Merry Christmas to all

Who answer the poetry call! 😄

...and a happy new year!

All the best to everyone at WOL x

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As snow came down

her wondrous eyes

flared as bright

as winter skies

She imagined they fell

from Santa's sleigh 

And that he might

pop down & say:

What a good girl

you've been this year 

You may get more

than an apple & pear!

And through a window

frosted lightly,

she saw a snowman

fat, but sprightly!

He danced & raised

his batt...

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He picks at the woodchip

at the bottom of the stairs

Thinking: so what if I die?

Nobody cares

Was it my Christmas jumper

I went up to find?

Or, perhaps, I was looking 

for the rest of my mind ?

He picks at the woodchip

at the bottom of the stairs 

Thinking, so what if I die?

Nobody cares

My carer is due!

…Or has she just been?

I can't quite ...

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Her wrinkled hand took hold of his

as she sang a grand old song

Her grandson  looked at it & said:

You've been in the bath too long!

She said, "Those creases are like  the circles 

within a wonderful tree!

It shows how long I've been around

How long that I've been me!"

There's a lot of creases there, Grandma

They've spread right up to your face!

I recko...

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In a shadow, 

so softly creeping 

I met a maiden

so softly weeping 

Her lovers blood

in her clothes, seeping

For, his wandering eyes

she'd took for safe keeping

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For those who sleep from battles lost

And paid, for us, the ultimate cost

For all who came back from war

Forever scarred by what they saw

The lucky ones, 

      so they say

They got to see 

       another day

But their friends who fell

At the toll of death's bell 

Still haunt their dreams

Upon the fields of screams

Where poppies now dwel...

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I hope you don't mind, but I've Shamelessly used some of the comments I've recieved here on WOL & named some of you in both the books description & Acknowledgement. Just let me know if you would rather it be removed! 

Thanks for inspiring me to complete it!

Here's the link, if you're interested 😄

The Darkness and The Light https://a.co/d/fvTz5om

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She plucked a sunbeam

one fine day

And fashioned it 

in such a way

A lighthouse man

came to say

He thought it would 

keep ships away

He took it with him

in a jar 

And there it shone

bright as a star

And all the ships 

from near and far

Flashed masthead lights

just to say Ta!

And it shone so bright

through storms & rain

A shield a...

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Bedtime reading 😉

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I hope you'll love what's left of me

After life has had its fill

I hope you'll see in those old eyes

There's love & laughter still

I hope my skin of brittle parchment 

Can be traced by loving fingers 

I hope this weary sheet of braille 

Shows an epilogue still lingers 

I hope our hands still intertwine 

Like stars cling to the sky

I hope we waltz through amb...

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The pallid frost of her skin 

shone a winter's moonlight 

Her tributaries of ocean blue

fell tranquil 

Gently sagging into noble retirement 

Her last breath 

fondly drifting through familiar chambers, 

extinguishing each final lustre 

of  home

It groaned a sweet goodbye 

Time to rest, ma'am 

Time to rest

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Our lily of the valley

Has shed her petals free

To drift upon the winds of time

In her own sweet Galilee 

The Mother of our nation

So long its beating heart 

Offers her earthly shell to rest

For her soul must now depart

So free it roams, through gilded vale

And bonny lochs & moors

Past stag & hare, & fragrant fayre 

To dusk's misty allures 

Where ...

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Love doesn't care what you look like

It can flutter your belly with a conversation 

Make sunshine from a smile

Or, find your forever in a passing glance

Letting your heart get all funky

And your soul do a soulful dance

💗🕺💃

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In the mirror I saw my own fragility 

Sagging contours weighed heavy by age

An arid landscape of fissures and brushland 

Time had eaten away its lustre 

Leaving a fallow space

The eyes, once sparkled crystal blue

Now faded pale & weary

I studied this ageing fossil 

This reflection of reality 

Scratching at the brushland

Wondering what time had done

with the young m...

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Upon a winter's 

Midnight stroll 

I came across 

A pallid soul

Who, like the snow

Was cold & fair

With tearful eyes

Of such despair

I offered her

A warming hand

And woke within

A frozen land

Where, I myself

Turned cold & fair

With tearful eyes 

Of dark despair

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He thought the large clock on the wall 

may well have been an antique 

Perhaps, from an old railway station

It equally could have been a replica

Bought at The Range, or online, of course

The arms frozen at 2.22

Today? Yesterday? 

