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Vision On

Those pretty plastic blooms That I put in your room Are part of my new broom A trivial means to an inevitable end Though you won't know this much As...

Root

Root From the root grows a branch. Wisend and twisted not curled like the rest. Nightmares feed this branch. Too dark, too thick, I pluck at it to...

Betty Made a Blanket

Betty made a blanket stitched using the thickest wool it was reds and blacks her grandson's favourite colours she gave it to him to keep warm. Jimmy...

Venredi, Mecredi, Samedi

When Bobby was a toddler his grandma used to look at him bouncing around the room. "Why are you always so happy Bobby?" she'd ask "Is it because the day ends in a y?"
Cherry

Rose Petals

Rose petals as beautiful and perfect as the first time we met, when you blinked your blue eyes, and smiled, because you knew, just as well as I did,...

You're not there

Envy, its a sin.

And my fabulous 'you'

This piece is about somebody close to me, somebody I can rely on and trust all my secrets to, they make me really happy and have given me the confidence to do anything!

Example

There might be some point where I snap - looking at myself in the mirror under the pull-down in the dark. I hope it will be soon that I am addressed...
Cherry

Ultimately

The battery hen lays, silently into the night. The bars close in hour by hour by hour underneath a distant star-glow. Day yawns, eventually, and the...

Casual Encounter

Casual Encounter It's funny how we never know where the most unexpected of meetings might lead. You can pass someone in the street and give them a...

Optimism

And through her eyes is seen a newmudded slate; The spatterings of binder thought. If sheep were meant to follow, one after one, she hopes they could...

Q: 10 seconds of spring

A cage has been opened; Now the floor floods with sun and we twitter in anticipation: the grass was green last time. Over the ceiling, and unmade...

Harsh devotion

This was partly inspired by a quote I heard from Henry VIII. v.1: 'Now, by thy looks I guess thy message', and partly by reading way too much HP fanfic late at night. Make of it what you will.

DE. Dec. 2003

You'll have to look hard to find the rhyme structure in this one. Spoken, you won't hear it, but matching up the lines in writing it's possible to see it. I had fun practices rhymes on this poem, rather than going for the musical effect of a good rhyme scheme, hence the weirdness. Written on a German exchange.

Disruption

I am endlessly reminded Of your malleable youth; Your petulant thumb Caught in the pout Of your bruised lips. Your writing slopes away, Angry twist...

Rallying

Uh. Andrea. I wish I could talk How we two sit here every week with the oak beams black as black claret, black as scorpions. Bleak. And the plaster,...

The Tale of the Magic River

His laugh was loud and hearty; it rippled around those lucky enough to be invited to sit around the circular oak table. Jessiah, the host, spread his...

Love

Dyes the colours of the night so peekly
Cherry

EVIL

Not Dr. Evil, not Evel Knievel, but EVIL.

Rampant Rabbit

Feeble pun masquerading as poetry

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