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And the sky burned in brilliant reds

as the sun rose from behind the horizon.

I beheld a glorious dawn of days;

a rapture of the soul.

I cried out with the joy

Of the newly converted.

Surrounded by a cathedral of trees,

Crowned by that nimbus of light.

And as the last of the winter leaves

shimmered in splendour about me

I understood a simple truth:

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I have a shelf,
And on that shelf
There are jars.
Some labelled,
Some not.

There is one jar
I've been trying to find
Hidden in
Amongst the others;
Identical from the outside.

That jar
Was always labelled
But now that label's gone 
And I can't find 
The right receptacle.

I opened a few
In my hunt
And have to admit
To being skeptical
Of ever finding it!

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It was wrong of me
to throw my problems onto you.
To tar you with my brush
to expect you to care
to need you to be there.

What are we but a by-product?
The detritus of the life we lead.
And who am I to lay this on you?
To demand more of you
To want a rock to cling to.

And so I let you go;
Cast myself off from your rock
Let the burgeoning waves
carry me far fro...

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I have no idea if this is any good.  Seems mostly stream of thought to me but it needed to come out, so here it is:

 

Life is an affliction
from which we never recover.
Enter the world screaming
And never stop.

Life seems fit to torment;
a torrent of dark abuses
gilded with a veneer
of calm civility

Smiling assassins;
sheep forced into wolves clothing.
We lash ou...

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Feverish desire
Quenched between your silken thighs
Lips on lips, skin afire

 

Lying under stars
Skin to skin we twine in love
Each other; for hours

 

Climactic embrace
A union of...

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One is a carer,
a mender of hearts.
A rock to cling to;
Wise and generous.
 
One is a loner,
forever outside.
Fey and aloof,
He stands apart.
 
This One is a joker,
sarcastic and wry,
witty and glib.
He gives away smiles.
 
Another is darkness;
an empty glass.
He broods over shadows,
cloaked in shame.
 
There is one that was love,
so much to give,
but...

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The old familiar shadows
cling to old familiar walls
as early morning spins round again.
 
I lie, eyes wide open, and listen to the rain
I continue the watch; 4am and all is well.
Nobody is sleeping here.
 
Try as I might, I cannot grasp
the ethereal gossamer threads.
Can't switch my brain off,
I've run out of sheep.
 
I long to lie in torpor,
or slumber for a week
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When the house is still
And every little noise
Is a threat; an intruder
Into my silent home

When the night is cold
And I wrap my blanket
Tight about my body
To fight off the chill

When the days are long
And the nights are longer
And my time is wasted
On melancholy thoughts

When I'm lonely
When I need a friend
When it all gets to much to bear
That's ...

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He struggles against the storm,
the waves high above his boat,
He prays for calm.
He seeks desperately for the coast.
 
What harbour would shelter him?
He, who in the midst of his thunder,
brings disaster to the port, on
the merciless waves of his maelstrom.
 
He cannot give his all to somebody
while the boat beneath him lists
and wildly dives between
the peaks and tro...

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I bleed from every inch of me I bleed for every inch of you Each drop of sweat I weep I sacrifice to you You taste the blood that's on my lips And savour every sip A cardinal sin Stained cardinal red A crimson boundary Painted onto our sinners bed Transfusion of want Contamination of need You're in my veins You're in my head I bleed for every inch of you

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expecting me to be

someone that I'm not

something I can never be.

 

I hate the way I have to pretend

to play nice and laugh along

sick of singing their song

tired of banging their drum.

 

Why is it so hard for me

to be me?

Why won't the world

just let me be who I want to be?

 

Stack the odds in my favour

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The spaces between the lines

Say more than this meagre rhyme

Can ever hope or ever wish.

All the things I need to say

Are held there in the spaces,

The blank, stark white

Between upper and lower cases.

 

It's nothing; it is everything

It's every word I'll ever utter

From the shining stars

To the stinking gutter.

Those spaces will tell you mo...

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Worshipped at my altar,
Made divine in their eyes.
I stand before them,
I hold my arms wide.

I am their Creampie Jesus,
The one they cannot deny.
Reaching out to touch their heads
And offering the sanctity of my bed.

Kneeling at my feet, 
Lips about to meet,
I offer them sacrement,
I offer them release. 

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I sometimes wonder about the things we'd have done if we'd had more time. I sometimes wonder about the things you'd say about your life, and about mine. I wonder if you would have agreed with each decision I've made. If you'd have offered wisdom, cautioned patience, warned against greed. I sometimes wonder where you are I sometimes know all too well. I sometimes wander to wher...

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If life is like a box of chocolates,
why do I get all the coffee ones?

Now people will say that they like the coffee ones
but not me, you can have mine.
I'll just have some chocolate limes.

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Here I stand in my lonely field of dreams

The grass withered, parched and brown

I turn and gaze at the fence over which I jumped

And see the grass looks greener over there

 

Where are you when I need to share this field?