Always?

The rest of the kitchen was impeccable 

Clean as a whistle (a railway attendant's perhaps?)

The old glazed porcelain sink:

pristi...

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When I am too old for life

And life has taken all I have 

When my breath is but a shallow whisper 

And the whisper turns a winter's breeze 

When my heart quivers its last offering to time

And time graciously accepts

When my eyes forever slumber

And slumber takes my soul

I think that I shall linger still 

In the periphery of twilight's yawning

And in smiles, ...

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The sparkling dew

Provides the bling

My soundtrack

Are the birds who sing 

My coffee steams

With rainbow dreams

As weary eyes

View capricious skies

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The woody petrichor

tingles my nose

as she brings me coffee

under the dimming lights

of a pergola

The rain has calmed the air

And the dawn starts to crack the clouds

with shards of yawning sunlight

She smiles

Her eyes twinkle like morning dew

I watch her saunter away

 And take a hot, comforting sip

of coffee 

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The moon says goodnight 

bathed in silvery light

As I turn on my pillow,

like a weeping willow:

my dreams hang so low

So I get mine to go!

But in the waking light

of dawn

My dreams have no form

Like a murky lake of glimpses

That teases, but never convinces… 

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In the turning of the key

In the locking of a door

I find a quiet solitude

Where the world matters

no more

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The barbs of your tongue

Cut me to shreds

Unpicking my mind's 

Most delicate threads 

So I weaved myself words

From the pit of my soul 

To replace all the light

And the joy you had stole

Then I ripped myself free

From your talons of spite

Spilling ink upon page

Under dawn's weary light

And I bled, intravenous 

Through roots of my mind 

Feedi...

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Love & grief 

Are but the same

Both distort

Your mental frame

With tears of joy

Or tears of pain

Life will never 

Be the same

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On the river's edge

At York 

Pint of ale & little talk

Honey-drizzled boats

Float by

Draped in sunlight's

Last goodbye 🍻🌞

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I sat on our favourite 

park bench

Holding the echo

of your hand

Catching your smile

in glimmers of sunlight 

The cherry blossom tree

crying delicate tears

of soft petals

brushing my skin

with gentle kisses

I closed my eyes

and saw you shaking that tree

Blowing all those little kisses

over to me

Your smile like the sunrise 

Your eyes of sapphire blue

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I hailed a dream 

One dark night

To find myself 

In a place not right

My choices had 

Been taken away 

By a backward court 

Of the grand old ways!

The old wild west

Still held its sway

They said it was

Their country's way

The right to bear arms

Still had its freedom 

No matter how many

Kids were  bleedin'

And all LGBTQ

Had to w...

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I awoke to a grainy black & white

A pale moonlight 

cast vague puppets of shadow

around the canvas of bare walls

All fidgeting like an impatient audience 

From below

I could hear the hollow crackle

of a gramophone 

An old folk song

drifting through time

Serenading &  haunting the ear

I reached out for my wife 

but there was only cold, undisturbed sheets

But, ...

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20 goals scored

Only 1 conceded 

Passion & pride?

These girls bleed it

The finest of Mead

Bronze turning gold

Russo's cheeky gem

Such sights to behold!

The guttural purr

Is now a roar

The anticipation

Of the Wembley rapport

Let us shake the foundations

And rattle our cages

Let voices break barriers

And echo through ages

Let Lionesses be

The Pride ...

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The dying drip

Through cracks of time

Where past and present realign

Into the grail

Where sipped divine

For, knowledge

is the finest wine

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After you were gone

My heart fell apart

A jigsaw without structure 

A mess of lonely parts

I think you took me with you

My breath, my life, my soul 

For all that remained 

Was this deep & vacant hole

One day I fell into its depths 

Without thought of return

Crumbling to a waste of ash

In my own neglected urn

But, I awoke blinking 

At the sun's ...

