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Nutter School

There's one strange place he goes every week

Where they dare to mean what they speak

With ease and clarity

They do this as Charity

 

Naming it something that oozes bile

So vagrant, offensive but with a smile

He cares alot for this place

To make my money and save face

 

The kids are Chidren and not Young People

To spare the blushes of the steaple

Such flippant st...

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young people   behaviour   secure units   mental health

Mush

You need to walk all over the Itchen

Find the bridge that will take you there

Cold hands clasp, hang tight on the rail

As rain sweeps all over the town

People in this city call you Mush

 

Stepping off this bridge of strangers

Hold hands tight deep into the night

Finding faces that will leave us

Lost and forgotten into the light

People in this city call you Mush

 

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mush   colloquialism   disconnected   dislocated   city   town

New build

Step inside, could this be it?

Treading carefully in a one-size fit

Barren and empty with ideas a plenty

Is this the future tempting?

 

Down with the old and familar

Leaking, stained and dissimilar

Plans and schemes fading out like a welcome dream

Sadly, this isn't what we had foreseen

 

 

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New build   moving house   dreams

Lakewalk

Every saturday they gather

the hussle and bussle ever louder

To run round a park of green

To beat the crowd mobscene

 

Far away the others dwell

Away from the merry hell

By a lake, tranluscent and cool

A life giving, nurturing pool

 

Peace and calm linger in silence

No pressure, adrenaline or pretence

Snatching moments when they come

Perhaps a boring 'snoozef...

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mindful   parkrun   calm   water

Overflow

I hear what you're saying

An offer of much persuading

Rare and unseen, it's almost a dream

But let me check the calender before I give you my splean

 

Time is of the essence

But limited may be my presence

If an ultimatum is all you can give me

I think my calendar may want to see me

 

I'm mindful of your expectations

Fleeting chances, opportunities and once in a lif...

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burnout   overworking   overwhelm   mindful   refusal

Our dying breath

Covid hit hard

Strangers and families in the backyard

Distant figures sharing pints

One of many rare sights

 

"Only those that lost still remember"

Painful deaths lost to the never

A different dimension for most

Yet the ghosts that linger are loved the most

 

Will you speak of it?

In schools, clubs and gatherings just a bit?

Not a word refering to it can be spok...

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Covid anniversary

TO LET

This is a room for all of our guests

A room for you to look your best

A place for intrigue and thoughts so heavy

And a place where you can spend a penny

 

It's a shared space intended for all

Not to tumble, roll or accidentally fall

But to take a moment, speculate and recall

But also a place you might withdrawl

 

A time out from a stressful day

To find the words yo...

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to let   shared spaces   rooms

These four walls

Ever still am I

Where freedom swells, breaks and lies

Lost in a room of my own making

My frantic mind unabaiting

The key holder to a door with no lock

This time it is I who is out of luck

 

Thoughts sway and dwell upon the question

Staring at the whitewash in my mission

Could hell really be so pale?

The body and mind eager-eyed in a chess match

Sweating as the need...

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room   mind   body

Hive minds

The lair is set

The mouths are wet

Dripping from an acid tounge

While whipping bile from a mile

 

Down the corridor

Words are whispered and murmuered

Plotting, scheming, stoking the fire

Such dangerous tounges should not be hired

 

Far away, in the Hive is where they thrive

Eloping from the danger of what's to come

Team splitting is a speciality

If only they ...

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Equilibrium   alternate   hive   team splitting   anti-social   social

Screen break

It must be time to get up

Any excuse to fill my cup

To get out of this chair

To take in some different air

 

The mechanisms are tense

Cornea, Iris and the lens

Focused and sharp

Like a razor to a harp

 

Capturing images, light and perusing

Peering across a radient sunset, percieving or sewing

Better to be absent minded staring into distance

Than screens burni...

