Sat around the table in the snug

Talking about this and that

And there’s beautiful blonde on tap

Jukebox banging out some glorious tunes

A few more beers yet, I’ve got the room

More banter when we nip outside

Talking to strangers, a cig or two

It’s now all just a fantasy

Something from the long-lost past

Laughing and joking with mates at the bar

Something we thought w...

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When I contemplate the big sky

I look around and wonder why

I don't have enough tears to cry

Don't feel emotional, don't try

To understand the sky.

When I contemplate the bright sun

Then see people pick up a gun

I wonder what we've done

To become who we've become

And not understand the sun.

When you break it all down?

We're blindfold to each other

Trav...

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I could have stepped in

And committed the sin

Of sticking my nose in your face

I held back

I didn’t attack

Didn’t want to get it wrong

There’s something wrong with this place.

I heard you

Making a noise

You stood tall

Never even needed me.

I didn’t step in

I know where you’ve been

I’ve been there too if you ask

I kept quiet

Kept it inside

I...

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Everything is analysed,

Everybody justifies,

Poor folk still dies.

Everything is explained,

Everybody discussed,

Poor girl says, ‘what’s the fuss?’.

I don’t take you for a fool,

I hope not you to I,

But cold hard facts,

Are hard to find,

And yet the stone still grinds.

Everything is described,

We all give detailed accounts,

Poor folk still died.

I don’t ta...

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My poem supporting the Labour Party.

A Storm is Coming

I’m looking at the big sky

Not just my favourite piece

Abundance of selfish thinking

Putting everyone in doubt

Of the true purpose of what it’s all about.

I’m not giving anything to anyone

Is the mantra taken up

What’s good for me is all I see

I disregard everyone else

A storm is coming, look after yoursel...

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Scorched Skies

Scorched skies and the ground littered with

The dettritus of a careless society

Broken buildings and rivers poisoned with

The sickening pollution of a thoughtless culture

The wind screams endlessly like banshees

Howling the fall of man

Empty lives staring hopelessly at pointless

Tablets in their hands

Desperately seeking meaning to a forgotten plan

Isol...

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The Good are Few

Endless blue skies and a gin and tonic
Sat comfortably on our decking, while the country goes chronic
Election fever and a disappointing, lingering apathy
Unsafe and unstable causing a calamity.

Bright, hot sun and take another sip
Get the juices flowing, afraid of a slip
Optimistic dreams create media frenzy
Floundering queen, green with envy.

Gentle warm breeze an...

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I’m sitting in between everything

I haven’t got a defence

Clarity of argument; I sit on the fence

Like a remainer without passion

I watch the world pass by

Happy in the moment that I didn’t even try

To oppose the inevitability of a right-wing slant

I get really tired sometimes of benevolent rant

Where everybody else sits and where I fit

Why should I care for folks’ ups a...

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So now, you’ve reached the end

Of a journey not so well spent

And in your moment of reflection

You can consider all your rejection

All your anger

All your judgment

All your disdain

So now, you’re feeling a cold sweat

Of a fear, that bears some threat

And in your moment of desperation

You may consider others condemnation

Of all your spite

All your reasons to figh...

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Blue sky and stillness in the air

Birds tweeting and the smell of pine

Heart leaping at the thought of a long, hot summer

Flinching as a bumble bee drones by

Reminiscent of childhood fears.

World issues seem far away, or are they?

Pollution identified in plastic and contrails

Disgust and irritation on the treatment of nature

Adrenalin pumping resentment

With environ...

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Initially, it was all a bit of fun
Having a bit of a yarn
But in the wake of what has recently been said
I’ll try for a seminal piece
Just get it straight in my head

A seminal piece would set me up right
Comfortable possibilities for life
But what if my scribing is considered tripe
Would I dig in and put up a scrap?
A reservoir of ability, full and ripe

Or would I sit back and accept
...

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He woke up in the woods

Lost and all alone

No clue of where he was

Or anywhere to go

Staggering through the undergrowth

He finally found a path

It wound down through the trees

To a quaint cottage and a beautiful garden

Where he heard the sound of jazz!

The door was open and he walked on in

To Billie Holliday and his dad

Who smiled and said, “how’re you doing, lad?”

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It took ten seconds for the race to pass by

An hour we’d been waiting

I stood on the chair, took pictures

Cheered and cried

And when it was all done

And we could no longer see the sun

I was still drinking beer

Which is what I’d wanted to do

Since it had all begun.

Stuart Clark

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Endless blue skies and a gin and tonic

Sat comfortably on our decking, while the country goes chronic

Election fever and a disappointing, lingering apathy

Unsafe and unstable causing a calamity.

Bright, hot sun and take another sip

Get the juices flowing, afraid of a slip

Optimistic dreams create media frenzy

Floundering queen, green with envy.

Gentle warm breeze ...

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Scorched skies and the ground littered with
The detritus of a careless society
Broken buildings and rivers poisoned with
The sickening pollution of a thoughtless culture
The wind screaming endlessly like banshees
Howling the fall of man
Empty lives staring hopelessly at pointless 
Tablets in their hands
Desperately seeking meaning to a forgotten plan
Isolationists implore from TV screens ...

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From time to time, we’re all faced with trouble and strife
Constantly perplexed on how to struggle through life
So when you’re thinking things over
Of how to get your life in clover
Make a little promise to the inner you
Try to be nice and good to people
Even though sometimes you won’t like what they do
Forgiveness is complex and personal process
When you forgive someone, you release a pri...

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Scratching Beard, Holding Head

Toing and froing getting little things done

Lazing around watching daytime TV

Temporarily caught up in the glitz and the glamour

Classic literature sitting on the shelf

Waiting to be read, I remind myself

Time flies by imperceptibly  

I Scratch my beard and hold my head

What was it?  That needed to be said

Was it correcting the la...

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Books are word art

Word art stimulates imagination

Word art can be borrowed

Libraries are word art borrowing facilities

Libraries are word art storage facilities

Libraries are precious

Word art is precious

People require access to borrowing centres

Prevent word art resource centre reduction

Reduction imposes non-access

Non-access creates non-inclusiveness

Non-inclu...

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Opposite Nothing

I’d stood in the square, across from the bank

Nervous with anticipation, if I had to be frank

Though full of beans and eager to please

You’d still captured my thoughts with comforting ease

Your long dark hair and sparkling brown eyes

Offered so much, with a hint of surprise

With consummate simplicity we’d both confirmed

That a meet during the week was one w...

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Earth to Mankind

I am diminished

I am yours to do with as you please

I ask you treat me with respect

Yet still I am reduced

I cherish my existence

Harness the sun as it harnesses me

Yet still I am dwindling

I provide you with all you need

I ask you value me as you would yourself

Yet still I am plundered

I am benign to you, unaware of your deeds

I am wide awake a...

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