Spaceminded
I’ve drifted in space,
In endless, boundless darkness,
Escaping the allure of evil.
Where sound fades away,
yet voices still whisper,
Silent screams echoing in the cold solitude,
Invisible to all, no matter how present I am,
Like a symphony played in reverse or a piece of art unnoticed,
Where time seems to crawl in slow motion,
Adrift in a single, unchanging direct...
Friday 26th July 2024 4:44 pm
Also by Oscar Fadlala:
B&W |Three Strings Detached
There are three strings missing
On my violin,
I think of touching the last one,
But it’s very delicate and thin,
Outside the dusty window
And closed-compact walls,
Is a road that goes far
And stands tall.
Down that easy road,
Bearing risks of a rough patch,
Some blind-trustingly go aboard,
While some get weighed down
By the fear of detach.
There are...
Friday 26th July 2024 2:44 pm
Also by Manish:
Dream-Mine | Isn't Always Cute | Nobody Knows | Rebound Seekers | School Days | Disowned | Final Slide | The Great Pile |Yesterday Forever
Yesterday Forever that's where I want to be
Yesterday forever a place of sanctuary
Yesterday forever together you and me
Yesterday forever will set my spirit free
Yesterday forever
Live for the here and now they say
Embrace today with a healthy glow
Enjoy the moment it's all you have
One day at a time is the way to go
Tomorrow is a mystery oh really
I don't believe a word hey ho
Yes...
Friday 26th July 2024 12:02 pm
Also by Tom Doolan:
Stolen Summer | Ordinary Day | Photographs and Memories |Shimmery
Poem after Isabel Galleymore.
The cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly
embroidered to the front of a recyclable blue
loves to be on the show so much.
Fashion arrays, boutique sales, forest floors,
and decades of its shimmery are uncounted everywhere.
When the invitation for us to meet outside is there,
the cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly is
a neon sign announcing a caf...
Friday 26th July 2024 11:08 am
Coping
I do things
It helps;
Climb,
Run
Swim
Gym
Things.
Evading life or embracing it?
I don’t know
does it matter if it works?
I won’t stop doing things.
It somehow makes me better outside.
And in.
Maybe
It works
It’s enough.
Nothing else has a lasting effect.
So I do this.
To cope.
Friday 26th July 2024 12:10 am
Breakfast from a Child's perspective.
This morning porridge
Was my preference.
It was too hot.
Three Bears
Five strawberries on
The top.Sweetness,
An extra dimension.
The morning breeze
Added to the taste.
The birds sang in
The garden just
For me.Life is
Good.I am ten.
Thursday 25th July 2024 10:24 pm
Also by Ornella. Bushell:
Small Things |Unstoppable
You are unstoppable
Everything is possible
Just believe in yourself
Not rust on the back shelf
Be brave and take that risk
The journey may be slow or brisk
But you have the full power
To handle your dreams like a flower
The road can be quite bumpy
And at times, you may feel grumpy
But never lose hope or give up
Just keep going, like a free-flow...
Thursday 25th July 2024 10:17 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Crazy Lover | A Poet’s Love | Bullet Of Love | Close To You |Going Nowhere
I don’t want no Staycation
I’m not that kind of holiday guy
I’d rather not drive to some coastal location
When there’s budget ways to fly
I want to fall foul of Parking Patrol
Get mentally stressed and shout
I want to queue at Passport Control
Have breakfast with lager or stout
I want to remove my trainers and belt
Fill trays with keys and coins
Want to have...
Thursday 25th July 2024 7:10 pm
Also by R A Porter:
The Ballad of the Harbour Bar | The Harbour Bar | Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet |STUTTERER
It is not the cruelty of children that angers me
But that my hesitation to commit the word to air
And, aye, maybe, to the ear, the heart, was treated as an affliction
By those with the polished shoes and starched aprons;
Sometimes I was not even there when they mocked me but I knew
What they did and ‘never-a-bother-it-was-to-me’.
But it was. I was brought up to be brave but inside I was ...
Thursday 25th July 2024 4:47 pm
Also by John E Marks:
KAFIRISTAN | VACANCY | VICE | SHORT STORY by Ernest Hemingway | CALCULUS | The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc⁷ | Pilgrimage: out of the blue | DELPHIC | THE STOLEN CHILD | Shalom aleichem | The flowers of the forest | Kathy's funeral |Who Am I?
