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This is the Body I Love (a year of terror 2022)

This is the body I love

And I can change it

 

You take food from it

Let it shiver in winter

Make it wait 9 hours in an ambulance

As it withers away

 

This is the body I love

But you have changed it

 

It waits in a

bomb shelter

and screams

don’t kill me

 

It gasps for breath

In a frozen sea

Please don’t

Drown me

 

This is the...

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2022

September 2022 Collage Poem: Thirst for Words

Eat or heat my stiffening bones

Like demons in the night on paid vacation

 

Aesop dons his tanning lotion

Admires his Trumpian colour and prays

For constancy with his New Look.

 

Golden girls, clicking high heels, sweeping, swaying hair

An oasis of ambiguity in the desert, for the parched

And for us all.

 

Unsure how we feel in response to a death

And twelve lo...

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Septembercollage poem2022Queen's DeathThirst for Wordstest

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

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