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My Poems
Without my poetry I am nothing Memories, thoughts, all collected Gravestones gathering moss Engraved, unvisited wisdom. Tomorrows dust Without my...
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Probably Tuesday
Oops! Somebody broke Reality....
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- 758 reads
Gudmonsen And Celestine
A girl and her Swedish fish
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- 515 reads
Dadd
Richard Dadd; infamous Scottish painter who stabbed his father to death through the eye.
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- 686 reads
I had an idea
A conversation about too many ideas
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- 1075 reads
Fingers
(i) Something snaps Some thing Snaps Behind me In a chair Behind me Snapping And it is some Thing only Undefined Without shape or Colour or control...
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- 687 reads
Lost Blackbird
Unhappy Relationship
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- 623 reads
Nan
recalling my bedside vigil with my dying grandmother
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A Nice Man
Ever met anyone with an ego problem...&;#063;
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- 956 reads
A word of advice son
Boyhood memory
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- 800 reads
Hidden
I watch him almost everyday. I watch him now, through the reflection in his bedroom window. See the expression on his face, the deep lines of...
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- 644 reads
Found
I found what I was looking for At least what I wished to find What anyone wants to find Is what I already found You helped me find it To find what I...
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Memory of Omagh
Soft rolling under moist palm a ball of hate that was pliable to the touch it was thrown by grey time and caught off guard in an unwrapped era that...
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- 1523 reads
I am...
I am the message bleeping on your phone That irritates while you drive I am your favourite song on cassette the stereo chewed while playing I am the...
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Mess
I never throw anything away. Pictures from playgroup dumped in the backs of cupboards hoarded felt-like rumples crossed with greasy crayon marks. I...
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- 820 reads
When I Dream Of Home
When I dream of home, it's of that flat where we lived till I was 16, with its not quite smooth brown wood doors whispering across the carpet, each...
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- 594 reads
ALL THE PEOPLE IN CHINA (The China Bomb)
If everyone in China was to jump in the air at the same time
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- 1072 reads
Colours I saw, walking
The sky overhead is lilac; bright lapiz lazuli swirled higher. Through bare twigs of beech a band of pale copper spreads above the curves and grooves...
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- 948 reads
Yours Truly
Not quite happy with this one ..any thoughts&;#063;
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War
Ask me why each morning I get up and put on the gloves And ask me again, why each morning I get up and fight the sun. Then ask me why even when He...
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- 655 reads
White-knuckle ride
another poem of love and loss
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- 766 reads
Dominic (his day of fate)
an experiment in style...
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- 1048 reads
Small Miracles
Changing the world...
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- 618 reads
Chairperson
How a wheel clamper meets his match
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- 1170 reads
Z= Unorthodox World of Mister Glass
The e-griff edit - crabs, uncles and magic
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A Sense Of Place
Beauty - ugliness lay side by side, Like the interwoven yin/yang. Holding hands, dancing - they Create the urban world together. Architectural...
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- 614 reads
A Letter To a Completely Good Teacher
Provides explanation to late paper and the reason some dogs are addicted to them.
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- 1430 reads
Pursuit by John Calder
John Calder's memoirs of 50 years in publishing
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- 666 reads
Party Animal
Party Animal the click of the shutter will taunt him - a negative to tut over in hungover debriefings the pop of the cork will haunt him - something...
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- 653 reads
Piano Tuner
The piano tuner came today. In another room I sat listening as he made each note glisten like new snow and when he'd done I opened my eyes and was...
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- 1005 reads
Under The Bed
because the real horrors are just that ..real.
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Just dinner
We finish our meal; the waiter takes away our plates and we sit holding hands across the small round table. The world around us seems to melt and all...
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- 618 reads
No Land Ahoy
A ship in a bottle is a feat of science. But what about the boat&;#063;
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- 605 reads
Interesting Adventures of Chris Columbus
A young man named Chris Columbus and his friend Biggins set sail for the New Land
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- 663 reads
A Fairytale of Flying
Who should you pray to when you take to the skies&;#063;
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- 531 reads
You said
You said I was Loving Special Caring Considerate Kind Funny Clever Thoughtful and Dumped
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A minor interlude
A story of passion, nightfall and the desecration of flowers
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- 546 reads
The end of all things (incomplete mx)
Police Helicopters circled ahead aggressively, buzzing angrily as they scorch the ground, searching each corner of Fitrovia with the
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Ghost of childhood
the endless aching drone of a chainsaw wakes me I get up, look out in time to see the crash down of branches, budding twigs this oak tree, which...
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When time exists
i can only hear time passing when i rest my chin on my hand, and the plastic hands of my watch click the seconds away i can only hear your heartbeat...
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- 917 reads
Married In My Heart
A Romance Shatterd By War
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- 636 reads
RHYME Damn You!
I'm sick of reading poetry That doesn't rhyme or scan And I'm sick of the pretentiousness Of Literary Man - I hate the blatant snobbery And 'artistry...
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- 1108 reads
Member of Parliament
A look into the life of an African Member of Parliament
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- 553 reads
Taxi Driver
when your imagination plays tricks on you...
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Taken By Storm
You Once fell at Niagara, Once swam A small still pool In a boulder's cup Where a scrap of sky Would rest in peace. You Swirled round The Titanic's...
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- 775 reads
Great Bath Debate
settling a long standing argument
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Natural History of Household Detritus
manic ramblings about rubbish
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For what we are about to receive
As another lunch time brings forth chat about weather and the lady opposite brinks on bleats, I wear my shoulders by my ears and close my eyes more...
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Ethics
A television documentary Showed a lab technician Punching a beagle in the face, 'Abusing an animal OUTSIDE THE REGULAR EXPERIMENT.' A spokesman said...
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Dreadful little secret
I'll tell you a secret if you have a moment. This is not just any old secret. Don't regard this secret as a non-secret I save for special occasions...
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Blood on the Rose
A shadow drifts in shades of red Blood stains speckled on the moon, A grave of roses under a cross to bear Bloody footprints in the flower bed. A man...
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Now waking sad a poem better not written
And on those evenings In between the sheets. The moon turns sad, And there are only ordinary things, Anywhere. In between the sheets. I am alone...
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Moment
The morning sun, distracted by the sky, barely notices her stir, her tea as she rises The sky stretches from chimney to antennae and then crows at a...
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A Story
read it twice.. you have to look close to see it all
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Y---liplock
liplock the first time is never idyllic because its a trap--i caught you unaware in the glare of dance lights and iced mixed drinks; fancy footwork...
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Define animal
I want to write about animals
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Vampires&;#063;
A poem about dead vampire girls, hmmm...
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Wolfe at the Biennial
so here we have arrived at megalopolis and there at the Whitney Museum another juried show and the Hitler analogies make the Mayor scream "like an...
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- 526 reads