Lovers, Liars and Just Good Friends.
By Ewan
some poetry grouped together because maybe they're about something similar. Or not.
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I Am A Camera.
title should read: I Am A Camera
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Down the Up-Osculator
A Cross Stick
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A Minute of Your Time
The boy can't help it.
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A Selfish Lover
Aren't we all?
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Above the Clouds
Skiers as birds! How contrived is that?
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All About Alchemy
no cutting edge modernity here either.....
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An Apology for a Class
Poor Inez puts up with a lot...
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Baroque
a misshapen pearl... imagine that
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Beachcombing
no explanations... no apologies...
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Being There
Well, Spack's is better of course, but...
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Between the Lines
Communication's never easy.
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Butterflies
What can I say? A blurt, and I don't apologise for it.
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Caligula’s Blushes
heaven knows i'm...
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Chinese Room
Chinese Room Argument, Searle 1980 http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/chineser.htm#H1
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Dear Gustav
A companion piece to this http://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/gustav
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Familiarity
Another poem about relationships.... oh dear.
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For You
I wore your tight silk against my intimate skin: so you could trace an outline of desire with a fingertip. As I do with mine. I grew my hair long so that it might cover your
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Opposites for Beginners
Staying married
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Springs
Butterflies of love? Not half so romantic as they sound. But it's what the French call them.
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Working Lunch
Yep, that about sums it up.
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Wing Walkers
A few short lines about a relationship
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Five Kisses
I was going to enter this for the Nostalgia Comp, but I just couldn't get it how I wanted it in time for the deadline.
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me myself & .i.
.i. what men think with
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The Whole Truth
...or some of it.
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Morning Glory
How it is.
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The Hand That's Dealt
it's about a game for two
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When I’m Old…
IPOW 04/04/08
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The Shape of Meaning
Connect? If only…
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Precautions
a poem, just that...
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Excommunication
Whoever said talk is cheap? It's often cost me very dear....
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Flattered
a poem... just that... just about...
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Tandoori Marinade
for someone...
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Tzara-ist Manifesto
Da da, da blah.... "Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, the howl of clashing colors, the intertwining of all contradictions, grotesqueries, trivialities: LIFE." [T. Tzara, "Dada Manifesto," 1918]
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Stopping Train to Hull
A train journey from a long time ago....
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Open Secret
nothing special...
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Swashbuckler
this one's about not growing up...
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Swashbuckler Too.
Swashbuckler... go on, pick another language you know, try and find a translation for it.
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Verbing the Noun
Verbing the noun... is that a euphemism?
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Romantic:
A short poem about romance...
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Maskelyne's Last Assistant
You work it out...
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Gustav
guess... Image is in the public domain... by the person you guessed this was about. About my first ever Ekphrastic, I think.
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Roller Coaster
not explaining this one...
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Rubbing Along
a short poem with no song titles in it.
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The Ill-Made Knight
apologies to T.H.White
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Instant Message
a poem...that's all
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Redress
This week's IPOW... The writer's revenge: writing about old hurts.
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The Great Big Fight.
I'm just a dumb bloke, I don't understand women.
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I Wish I 'd Known
IPOW
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Lovetide
a short poem about, well... I won't spell it out.
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The Gift
a short poem about...
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Down
Eeyore calling, Eeyore calling...
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Love in Seventeen Syllables.
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Safe Topics
You become jealous, when I tell you my plans. I remain silent on the meals I prepare or the bars that I visit, and with whom. You become angry, when I try for romance. I become frosty in
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Moments
it's about... no, you decide.
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Love Songlines
A random wander; twenty minutes worth.
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Gitano
talk, talk, it's only talk... a word with a 't' ...
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Mr Brown
I've been reading Niki72's 'We'll Be Happy etc.' http://www.abctales.com/story/niki72/chapter-nine-perhaps-love-and-sex-l... try it; it's much better than this poem.
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Ten Things I Wish I´d Written
only ten?
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Little Things
hmmm... not everyone's cup of tea... never mind.
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Wishes
almost poetry... definitely doggerel
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What's the Time?
Only tange n tially connected to the IPOW
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Words Are Not Enough
it´s up to you what it´s about...
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Moonlight's Shadow
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On the Other Side of the Sky
...
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Two Figures from a Hopper Painting
Hopper, not a great technician, but a witness to a vanished America
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We Look Back
walk on by... nothing to see here
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Mr Trent
If some things sound familiar, they should...
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The Paradox of Love
...
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A Game in Black and White
Guess... Oh okay, it's Scheherazade and Shahrayr playing chess in the image.
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And In Your Place
minimalist...
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Five Corners
Photo is of the cover of a French translation of a Chester Himes Novel...
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Playing with Matches
There is more than one kind of match...
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Other Names Sound Sweet
by any other name
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The Placeholder
Um... yeah, well, you work it out.
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The King of Diamonds
Cards... Image is free for non-commercial use : Author: David Bellot - Berkeley, CA, USA 08/12
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Ring Around The Moon
It's about... ah no... whatever you want it to be about... Image is dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons 1.0 by the creator Annajohepworth.
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Moon-Tan Lotion
Best read while listening to Neil Young's Unplugged version of Harvest Moon. Image is wikipedia commons, Samuel Palmer's The Harvest Moon: the image is in the public domain.
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An Englishman in New Jersey
Written a while back, fiddled with punctuation-wise. Some events are based on fiction. Image is by Dylan Meconis Tiny Paintings: Mr Mxyzptlk non-commercial use permitted.
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We Look Back
Image is free from Max Pixel and is used under CC0
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This Is Love
not about much... picture is free for non-commercial use. source Flicker.com
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No Love Song
Short and perhaps saccharine, but I don't care... Image is from Pixabay and is free of copyright issues.
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The Best Thing About Leaving
not about much... Photo by Edgar Pereira on Unsplash used by permission of the photographer
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Gunslingers
You'll work it out... Image is from Open Clipart Library
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The Racket-ty Life
Sometimes I'm surprised I'm still here. Image has no known copyright issues.
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Bop Shoo Waddy
I just heard that UKAuthors is going under. Any CW site that leaves the stage leaves us all the poorer, with one less place for crit and love out there. Anyway this is one of mine from UKA that I posted in the dim and distant past. image is from flicker.com licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Another Year
More odes from the crypt... It's about... 6 lines too long - or short, I don't know. Image is from pxhere.com
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Invitation to a Cocktail Waitress
Another poem poked at and fiddled with. Imagine it read in TW's bar-room growl while he smokes a cigarette. Image made by me at canva.com a collage of PD images
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