Come Sit with Me
Come sit with me, sailor
Tell me your tales
You’ve travelled the oceans
You’ve danced with dolphins
And sung with whales
Your weathered voice
So husky and wizened
It give me the chills
I’m eager to hear
All that you hold dear
We have time to kill
I’ve nowhere to be
We’ll drink whiskey
And wine
Til we’ve had our fill
Tell me your...
Thursday 30th June 2022 8:50 pm
Also by Clare:
Irony | Why? | Under the Mackerel Sky | Give Me Poetry | An Accident of Birth | Summer Rain | Aphrodite's Blushes |Trollies in Kremenchuk
I curse the bloody things sometimes.
Last Monday at the Shopping Mall
I grabbed one but a wheel was jammed.
The next one veered off to the right
And the last trolley in the row
Simply collapsed before my eyes.
I went outside to the car park
And spotted a shiny model
In the far corner. Just the job,
I thought, and marched off to claim it.
Light and mobile, it was perfe...
Thursday 30th June 2022 4:04 pm
Also by Stephen Gospage:
The Wrong America | The Hill | Drinking Culture | The Long Temptation | At the Front | Le Plat Pays | Splendid Youth | Landmines | Jubilee | Fancy Man | A Hundred Days |People With Hearts
The world is full of different people
Some at home, others on the steeple
A few that shows care and appreciation
While others paint their true image with decoration
No two people will ever be the same
Some with pure hearts, others just playing a game
Making it difficult to trust and believe
Since nowadays it is all about lies and deceives
Being nice has become a crime
Si...
Thursday 30th June 2022 12:47 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Every Little Counts | The Feeling Of Love | The Breeze | Summer | Lost In Paradise |Our Turkish Pet
Here in our Turkish garden
we have a central water feature
Two ponds joined by a waterfall
home to a mysterious creature
No one has ever caught a glimpse
he always stays hidden out of sight
I have searched for him many times
morning to noon and into the night
We may never have spotted him
but everyone knows that he lives there
He often gives himself away
when he replies to t...
Thursday 30th June 2022 6:47 am
Also by julie callaghan:
RIP Dame Deborah James #Bowelbabe | Work Of Genius | Dancing Diamonds | Tray Up B1tch | Summer Days | Perfect View | Japanese Primrose | Passionflower | Monkey Rock | The Cow And The Catty Cat | Rich Pickings | Good Morning | Even So | What A Waste | Lovable Creatures | Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival | Paddington And The Queen | Mr & Mrs Woodpecker | Dancing Circles | Graceful Dance | Spiderlamb | Normal Service Resumed | Wildflower Meadow | Paddington Came To Tea | Chain Of Flames | Save Ruskin’s View | Today | Our Wonderful Queen | This Afternoon | Four Little Bunnies |i survived NYC
My brain is leaking out my nose.
leaving an imprint on the soles of my shoes as I walk on,
it splatters,
squelching,
as the birds pitter, patter on,
a minuscule impact behind the larger one.
the sky tilts with me,
f-lling
fall-n
fa-l (how do you spell -alling? i thnik. ha;ve I ‘forgtten’ HO?W t0 write to )
Click
Click
...
Thursday 30th June 2022 3:15 am
Also by Mel:
im sitting with all this green | For ASCGDF:K | Ode to my distraction |age appropriate dilemmas
.
In this lifetime of striving
childhood's tentative bumbling,
youth's arrogant impertinence,
middle-aged regimented conceit,
in old age, encrusted intolerance;
when will we likely ever win?
.
Thursday 30th June 2022 2:59 am
Also by Red Brick Keshner:
desire | twilight promise | harvest | reminder | Are you my butterfly? | a whiff off camphor | Cinderella dreaming | wash | simply, hope | set this captive free | seasonal heart | the pocket knife | you ARE | a poet's tears | considered exchanges | promise | crocus buds | Midnight Rendezvous | Spring's unfurling | to write on sand | elegy for Jonathan, the prince |Hello again Mr. Ink
Hello again Mr. Ink,
It's been a long time and I'm kinda glad.