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He only came 

To rock n roll

But freed a million 

Repressed souls

Salvation found 

In a pelvic thrust 

Releasing dreams

Of untold lust

God & the Devil

Rolled into one

The old generation 

Wanted him gone!

But there he stayed 

For decades long

The rock n roll king

Kept rockin' along!

https://youtu.be/MMmljYkdr-w

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There'll come a time

When we exist no more 

No Earth

No Sun

No before 

Only dust upon

the solar winds

A folklore tale

the universe sings

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She drifted on the oceans spray 

And any sailor to come her way

Would get a hook beneath his jaw

And dragged down to the oceans floor

To feed the creatures of the deep

And harvest souls for her to keep!

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The missiles came today

Took my child away

At least she was at play!

But, won't see another day

I know I'll see her soon

There'll be more this afternoon!

And then we both shall be immune

To the flesh & guts festooned!

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Hey-ho

I wanna look out 

my window

I wanna go where 

my thoughts go

But I can't get out of 

my bed though

I'm lonely

A sad little 

one trick pony

Waiting for someone 

to phone me

To tell them this condition

don't own me

I dream about

Simply getting up 

and walking out

Seeing what this beautiful

world's about 

Filling my lungs and

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Life

Life's great ambition 

Is merely

To survive itself 

Society 

I am not 

what I am

So I am

what I'm not

Former land of the free

Every great civilisation 

Consumes itself from the inside out, eventually 

Welcome to the genesis of Gilead!

Time Less

The mind is a time machine 

…Until it's broken

Then memories lay do...

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Beyond the rolling, molten sky

There dwells a place for when we die

To be reborn in starlight's eye

 A genesis of every you & I

We'll seek out worlds yet to be seen

Become creations brightest gleam

Sew the thread within the seam

To weave new worlds of  endless dreams

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Its spine slithered, snake-like 

around the corpse of my soul

Her withered tongue extracting 

from life , what I had stole 

Come scream!

Come scream!

For the beast must be seen! 

Come swallow 

THE SORROW 

For there is 

no tomorrow !

Such a flaying shall occur

In the pits of our despair !

Creeping, seeping

Rotting eyes weeping!

The ol...

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I asked God, what is my purpose?

There was nothing, but the stillness of time

I asked Allah, what is my purpose? 

There was nothing, but the stillness of time

I asked the Buddha, what is my purpose?

There was nothing, but the stillness of time

I asked my daughter,  what is my purpose?

She said, with a wrinkled brow 

To be my Dad, of course 

To have met & married my Mam

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"Voices carry here, my boy

They drift from open fields

Can get caught under the eaves

Sometimes, they settle in the attic

In the creaking of the joists

In the rot of old wood

And whisper things…

Things long forgotten-

Things best forgotten!

Don't listen t' them, boy

They ain't for hearin'!

Just let them bleed

Let them seep 

Let the grieving 

wail...

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There was a young girl from peru

Who loved a cockatoo…

She then met a raven

Started misbehavin'

And off the cockatoo flew!

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As we stroll,

the dusky pink of a morning sunrise 

turns the fields to candy floss. 

We get sticky and wet 

from the sweetest dew.

I stifle a yawn, 

and the softness and scent 

of moisturised skin 

briefly brushes the redness

of my sun-flushed cheek.

She smiles,

all dimples & eyes of blue serenity.

And, for a moment,

there is no world but us.

Later, w...

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Skies of strawberry cream

With a hint of  a lazy daydream

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There was a young man from Peru

Who dressed up as a shy Kangaroo

He liked how the pouch

When he sat on the couch 

Covered his didgeridoo! 

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He called his wife

A lazy trollop

And so she gave him

Such a wallop!

Then, found a hammer

And gave him more

Now, the poor fellow

Is no more!

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Aahha! 

The great baboon himself

Smiling 

Beguiling

Rule defying 

Such pomposity 

Within oneself 

No cheese or wine

Left on the shelf

But, I'm sure he'll eat

His gorgeous self

And raise a toast

To his best of health!

And all the chimps

Who flung votes his way

To steer clear of 

The redundancy highway

Think he's the one

The t...

