Autobiography
I aim to please
Response to a notice in the Gents
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Dear Whomsoever ...
When you read this note, you'll have found my box...underneath the floorboards.
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Hate
Home Grey hairless slippers The pause on the stairs Abrupt hankyless sneezes Fixed coughs and wheezes Thin tea A world without me
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Receipts and Outgoings.
Documents from another era. Almost another lifetime it feels Falling into my hands, In a winter clean up and out mood Bank statements, notebooks, diaries. Invoices. Receipts.
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The Unthinkable (me and you together)
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Winter
morning melancholy skin still craving sheets pitter patter footsteps fall like christmas sweets comfort cup of coffee chilly marble floor gray and barren landscape dead leaves at the door
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The Elephant in the Room
The awkwardness of the festivities, influenced by Dali - and alcohol
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A Crown of Thorns
I remember the speckles of my blood in the snow. Where I watched the Starlings in the cold of the year, as they spangled the sky and my sorrows turned into something else.
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Leaving (draft)
I a a f w d I b w s a a f w d a n c a c w a t m a m i m m a i m o d r (t?) tiw tiw iaddad ewiwy ifmama ewyhmt cty tiw i cns tiw iara I h y a k w y s yhlci
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Full Stop.
It's true: we've co-authored a masterpiece. Our imagery, our perfect symmetry can't be matched - we moved as one entity, attached for so long.
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A sentimental Journey Back
A nostalgic look back at childhood in the form of rubaiyat
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Winter Wonderland updated IP
Oh! let's walk through the park slide on our sledges up and down hills count our blessings All be wearing snow boots and hats with Abc on plus red christmassy coats gloves with pictures
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I couldn't bear for you to be cold
I can't believe it's really you in this hospital bed in intensive care, eyes closed and oh so still; a machine breathing for you and a geometric pattern
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freedom from directions
Let us tear these maps and logs for once And also throw away this compass, if we must. Let's make this journey without directions Without boundaries and self-imposed restrictions .
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Winter 1947 ( I.P.)
This poem I wrote some time ago, it illustrates perfectly my dislike of snow and how fed up I am right now of the weather.
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The art of Quilting
contradicting hues...
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A Time to Play
Thank goodness our parents were unknowing of the danger we exposed ourselves to. Children often do engage in risky adventures, and this was to be ours.
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Tongue of My Youth
now I am subdued in a fast lane of an Indiana 500 world
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Tomorrow's World
'We're all going to wear jetpacks' we all said at school the next morning
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Foreword- " A Piece of the Banner."
Foreword
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Without A Voice
Always ignored
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Make your bed
Respect yourself with nothing And you’ll truly know your wealth
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Gather Round
And so I walk upon this road And sometimes only with a smile Sometimes food and shelter And sometimes nothing for awhile
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Lucky To Have You BLUE EYES IP
I was on my way to work at seven months gone pouring hard I kept under the shop's canopies so I wouldn't get wet but a man came out and knocked me down Lucky to have you blue blue eyes
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I Had My Dreams ( I. P.)
Another repetitive Poetic Form~~A Roundeau.
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The Grain
A visit to the nearby beach led me here.
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Unconditional (For My Daughter)
I didn't begrudge you...
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Black & White (IP)
This is an old piece I re-discvered in the archives - it seems to fit the IP criteria so hope I'm not cheating!
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First Snow
Silently, slowly, it crept in to complete the snow globe illusion - begging Petersburg to eat its heart out.
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Used to be a Woolworths
Used to be a Woolworths
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Christmas Get Together ( I.P.)
A villenelle, the perfect vehicle for repetition.
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Goodbye
Well it’s come. Time to say goodbye; twilight is upon me and faded at last to darkness. There’s only a faint glow left now and the day is done. Just enough time to say goodbye to you all.
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18 Minutes and 33 Seconds
I’m sorry. I was wrong. Like when I bought the Guinness Book of Records from1992, 75 pence from a charity shop, in Cromer. A perfect gift for your, big birthday.
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'What's with your emoticon?' she asked. 'How do you mean?' said I. 'Most people use ony one dash for the nose, you use two; so tell me why?'
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Belated
I need to get away from here I know I'll never be as beautiful as you But in someways, you'll never beat me Honest and benevolent Yet I still feel invisible And what did I ever do wrong?
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Low
Ted Hughes once wrote about how the joy that Sylvia Plath lost was blue. My joy is pink. Lows are white,
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Wings
I cannot reach them with my hands So I touch them with my thoughts x
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No Clue
A poem that I found from years ago, it was a skeleton of this. I've edited it instead of doing my essay. And now my fingers are frozen to the keyboard.
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Quand il y a assourdissement
In this essay I am going to ignore the fact I have an essay and day dream instead.
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i am but a man
I am but a man, Mortal and fallible, My mistakes many and myriad, But never have I denied them, Never claimed perfection, Never claimed superiority, I am but a man. I am but a man,
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Come The Night
Being very ill recently I pre-arranged my funeral, to spare my husband and children some distress. I chose a green burial, Yet sometimes at night when I'm having a tough time I wonder...
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Home
Is my heart here? My treasure is unseen. Does that mean I'm homeless? This location, where I dwell. swollen with strife engulfed with anger. Misery, I call to thee! For you have
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Kevin the Gerbil
- September 2001
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To all of you
To those of you here whom I, rightly or wrongly, consider friends I apologise for my absence these past weeks.
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Candy from the dandy
Candy from a dandy You cannot trust For it may be covered in rust
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What rhymes with Fep?
F is for Fep E is for EP P is for Pef
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Christmas Trails… Or Trials ( A slight Re-write)
When I was a child Christmas would tip toe gently in. Its journey beginning with Advent In Sunday school, the first week of December. From then on anticipation built
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Pages from Ceefax
'We are being drip-fed by these life support machines'
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Your children are fast asleep upstairs
Your chiropodist hasn't answered her phone all morning 'What can she be up to!'
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My problems
Everyone has them, some call them faults others call them problems or issues, but we all have things that we don't need to or want to do but do anyway, my problems are as follows:
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Moving On
A challenge entry on another site
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Baubles Bangles And Beads IP
There I was going to the shop three escalators to the top I went over to the corner to buy some pumps Sat on the polished seat far to low I slid and landed on the floor
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Nostalgia and Moving House
Finding something that you thought was lost can stir the memory too.
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Moles
I used to look in the mirror and think that all the birth marks I had would one day save my life. If I was kidnapped and ransomed to my parents
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Bridge with God
My mother takes gambles with angels. If her Patience is solved, she knows she will be protected and safely climb the high step to her terrace to get some fresh air.
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Fear, Fate and Love
Holding on!
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Mothers Maiden
You’re only starting now at thirty.
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Lost In the Kimberley's
I followed the highway into the sun.
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