Everytime you come around is because things are bad.
I havn't felt the need to have you in my life.
But lately...
That desire has been back.
The need to write my feelings down.
The need to cry as I type..
Funny how back then I worte with pen and paper with my tears runing down.
Look at me now..
All grown...
Thursday 30th June 2022 2:11 am
*strength
Nothing in life remains the same
If there's a down today
Be sure tomorrow there will be up again
Nobody remains the same in life
Those who are your perfidious enemy today
May become your staunchest friend in times to come
Never be disappointed in life's journey
If there's a huge mountain or an ocean vast
God will soon provide you strength and aircraft
...
Thursday 30th June 2022 1:09 am
Also by N.B:
*comfortable and cozy | *Goodbye song | *misunderstandings | *effortless | *lessons of life | *wise decision | *Missed opportunity |Rosemarie
When you came to me, through the open window
All the torn envelopes of me came into your hands,
There was nothing in them — just love that you could throw away –
If you chose. You threw it straight back to me, I caught it, we were away.
You gave me a lot of praise with your eyes
For being alive
I thought you are desiring reciprocation, but you weren’t
You, too, just wanted love.
You were...
Wednesday 29th June 2022 11:35 pm
Also by John E Marks:
KAFIRISTAN | Silence | Screw loose | This empty northern hemisphere | For Kassia: A Bold and Beautiful Woman, a Byzantine Poet | Molly | from swerve of shaw to blend of bray | Outfoxing the Furies | The Pontic Greeks | Afterword | Janissary 2 | A pilgrimage of sorts | Jannisary | Elegy | MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE | Chris remembered near water | A malevolent curiosity | Vestiges | A loving heart is truest wisdom | The Mathematics of a Genocide | GHOST DANCE | Pourquoi? | Taliesin: Radiant Brow | Two and a half questions in search of an answer | A Psychiatric Disorder | Time | Possession | Monotone | ROMANY | Walking solo | Early June | Those blue-remembered-hills |No Body Cares
Why cry, just smile
cuz nobody cares
If it hurts, if it pains
nobody cares.
If it is difficult; if it's scary
nobody cares.
If you are low, if you are sad
nobody cares.
If you are tired, if you are struggling
nobody cares.
Just keep going, just keep smiling, just keep trying,
Even if nobody cares...
Wednesday 29th June 2022 2:10 pm
Also by Krishna:
........... |No love
https://youtu.be/56_tMgR3FXw
There was a time when I was in love
'My moon' that I called him
Once upon a time it was divine
Now it's a ghost from the past
It haunts me and taunts me lots
There was once a time
I was madly in love with time
He was just that awesome guy
I fell in love with, head to toe
He reversed it, when he found his love
T...
Wednesday 29th June 2022 6:19 am
Also by Sunshine:
Divine wisdom | Park business | Breakthrough | P. 2 | Love | Myself | Life part 1 | Freedom | P. 1 | What's meant to be, will definitely be. | Not a poem. | A narrow escape | Perseverance |Stoned
Put that stone down and turn your back!
Look a little further within.
Guilt is ubiquitous. It crosses our land.
There is no one you can crucify
To take away your sin.
Stop screaming abuse at your TV,
Condemning the proclivities of celebrity!
They are no different to you, or me.
We know temptation only too well.
Faults you see in others, correct in yourself.
Not e...
Tuesday 28th June 2022 2:42 pm
Also by John Botterill:
Whose words are they, anyway? | The Blue Balloon | A Poetic Complaint. | Confessional | In the Shadow of St Leonard's | We Are Where We Are! | Word Search | The Queen and her Platinum Generation | A Jubilee Line or two... | All Things Considered | The River of Lethe |Self Discovery
Self Discovery
Welcome to the real me
for I have made a discovery
From beneath the veneer of conformity
I have realised my true identity
The old self of endless falsehood
has been transformed into a new personhood
I have come to accept my own ecstasy
where I acknowledge my predilictions and some fantasy
A new person has emerged for all to see
and there are some w...
