a gear 

When poor teddy drop

Just over their 

The party never stop 

The wine wasnt that dear 

And when it's all said and done 

The joker have grown up 

The wise man are now seen as clowns 

But to these that souvied i bet you 

Nobody laughing anymore 

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I know you have killed many enemies 
that lodged in your heart
should more storm your high fortress
I know you will burn it to the ground

As if simple night has blinded them
hateful arrows now miss their mark
as if pure white snow has buried them
evil taunts can force no echo 

Praise for your meandering steps
outwitting this serpentine heritage
praise for the neccessary breath
that ...

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The story of a courageous hero who put a life that was in danger before his own,

We will never forget your pure heart, and act of bravery that was shown.

The nation saw how selfless you were, and your name will be forever known. 

God called you back too early and your parents just want their son home. 

But rest easy young king, and take your seat on heavens throne.

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April supermoon Pink 2021
Help us to shift out the darkness be gone
Enlighten us daily and bring faith we believe
Rebirth new ideas set goals and achieve

To confront any obstacles setting us back
Guard us keep safe when we're under attack

Shelter us whole prevent us adrift
Cleansing ones soul and others We lift
Grant us the peace in the blessing of still
Pour in your magic with love o...

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On the day of the April Pink full moon

Named for the moss pink flower

As the night lengthens

The moon’s glow will grow stronger

The sky will fill with brightness

Drenching the earth with light

Heralding the coming of spring

Moving the seasons onwards

Harmonising the earth

With the phases of the moon

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Aiming for the stars

descend into the ground

others dreams are getting real

mine only nightmares. 

my cloud of galaxies is already burst,

pouring as the rain of asteroids

land teems with fissures

turning into everlasting voids.

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On hearing the latest study from RHS on how effective gardening is for boosting your physical & mental health....

A boost for the body

A balm for the soul

Go grab your shovel

Take up your trowl

Dig up your past

Remove all the weeds

Moving on fast

By planting new seeds

Reach for the sun

As you grow 

Your success

New life has begun

A gardener is blessed

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I've got a heart that beats inside my chest 

And feet that want to walk 

A mind that wanders beyond the skies

But my thoughts are chained and locked

I need access, I'm losing track

Of all the masks I've worn and broken

My mind is shattered like heated glass

I no longer recall the words I've spoken

I need release, I'm lost and scarred

My name is fading into nobody's memor...

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For the years we spent together,

I just wish there were more to gather

For the laughter we shared

Atleast none was spared 

For the times we held each other's hands 

I'm glad the affection stands

For the time we smiled for each other

And for the holidays we bothered each other.

To the Lord

I can only say thank you for the time borrowed

To you

I can only wish you wer...

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Ride with me my last known friend

and leave the directory behind,

no need to remember the numbers.

Just saddle up and buy us two sombreros.

The sun will burn hard, scorching persistent

memories: leaving us to it’s unrelenting mercies.

Into a desert together meandering aimlessly we will

ride, whistling tunes from the Saturday morning

pictures we saw at the cinema when we wer...

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 Tinder Tango

Intelligence curiosity and sensitivity

Move right

Boats and stouts—neck tattoos—tongues out

Move left

Animals and travels

Move right

Backwards caps and toilet selfie snaps

Move left

Not always required is higher education

But the number of rough guys here

Who have not finished school

At least proposes some correlation

Errors ...

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Grass roots

floodlight stars

green stage

first match

Dad held

my hand

emotional bond

connecting club

instant fan

supporters's banta

cheering loud

singing songs

forever journey

memories played

final whistle

souvenir programme

history made.

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The tea candle has burnt out
The cigarette has burnt out
I have burnt out
Coffee grounds in the last cold sip
Staring through bright, shining, window worlds of happiness
Plastic pallete, static ballet, crushed can alley, cardboard kingdom
Leaning on the leisure palm, societal balm, self righteous cents
Filming false charity for likes and views, make sure you subscribe to the channel too
Wh...

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Smiling seemed to be easy,
Until their sugar coated lies got caught.
All my seventeen-year-old problems
Piled up, were waiting to be sought.

