Cherrypicked stories
Phoenix riding on a fire flame
Phoenix Riding on Fire Flame Look, I'm the clot lipped devourer, I reveal myself to you. Don't speak, I'll eat your tongue, spit hit you with buried...
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- 677 reads
My wretched muse
My Wretched Muse I wanted to be better, She saw I looked down. I wanted to be special, She watched me sparkle. I wept "I loathe her She should know...
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- 678 reads
The Watch
The watch is not all it seems to be ...
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- 699 reads
Lost Arts
... and the lost art of binding
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- 594 reads
Duncan's Liberty
Freedom or neglect - a fine line...
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- 1073 reads
Balloon Pilot
Meeting on a Bus in the Snow
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- 677 reads
A) Even Teddy Bears Get The Blues- Part I
The pilot of a series- Depending on public opinion.
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- 940 reads
V: Fisherman's Curse
has your husband ever told you, that you cursed his fishing trip&;#063; Then you have to read this
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- 907 reads
Udders and The Chicken King
I&;#8217;m eighty years old &; have just burnt one hundred and thirty nine cows.
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- 873 reads
T-shorts
Big Nose We met in the pub not Ansells or Yates's but Microsoft's bar with no beer or faces we typed our hello's she had witty one-liners we went to...
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- 929 reads
Forgive Us Our Creditors
F is for Forgive Us Our Creditors ------------------------------- The actor and comic genius Peter Sellers was always in debt to tailors, restaurants...
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- 748 reads
Humpty's Fall
Nursery Rhymes Get A Beating
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- 1676 reads
The day my barber was murdered
Two tragic and unfathomable events at the same time
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- 967 reads
July, Dusk
July, Dusk Swatting through the thickness of the buzzing trees, the bruise behind us, we wobbled out across the knobbly backbone of the hill, ankles...
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- 1002 reads
B) Sabrina Bridge
Sabrina Bridge I had cosy-jumper jigsaw dreams of you and I meeting half-way. I would lean on the grey rail at the centre of the web, listening to...
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- 756 reads
Talk too fast
Some people say I talk to fast. They find me hard to take. They struggle to keep up with me, And fight to keep awake. They cannot understand my...
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- 1060 reads
K) The Keeper
About Tom, who lost his wife
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- 856 reads
Passing On
Based loosely on unexplained dreams &; experiences
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- 815 reads
The Thoughtful son
Anexiled son returns to old memories when cleaning away his last links with Ireland.
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- 782 reads
Beauty Shattered
She did not save her beauty for him...
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- 890 reads
BOWLS AND THE BLONDE
Aesthetics can be appreciated at any age
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- 1086 reads
Race
The only race is the rat race. People ask me from where I came and truthfully I answer Surrey. Where did you come from originally they say
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- 1837 reads
Salvador,s Sleeping
Useless Info
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- 895 reads
Bill's Wolf Burt
It was evening, and the moon shone on the ice at London Bridge. The River Thames was frozen over and London was celebrating its Frost Fair. Tomorrow...
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- 984 reads
Ethnic Origin
Went in a fork in the road today. summer I think as the four way Salt I flung Was a prayer for a day in Brighton. Behind the pier Copper crust green...
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- 1785 reads
Wolf
A wolf went to eat in the city But the girls looked so lovely and pretty That it wouldn't be nice To eat them with his rice So he starved - oh poor...
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- 903 reads
Unspotted Leopard
An unspotted-leopard in tights Once went to the ballet at night A dog said "You sissy! You're dressed like a missy!" And sadly the doggy was right.
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- 1025 reads
Monkey
There was a young monkey from Leicester Got kicked on the nose by a jester Cried out with a shout "That wee chap hit my snout! That malicious mad...
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- 888 reads
Art Lover
Unfinished - About relationships and dreams and art
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- 782 reads
Illusions
Is losing your job the end of everything normal in your world&;#063;
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- 804 reads
C: The Final Frontier
The Last Frontier Mother turned around and drug her foot like a bad imitation of the mummy in old scary movies. My three brothers and I howled. And...
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- 829 reads
B: Long Night Gone
Even a child can kill.
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- 750 reads
My Little Lobster
MY LITTLE LOBSTER Little lobster, With your tough exterior, And your succulent bits Lurking within, You've clawed your way Into my heart. The...
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- 693 reads
Ironing the Irony
IRONING THE IRONY I'm as out of luck as I am of it, Sinking fast but I drink well. My jeans match my mood, Bone against flesh, ice against flow. My...
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- 670 reads
So, Mississippi Revision:
Azure eyes just one color of the rainbow mounted above a wrinkled nose, brown and worn-out as a raisin in the sun. With two cheekbones big enough to...
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- 690 reads
The Grip
a poem for the men and women behind the scenes
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- 715 reads
Nets
v2 The nets... I lost a leg when I was only three weeks old. Mum said it would grow back when I got older. I'm older now and there is still a big...
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- 884 reads
On Cloud Nine
When in heaven, do as angels do.
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- 1438 reads
Kindertrain
Kindertrain In obedience I left not panic or fear of war, though fear there was in plenty. I was pushed leaving shadowy memories of tears and shapes...
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- 5350 reads
Going without natural light
You can survive without being happy only if you've never known it, to miss: one who'd lived all their lives senseless in side a cage would not feel...
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- 1005 reads
Cracks in the pavement
A stranger e-mailed me with a challenge to write a poem with this title...
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- 1090 reads
Key moments
Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation. funk_soul_brother says: ugh I couldn't finish the story man I...
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- 1126 reads
Flower power
the problem of having elderly hippie parents
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- 1115 reads
X
Thgis box to which I have no key gets in the way I cover it with pretty cloth, sit on it, but otherwise it has no use I can see. I read of the...
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- 1025 reads
X
This box for which I have no key gets in the way: I cover it wit pretty cloth, sit on it, but otherwise it has no use I can see. I read of the...
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- 1102 reads
Tradesmen come good
poem: sexual experiment on tradesmen
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- 851 reads
Sibyl
Someone who walked through lives briefly
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- 814 reads
Funeral in Fiji
A Funeral in Fiji It is a stifling day. We swelter in packed pews in the echoing church, until a cold rain hammers on the iron roof, and a draft...
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- 1151 reads
Artists
Artists The tools of their art are spread on the ground: the ochres, the reeds chewed to a brushpoint, the grinding stones - only the glue they use...
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- 919 reads
D: Wallaby and Dogs
Wallaby And Dogs I was moving water-smooth stones to shape a dam when the despairing wallaby crashed by our noses into the water, the half-Alsatian...
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- 950 reads
Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs Because I have heard the wild dogs in the night, up there on the Daly in the empty North, these days I itch with a vague dissatisfaction:...
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- 841 reads
Children's Python
Children's Python She is no friend of mine, but we have reached a modus vivendi: : she will not startle me again at night when I am outside in the...
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- 925 reads
JACK - PRETTY JACK
ANOTHER OLD FAIRY-TALE UPDATED
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- 1048 reads
Service
I have come to this place to be changed To break up the pieces and be rearranged I have come to this place to be healed To remove the fa?ade and be...
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- 677 reads
School days
Uniformed collective pile from teethed gates Swirls of cigarette smoke entwine Above illegal heads Kisses are exchanged for handholding And promise...
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- 797 reads