Tuesday 28th June 2022 9:13 am
Also by keith jeffries:
Palm Trees | Artists, Writers & Poets speak out |Now and Again.
Now and again
I have to remind myself
that shopping in the kids section as an adult
wasn’t an achievement.
But, when he hugs me
happy
he can wrap an arm around me
and I fit inside.
I am proud.
I have to remind myself
that going to sleep with a belly that begs
does not mean I have won.
I have to remind myself,
that hearing my heart
does not mean that I am...
Tuesday 28th June 2022 4:52 am
Also by ali:
In Bloom. |A Simple Question
I asked God, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked Allah, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked the Buddha, what is my purpose?
There was nothing, but the stillness of time
I asked my daughter, what is my purpose?
She said, with a wrinkled brow
To be my Dad, of course
To have met & married my Mam
...Monday 27th June 2022 8:08 pm
Also by Stephen W Atkinson:
The Whisper In The Attic | Bird Flew | This Day | Vanilla Sky | Kangarude | Hammer Time! | Bananacharma | Somnium | Starborn |WAITING FOR MACCA
WAITING FOR MACCA
'Long tall Sally she's built for speed'
We're waiting for Macca
'She's got everything'
At Glastonbury
'That uncle John needs'
Oldest performer to top the bill
'O babee'
Not long now
'Yeaaaaah babeee'
We just can't wait
'Havin' some fun
Tonight’ !
@David Subacchi
June 2022.
June 2022.
Monday 27th June 2022 5:49 pm
Tests
I ask myself if I love you? Am I attached to you
in the way you always say you are to me?
I test myself by thinking of being without you,
or of something bad happening to you
These tests stir a deep sadness in me for a time
The pieces of feelings assemble now with clarity
This is how I build my love
Monday 27th June 2022 3:06 pm
Counting fingers
Monday 27th June 2022 2:12 pm
Also by Tommy Carroll:
Spills | 9 taps to access |Probe of Life
me and the world
itself,
both suffering in
unexplainable pain
but why are you smiling
like a poem that has not
finished?
but why the flowers are so
blissed, smelling like
heaven?
why the world itself
is quite avernal
with the flowers in it?
04/04/2022
Monday 14:20
Monday 27th June 2022 1:15 pm
Also by İrem Duygu KÖMÜRCÜ:
Evil | Murth |Sabr and shukr (patience and gratitude)
Never lose hope, never give in to gloom
This life is only a test prepared for afterlife
Never give up on life and think difficulties are doom
It's only there to make you strong and attain Jannah eventually
Sometimes your destiny takes a different turn
What we pray for isn't granted to us
Allah makes us wait, wait and wait little more longer
To finally bestow upon us th...
Monday 27th June 2022 12:15 pm
Also by Ghazala lari:
Ameen | Dedicated to Allah (s.w.t) 🌹🌹🌹 |posh
POSH
Have you ever used a bidet
For washing feet or bits?
Or played a round of croquet
Had high tea at the Ritz?
Are you good with 12 bore shotguns
When on a peasant shoot?
Is your name too double barrelled
Are your family full of loot?
Have you eaten oysters, caviar
Or used a butter knife?
Do you know what canapes are
Are Defenders on your drive?
...Monday 27th June 2022 11:34 am
Also by mike booth:
Liminal |Maybe I'm Amazed
Millions tuned in to the B.B.C to watch Paul McCartney among many other singers and groups perform at Glastonbury.
Dance tonight festival
Singalong rock concert
Enthusiastic Beatle fans
Ageless songs playing
Vocally engaged atmosphere
Reliving ob le di ob le da
Let me roll
It to ya
Elevating your love
Past joins present
Tribute to John
Unforgetable George Harris...
