Carpet Bombing and other poems
By maudsy
Poetry
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Carpet Bombing
Everything I've ever wanted to say about war without saying anything about war
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow, Father
Who's there?
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- 452 reads
Adam's Crib
The birth of the Lemming
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Addiction
We all need a kick, don't we?
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- 1212 reads
Blackberry Picking
That's a better version
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Bonfire Night
A commemoration for the unheard
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Breaking Bottles
There was a wall once in my past Not much of a wall
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Bridge
Two sides to every river
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Detonation
A rose blooming from bad seed?
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Mantlepiece
Written as a young man potraying an old woman. It has a simplistic charm.
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Empty Bedrooms
Do they leave a gap - or cause it?
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True...Love
“I love you” he breathed earnestly While his profound gaze probed the glaze Of my lambent ebony eyes, For his own fragile reflection
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Variable Rate
I bent downward, the plug rigid in my fingers Like a crucifix in a dead priests hand And pushed it toward the socket It chipped at the sides so I leant in further
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Kay Too
I reach for you with hands Shaped like a fins…
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Odds On
The red note’s my last I grinned mirthlessly You couldn’t turn it into a family, could you? Do you take me for a mid-wife? A banker then Did you write this note?
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To See What Steven Sees
In memoriam R I P Stevie
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Ice Sculptures
But baby it's cold inside
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I will go into the Forest
Still trying
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Occupation
Everyone needs a job
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Gardening Leave
Life stirs leisurely beyond these dead irises Flowers bloom and sigh Sunsets laugh and cry Short grasses grow tall and bend inside time But not for me Bird song breaks each dawn
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Foreign Correspondent
A different kind of postcard
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Dock Leaf
Burns, stings they're ay' the same
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Question Time
Beware the greasy poole
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The Diver
Now I will dive Dive down Dive down deep Down to where my ears howl mutely And there is no colour And no sound But the banshee of memory Go Go down Down deeper
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Highway Blues
There’s nothing like concrete; nothing as Seamless and inanimate; Frost free and Seeping into the vapid horizon Its hand servants - desiccated trees and Shrubs are poor companions
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Stuck Outside Letterkenny
getting closer to what I want.
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Freed
And so the cuffs fall away, rusted As those delicately wrought silver handles That bear your weight I never asked to be your captive And you my gaoler It just happened
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Horrorscope
Happy New Year!
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I Don't Belong to Engerland (Euro 2012)
For Patriots everywhere
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Infinite Sky
Once upon a Christmas
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Death, be my Friend
Death, be my friend Although we’ve never spoken Come quickly as I end Embrace the body broken I’ve seen the sallow plastic skin Draped across these...
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- 365 reads
Return to Sender
This wall I remember,
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Return to Sender (Version)
It arrived unexpectedly
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The Approach to Lethe
On these open shores, Birds leave And doors shut silently Beneath the calm waterline, smooth pebbles shift And something is lost Unknown… Straddling...
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My Voice
In Mumbai and Rio Kibera and Shanxi And in Smokey Mountain From Landscapes of litter, literature rises Soulful And sweet Sounds lift from the tongue...
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Unrealistic Stunt Doubles
We wrestle like uncoordinated snakes Hissing and shedding skin Our emotions knotted with Badly rehearsed movements Coated in isolation and tears;...
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The Lament of Barry Wom
When you find the girl of your dreams In the arms of some Scotsmen from Hull There’s no room at the Premier Inn And the local youth hostel is full...
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A Universe between Twilights
In sweeps the light: Now, resting momentarily On your dipped shoulder; Decanting through glass Its butterscotch beams Sliding over the base of your...
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Valentine's Day 2017
Chelmsford Railway station Upline Shivering bodies, self-compiling in clusters Along the cold grey dais Default positioning For downloading Onto...
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Dry Wood
Witless, winding through a frosty Forest, my way, suddenly, blocked by a pair Of wooden slippers, sodden Through the cool morning rain Side by side...
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Slumber
A sunbeam slumbers by me, weightless and serene Careless of the atoms smashing through the screen Understanding nothing and everything between...
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Chariots of Fire
Incontrovertible the reason that I cling to oh so dear Driving in concentric lines, these stallions of fear Harnessed to great chariots, they drag...
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- 250 reads
Cider Fruit
Round, rusty red and hanging, Mocking science, rendering Newton absurd Swinging steadily in the stillness This seed of clay, enslaving Time and...
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Double Helix
They chased him out of the long grass Beating him with sticks Blood running obediently Along the grain, mingled with The sting of angry rain teeming...
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Blankets
Love is immaterial within these pitiless threads; pillow-less Discarded piles, slumped into corners on comatose Cobbles with corrosive patterns and...
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Fahrenheit 451 revisited
If this year was a book so bad You’d burn in tongues of flame Take it off the furnace And read it again
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Aureole
One day Mortality walked in and sat Beside me. We chatted. It seemed friendly and Knew me well. Then after a while it left, but Occasionally comes...
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Ethnic Cleansing or The Tale of the Man, the Dog, the Cat and the Mouse - A child's allegory
Part 1 Immigration On an average street Stood an average house Whose occupants Were an average mouse An average dog And an average cat Although it...