Growing up seemed to be admirable,
Until the ego visited out of the blue.
All my seventeen-year-old pictures
Crumbled down, without a clue.

Love seemed to be perfect,
Until the scars on her face showed up.
All my seventeen-year-old fantasies
Wa...

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I hate you like a hate song

Your thinking is so wrong

You can avoid and block

Twenty-four-seven around the clock

You are magical and unique

I keep hitting repeat-peat-peat

You play through my mind

So gentle and peaceful I find

No words can describe you

You do it, but what is it you do?

Is it the style or dazzling flare?

Definitely something beyond compare

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Yo Yo

Go up and Down

Yo Yo 

Go 'round and 'round

Yo Yo 

I walk the dog

Yo Yo

I go around the world

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Nervous, awkward, ill-at-ease,

   Beset by cares and fears....

Mother said there'd be days like these

    But not whole fucking years.

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Kudu kudu

how magical to view you

your pinstripe torso and your curtain fringe mane.

Kudu  kudu,

posing like a statue

licking at the dawn dew

lifting your head and sniffing for rain.

Kudu kudu

horns in a corkscrew

your muzzle with a tattoo,

a sharp white horseshoe, 

you master the plains.

The bush birds of Africa

are setting up a clamour.

The Bokmakierie’s...

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Once upon a time, she asked what my favorite texture was.

And I didn't know, so I said something like maybe my sheets?

She's gone now 'cause that's what time does.

But I figured it out, while my heart skipped a few beats.

My favorite texture is her skin.

Texture meaning comfort and feel.

My favorite texture is her skin.

With the supernatural ability to heal.

My fa...

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Adrift in the middle 

of our lives,

I watch you 

enshrined by the steam 

of your coffee,

eyes turned downwards

as you captively

butter your English muffin.

The morning light

revealing treasures

we thought

all unearthed.

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“Going down the pub darling”

“For what reason?”

“It’s the football season

and I want to see my mates

To discuss some dates

of the games and stuff”

“I’ve had enough

You’re not going”

“Oh stop moaning

I’m only having the one”

“You mean one too many

Well you’re not having any

‘cos you’re staying in”

“Oh stop your din

I’m getting ...

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THE JOURNEY, that is LIFE

Dusky Sunshine kissing mountain's meadow,

Like a Mother adoring her baby's enchanted glow...

Chirping birds flying as a tidal wave,

Pondering to whom shall we care...

Serene shadows of ever grateful trees,

Imposing us to find our Inner Peace

Being loved is a blessed boon,

A Hope of finding love is the race- half won...

D...

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An Outlook

Who do we think we are?

I cannot prevent a wave from reaching the shore

Nor can I alter the colour of my eyes

I may sit aloft in a theatre box with opera glasses

With an incomparable view before me

But understand little of what I see

I cannot start or stop the eruption of a volcano

Or decide where a bird will lay her eggs

The elements of wind, rain, sunsh...

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The sound of the sea

Poetry to my psyche

Siren's song to soul

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A heart full of hurt, wanting to unleash pain 

A heart not strong enough to endure all

But I find solace in our times together

I give that which I can't get, I have what I can't give,

Our moments gives me nothing but peace

Did you regret it?

A knowable answer 

Was it worth it?

A question never asked

But I find hope in my love.

I know nothing will change

Nevertheles...

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woman in a starbuck’s window

woman sits in a starbuck’s window

looking, searching, waiting, watching

is it the thing that watchers

in an  Edward Hopper painting

wait, search, look, watch for

does she know

who she is looking for

who she is searching for

who she is waiting for

who she is watching for

I wonder if the subjects in

Hopper’s pa...

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Do you ever feel like a house of cards,

waiting to fall apart because you can't find your ground.

You know its time to say goodbye,

but its so hard to do.

I always knew this day would come,

with our future in our hands,

so many dreams,

so many plans.

All the days we had,

all the good,all the bad 

they will always be a part of me,

all the times we shared,

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COUNTING SWALLOWS

In which direction should I turn my face?         

It’s time to pull away the ties that

cleverly ensure my misted eyes stray

no distance from the ground until, bound to blindness,

I can see the irony of the right I’d claimed,

on any issue, to be first to engage

or ask you, piecemeal, for release.