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Eyes   screens   digital tech   pain

Spring

The cool wind soothes an over-heated heart

Like snow on a melting glacier

As sticks bloom with green

The dark fades into light

 

Winters' chill brings blankets and cosy times

Films stretch long like a lazy rhyme

Bereft of qaulity like a poorly planned crime 

But, more to the point, is the 'family time'

 

Daffodils warm in sunlight

Animals venture as Birds' fly

T...

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Spring   Summer   love   happiness   seasons   life   Wonderful times   yeah   fun

The untangled knot

Sitting alone in a chair not a throne

Ideas spewing like ooze under a city

Spinning a web, a line and a ditty

Yet still alone

 

Offering everything to give

Somethings just got to give

Yet unreciprocated

To be unmet and unloved

 

Forward thinking but sinking all the same

Life's but a ruin if left untamed

An endevour to help, exuding calm

But there's no answer,...

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knot   ignored   dismissed

Silent Echoes

Silent echoes

Haunting, teasing the light dust

Transparent and illuminating

The dark parts of your soul's lust

 

Squirming to hide

Robust and on stride

The echoes surround you

The full version, not the 'abridged' you

 

Caring is to linger amongst the light

Present and moving, not to right

It's apparentness is bathed in fright

An escape to nowhere in the night

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Echoes

Glandma

She is chic

She is peak

She is the way you ought to speak

For she is Glandma

 

She has kids who have kids

But she doesn't let that put her in the skids

She is the glamourous grandma

She is Glandma

 

She is rich and wealthy in knowledge

She has an enviable beautiful heritage

She doesn't care about grammar

For she is Glandma

 

You'll take her bins out and...

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grandma   granny   grandmother

Presently Pheasantly

Struck again but not struck off

What I'm looking for is some real time off

Most creatures search for peace

But what I want is to be left alone in peices

 

That impact was a pitiful graze leaving me in dissaray

But still alive am I, to my dismay

Many lives have I now lived, first human, now to this

A never ending cycle of living unless I can get one last hit

 

What did...

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death   life   pheasant

The Unlimited crowd

"It's all elbows tonight!', my mind says at the sight

Not since the 90s has there been such a fight

For drink holders and the resting of arms in the dark of night

The pictures snap into view as elbows fight for the right

 

I suppose the fear of breath made it uneasy

For elbows to flex, bend and get lazy

The memories of a full cinema are dusty

Like a giant unscrupulous screw...

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cinema   elbows

Sheet metal city

Ruin, destruction, fire and fear

Now I know why they ran from here

The wounded and the dying lay under ground

Undergrowth in abundance spreading all around

 

Fizzing and whirring through the air, it gets closer and closer to end your fear

 

Mounds that were cities, ash that were people melt into snow

The seasons are two, left tattered and strewn

In this apocolyptic sight...

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Apocolypse   death   war   bomb   life

Words from the hill

Words fall hard from the man on top of the hill

Spilling and oosing from a makeshift bill

67 dead to start the day

And before the grief, what does he say?

EDI must somehow be blamed

"because I have common sense"?

Where is my border fence?

It's the only way to be safe and secure from this madness

The lies, deciet, and the ultimate sadness

 

67 grieving families lost

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Powerful   man   president

Trekking

The greatest show on television

A patchwork quilt with such great vision

From black and white to colour

A cancelled show to fans fervor 

 

Saved for another day 

On the big screen in another way

Bigger bolder and braver

With a new ship to savour

 

Multiple shows to follow

With Gene's loss and fan's sorrow

The big bird took flight into the night

Leaving us hop...

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Star Trek   gene Roddenberry   sci fi

Regardless of reason

Fostering fools in radiant light

Scrabbling screws in a frightened night

Awkward apparitions abolish and bait

All with an askewed, vitrioled hate


Bismark and Bottony all the day

Sundried and kissed all the way

On course with treason

Regardless of reason

 

An emptied mind on paper thin

Asked and answered in a screw-top tin

Scheduled and pranced on a pin heads nose

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Surrealist   abstract

Lepers on the hill

Across a road, a tranquil sight

Where animals graze to a shepherds delight

In the warm glow of a spring's dawn

A summer's heat is soon to be born

 

But across this tranquil hill

Is where the "looney's" roam and madness spills

Torn from family's and lost to war

Their minds scream through a padded door

 

Nurses rush to aid the wounded

Thrashing and yelling - who woul...