Love is wonderful
Love is perfect
Love guides me through the day
Love soothes me through the night
Love calms all fears
Love lifts all burdens
Love colors my day bright
Love deepens my night holy
Love sings all harmony
Love cleanses all sorrows
Love is wonderful
Love is perfect
I live in love
I die in love
Love is my all
I am...
love.
Thursday 25th July 2024 9:35 am
Also by Hélène:
Offerings | Everyone Is | Wondrous Panorama | Holding On | Who I Admire |21st Century family values
My grandfather was a paedophile
but otherwise he was great,
always there to meet me
at the school yard gate.
He often seemed distracted
I never quite new why,
he had a funny look
in his evil little eye.
He killed my cat one Christmas
I never could forgive,
So I vowed myself to vengeance
that he should cease to live.
He wallowed in his cancer
...Thursday 25th July 2024 9:01 am
Also by David RL Moore:
An Airshow Progressive | The Uncertain Journey | Summer headlines long ago | From Caves to Cages | The Revelation of Dreams | Haveli | Chair | A thousand faces | St James of Upper Wield | Aabey 96 ( a mountain walk ) |Morning
Morning
Wandering merchants angle about the bazaar wondering if their gold intake will take them far. The birds ruffle in their cages, the callers call out their wares, the buyers hold their hands behind their back as they lean in to inspect the peaches and the pears. With time, the smells, the sounds, the cleaving of the meat. Get it all here my friends get it all. Get your merman and yo...
Thursday 25th July 2024 6:01 am
Also by Brett Maves:
Summer Night |SERFS (rise) UP
the house built on the rock
does not collapse in the storm
yet those stones will drown you
in the flood if you are tied to it.
the prince-maker lay the cards
on the table in black & white
as squares on a chess board
the art of war was forewarned.
Alexander's father / Philip the.2nd
Roman ruler - Julius Ceasar
& horseback emperor small.man Napoleon
...Thursday 25th July 2024 12:11 am
Also by Rob Cohen:
Louder Than Bombs |"Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995)
I still dream of their tiny, starved faces in Rio
huddled together in a frightened procession
underneath white plastic sheets in dirt fled streets
and kicked wildly into the back of piss stained vans.
Bus journeys and hiding underneath seats
when bullets laced the bus whenever
it stopped for a few seconds longer
than it should have in the wrong neighbourhood.
Parties across the coas...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 9:58 pm
Cinemanalysis: The Fighting Spirit
For a couple of weeks I'd lost the fighting spirit
and the analogy'd gone lost
to find myself struggling again,
cast out
but you'll have to keep on pushing
against their piercing pressures;
as they curse after curse in ignorance
and you'll rise against the tide once more,
hopefully as friends.
Wednesday 24th July 2024 9:05 pm
Also by Auracle:
Cinemanalysis: Introduction | To Discover The Nature Of Natures | From Surviving To Thriving: Pudding Proof | From Surviving To Thriving: Baby Steps |Hammer and Flame
summoned from fitful sleep
a chilling skin-crawl
strokes my neck,
the gods are to fight
and require audience
I’m to bear witness to
their warring quarrel,
other passive bodies peer
through unlit apertures
like ghouls, motionless
all subpoenaed to attend
this heinous bout,
in a speculative flash
white, negative, black
the thunder gods attack
cr...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 4:21 pm
Who Am I?
I haven't known how to be me
Or what it even means
For all of my life
Then you entered and finally I could exhale
And take a new breath
Breathing easy to your rhythm
You are the song I always want to dance to
Never tire of hearing
Can sing along to every word
The weeks became months became years
I still get excited when the song starts to play
I still listen til the end
Maybe y...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 2:48 pm
Also by Messages from the other side:
Is this the end? | Til the bitter end |Passing
Grown
Married
Children of our own
Yet still
The children of our parents
The loving circle
Of relatives
We watched it shrink
Felt it fading
One by one
They moved on
Never to be seen again
It continued
To the very last
One mother...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 1:03 pm
Also by Tim Higbee:
Occasional Fancy | Love’s Power | Love’s Power | Little Scraps of Paper | Winds of Change |Tip toe time
Whatever you've done today
It doesn't matter now, the sign states
its time for a parade
for the tiny tippy tappers to escapade
You've seen the sights
Blinded by all the flashing lights
You've filled the senses with a pungent repulse
Tollerated the tube and the intolerance
Now you're back to the place of dreams
Where walls and ceilings go bump in the night
H...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 10:28 am
Also by Wordseffectbrew:
Echoes of playtime |Formula Milk
These days as a new grandad
I'm more formula milk than Formula 1
so whilst Lewis and Lando are screaming around Monza
testosterone fuelled
I'm changing the baby's nappy
high octane filled
Besides, I can't stand guys who act all flash
and are happy to take our hard earned cash
then hide away in Monaco or Switzerland
so the Taxman can't touch their secret stash
...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 8:19 am
Swallow Me, 2
You would be doing me a favor
that I find impossible to gift myself.