I always understood release as freely available,

ami...

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The liar: lying: unblinking
Endemic corruption stinking
This country's slowly sinking
Am I alone in thinking?

Spoons nation increase the drinking
Man-made shackles clinking
Unfunny joker winking
Am I alone in thinking?

Of the truth there is no inkling
Brexit "Great Britain" shrinking
The one-eyed man is him: King
Am I alone in thinking?

Of more than the economy
Of others worse o...

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4/20/21

The dim glow - no the bright glow - of the light outside my window.
That's all I've gotten to know. 

There's a lizard now that sleeps on the outside of my porch now, here every night. 
I hate lizards but now I'm wondering tonight, where is it?

3 years ago I thought I'd be here.
1 year ago I thought I wouldn't. 
Today I see I am.

27 years old, I know I'm young but 2 years ag...

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Champagne bubbles glimmer with promise with each burst                                                                                  Swishing gently and sweetly delighting                                                                                                               Invoking an awakening, something exciting                                                                          ...

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There was a time not so long ago

that we shared and laughed a lot.

That was when low and behold,

you did everything to hold on to my heart.

Do you remember the dreams we had

and all the promisses made to me.

You swore to always cherish us

and that with me you'll always be.

Don't you sometimes want that back

and just feel free in love again.

Songs we listened...

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Do we do nothing

But stare at the sky?

Do we do nothing

But avert our eyes?

Do we do nothing

But stifle our cries?

Do we do nothing

But conform to lies?

Or, could we become

All we can be?

And settle the wake 

Of this turbulent sea?

And rise above waves

And rise above fear

And shout at the sun:

"Look! we are here!"

A...

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A passionate embrace

A radiant presence

Seem to swell up 

This frigid hell

The apricity felt

covers this cold void 

Conceived by 

the sweet grip of mortality.

Ephemeral pleasures desired 

stands to succumb to sanity

as more welcome this need 

for a warm miracle.

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We all are struggling...
In the days tumbling away...
Some days are bad...
Some days are sad...
Some you put on a false grin...
On some you just feel like dumping all in the bin...
We all have these sways...
But know...
This too shall pass...
Life has a weird way of showing what matters...
So even though some days are worse than better...
Remember...breathe...share...hug..cry...argue......

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Love 

It’s meaningless at times

Or extraordinary 

Let not this drought weary your heart

May the mud be cleared

The Trees blossom into forests

Birds start to sing 

Let my heart 

Not be the reason you leave 

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Just a prayer

a nod to see if you all

at the Write Out Loud community

are well and

holding up fine.

What a wonderful world

we live in.

I'm not going to dwell

on the inadequacies of

our leaders as that

way madness lies.

I just pray that you

are all well

and as the weather

improves you can

spend more and more

time outside

and become one

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Let me know where you want to meet and l will b there, with all my heart to give when I I love it is always unconditional 100% I promise to never lie to you all I ask for is the same I am truly one of a kind a when to my twin  soul mate there will be no stopping us leading by example unconditional love compassion and forgiveness bring in erra of peace on the earth the real leaders  this planet nee...

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I had a friend who flung himself away

to the corner of a foreign field,

Leave no man behind they’d say

He lays there still today.

Sometimes my injury cripples me

how no one else can see it,

I think of his limbs cast randomly, 

Of my anger and how to free it.

They buy poppies and wear wrist bands

their gratitude on Display, 

They think they see it all. 

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Thin-thick, black-white,

He-she, scared-might,

With spoon-fed views in blind eyes,

We're infants weeping in beds of lies.

Aren't we stringless puppets,

With wingless dreams?

We're born to measure,

A sadistic pleasure,

Every centimetre,
Of his/her character,

And yet,

We claim our broken souls' unbroken,

Ugly hearts' pretty,

Empty minds' witty,

And then reach ...

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Unnoticed his shadow moves across the sidewalk and fades into the night
Sweaty palms and shaky nerves 
He clings to the fabric of his jacket 
The only thing larger than his fears are the holes in the wall. 
The thought made his fists sting
He sits down in the same seat every Saturday 
His eyes stare across the counter 
She never looks up 
At least not at him 
Everyone's talking but he doe...

