Mind Stew (2009)
By jennifer
The ones that escape...in between novelling.
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Mistress Untamed
Just a quick disclaimer: this is NOT autobiographical!
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A Twisted Tale
Funny fairytale frolics, inspired by Bradene's 'Twisted' and the snow!!!
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Alphabet of Ending Love (Inspiration Point)
The end was hard. Very hard. Extremely hard. Does it work?
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And yet...
And yet… (10th June 2009, 10.09am) you’ve gone dark, absolved any guilt in radio blackness, blocking the airwaves with apathy. I was content with nothing;
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Annihilate
Edited, thanks to the commenters!
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Awakening
NOT POETRY!! FOR ONCE!! An extract from the (current) novel I am 'trying' to write...any thoughts welcome!
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Becoming
Becoming (11th January 2009, 9.08pm) Pain like fire, through veins, burns strong and wild as I twist the mortal coil one final, forbidden turn. Swift goodbye. Fire like ice, cracks veins;
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Bound (Inspiration Point)
Inspiration point, a darker take...in response to Doeslittle! (I shall not be out-darkened!) x Not sure if it warrants 'erotica' and '18' but I thought it best to err on the side of caution!
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Carousel (IP:30)
Love like snowstorms Caught in glass globes, You blow circles, dizzying. I mount your carousel. You buck and twist as I grip your golden pole, Watch the world swirl, swing.
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Chaosity Kills
I owe this one to Lily Allen and her new song 'The Fear', whose lovely rhythm I have attempted to emulate!
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Confession (Exam Tension)
Confession (Exam Tension) (14th January, 2009, 10.18am) In my hand, I hold no stamp of greatness, Just my purple marking pen; I sit in the exam room, nervous for them,
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Cowboy Killer
Cowboy Killer (6th January, 2009, 2.24pm) He strode in like a cold wind blowing through my mind, words slung from his hips like guns, bullets ready for firing; deadly, silver-tongued ones.
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Critical Understanding
Critical Understanding (31st January, 2009, 11.21pm) Line up the imperfect lines of poetry against the towering wall of commentary as the critics load, lock, raise their weaponry.
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Other People's Children
Oh yes, a little Miss Witch rant!
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Google Worship (inspiration point)
Google Worship (12th January, 2009, 9.52am) There Is No God Greater Than The Great God Google... Every day I pray that You will show me the way
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Life in Motion
Life in Motion (13th January, 2009, 12.02pm) The world is dark I sit and sigh The world is bright I shade my eyes In moonlight shudder In sunlight burn The cycles come I never learn
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Epiphany
My words, rare prose from the frustrated poet!
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Lifeline
Lifeline (14th January, 2009, 10.05am) Look at me, See what I’m making: Love for you, Here for the taking But emotions blind, Construct lies from truth, Turn my independence
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Postscript
Another mindspill of short prose from the poet....
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Desperate Times Cannot Be Measured
That angels are not the result of artifice, But rather the product of desperation.
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Escape Root
Escape Root (22nd January, 2009, 2.25pm) Today is sponsored by overtired SAD and the high squeals of the black-clad birds of prey; I pray on my own time,
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Whose Ark?
Inspired by a Postsecret card.
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Keeping up Appearances
Inspiration Point...spider and a red dress....
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Teachologue
An insight....!!! Tearing hair out? Me? Never!
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Poets: A Call to War!
Jenny Rants. Order restored to mind. It may be Pants! Please don't be kind...
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Sad-ism
Sad-ism (31st January, 2009, 10.15pm) Dry your tears on your arm. The wetness burns your naked sleeve; this need to make you cry has been growing inside like a weed.
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Snowstory
Snowstory (3rd February, 2009, 10.49am) Graceless, not a vision in white, clad in suitably unsexy clothes, I skid, slip, splay across the snow like Bambi, minus the cute element.
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Snowplication
Snowplication (3rd February, 2009, 11.59am) I open my mouth to receive their snowflake communion on my tongue; an offering from greater, older Gods than the one I have been shown;
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Namesake (Inspiration Point)
Jennifer Pickup, Googled.
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OH, NUTS!
A RANT in response to recent slights and oddness...hilarious!
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Unhinged Melody
Unhinged Melody (22nd February 2009, 9.18am) I sit here and watch outside your house, From two doors down, across the road, Waiting for you to get up and leave for work,
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If I were a girl...
Inspired by, of all things, Beyonce and that rubbish film I paid good money to see last week...
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Gorge myself on you
Ooooh, a bit of naughtiness!!!
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Rock River Rock (IP)
Rock, River, Rock (1st March, 2009, 12.08pm) Rock, river, rock; sway me in your arms like a babe with a smile; slow-grow in me a penchant for your deep, green charms.
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Poet's Plea
Oh hell, comment away, I think I might stop... scream once, tear my hair out, hold up my hands - honesty is the biggest crime, is it not?
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Sprung! (Inspiration Point)
The innocence *cough* of Spring!
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Wordsmith's Prayer
No idea where this came from, just started going round my head this morning as I was eating breakfast!
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High on Snow (Inspiration Point)
High on Snow (IP) (13th March, 2009, 20.49pm) Edgeless precipice; you look down, precarious, high on snow. I watch you. Naïve, I stumble in the light, troughed in some unbefitting,
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Luminous (by Jennifer Pickup)
Competition Entry
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Love me do (Incendiary)
Bit late for last week's IP, had to come out at some point! I've had enough of trying to be polite!
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Here (IP)
Edited, punctuated, named, any better? Too much punctuation?
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Echoes
First poem in a long time!
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