Ghosts (Troubadours, Miners and Lost Souls)

Ghosts rise from the cracks of the grey stone pavements, walk this town in top hats with feathers fitted in, and wear candy stripped blazers.

A mind so full its overspill is packed in plastic bags and portable suitcases, people colour minds, brighten days as they move to different places.

Passing strangers fade  but thoughts and voices like stale smoke linger, until their negativity rises to...

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The Runaway (A true story)

I  heard somewhere that getting away from it all was good for your mental health, green spaces, less faces, gives a real feeling of genuine wealth. 

So, I contemplated my predicament skipped probation and decided to head for Clachan bridge the bridge that connects both ends of the Atlantic.

From the city places to pastures new, passing scenic shades of pastoral green,  purple heathers, reds,...

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Rhythm of the Day

Rhythm of the day

Great oniums thunder clouds of midnight rumble, rolling like a baseline of rhythm through the dark, deep night.

Dispensing with the first glint of the morning's colour, and the shrilled chorus of the soon-to-be sunrise of violin light.

My alarm spikes annoyances and inconvenience, interrupting the silence of some momentary and unbroken sleep.

While the remains of drea...

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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Blah blah,blah, blah, blah,blah,blah.

Celebrity contestants, consumerism at its best, Puppets of light entertainment, dance and sing like marionettes.

Money, fame and fortune, follow me on Instagram, market me as influencer, I wanna be as famous as I can. 

Kings and queens of countries, represent the commonwealth, there’s nothing common about you, you feed off stolen wealth.

Bang the d...

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Battling Mind

If I thought a smile could make you happy, I would be smiling every day, and if my words helped calm your mind,  there wouldn't be enough words to say.

This anxiety which you're masking, well you get that all from me, its heredity like my loves infectious,  when your feeling low draw strength from me.

Here I am, a battling mind, every decision, movement and thought, no one told me about copi...

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This Imaginary Life-Part 3 (Nature)

The epoch of this age is awaiting, generations are awash with lies, there’s a sense of something happening, as two sides of our world collide.

There's the gnarled screaming war cry, sharpened by a dumb ill truth, honesty is becoming twisted, pulled screaming from its peaceful roots.

The con artists thrive in elitist power, beaming smiles, imagine life, when people are being used as bargainin...

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This Imaginary Life -Part 2 (The Nurture of)

Born naked, die clothed                                        the un-blossoming of a rose                                  a small miracle, yet untold                          schooled nurtured, rise, rose.

You're existing in this space                                    between being born and self-demise                    you're not here to fund their lifestyle                      through t...

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This Imaginary Life Part 1 (The Code of Hammurabi)

There is a lion by the water, the green monkey eyes its prize, communicating fear and mis information, it's the origin of lies.

It's the face of imitation, the mimicking of a warning cry, the art of the done deal by deception, without the answer to the question why. 

It's the Code of Hammurabi which I see in play today, the one rule for the law makers, while the others stand in line, obey.

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These places

I love these places, the eclectic mix of tongues and stonewall faces, the words,  the prose, the poems, the stories that are told, unfold.

It's fully feasible that we are fish out of water, swimming against the tide the storm can swell and drag us under, a raft of spoken words behold their wonder, leading to calmer shores through rhyme and reason,  lapping against dry sunkissed lips, parched, t...

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Headbutt

Headbutting life, dizzily I fail, the dog that walks beside me wags its ominous black tail, headbutt, headbutt no sense does prevail.

Scratching around, in this slightly disenchanted one-bedroom brain, an adolesce headbutt sees me sentenced to a life lived in vain.

Banged up in this grey matter, the cell doors repeatedly slamming shut,  thinking of a way in life, that I can make the cut.

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Family portraits, snap shots of life

Portraits of you now, portraits of you now, portraits of you, snap shots of life.

I roll up the window, so the dope smoke doesn't linger on the baby's chest, I fix her hair, I stroke her face, I kiss her forehead and, I adjust her vest, don't worry, she's comfortable and clean.

Staring across the rooftops now, and down onto the empty lamp lit streets below, the night has yet to yield the sto...

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Sun Shines All Around You. (The nurture of nature)

A trickle of sweat, runs down your face, it won't allow your emotions to embrace,  you are left bereft, while the sun, shines all around you.

Voices of fear, blacken your days, keeping you in those rat-infested alleys of your ways, as your habits usurper the days.

Yourself taught mechanisms, fixate the hate, hurt your mind, and the culture kills off any hope, that I will ever find you.

S...

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Orange Coral

The midget mind of an individual voices their opinions on what is seen, rubbing salt into the wounds of those with bound hands, little options, and misguided dreams..

Hateful words splice open rubber, and air sucks life into deep sea graves, criminalising the unknown and drowning, as water filled lungs sink beneath the waves.

White gleaming smiles, hide the rotten teeth, of no compassion and...

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Well-beings ? ( #7 - go figure)

#1

I’m seeing well-beings,

being more body conscious,

conscious of the way they look,

looking into the cosmetic mirror

as they contemplate consider,

which teeth they can reconfigure,

liposuction, face filler and a slight tummy tuck.