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mental health   nature   death   life   animals

Stoney garden

Toys, mugs and letters dress this stoney garden

In lines that would not impress a cold, gnarled sargent

 

Stones stagger around like crooked teeth

Adorned with names, chocolates and festive wreaths

The view is long, sprawling forever

Lost but knowing in its endevour

 

The living are still, smiling through their solemness 

Clutching Birthday cards with Christmas sadness

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loss   bereavement   sadness   death   life   together   alone

Phone's away

An exciting toy is handed down

With the joy of connection, not a scowl

A toy to tinker through the bordem

To call and text in the doldrums

 

Time stands still in the classroom

Not learning or thinking as you'd assume

But waiting for that buzz

The vibrate of a 'like' to discuss

 

Parents reaching out because they can

Speaking fluently through this tin-can

Knowing...

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internet   dark web   phone use   education   school   boy   girl   government.

Festive fog

When I was young, it made sense

The lights, the candles, the innocence

Misty eyed, fretting with excitement

I feel like now, I knew what it meant

 

Memories like a radiant dream

With all the colours in a warm stream

Images flicker in the fog of now

Like a scared and lost dessert cow

 

Golden sights and sounds

Chopping Brussles to a ground

Presents wrapped with a...

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Christmas

The Christmas feeling

Every year, around this time

A certain feeling swells of mine

Like a rugby ball stuck in the gut

A Christmas shell explodes and cuts

 

December 1st, plan a list

Of all the things you hate entwined

Gifts, toys, you know the score

Dec 12th, what a bore

 

Surely music can help bring the feeling

But a random playlist leaves me reeling

Old crooners return to haunt

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Christmas

Southern Lights

The lights you seek are not these ones, these are mine

I shall explain more in time

As I have searched far and wide

Yet these are the most beaufitul I find

Unique, like tears in the snow

 

I share these lights with the Emporer, Leopard and Crabeater

With an hour of sunlight, there's nothing more sweeter

Than to sit and watch the carnival of light above

On my own, as the ...

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lights   hope   time   depression   sad   beauty

The Maple of Alesund

The wind bites at the death of hope

Beautiful mountains stare from the distance waiting

A town scarred from a fire lingering in mind

As the silence quells the last of hope

 

Soldiers, guns and tanks roll through

Seeking opposition on a path straight through

Fortifications find footing, scarring the beauty of those hills

Where evil lurks and killing is a thrill

 

In am...

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Norway   WWII   Nazis   soldiers   hope   death   war

Serenity freefall

Hello, can you hear me?

I'm writing so you can see me

Type type type

My words are ripe

 

Without a thought or planning

An idea is hatching

Could it be good, could it be sad?

Only time will tell

If I can make it sell

 

Down in my basement, I type away

Day after day, I hear them say

As if I'm stone deaf

Without words, I'm dumbdead

 

So many profiles, f...

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words   typing   meaning   hello

Loner Bird

I saw you my friend

Looking toward the sky

I thought you knew you, my friend

Things aren't supposed to die

 

Loner Bird

Why did you have to die?

Londer Bird

Why did you have to lie?

 

I saw you again

Sitting upon the edge

Of the same window cill

As the past thousand times

 

Loner Bird

Why did you have to die?

Londer Bird

Why did you have to lie...

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wildlife   sad   loneliness

She left home

She left home like a stranger in the night

No goodbye for the parents behind her

Shattered, broken and distraught

This isn't what they thought

 

Estranged and departed

Seperated and disheartened

Where do you belong?