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Within a pillow

softly lay

My idle mind 

in dreamy sway

Smiles of pearls

from sun lit oceans

Gleam treasured hearts

of romantic notions

In honeyed fields

of fragrant fayre

A ballet of blossom

dances on air 

Breezes strummed

by notes of lute

Serenade wild fields

of the ripest fruit

Trees with leafy hair

of colour

Shed autumn ...

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She turned

Her face 

brightened by shadow

Her smile 

the darkening of light

Her eyes 

obsidian 

Her life 

            unlit

But in the stars

she could breath

In craters made

from fragments

of long lost worlds

Feed from minerals

of galaxies unknown 

Her phosphorus heart

radiating internal 

Slowly growing 

to a supernova 

So ...

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1977

Queen popping round

Jubly  

"It's Jubilee, Son"

Jooobly!

6 years old

Street party

The like I'd never seen

Flags

Bunting

Dried up sandwiches 

with curled up edges

Homemade Cake!

Homemade Pies! 

Trifle!

Rhubarb with sugar dip

Penny chews & lollies 

& pear drops & sherdet 

"It's sher -Bet"

Sher-DET!

Where's Queen?

"Missed the bus"

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He worked in supplies

Now he fights 'til he dies 

Whilst his children's eyes glisten

To a god that won't listen

And their Mother releases

Her broken heart pieces 

In the hope he can find them

And to his heart bind them

So he knows she is there

In his final despair

When his flesh, draping loose

In the red reaper's noose 

Finds peace in their beating

Though the...

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The lads have escaped league 1 at last! 😁 A little poem I did pre game.

Can you hear them?

The shipbuilder's hammer

The picks upon the seams

Drifting up from glories past

Still harbouring foretold dreams 

The whispering of legends

Still bleeding red n white 

The time is here, the time is now

Time to put things right!

The Roker Roar still lingers

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Beyond his window 

Where his breath melted the frost

The snow sparkled like a blanket of stars

He could see her smile

Drifting up from memories past

Her portrait dancing in candlelight 

He held the present he never gave her

The radio reminiscing in the background 

Mud, crooning Lonely this Christmas 

I will be, he thought. Wit...

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Her thoughts 

fell like petals

Softly upon

parchment 

Turning Scribbles 

into blossom 

Full of wonder

and enchantment 

Her blood became ink

Her heart, a beating scroll

Sonnets were her tears

Weeping from her soul 

From her lips, a couplet

A stanza's sweet caress

Inhaling words, exhaling verse

Poetry made flesh! 

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Down in the valley 

Where wild things grow

There came a mist

Of long ago

Within the haze:

A nursery rhyme

Lullabying 

Dark webs of time

Ring o' Rosie 

If you please

Come float with us

Upon the breeze

It gets so lonely

Down in the ether

So Mother says

It's time to feed her 

Pockets full 

Of posies rare

From a time

No lo...

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Keep the ship asail, boy

For one day you shall die

Beneath the whip & chains, boy

Your soul shall surely cry 

How dare you break those Shackles, boy!

Your slavery is your duty!

Get back down under decks, boy!

This is pure mutiny!

"Why do you throw me over, boy!"

"Cos, with freedom, boy, there comes much  joy!"

Definitely could be longer lol. But th...

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I wonder if you

Ever got to hold

the starlight in your eyes

In the palm of your hand 

When you left

I wonder if you

Spin candy floss

from passing clouds

And siphon cider

from the sun

I wonder if you 

Weave blankets from dusk

And yawn 

the colours of dawn

I wonder if you 

Shower in rainbows

And shake the colours 

upon waking flowers

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The blue sky is my ceiling 
The fluffy clouds my pillow
And here I lounge in dreamy bliss
Beneath a weeping willow 

The sunlight catching idle thoughts
To turn them into rays
And scatter them
Like sunny seeds
To brighten darker days

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Do not weep
My lonely love
I'll find ye
in the heather
Within the garden
of our souls
Where we
shall join together 

Like days of old
My lonely love
We'll bathe  
in amber light
And be preserved
My lonely love 
'Til time
bids us goodnight

Painting by Aaron Geraud

https://youtu.be/UrsNxVsu1ao

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Don't fall from your perch
Oh sweet bird of youth
For life doesn't always 
Tell you the truth 

There's many who lie
Deep in their lies 
And hover around
Like unwanted flies

But, pay no heed
Oh sweet bird of youth
Ignore those who taunt
Or call you uncouth 

For you are the blossom 
The sweet morning dew
Unique to yourself 
The most beautiful you!