To bring it to life with love and care

Where are you when I need to feel arms around me?

When I need someone to tell me it's alright.

When I...

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Chances missed and chances lost.

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

stolen glances weigh up the cost

of moments left unclaimed;

of touches left unexplored.

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Explosions of insight

Light up the sky

As I lie here in the rain

And wait to die

 

A poignant moment

Frozen in time in my mind

The start of all this;

The end of all that.

 

The flash of lightning

Makes my pupils blow

And my tortured, beaten body

Lies broken on the floor.

 

I fought as best I could,

I played my part;

But I was o...

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I wrote a poem today For some one I care about a lot. it wasn't the plan, to care a lot, It was supposed to be a simple fling A silly little thing, really. But it's not. She doesn't care about me, At least not in the same way. And that shouldn't matter; But it matters a lot. I think I make a fool of myself Everytime I see her, I can't seem to help it. I chat and I flirt and all...

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Breadlines, deadlines I can't find the right lines To speak to girls; or women, For that matter. I'm on the breadline, the sideline Always looking on and never playing. Always ready with a good whine To inflict on anyone with the time To listen to this shit. I'm a baseline; rock bottom. Frozen in line, at the back of the queue, Towing the partyline and hating it. Watching like ...

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Hope springs eternal, or so they say From Pandora's box, all the horrors Of the world were vomited forth. Only weak, litter-runt hope was left With nothing else to stand in its way. Out into the world it crawled, Blind, mewling and twisted A bitter stunted mutant desperate for attention. It turned to man for succor and love It begged and fawned and prostituted But man was busy e...

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She reflects upon the surface

As the cold wet arms of the lake

Take her in their deadly embrace.

She feels the cold tendrils curl

Around her calves, her thighs, her waist.

 

The water pales her skin,

It darkens her lips

It shadows her clear, serene eyes,

ecstatic in its aqueous grip.

 

The darkness envelops her,

the currents caress her

as the ...

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If I had a single ounce of your bravery
A single ounce of your strength,
I could move mountains.
To struggle and to persevere
When those around you fall.
To be thrown to the ground
And beaten and abused
And still you find the courage
To stand tall, to strive to rise above it all.

You can find the perfect words,
Set the perfect tone and, hidden in shadows,
You let the world glimpse you...

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It starts with a cut Into tissue already scarred, Grown pink and ugly over time. With each laceration We feel the sting more keenly A fire through our nerves To remind us we're alive. We slice and we peel Until the body does not remember The bite of the pain We no longer feel. Yet over time, scars heal And flesh regrows anew Knits back together With the skin of new beginni...

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Credit for the 'difference between sanity and madness' line goes to Alan Moore, I just borrowed it:

 

A burning sky lights the cry,

as the world looks on.

They see the pain, the maddened stare;

they walk on and do not care.

 

I scream for them as much as me,

I scream for them because they can’t see,

that ‘the difference between sanity,

and madness

is ...

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Tugged by heartstrings
twirled around her slender fingers.
His heart is made to dance
to her siren song.
 
Drawn by her promise
of regard and warm affection
ensnared by the cool touch
of bewitching fingers
 
He remains,
bound by a connection
that bids him to motion;
the dance of the marionette.
 
A twisted puppet of devotion,
a tool to boost her shallow ego.
A ...

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She measures her time in memories
and through the lines on her face.
She waits for him impatiently
As if frustration could quicken his pace.
 
They are not strangers, she knows him well
He has danced through her parlour
Many times before.
He has danced for mothers, fathers, friends
He danced for her husband, whose hand she held
until the dance reached its bitter end.
 
S...

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If I could take all the flowers
that bloom in the springtime,
bind them together with care
and twine a multi-coloured crown
to sit atop your sun-kissed hair.

If I could catch all the April showers
that fall in the springtime
and pour each glistening drop
into a pitcher filled to the brim
from which your honeyed lips could sup

If I could take the freshest breeze
that blows in the s...

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So I stand and I smoke in our little ‘Smokers Quarantine Zone’,
I listen to the birds as they sing in the trees
and just for a moment, the drone of the cars
is transformed into the crashing waves of the sea

And I could almost be free, could almost be
in a different place, with the sand beneath my feet
and a cool breeze on my face.
The cars and the trees and the cigarette ends
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She takes baby steps;
one foot after the other, after the other.
Her bare feet crunch on broken glass
and she winces as she walks.

She is surviving; striving
to turn her life around
breaking her cage and removing her chains
turning her face to a bright future

But as the rain streams
over gargoyle faces like tears,
she yells to passers by for help
and her calls echo back to her

T...

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It surrounds me like a fog
A blanket, a miasma
A cloak of shame.

It coats all I do
Colours everything I am
It begins to define me

It is not something
That I can prevent,
I only hope to resist

And in that hope 
Lies a desperate wish
A far off dream

A dream lost in haze
Trapped in a maze
Of depression.

My depression
It surrounds me like a fog;
My own cl...

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