Now you know there's something wrong

 

Meanwhile the parents stay

Like sharks circling at your bay

Only time will tell

In heaven or hell

 

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Loss   sadness   family

Roadside roses

From the lover you'll never know

A note scribbled down in tears

sits atop a mound of colour

Trying to work out these forgotten fears


From a family torn and lost

Flowers that soon will rot

Your teddy sits upon the mound, arms wide open

Melting, muddy and forgotten

 

For the journey now cut short

With an ending some had thought

If only you could see things

How b...

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death   sad   loneliness   flowers

Lobe u

I lobe u

You know this

The feeling is strong

Even if the spelling is wrong

 

My tiny stubby fingers

Take little time to linger

Over the disproportionate keys

Stubbing along with a head full of bees

 

You ask what I lobe best

As if I'm not up to the test

But my lengthy gaze tells you

It's me that sees you

Especially when the words arrive late

 

I lobe...

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Love   feelings   emotions   relationships

Gigged out

Tired, neutered and flat

Drowsy, battered and crap

Scatered, ears ringing and wondering

where did my weekend go?

 

Gigged out

Spat out and hurt

Load-in, set up in dirt

Sound checked, rain and disturbed

 

Darkness, smokey and curt

Irritable, sweaty of course

Days lost to the night

Hungry, beyond "alright?"

 

Midnight arrives

Still loading out in drove...

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Gig   music   Musician   pain   tiredness

A

Amphibious assumptions

Acuse us all

According to our actions

Aquatic astronauts evoke reaction

 

Architects assault

As antigen runs around

Amplfying aural aspects

As ants ascend 

 

Awful attempts at assumptions

As words aren't affecting

Ashamed and arriving

Aren't you glad

As it all ends 

 

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Surreal   word play   abstract

Telly belly

The evening wears on

While outside in the garden

Golden leaves cling on

The light is just right

For us to enjoy the night

 

Cradling a belly of joy

Not a girl or a boy

Crisps, dips and all the chocs

You are mine

A love on the rocks

 

Binging another show

In the warmth of the TVs glow

Mine is growing

increasing, expanding and showing

 

My telly bel...

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TV   telly   belly   viewing   food   health   television   thinking

Your cup

Beat the clock

Rush to the dock

Smash the shuttle

Give the rebuttle

 

Stand firm

Give the new terms

Crush the enemy

No more friends for me

 

Or pace yourself

Think of your health

Be kind and calm

Be free of alarm

 

Yoga it up

Fill up your cup

with love and sadness

Then stir it all up

And find your gladness 

 

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Meditation   yoga   kindness   health

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...

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Hotel   tip toeing   London   tube

Echoes of playtime

Walking around an empty hospital

Hearing voices, standing still

It's a strange feeling

Knowing there's no one on these grounds

 

Empty beds are blocking

As painful feelings are unlocking

Buried away in their homes

Scarred, anxious and alone

 

Yet the voices are protruding

Rebounding and allusive

Screams of fun and play come across

From another world now at a ...

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Hospital   pain   mental health   NHS

Stay home

I hear there's a festival outside,

Laughing, joking, jostling and frolicking,

But I'm OK, I'll stay inside.

 

I heard they've brought Freddie back live on stage,

To rock and roll, it's all the rage,

But I'm OK, I'll read about it sometime.

 

I hear world peace has broken out finally,

Dancing and singing wildly

But I'm OK, I'll Youtube it later

 

I hear it's that...

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home   media   loneliness   isolation   happiness

Peripathetic

Planning away, sometimes all day

Words on a page, moulding like clay

Toward your interest, "I'll engage" you say

I should of known it would go this way

 

Travelled around all week through

Sometimes I'm spinning and I don't see you

Learnng the lines of a script I have written

Walking the mile but somewhere you're hidden

 

Delivering is easy when you've got the tools

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Teacher   tutor   school   education   lesson   young people   children   mental health

MiPad

My iPad is thirsty

Well travelled, rugged and dirty

In need of a clean

And with its blue squidgy exterior

It's a sight to be seen


You are brave

Going places where no iPad has gone before

Where young people fight and snore

High care can be dangerous for all

 

But my blue squidgy friend

You will be there till the end

Stimulating and engaging

Its you they're i...