You're t...

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Knock, knock
Can you hear me?
Please let me in
I'll save you from God
And convert you to sin

I won't abandon 
Or show you no care
I'll give you free horns
So you know that I'm there!

I'll speak in wry tongues
Only you understand
And tattoo your soul 
With my 666 brand!

I'll make you new shoes
(On the hoof, as it were)
You'll be able to trot
Through my pit of de...

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I kissed her 

in a thousand 

places 

She learned

to love

my many faces

But the last

The last…

She did not see

at all

I bricked it up

behind 

a wall

And there 

it stays

until it withers

As her

ghostly flesh

Coldly shivers

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She flew over meadows
Over rivers & brooks
And held conversations
With articulate rooks 

Who told her a tale
Of when mankind resided
And the balance of nature
Irreparably subsided 

How they ravaged her soul
And ripped out her heart
And watched their green world
Slowly depart 

How the creatures of woods
Of forests, and meadows
Had to flee from their dens
...

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There's often screams
Within my dreams
That linger on

Or so it seems 

They burrow deep 
Into the hollow
Until my nib 
Of love & sorrow

Sets them free
Upon the page
From  whence 
They scream 
Poetic rage! 

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I had a problem with inspiration 
A sort of brain constipation 
But then I had a great idea
I'd write this piece of diarrhoea!
💩

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She was a pretty little sight
This lady of the night 
But, when I asked her for a drink
In my neck her teeth did sink
Now I'm part of the undead
And she lives inside my head
And instead of drinking beer
I sip blood (with a hint of fear!)

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We 
       fell
             together that night
Under golden shards of starlight
Skin glistening with sweat & tears
A caress to hide our deepest fears
We trickled down like teardrops
Made mercury under a brightening moon
Lips Softly touching 
Hearts merging
The anticipation 
of the life we could have 
        If not for life itself
There was one last look
Through glistening pools of...

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Within a forest
Within a dream
She danced amongst the evergreens

Until the moonlight 
Turned her pale
To become the forest's ghostly tale.

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#withUkraine 

Sssh, it's just the thunder 

My little girl

Pack a bag

Don't feel sad

I know Daddy has to stay 

But he's keeping 

The big bad wolves at bay

Don't cry, don't cry!

We'll say goodbye

He'll come back soon

And bring the moon

And we'll eat it

With a big, fat spoon!

That's more like it!

Giggles & smiles

Daddy can see them 

From miles &...

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I fell into a well
Down in the depths 
of hell
And in the fiery flames
I etched a thousand names
Of all who'd let me bleed
Mummy's poisoned little seed
Was scraping, scraping
Battered body baking
Etching, etching 
Hellfire fetching
Every little name
For every little shame
Will be screaming, bleeding
The darkness in me feeding
Needing, conceding 
A symphony of pleading
Such music w...

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She said,

It's all for free: 

The air 

The trees

The drifting breeze

The luscious grass

The hidden pass

The moonlit sand

And sun drenched land

The cooling rain

To cleanse the pain

Of never seeing you again.

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On a cold winter's night

They sat, hand in hand

Ravaged by time

Old in design

Two dinosaurs

In a digital age

Still in analogue love

Upon a wireless hub

Sitting on a park bench

Beneath a full moon

At the end of their time

Bodies poised to resign 

As frost gathers around

They glisten as one

Hands intertwined

Old parchment defined

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Father,  

what is it I see?

In this place down below

Where rich tides of life 

ebb, and then flow

Where beauty & horror 

Rub shoulders like friends 

And the dominant species 

Both destroy, and defend

What is it I see?

When the colours of dawn

Turn, too soon, to darkness 

In a gathering storm

Not made from the seasons

But the breath of i...

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(International Women's Day!)

Women are fantastic 

Although, sometimes,  erratic

They have eyes in the back of their heads

As well as at the front

That can shoot little daggers

When you're being a total …naughty boy

They can do 3 things at once

And not break a sweat

And instinctively know

When you've placed a winning bet!