Less death since one could say
my soul passed away
a long time ago,
Silently.
Like the serenity I long for.
No, not non-existence,
just
silence.
I scream a cackle into the
cushions of my sofa
as the irony coats the inside of my mouth.
I must have
deserved
the ranci...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 2:10 am
Also by Endigo Michaels:
Swallow Me |Poem from the 1980s
Marita, Marita, nobody could beat her
At 200 metres or 4,
The steroids they took, never brought any luck
For Marita the Cheater took more.
Wednesday 24th July 2024 12:14 am
Also by branwell kent:
The Grand Tour |YOU MADE ME SWING!
ILLUSTRATION BY LEE CAMPBELL (2010)
In apple orchards, playing games, a rather fruitful tale
of teenage me and my friend James who thought he knew me well
Not just the cider talking or me being drunk on ale
Me sober seeing him naked set off my ding dong bell
At local pub one night got drunk, James only wearing socks
Him nude on that tree swing, me see the sexies...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 11:16 pm
Also by Lee Campbell:
TOWEL TALE (with poetry film) | Uncharted (with poetry film) | Keep On Keep Off | Cut Off | Towel Tale | Uncharted (The Cartographer) (with audio recording and my drawing) | Uncharted (The Cartographer) |Poltergeists
The poltergeists of every
fait accompli, roam
freely but unfree,
uttering their guttural
regrets, with a
fluency ghostly, and
so very costly...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 8:31 pm
Also by Holden Moncrieff:
Ageless... | Mellifluous Madmen |birth of new foundation
birth of mankind
birth is a new birth of joy
a new foundation is a new birth of joy
foundation is foundation of joy
mankind is founded by joy
mankind is founded by mankind
new joy is new birth of joy
birth is a new joy founded by new joy
foundation is founded by a new birth of joy
new joy is new foundation
birth of mankind is a birth of joy
joy is founded by joy
joy is founded by a ...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 7:31 pm
Catherine Bush
Audibly warmed, such mellifluous tones
a subtle mix of soft sexual moans
Transported in song to different worlds
Moments of pleasure in her every word
Visually Wowed, an alluring sight.
Provocative, dreamers Dreaming delight
The man with child's eyes since seventy-eight
Sweet vision. Aroused my pupils dilate.
Forty-six years on, I'm listening, still
A...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 5:02 pm
Also by JD Russell:
New World Sonnet | Remembering You |A Moment Between the Past And the Future
All is so ghostly in our lives and not all is mature.
There is only a moment between the past and the future.
So, hold it with both hands and don't let it go.
And this moment is called life, and it’s not a show.
The heart won't be pleased with an eternal peace,
An eternal peace is only for the grave,
And the star that falls and breaks into pieces
It is only a blind...
Tuesday 23rd July 2024 1:44 pm
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
Perfume «A La Larissa» | A New Start is Ahead | I AM AN ACTRESS | The Melody of Love | The Most Powerful Force in the Universe … | I'VE LEARNED | Please, Leave Me Alone! | SINFUL SOULS |Joe
A gracious, shrewd commander,
He was one of America’s best.
His courage and his honesty
Raised him up above the rest.
Now is the time to pass the torch
To a sharper generation,
To keep alive his legacy
And take forward a great nation.
For spiteful, ugly ideas tread
Upon Washington’s hallowed ground.
The politics of angry lies
Risks engulfing all around.
...Tuesday 23rd July 2024 8:37 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Gunman | The Wind | Useless | Fantasy Days | Premier Tour |EMPTY SHELLS
This is the shed that holds the shelves
that hold the dreams that hold the man
here is the house that holds the garden
that holds the shed that holds the shelves
that hold the dreams that hold the man
to all the things he dreamed about when
things were what he dreamed about.