Monday 27th June 2022 1:38 am
Also by Nigel Astell:
Hard To Swallow | The Don't Give Ups Wear Invisible Medals | Torpedoes of Love Explode on Fake Island | Earwigging Mother Gets Herself Into Trouble |The Adorable Puppy Dog Who Would Not Submit To Peace
There was a man who refused to be neutral
Even when it was vitally crucial
When politics fails
War entails
And if Putin don't stop it then who shall?
Does anyone else think it's obscene
To cheer on the war like it's a football team?
Sunday 26th June 2022 4:29 pm
Saint Rigobert's Graveyard (Grimstone Low)
Saint Rigobert’s Graveyard (Grimstone Low)
It’s hard to imagine Saint rigobert’s graveyard
If you don’t come from Grimstone Low
It’s a glorious site overlooking the village
With views of the cesspits below
As you meander up Dead Donkey meadow
On the footpath from Lynch Mob’s Birch
You arrive at a quaint little lychgate
The back entrance into the church
Th...
Sunday 26th June 2022 11:49 am
Also by kJ Walker:
UBIQUE |Vision
A woman trudges home from the doctor’s office ruminating the news of another pregnancy. Four kids at home, all under five years. Maybe with luck they’ll burn the apartment down. She’s left knives lying around hoping for the best but there’s no more dog food for them to fight over. Her breasts would be down to her waist except her belly props them up, she thinks gratefully. “It’s important to be gr...
Sunday 26th June 2022 6:50 am
Also by K. Lynn:
Writing |Wept of Ectasis
Of how deep is my wept!
That my whole body kept
Combined the constant fatigue and tense
Remeerged my lack of sense
Unleashed by your absence
Along the ectasis and the high
Of a long Saturday night
Sunday 26th June 2022 5:02 am
This Better Be Good
The name belongs to the body
the body belongs to the mind
the mind beholds a mouse on a corn stalk
stoops to its subject like a falcon to prey
The name is called, a button pressed
the body turns, all but a machine
the mind collapses a cornfield in an instant
and all the mice in my England run free
Saturday 25th June 2022 8:40 pm
Also by Adam Whitworth:
Something About The Hypotenuse | At The Watering Hole | Sea Level |She Chooses
She Chooses
She chooses abstinence
because she won’t risk pregnancy
She chooses abstinence
because she’s not interested
She chooses contraception
because she does not want children
She chooses contraception
because she does not want children yet
She chooses contraception
because she has enough children
...Saturday 25th June 2022 3:55 pm
White Feather
A cute white feather floated into my hall.
I think it was my Mum making a call!
As today she wanted to come with me.
Because beautiful Nola, I was off to see!
Clever idea Mum, so off to Emma's I went.
And some lovely time with Nola we spent.
I played in the garden with Alba while there.
Silly Grandad left with soaking wet hair!
As Nola slept and Alba had her little snack.
It became ti...
Saturday 25th June 2022 10:26 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
3 Legged Devil | True Love Meaning! | Yew Tree 19/6/22 | For My Dad | Made Once | 'Nicey' | Behind Every Badge | Happy Heavenly Birthday Mum | Now My Foe | 'Again Again'!! | Embers | Come To Me |Minch Surgery last Monday
It might be gout, arthritis,
I’ll take some blood.
What for?
To test for uric acid, diabetes
and other things, he muttered.
I might have asked: Like what?
But with his box of needles out
I worked on breathing calmly,
averting eyes from the likely spot;
although there was no pain.
Even at this age there is something
in my look that makes him tell me
I am brave.
Good boy, or...
Saturday 25th June 2022 10:00 am
Clarion Call
Animate the mind,
Awaken to the infinitesimal
Gradations of experience,
Heed the clarion call of life
To take the stage of existence,
To upstage the fear
And sneer at the doubt,
So that the once risible
Is all of a sudden feasible,
And the focus that was narrow,
Effervesces to welcome
The essence in the flight
Of every sparrow...