They smell money as if  it's ...

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The dusk turns to dark

As I look to the sky

With starlight reflected

In the blue of my eyes

Softly, into focus 

Shine the heroes of old

Each golden cluster

A tale to be told:

The Hunter & his Hounds

Search the night sky

For dragons & serpents

And horses that fly

Whilst Perseus 

Gives Andromeda the eye

And grabs her a moonbe...

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What am I but air

Another breath

In an increasingly breathless world

Another sigh

In a whirlwind of exasperation 

Unheard against the halitosis 

of  political exhaling 

Dissipating under the hot breath

of false rhetoric 

And hot-air promises 

Soon to blow away 

Like the weary farts 

Of a backbench octogenarian 

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(For the girl who haunts my dreams still)

Dear Daddy,

Not that you'd care, but

All that I wanted 

was to make you proud

But, I was too stupid

Too fat

Too loud

All you ever did 

was bring me down

I was your scar

Your permanent frown

I was your verbal punchbag

In your whiskey fuelled state

Never felt like your child 

Just a vess...

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There was a certain lure

of idleness

Within waves

of her golden hair

A tranquil haven to escape

From the worldly normal fayre

Her eyes

were hidden treasures

Of ruby & emerald glimmer

Her skin sparkled

like frosty morns

Under moonlit silvery shimmers

As I dived into

her ocean deep

She drowned me in delight

Then sang a lament

old & true

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Light me a candle

For, my soul has gone

The dark came & took it

Upon the breath of a song

Twas the whisper of witches

In my fertile ear

Who picked the sweet fruit

Of my low-hanging fear

And they grew me a forest

For my charmed mind to dwell

Whilst my body committed

Itself unto Hell

And the blood kept on flowing

'Till the day I awoke:

Tr...

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She danced with fluidity

Full of creativity

Down the bind

Of my mind

To adjectives hidden

Nouns spinning

Pirouetting through

Fantastical lands

Through tales of time

And shifting sands

Through a forest darkly

Lightly upon toes

Silhouetted by Ravens

In twilight's last throes

Weaving ballets from thoughts

To a symphony of verse

Bringing tragedy & l...

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I'm no longer me, she said

Later, when clouds passed by

Her mind went with them

She discovered it, sometime later

in a jar upon a dusty shelf

In a room unfamiliar

Where Time had nibbled away

at the glistening softness

to leave a part of it missing

But she wasn't to know

It was others who relayed it

In sympathetic stares

And, enforced, Mona Lisa smiles

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My heart lies exposed

In twilight's caress

Stripped to the bone

Undressed of my flesh

Moonlit and dawn kissed

My soul, briefly, free

In-between life and dream

The twilight, and me

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Song for politicians (wine & cheese update)

There's a...

Great view from my Ivory Tower

The window is frosted, but I still feel the power.

Got my...

Savile suite so I feel the part

But I like to pretend I got it straight from Primark

I feed my…

Flock through the magical lense

My sincere smile upon your telly transcends

And I'm…

Fully t...

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Ssssh

Listen…

Modern world blocking the transmission?

Too much traffic? 

A world too erratic

Does the whispering grass 

still play a tune

Or has brick and mortar 

brought it to ruin?

This world is so fast!

Take me back to the past!

It makes such a din

I don't know where to begin!

And cars, 

bloody cars everywhere!

If I had an...

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Broken glass lies in the gutter

Discarded by bloody hands

Under a frigid, pale sun

keeping warmth to itself

The tramp stoops to pick a shard

A smear of blood at its tip

Whose blood is it?

A stranger's?

His daughter's?

It could be, for all he knows

It's been so long

Since he failed

Since he let them down

Since he gave up trying

Sometimes, the mind

c...

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If ever I fall will you catch me

And sing me a sweet lullaby?

To stitch up my heart when it's broken

For I've never been good at goodbyes

Would you weave me a story of wonder

To light up my mind when it's cold?

And chase all the darkness & thunder

From the emptiness of my soul?

If ever I fall

Would you pick me up in your arms

And take me back ...

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