Poetry Blog by David R Mellor
Tags from last 12 months
Standing in the crowd
Staring at the billboard…
I feel so important to you
Staring at the shop window
I am tempted to believe…
If I empty my pockets I will forget about you
Sitting on the sofa
Watching the adverts of pristine lives…
Each and everyone
Not a care in the world
Joyous at the insurance policy
Or furniture that just perfectly fits in
Lying down
Just prior to nails being hammered in…
I...
Monday 3rd December 2018 8:55 pm
The Screen
Words flicker on the screen blocking out our dreams
They want more and more not nine hours but twenty spinning the clock till we crawl on the floor
Words decay in front of our of eyes a meaningless babble cross referenced and died
Then they lift our dying limbs to type a few more
Then leave our rotting carcass by the door
Monday 3rd December 2018 8:49 pm
The Path Becomes Slower (WW1 100 years)
The path becomes slower…
The orders become louder
The constant din of shattering shells
Like pots and pans being washed and put away by you
My Mind becomes slower…
The generals clearly don’t know what to do
I take a bullet carefully from my friend’s arm, as if I’m holding you
My sleep has become numb…
The path to the other side has become shorter
Like the one ...
Monday 3rd December 2018 8:34 pm
The Hokey Cokey (Brexit Mess–up mix)
You put David Davis in out
In Dominic Rabb, out, in Stephen Barclay
You shake them all about
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn this country upside down
That's what it's all about...
Woah, the hokey cokey
Woah, the hokey cokey
Woah, the hokey cokey
Knees bent, arms stretched, let me out
You put your right wing in
The moderates out
In, out, in, out
You shake them all about
You do t...
Monday 3rd December 2018 8:29 pm
Pillar box red - Pillar box dead
An off the public school cuff remark
Meant “in jest”
at “Johnny foreigner” to him and the rest
led to her beating
led to her death
Pillar box red
Pillar box dead
He writing aloof in the Toffs Telegraph
High above us all
Trickled down to the street below
Pillar box red
Pillar box dead
It’s ok to hate
And now ridicule
And now persecute
Taking down the veil
For hatred t...
Friday 10th August 2018 10:18 pm
Liscard – Wirral 27-29 July 2018
The neck of the wine cracked open
And I thought I’d better join them
But I didn’t
Instead I looked in or dipped my toes into
Or faced a discrimination so many had done before
Friday –
As our taxi rolled in “the Keg” was letting loose
Those just out of school to fight over a woman
Or beat themselves up
I fiddled with the cash machine, as if on the edge of a war zone
...Tuesday 31st July 2018 1:22 am
Swan Song
No life is right
No life is wrong
No life is left
With just a swan song
Somewhere along the life-line
You woke someone up
You made someone happy not fed up
And although you let people eat you up inside
You were too young to realise
That your life
Is not right
Your life
is not wrong
Your life was singing,
as it will at the swan song
Friday 27th July 2018 6:28 pm
"Dating In A State"
I’m hanging around on a dating
In a state
Keyboards covered in tobacco, crisps, sticky with beer
Telling someone I like to climb mountains,
I’m calm and sensitive I’m in control and I’m solvent
But I’m typing.. words …I can’t ….see
And I’m starting to spill truths
“Divorced” “Kids”
“Oh “
I like betting, drinking, smoking ,doing most things to stop me...
Friday 27th July 2018 3:57 pm
Please take all your belongs with you When leaving earth
Please take all your belongs with you
When leaving earth
Collect all your troubles
Pack them tight
As your leaving tonight
Remember when you loved once
Count each one of them,
On the last breath,
Don’t miss any out
No matter how small
Please take all of them with you
When leaving this life
Mistakes X
Regrert X
Pain X
Grief X
And s...
Saturday 27th January 2018 9:53 pm
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