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What is going on now?
I've been drowning in my mind
Blood on my heart  
I may die but that's fine
Anxieties catching up with me

Inhale exhale it's not helping this time
Please don't forget about me
From here on out I'll be just raggedy man
Looking for a place to call home

I miss when I could be more of myself 
Back before grown-up responsibilities took over
My heart is overdosing on...

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I often think about the past

I like to think about the past 

I can’t help thinking about the past

And the people I have known,

loved, and lost

I’ve loved those I’ve lost

And I’ve lost those I’ve loved

I reinvent the past

I reimagine the past

I reconfigure the past

Combine characters, events, and feelings

I create new endings

I create new todays

I wish fo...

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The Morning, So Calm

Ujjal Mandal, West Bengal, India

The morning was taking a shower
in the honey dew, I asked her
why are you so calm? She told me,
'the deep I am, the less I speak'.

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for Paul

Going upstairs, I think of him still

in the bathroom, crooning. It's Danny Boy

or some doomed melody dredged up

from a past we're unable to share.

Nearly all of the words are missing

as he tries half-heartedly to reinvent them;

while the tune is sprightly,

pepped up for a night on the tiles.

When I played my records he told me

that music always need...

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Flo’s Domain

The Aviation Bar

A shithole

Unloved by the management

The dirty secret

Of a plush hotel complex

On the outskirts of town

Stuck in the nineteen forties

Leather barstools and oak panels

Cream quarry tiles adorned the floor

How much ale had they seen

Spilt and mopped up over the decades

This was Flo’s domain

Flo was well into her eighties

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I cry for the past

Of what once was

For how it could've been

But it's over now and

There's no turning back

I'm moving on

I cry for the present

Of how it really is

I'm all on my own

With nobody to miss

Except for my son

I cry for the future

The uncertainty

I keep holding on

But it's hard to stay strong

When my body is failing me

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The neighbours from hell have recently arrived

with hooved feet tails and tridents.

They seem OK

moderately well behaved

law abiding, pleasant of aspect

contrary to regulations and expectations. 

Apart from an occasional sulphur cloud

that compromises the flowers

they seem to pose no threat

even inviting us in for tea and toast

with bell book and candle

and a ...

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Entering into today’s day and age, we take turns turning the page.

Let us begin,
as were taken back to a time— lined with the new heights of always measuring up to ones expectations.
Ascendant signs are all "GO".
birthmarks placed on the face of the earth; add attachment to the earthly plane, and embody rebirth.
the fabric of the universe tucks us away—as our materialization is made—from a ...

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Some call it 'depression' but

It doesn't help to name it;

I always knew I had it

But at some point I became it

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So called because my 2020 tour had been cancelled and I hoped for 2021 to be back to normal if there is such a thing, I began writing poems as in previous tours as to what was going on this part ended so I could take part in 2021 NaPoWriMo (A Poem a Day for April) with the intention to carry on in May with The Run Up Pt 2 Coming out of Lockdown, which I did after NaPoWriMo 2021. Things were going ...

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If your minds eye was open,

Would you consider an unabashed divulgance?

Your forthright nature checks my exubernace

Your beauty makes me timourous

I suppress my passion in fear of your answer

Do i dare wonder about consequence?

You make me feel alive, there is no other, there is no level i can gratify

I would be yours, if not for the latitude of convention.

You bring me joy

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The forests burn as funeral pyres for all our hopeless lost tomorrows,
While we sit and moan about the inconvenience of our day,
The ice melts and the waters rise as we literally drown our sorrows,
And, “It’s not down to us to sort this fucking mess.” Is all we can say,
Apathy infects our souls just as much as Covid,
It leaks from every pore as rainwater to a grate,
And our sense of urgency ...

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When given a choice of right or wrong,
Be resolute and try to stay strong.
When making a choice - choose what is good.
Even if your deeds are then misunderstood.      

If at a crossroads you find you arrive,
Take the honest path. Try not to contrive.
If you choose the wrong road you may be shamed,
And mud might forever then be your name.