#2

I’m seeing well-beings,

being mindful and meditate,

meditate into a transcendental state,

stating online rhyming couplets,

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I Beat

               
With every beat of my heart
With every beat of my mind

I'm the clenched fist dragging on the concrete of my town, I am the gnarled smiling face of a twisted laughing clown, like an unearthed jewel of ill-educated teaching, I'm the grasping hand of want, that never will stop reaching, a starved little brethren whose reached  his full potential In society groomed by the those de...

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POW ! POW ! POW !

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

I fought my way out of a paper bag

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

With the strength of thought I never had

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

Depression has also took the  hit

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

Never thought I'd get rid of it

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

I fight my way through the day 

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

With a smile and a winning way

Pow ! Pow ! Pow !

Not a single  punch or blow 

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Monday Morning sigh

Age wears at my brain, un-synchronised,  imbalanced and faltered 

My withering melon head, rots forgetfulness, as memories dwindle

Rising gasses seep from the pit of my stomach and through these calcium deficient gaped teeth

Foul stenched morning breath  breaths, turning into a sigh, because its morning, another morning

Showered, dressed, fed, and refreshed,  a slice of orange  to give...

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The domestic critique'

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Your home grown words of babble are no match for this real, reality. They are but clawed, gnarled carvings of your immediate scrolled banality.
Metrical schemes, un-synchronised  with punk'ed, punctuation, frozen stanza's, deconstructed, into emotional  isolation. 
Median 
The means and themes  are a shackled, shackles show, a chaotic sentence of structured syllables, a critiqued wheeze,...

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The Jug

Lights out 

And back to the cell 

In this sterile stentched community 

There's a sense, that all is not well

Chemically coshed with citalopram,  20ml

Black mamba, spice or shit faced

Either way there's a dip in seroonin 

That needs to be upped and replaced 

Foreboding with sense of menace

Being housed on this cat C dorm

Eighteen months of crime and punishment 

Of r...

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Staying in

Anxious and tried

Head lowered in shame

I can't face my face

Again and again 

Brooding dark doubt 

Sapped energy am tired 

Confidence is ebbing 

No company desired 

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Shouting !

Its something thats never existed !

Mental ill health, it's just a myth !

Its society that's twisted !

This  uniqueness is  a gift !

 

We are all individuals !

We are definitley not the same !

Except when it comes to the conditioning !

Of our human brain !

 

I mean, who decides what's normal !

In a world of human kind !

They've sectioned me for shouting !

The...

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Bar room philosopher

He's a bar room philosopher, a  poet with an empty glass, a master of the unpaid laugh,  a true character. 

 

He's got shuffling feet and waving hands,  entertaining as he stands, eyeing up the optics on the corner of the bar.

 

He loves a drink and a smoke, tells his story with a joke.

 

Busking on the streets of town, singing to an unfamiliar crowd, singing all the songs you kn...

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Brotherly shove

You choked the life out of me when I was a young  child

Upset me for a life time as you screamed your heavy burden

You boxed me like a punch bag, beat me with a peace pipe

bullied my confidences to the brink of  its creativity 

But you only hurt yourself 

 

 

 

 

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Mood

I could say it blankets me like a black cloak

But it's more obvious than that

It's written all over my face

Apparent in my behaviour 

Silently curtailing my speech 

Keeping interaction at arms length 

Limiting my conversation to a smile and some pleasantries at best

But I wish you all a good day 

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Write some poetry !!

Write some poetry !!

And let the madness out

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Let the madness out !!

Let the madness out !!

Write some poetry 

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Stuck between a rock and a hard place blues

You whispered something,  but I needed you to shout, now it all hangs by a thread, and the thread that hangs there is, doubt 

These swirling thoughts stay there, caught up in my mind, no-one will ever know them, and I can't bring myself to speak the words, I cannot find

The essence of these swirling indecision, are neither strong or weak, I've turned the volume of this music low now, and the...

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Transient

I quit my job and home

And off i go to roam 

Thought I was unhappy

But I have the soul of vagabond 

Who goes on walkabout 

Searching for the happiness thats just been  left. 

 

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Unchangeable

Older now but still the same 

Some behaviours never change 

This is me I guess,  unwavering  

Older now but still the same

Some behaviours never change

This is me I guess, temperamental 

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Sense of self

Who the hell am I 

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A click of emotion

Laughter and smiles 

A life time memory 

Just a moment, years ago

I can remember forever 

Not caught on camera

Just a click of emotion

Re-lived

Laughter and smiles 

Came to life again.

 

 

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No more

Events inspired words and

Words inspire events !

The event had left him numb 

Uninspired and wondering

So he wrote no more ..

 

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Must be a seasonal thing

It's been about a year

Since the first roots of a poem appeared 

Green foliage from a black pen well a word document and then...

Bloom ! 

Then comments faded 

 

 

 

 

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Is it any wonder #

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The Loss #

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Power in the word #

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Infant woman #

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Rusting with time #

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G C D7 G

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You should kNOw better

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Meet me there

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January (Your warm loving smile)

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January (Your warm loving smile)


January is cold
But made warm by your loving smile
I sit at my window
And I gaze up to the white glazed iced 
skies
I feel the cold wind bite
And I wish I were a bird
One of those, which have flown to 
warmer shores
But then, I could not have your warm
 loving smile
So I think I’ll stay here in January

 

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Multi coloured drum

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The Bedsit

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