Autobiography
The end of the day.
Roarrrrrr. Nimm das! It means take that in German... I think. Aww sorry. Oh ok then... how are you? I'm good too! Catch! Damn no one catches my boot bag.
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Nets and Butterflies
We may be, for one and other, The net that holds, The net that binds, And through this is our power. We hold the butterfly, That flaps and beats, And as we tremble, we love.
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when you realise how to love and be loved
Feels like I've never been away, although it's been longer then i could possibly say. The bond that ties a man, What I wish is for calm.
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My Old Mate Bill
Christ Billy I hadn't seen you for nearly 10 years. What happened to you? You were the one who woke me up all that time ago with your wise mad words and you're healing hands.
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Clashes with infinity!
I suppose it all started as they say, when I was a little boy in junior school at the age of about eight.
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Aurora
There is no way to begin again. No direction without this point: Without a stationary car in the rain at night And all that was unspoken Weaved in amongst the music played
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The X Factor - the pursuit of a speedy end to civilisation
morons rise up and revolt we have nothing to lose but our brains
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One Dark Night Long Ago... (A re-write)
She would imagine something dark waiting to leap out at her...
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tomorrow's story today
Yesterday went by like a flash of light and today also seemed like a bit of a blur. Is Time speeding up I wonder?
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Insomnia; 4.a.m Story
FOUR A.M. IN THE MORNING, SHADOWS DANCE ON BROKEN PAVEMENTS WORLD SLEEPING; EVEN THE MOON IS YAWNING STARING OUT AS TIME DOETH CREEP IN UNISON WITH STOLEN DREAMS; ‘SLEEP-SLEEP’
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The sound of one hand clapping part.2
More sounds of one hand claps ??
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Chapter Seventeen: Come Back George, My Stinking Brother!
Kate is worried about George. Where has he gone? Then she discovers she might have a sliver of her Mum's telepathy after all...
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Being Single
BEING SINGLE The night air is getting heavy Dogs are barking at the cars Summer sun has dropped from view Now the moon shines with all the stars. I kiss you twice and make you smile
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HAIKU FROM LAST SPRING
frosty red tulips volunteer in the next yard: soon they will blossom Gulliver's Travels pleased me in a coffeehouse that's gone but not here coffee girl's blonde hair
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The Sound of one hand clapping?
Have you heard of hearing the sound of one hand clapping?
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Re-member.
As I watched the funeral cortege pass down the street with its escort of flashing blue strobe lights, silent clapping crowds and lowered flags, I remembered… So many young men… and not just ours,
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A quick Poem beofre I leave work
Transform from working man to rock god, I stole the show, what a lucky sod.
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My Three Week Holiday
Just some of things that with hindsight, I found amusing about the three weeks that I spent in a mental hospital in 2001
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!!! OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS ???
Super acuity, it’s incredible! We succumb to an acute pyro-synaptic event. Time seems to stop and start and stop and start and... “Thank God!!!!!!”
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Deciding
How many psychotherapists does it take to change a lightbulb ? ?
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A Really Bad Day
It started off ok: with you ironing and singing along to the Spin Doctors, and me running upstairs downstairs upstairs downstairs looking for trainers water socks mobile wallet keys
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The Angel's Silence 8
Rayna hated to admit it, but her life seemed to be getting better since Maya left. She was always in Maya's shadow, and now she had stepped into the light.
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The last visit and conversion…
Here lies, My grandmother… A week from: death. The archetypal grandmother Of all nursery cries Made that much, better. Here lies, My grandmother… In that week of heinous—lies,
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Unoticed
I stick to the side, Avoiding the massive crowd, Unoticed to them. Holding a small dream, In the middle of my heart, Encased in my blood. I have my blood spilt,
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One Day (Before I Die)
Some of the things we all plan to do, but never get around to!
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I wanted to write a poem
Though the day's been active with socializations real and virtual, neighbourly and international: though I created art-works and gave one away, I wanted to write a poem
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To those who let go
A dark account of one unforgiving Bristol night out.
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The Lost Post (Chapter 5) The Way Forward
Timely entry considering present unrest
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Clueless
My first Philosophical poem. Let's all hope it's not to deep!
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Babbling Screams
2008 was not a good year for me! I live in a rather more balanced world now but this is what it felt like then.
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The Voicemail
The Voicemail I heard an old voicemail today, that caught me unawares, Three months ago my mother called, “Nothing urgent, please ring me back.” I did, three months ago. I cannot now.
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The Riddle of the British English
What is it to be British, to be English, and what has all that to do with Carl Robert Halling?
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Westward From Eire- final version
The final version of my book "Westward From Eire" can be found on my web page: http://web.me.com/jxmartin1/JXMARTIN/Home.html I hope it is a good read. J.X.M
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Step Right Up!
a half-a-dollar, Man... that ain't nuthin'!
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Nothings The Same
I've seen the sun going down over the ocean I've felt the warm breeze blowing though my hair I've watched the wet sand slowly drying on my body Oh but nothing is the same without you there
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Suffocating Silence
In lonely places where the shadows fall There's no-one there but you hear them call They'll drag you in If you go there way And once you're in there You'll never get away
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Magic
Happy birthday Magic! Hope you have enjoyed your 18th :) Your work brings me and others so much joy, you really have an amazing
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It's A Fine Line On Line
I really am in a quandary. For two weeks now I've been talking to, what I am lead to believe is,a truley beautiful woman from Ghana.
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The Struggle
Sometimes, depression and sadness overwhelm me. And I keep struggling against fear. Struggling is what I call it.
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A Triolet: A Scary Thought,
for a challenge I almost won! (-;
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the darkness
The street lamp flickers in the street outside, tears stream down the window panes, my nose pressed against cold glass. I stare at the moon and it stares back at me,
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Between Two Bridges
Nothing survives forever
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Wagon Wheels and All
I try to stay in touch even if those I am conversing with have passed on.
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shadow of death
In the bushes of Nahoon On a moonless night Steel blades drink blood in darkness In the valley of the shadow of Death 29 December 2008 ALIVE IN CHRIST IS DEAD IN SIN
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He's the boy I loved
Oh, I'm so sick of this small country town man stepping in and out of my shadow He's that child without a game plan Dreaming of his newlywed wife in a foreign chateau...
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Wound
An old muse whispers on with a bit of Wilfred Owen thrown in! It is my poisonous poppy that out-bleeds all of those roses that you gave the others.
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Boxes of Bones
Boxes of Bones The things from the old marital attic got damp and covered with dust placed carelessly with rancour perhaps My highschool yearbook
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Both of us in baseball caps
an attorney dressed as Elvis.
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Sand heaps
They were our neighbours we moved in the same day we were both five years old. There were french drains and gravel roads and a blackout with each thunderstorm.
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Up The Market Brew
How do you describe melancholia?
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The Hangover
Serial Thriller Competition
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A walk along the coast -South Devon a long time ago
A walk along the coast We walked from Bolt Head to Bolt Tail on a cold November day It was 1980 and we were talking about going away I was in two minds as if walking in between landmines
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The non Political Head
The non political head. Quietly he rose slowly out of bed What could he think about today? The threat of war Any post through the door Stuttering down stairs mumbling to the cat
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A Not Feeling Well Day
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The loss of an ill fated romantic in a life mechanical.
Her times and history had long gone. Her voices in the high places were lost in the winds and flurries of storms.
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Freeway Haikus
Three Haiku written for a Uni assignment.
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