Saturday 25th June 2022 2:07 am
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Learning Curve | Graceless | Ashore? | Interplay | Langue de bois | Nomad |4 A GiRl
Lithuanian girl,
Feet in the Baltic, icy waters in summer sun
Looks out towards Gotland , and wonders what will become.
An island , steadfast, proud of history
Its past like all , surrounds a mystery
Her eyes grey as summer clouds,
Pierce the light,see through the shrouds
They clear the way for future life
Determined, calm, wise, and bright.
Chin on hand star...
Friday 24th June 2022 11:41 pm
Also by Edbreathe:
old CAT | citadel |Walking In The Wonder Of Midsummer Day
The morning light is bright, expectant
Footsteps echo, voices are soft
Riverside homes wait quietly
Behind pots of vibrant summer flowers
Banks of grey mud, gleam
Reflecting silvered sunshine
A woodland underworld opens
Inviting the traveller into its kingdom
To shelter beneath a leafy tree-made bower
Sharp noonday sun filters through
A moving cover of green
D...
Friday 24th June 2022 9:15 pm
love, A seance.
I’m drowning in my own sorrow
My clocks ticking while time is moving, I just stand here
Awaiting for you to see me for who I truly am but you stared only seeing mayhem
My insides screaming out to you as my lips are sealed shut “I’m more then that.. if you just look a little deeper baby, you’ll see that I fit the missing pieces to your puzzle like you fit ya fitted caps”
and I’m sorry that my l...
Friday 24th June 2022 6:05 pm
The Itch Explained
I feel an itch
On my back
What is this
On my back
Nothing
Nothing is there
Just the itch
I thought it was a hair
What’s this pain
In my face
And my glands
They are blowing up
All over the place
Now a spot on my head
It’s red
It burns
Wait
What’s this mess
On my face
Something isn’t right
It’s keeping me up at night
It’s Shingles ...
Friday 24th June 2022 1:28 pm
Also by JAZ:
Lifted | The Movement |Nishinomiya City Fogs
Expectable tracing
a light spreads a fire
a dark at night
red clouds natural science’s task of decipherment
diagrams expend texts reported by the coast
a snap, a rasp, a chatter on the seabed
Onagas castanet in Ginkgo
precursors foreshock zoology
cumbrous seismisms mackerel skies
the scenery blurs
long hairs in the north in Gamelion
Hinoko rainbow between mountains
black, yellow ...
Friday 24th June 2022 12:20 pm
Generation X spineless cowards
I lost myself somewhere under the rainbow filled with lead poisoning but it's okay if the polar caps are only melting the world will be underwater it doesn't matter if it's soon
We called it home but it was something more about lie that mother told us to get on our knees and pray all the bad away would have had better luck praying for fish gills
To put the guns to our heads generation of no ...
Friday 24th June 2022 3:19 am
Also by Mikey V Kinsey:
Chocolate Desolated Abusive Lovestruck Home |i cant keep up
Blue ticks this, left on opened that .instagram famous spiritual numb,
She was fat in school in fact she was here only fan,know she racked up on only fans,
Her mate was shy now she holding hands with a dealer and living the life,
Oh I can't keep up, can i just have a cup of tea and sit by a tree .
Cause the young fella who wanted to be a plumber is know an infunce,
Oh i can't keep ...
Thursday 23rd June 2022 9:34 pm
Also by Keith Byrne:
please |BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
To start the day like a champion
You should start the day with a shag,
A hand-lowered shite of 6lb weight,
A can of Long Life and a fag.
Thursday 23rd June 2022 6:02 pm
Also by John Coopey:
THE LONGEST DAY | HEPPY’S FISH AND STRIP | YOU BETTER MOVE ON | I'LL HANG ON | THE ZINC BATH | F***ING NEAR WATER |The Burden of Sight
I see it in your eyes!
You have fallen into the trap of age
Your eyes are becoming deem
The sparkle I used to admire has faded
You've seen too much
That you have internalized it all
You let it play everytime you close your eyes
You've let the burden of vision
Fast-forward your days
Didn't we say we will stay the same?