But when he has to leave the house behind
that holds the garden that holds the shed
that ho...
Monday 22nd July 2024 9:06 pm
Also by ray pool:
THERE'S A TRAIN COMING |THE SIMPLE LIFE
Aim for a life of simple security,
One that is based in easeful purity.
Avoid the traps of poverty and wealth,
Both injurious to the health.
Beware of property or its envied lack,
Both may break the bearer's back.
For property only complicates life,
Adding to its woe and strife.
Happy the soul who owns the least
Enjoying most at life's long feast.
If you have enough f...
Monday 22nd July 2024 5:33 pm
Angry and confounded
People think he’s sad and crying,
shedding tears of regret,
for the love they lost,
a tapestry unraveled by careless hands.
No, he’s not crying, nor is he depressed,
but caught in the thorns of truth,
a revelation that shattered his trust,
like glass underfoot, sharp and unforgiving.
He believed in spirits,
the tamers draped in wisdom’s cloa...
Monday 22nd July 2024 12:17 pm
Also by Watts:
Useless pursuit | Result: Failed and demoted 😭 | The release | Lilly's heartbroken lover | Witches and Angels | Lilly's lover |A Little Thought
Here’s a little thought--
We drop our guns
We gaze into each other’s cataracts
And see the world in color after all these wasted suns
Monday 22nd July 2024 12:15 pm
Also by The Chessplayer:
Phantom Guest | Bizarre | I Love the Sound | Suffice |My Darling Polymath and I [1]
We spoke of alluring arias, sweet melodies on high,
Then pondered the bursa of Fabricius, and how birds can fly.
Confucius gave us wisdom, his teachings ever clear,
Next, we explored dyadic deaths, where love and fear appear,
Existential quests, seeking meaning's thread,
Fractals' depths, where patterns endlessly spread.
With much more to explore beyond the letter F,
Our ...
Monday 22nd July 2024 11:33 am
Also by Keletso:
Life's Dance |Warning,don’t drink and drive !!!
Three friends were celebrating on a night out.
Things changed due to what was to come about.
One goes to the bar to purchase the next round,
One friend suddenly falls flat to the ground.
"What's he having?"said the barman pointing to the man on the floor.
"He's driving,he'd better not have anymore!!!"
Monday 22nd July 2024 11:20 am
Also by hugh:
Stuck in hospital what your loved ones really need |Allow yourself to heal
You talk about the past as it defines you
I hope one day you look past the pain and trama
For there is a gift inside you
For the world to see
Your kind and caring personality
You are not a prisoner of your past
Your prison cell has always been open
It time for you to walk on through
And let the world in and all it has to offers you
Nothing is ever broken or beyond repair
It takes tim...
Monday 22nd July 2024 9:19 am
Also by Tales from the other side of secret Love Affair:
Running | Three dots |a bad habit
i find myself texting you late at night
until you block me i’ll keep on coming back
wish i was only here out of spite
but in reality i need to talk to someone during my panic attack
i know it’s selfish to use you for reassurance
however it’s the only thing that can soothe my racing mind
and i haven’t gotten enough money for insurance
so i hope it doesn’t make you feel c...
Monday 22nd July 2024 5:12 am
Also by Violer:
late night walking | going blind |Beware the Ides of March
The ides of March and Julius Caesar
turned out to be a luckless geezer.
His pals had planned a sneak attack
and smiling, stabbed him in the back.
Sunday 21st July 2024 4:36 pm
Also by Trevor Alexander:
The Anangu Of Uluru | Malice |TEETHING TROUBLES
I remember my grandad telling me when I was little (about 3’ 6”, I’d guess) that, for a 21st birthday present for my grandma, he paid for her to have all her teeth out and dentures fitted. Apparently, that wasn’t uncommon in those days.
For one thing, it avoided a lifetime contending with rotting teeth and toothache. (I suspect lead toothpaste tubes might have played a part). But also, this ...
Sunday 21st July 2024 3:18 pm
Also by John Coopey:
DEAD FLOWERS | SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) | BUDAPEST SHOES |Boredom
What should we do when we get bored?
When we have nothing to do and no interests stored?
Nothing at all to occupy our time
Whether we are young or old or in our prime.