So travel the path to a righteous location,
The...

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There really wasn't any "if"
I'd ever get a lockdown quiff
No matter if I'd care to whinge
I had no fear of Covid fringe

Nor could I truly be afraid
of hair too much to bun or braid
or control with any kind of caper
an Ivy League or fade and taper

I'm pretty sure that most can tell
that slicked-back wouldn't suit me well
Colouring is not my style
A Mohawk wouldn't make me smile

I...

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If you don't know you won't know
and if you don't know that, then what do you know apart from that
according to you I am not me

An eightball car without wheels but with music
In the shadows of the city, the philosopher killed his bride
I knew the bride before she got wed he shrieked
and she smashed the DJ over the head with a bottle of 16th century single malt whiskey
Mr Motorist in red a...

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Look over your shoulder...

Did someone overhear...

Is someone reading my email...

What if she finds out...

What if he knows that was me...

Are my calls monitored...

Is my password secured...

Did someone see us...

Will she make a fuss...

What if he tells our secrets...

Did he see through our stories...

She seems to suspect something...

He’s behaving differently.....

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The zombies of New Generation

They say they are from 21st Century

They are from very new generation

They called themselves GenZ

Have you ever confronted zombies in real life?

It’s so hard to find them in real life

They can be seen in reel life

They are just antonym of human

If they are alive?

They are alive only in the digitalized world.

Their mornings ...

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Letter to Yuri
(Listening to the world’s first manned spaceflight on a crystal radio set. 12th April 1961.)

From the wire in the garden
Your news came to came to me via the B.B.C. -
The Home Service they had called it -
But not for you
As you travelled further away from us than
          anyone had ever done -

Spinning in your little egg
          in the monstrous foot-pads of Laika t...

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Yesterday I stood

Staring at the moon

Hoping His Royal Majesty

Hurrys up and gets well soon.

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Way back in the distant mists of time

The nineteen eighties as I remember

I was working at the Dorchester hotel 

On the banquet bar in late December 

It was a black tie corporate affair 

Guest of honour was the Duke indeed

In the crystal room I manned the VIP bar

Catering to our distinguished guests needs

My instructions were to prepare a tray 

With a selection of drinks...

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Funny how I hear your drunken silken voice
echo in the ally, blue-black angles here
define the shadows of telephone wires
cut into a small-scale cubist canyon. 

Purple razor beams resonate 
across the memories of a
strange lad in a stranger land

digital recollections drowning 
small fry in a tank of paranoia.
At least down here I avoid ya.
You shark. Me minnow. 

I cross the thresh...

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She's the new girl in town, getting everyone's attention
Her beauty is unique, her smiling face a novel mystery
Her soft gentle touch will make your knees weak, you'll fall for her
She's jealous, and wants you all to herself
she wants you home and isolated, away from everyone else
Her enticing ways will play games with your head, she'll get what she wants
You, exposed and vulnerable, laying ...

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Alas, my emotions win tonight. 

I'm too exhausted to put up a fight.

How do I cling onto the light?

Jesus, my only hope, please make it alright. 

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Beloved husband

they scribed on the stone,

and it may be true.

There were days when

we bickered and

picked at the scabs

of our lives,

exposed raw wounds

and bled together.

But together, we

salved the hurts, healed

and cared for each other,

so there was the love

at the heart of it.

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"Give children fire, so they can grow stronger than anyone you've ever known"


Take me to the edge
Give me wings to touch the sky
Let me hustle my sorrow into the wind
May my pain echo in a kind
Might it set their world on fire
Tears pumping through their veins
Let them know what I've felt
What ache I've been in
And they'll heal as soon as their own wind whisper hits 'em
As a hurrican...

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It's the final day of the routine seven,
The jig is nearly up,
Its back to work come morning time,
Till then we'll take a sup,

Sure Nealon's is the place to go,
Its usually quiet at this time,
Leave your gaf and start to walk,
And then call in to mine

The laughing and the chatting,
As the stout begins to flow,
Suddenly its last orders,
And then we'll have to go

I can't help but f...

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