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iPad   technology   mental health

Titchfields

So soft and new

Soft babies brewed

For months waited

Excited and anticipated

 

You are not mine

Yet close enough to build a shrine

Encompassing a wonder and love for you

Looking forward to meeting you two

 

Dinosaurs, mittens and tiny onesies await

Cute hats and warm baths you'll hate

A warmth of well wishes and love in abundance

To tuck you in and bathe in t...

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Babies   love   house

Escapee

Sometimes I go to my car

Which isn't very far

But during work time it can seem strange

As if I'm lost and out on the range

 

Sometimes I forget things

Important, useful, essential things

To do my work or I'll be lost

Can't have that now at my own cost

 

So I return to the vehicle

Luckily today I didn't cycle

To retrieve my cherished, beloved and innocent phone

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work   escape   drive   freedom

No Angel

You say you're "no Angel"

And we're left in a tangle

Words expressed with feeling

Still searching for their meaning


Does this give you a license so freeing

You can do whatever without stressing?
Responsibilities old and frayed

Distressed, dismayed and betraying

 

Keeping everything so tightly wound

Is bound to cause a rupture

Spewing the pain you strive the concele

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Angel   lies   deceit

Walk the wight

Walk the wight

With all your might

through sights similar to Honiton

which isn't too unlike Hobbiton

 

Names and faces are carried through an aching 33 miles

With care and thought all the while

Here we reflect and remember

the lost souls of our dark Decembers

 

We start off four in our fellowship

With hopes of seeing off our hardship

To cross a finish line is ou...

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Walk the wight   walk   Feet   pain   lord often rings   hobbit

Our songs

Clean and beautiful they once were

Our ears now so dirty with no cure

Music used to sooth and curess

Yet now our ears are pounded and stressed

 

Is there only one tempo now

For all to March to with a scowl?

Lost in the reverb of modernity

Scarecely heard through uncertainty

 

Our house was a very nice house

With variation of sounds waving through

Not pounding or...

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songs   music

Night shift solace

Black and white, they rest in place

held in their wooden tomb, lost in space

a haven bathed in bright moonlight 

in a sports hall on a quiet night

 

A break in time can be so rare

Capturing the now from the glare

Free at last, I roam the grounds

To bathe in light and glorious sound

 

A feast for the eyes and the soul

The waves fill my unworthy ear holes

Such a b...

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piano   nightshift

Taming of the shoe

All this time I've been waiting

Sitting pretty for you

But today has been strange

Panicked, lost and deranged

 

What is a lockdown?

I've only heard of a knockout

Never mind, you'll all be back in this shop

Money ready with a skip and a hop

 

I'm the newest thing you know

Laced up, beautiful and ready to go

Talk of the town I will be

When you finally return an...

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Covid   shoe

Curves in a line

Are you alright?

Losing lines in my spiralled speckled sight

Out of hand, edging the paint

Were you ever in control?

 

Same route, different day

What is there more to say?

Maybe this day I'll tune in outside

And see what the world is trying to hide

 

It's a beautiful day, if you want it

Keep the cold wind somewhere in

Whether you like it or not

The sun is the...

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Car   sun   drive   wind   question

Coffee the face

Some days, all it takes is one cup

Hot, cold, black or milky

I just need it direct to the face

I'll need some space

 

I don't have time to unwind

Read a book, unfurl the mind

Hot, cold, black or milky

I just want it direct to the face

 

I call them the beans of life

Ground or granuled, they relieve my strife

Hot, cold, black or milky

It's the only way to live

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Coffee   Drugs   addict   drink   humorous poetry

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