We may feel troubled and very frustrated,
Some pastime would now be appreciated.
Though sometimes there is nothing that we can find
To put our boredom completely behind.
So being bored is never pleasant,
Maybe it will h...
Sunday 21st July 2024 2:28 pm
The fight within the fight
In the ring, under lights so bright,
Stands Kava, young and fierce tonight.
At seventeen, his dreams are vast,
A boxer’s future, built to last.
But shadows loom, a silent plight,
The smoke that dims his inner light.
With every drag, his strength betrayed,
A fighter’s spirit, sorely frayed.
Kava, hear the bell's clear call,
To rise above, to never fa...
Sunday 21st July 2024 4:14 am
Also by AccidentalFun:
The fisher. | Keys for happiness |Rust
I'm afraid I'll lose my edge
if I don't cut myself with it
afraid there's no proof
of my life
if it isn't pouring crimson
afraid that
I'm living in vain if
I'm not
living in vein
Im afraid I'll lose my edge
if I don't cut myself with it
Sunday 21st July 2024 12:06 am
A Conversation With Grief
“Why so sad?”
“Well, it’s you Grief, actually.”
“Oh yeah, it’s kind of my thing.”
“Why do you make people so inconsolable?”
“It’s really Love’s fault. We’re pretty much a package deal. Eventually, you’ll get to know us both quite well.”
“Your timing is terribly inconvenient.”
“Love doesn’t have a regular schedule. It’s a bit hectic for me too, to be ...
Saturday 20th July 2024 10:01 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
On Our Way to Colorado | Those Girls | Permanent Loan |Weekly WalkaboutsVerse, E.G., Poem 86 of 230: ROBOTS
Poem 86 of 230: ROBOTS
In factories,
I’ve spent sometime
Working machines
Whose goods should rhyme -
Moulding machines,
Whose plastic shots
Are sorted by
Auto-robots.
Well, now robots -
Before ‘twas folks:
Process workers...
Employment hoax?
(C) David Franks 2003 - https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com
Saturday 20th July 2024 9:26 pm
Peace
Oh, peace, where have you gone?!?
You seemed to have slipped away from me!
Too many worries are haunting me!
Even in my dreams!
I long for peace!
Saturday 20th July 2024 9:14 pm
Spiritual Anima
human nature and
sympathetic sensitivity
parasitic
thought forms and will
manifest in woman and child
more so
than the inward hatred from a negative mentality
Saturday 20th July 2024 8:01 pm
Also by Shawn Garcia:
Déjà vu & Phantasmagoria | traffic & drugs | 11:11 | reincarceration | Clothing Line | Pandora's Box | just walk away | Divine Intervention | questioning my destiny |Erosion.
Love doesn’t just stop loving
Love is eroded by the constant drip, drip, drip.
The drip of neglect
The drip of withdrawal
The drip of rejection
Love holds on for as long as it can
Hoping and praying for it’s own survival
Love will never abandon itself
Love will just fall
Into introspection
That is when love
Forgets
To
Come
Back
Leaving in search
Of another’s affection...
Saturday 20th July 2024 4:54 pm
STADE CARNIVAL ( OLYMPICS 2024)
Buzz is there all around
Players gearing up with the hope of excelling in Stade arena
Day and night with the goal of Altius
Ah! notches to go before the podium – Hymn for motivation
Scribes raring to go all out with razzmatazz
Raking up past history and records
To have a melange with live saga
Phryges is all set ready to rock
Council all set for the ribbon
The Torch, Un...
Saturday 20th July 2024 1:43 am
On The Right Track
Andy Npoet and Polly Anna Rose release their debut album Polly - Ocean in a Bottle.
Musical partnership plays
Words blend in
Poetic vocal cords
Sounds of creativity
Collaboration in all
The right places
Now sit back
Yours to enjoy.
Friday 19th July 2024 2:47 pm
Barren
This house has the stench of a suicide.
A young death, were a noose was tied.
The spirit remains...forever to roam.
This can never become a happy home.
The house has no energy, just bad will.
This house, it shivers from an evil chill.
In this house no ‘happy death’ occurred.
Angry voices from the past can be heard.
A house should be a happy, sacred place.
In th...
Friday 19th July 2024 11:46 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
The Sea | Emma and Rachel | For Alba And Nola | Guide You Home |
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