You promised that we wouldn't get old
We would always turn misfort...
Thursday 23rd June 2022 10:30 am
Also by Inoe CN:
A Glimpse of Love |I Demand to See the Manager
Someone please bring me the manager of the working class
Some of them have stopped doing exactly what I asked
And they’re forming picket lines that other people won’t pass
So, someone please bring me the manager of the working class
Someone please bring me the manager of the working class
Richard Madeley on the telly said it was someone called Marx
But when I ask who’s in ch...
Thursday 23rd June 2022 7:28 am
The Rollercoaster of Beethoven
Beethoven - we truly love to hear.
He may bring us sorrow or send us cheer.
It is like riding on a rollercoaster,
As we enter the mind of this great composer.
At times it may be slow and steady,
But what is to come? And are we ready?
You at first go up but then shoot down,
And you feel you'll crash right to the ground.
We go side to side and round and round.
We may loop the loop - go ...
Tuesday 21st June 2022 9:45 am
Also by Stuart Vanner:
A New World |'Anyone can be a fisherman in May’ - Ernest Hemingway
Observation is one thing but nothing of any consequence is written regarding becoming a fisherman: The pursuit of fish is a different matter.
It is only through the pursuit of fish that one can truly become a fisherman. In time, pursuing fish becomes a redundant side effect.
Becoming a fisherman is a hands on affair, there are no shortcuts, you won’t get there by trying. Indee...
Monday 20th June 2022 11:37 pm
CHEERS MY LOVE.
It rained today, just like it did four years ago
Heavens were sad to lose their own
Guardians were happy to receive their own
Smiles were wide, the bundle of joy had arrived.
But when it was time,
Heavens were happy to receive their own back
Angels celebrated the reunion
Guardians cried their hearts out
and the rains were glad to sent you back home.
Memories st...
Monday 20th June 2022 9:43 pm
Also by kanini Beatrice:
NEW DAY |DIY AT SEVENTY EIGHT
Don't even think about it - that's my advice
but who listens to that?
certainly not me, though it's all my idea
thinking of DIY at seventy eight.
I'm nursing my wounds just now
and re - grouping as my energy falls
it's all about screws and nails
twisting and shouting with pain and frustration
trying to match the plan with the dream
of proud completion, standing back
...
Monday 20th June 2022 9:25 pm
Also by ray pool:
FALSE WIDOW INVASION | SUCCESSION | LETTER TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE |"Funk Space"
Monday 20th June 2022 6:21 pm
Also by Michael Morales:
"Odeum" |girls and their nonsense.
floating in that acrid pool of nothingness,
a feather kissed the tip of my nose and whispered softly over my face.
in that moment, decided.
i watch the village of women who surround me each day,
awash with a soft awe at their mossy eyes and woolen hands.
i link arms with the girl i love most on a late night walk,
running from the boy who asked me to give apart of myself.
...
Monday 20th June 2022 3:08 pm
Also by Nadia Coia:
you know the bliss of evil | an ode to Nancy | the day I decorated one side of my wall | parties are the end of the world. | immature in elementary |No Strings
So you wanted a relationship
With no strings attached
Well they say love is like a violin
So don’t expect to play me
Monday 20th June 2022 12:32 pm
Also by Rick Varden:
Seventy Years |CHANGES
I liked to peruse travel brochures
Wishing I was there.......
Fine sand dribbling through my toes
And the tang of Ambre Solaire.
.
But now I prefer the online sights
Provided by race horses
Digging in their well-shod hooves
Around assorted courses..
With the aroma of instant coffee
And a list of runners to scan;
A contemplative sip...a considered "tip".
Occ...
Monday 20th June 2022 11:47 am
Also by M.C. Newberry:
NOTIONS | END OF LIFE CARE - for my brother-in-law David Wood | JUBILEE - The Jewel in the Crown | "IF" - a version for today - Brian Bilston |
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