Autobiography

Hero's tale

I sacrificed the guardian, I can no longer be proud.
Cherry

The Coming of Age. April Part 3

Jessica thinks about shoes and Poppy moves on.

The pages of a book.

The pages of a book have that old musty smell, the feel of inspiration and wonder as you drink in every sentence.

TIME

Time to enjoy Time to relax Time to plan Ones life Avoid strife Time awaits for no one A stitch in time Saves nine May hay While the sun shines As the sayings go Not with haste

teenage angst (revised)

Meant for spoken word, this poem expressing teenage angst avoids the correct usage of punctualization, and capitalization.

UNA NOCHY

Understand if you please.
Cherry

The Coming of Age.April Part 1.

Liquorice allsorts ande the Pink Rolls Royce.
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Lines

When we awoke that morning and parted, the curtains, it was me who spotted it first; The lines of our lawn, skewered in the centre by a small charcoal tree, ever-black instead of green.

Rain

The aroma of the sand, The wetness of the wind, Dark cover of the clouds, Sound of the droplets ever so loud. Each droplet in phase with the other, Sounding like music to the listener.

None Of The Above

It couldn't be.

COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW (True) - (updated April 29th 2010)

My friend Frank and I met and went to the shops He brought breakfast and dieting things! plus salad and spaghetti rings He had a walking stick that folded into 3 one gold and one silver see
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Fred And Rita

about not very much...

WELCOME

WELCOME Welcome after goodbye And long absence Gives me A satisfying sense Eying my loved ones With love Embracing

I-cockroach

Sometimes I think of myself as a digital cock-roach, though perhaps it's wishful thinking In some ways small, dark and twisted (more than it seems;) I have nonetheless animal resilience...
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Don't flake out on me

if me and you stick at it don't set our sights on unrealistic goals then we will both get our carriage clocks a handshake from the CEO
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May God protect your home

one day I saw an ambulance and was so relieved the next day when you were out in the garden again a trowel in your hand

Smile

A smile that broadens your face, Brightens my day. A smile that takes your cheek muscles for an exercise, Makes my heart beat second a twice. A smile that lights up your face,

OH! DEMON

OH! DEMON Knock! Knock! Who is there? A Demon Who wants to come out? And be exorcised He wants to come clean And confess After forty years I want to rest, he said
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The Prodigals

She crushed us into boulders, curled us into roses. Rejected. Not the perfection she wanted. In this sin-bin we strike cubist poses.

Spanish Streets

All dressed in White

Phase Ten Regeneration Area

Sad Sunday went on forever and Saturday never came, an endless drudgery of hopelessness in the regeneration zones……..

I SURVIVED BUT OTHERS….

I SURVIVED BUT OTHERS…. Suspended animation Frustrated Agitated Paralysed Helpless and Dehumanised But I am still here I survived But what happened To those who remained Behind
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Polenta

poem/edited

Hard Apple Cider

It's a bottle of hard cider: sweet and rotten, relaxing and toxic I drank it: tasting joy and sorrow, strolls in warm idyllic countrysides, sickness and metaphoric gutters I've slept in,

Let's talk about the end of everything

Let’s talk about the end of everything
Cherry

Nothing, not finished

I saw something at the weekend, and it changed the way I see the world. It was nothing special, no big epiphany or massive Feng-Shui style life change. Non of that superficial bullshit.

Signing on/coming down

I have danced on the borders of serious drug addiction for more than a decade now, it’s sapped my spirit and burned my soul, my confidence and energy has all but diminished.

Places

there is no place

The Frontline

iv) The Frontline

CRY

CRY Cry of joy Cry incessantly Induced by pain Loss of loved one/s Loss of earnings Loss of dignity Reduced to ridicule Feelings of emptiness Loneliness Despair Utter hopelessness

I wish I believed in aliens

before I closed my curtains at night I'd check the sky for asteroids hurtling towards earth

Michael Owen's cheeky accumalator

you've been like Screech from Saved by the Bell unable to find a new role answering endless questions about Zac Morris and Mr Belding.

the week- ends

just a ramble..

iWrite

iWrite my flat mate gemma has become a right little eco warrior she’s gonna write to our MP tomorrow ask him questions about landfill and fossil fuels and do we need more runways

dentist

I sat on the bus, fifteen to twenty other people were on it all waiting for the dentist to call us back into his operating area.

iBoracic

iBoracic i’m mentally bankrupt this job is an effing joke and the wages are pants barely covering the rent not to mention my credit cards or council tax
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The Box

I was never allowed to look in it. It was always locked; Though she would fiddle with its catches And rusty leather suitcase hinges. One day when she was out,

Madeline

To feel my feet crunch on the gravel path, hands, brushing brambles and box-hedges. To knock on the dead leaf door; Hear: the sound of fox-knocker on wood. See the mice curtains twitch;
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Wednesday Sonnet: The Actor to the Audience

When I still had the sunlight in my hair I thought the gods of theatre had misspelt My stage directions; was I Caesar’s heir? I did not feel the quiet others felt

Echoes in mind

Kathleen's house...still painful.

TRANQUILITY

TRANQUILITY Mystery Elation Happiness Contentment Fulfillment and tranquility When did this all happen? The 31st of August was the day Nine weeks after I arrived from London

MELANCHOLY

MELANCHOLY When and why do people become melancholic? Is it a condition or a state of mind? For those who are truly melancholic Is a serious condition and not merely a
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An Old LP

A few months ago I picked up a record to play, Nana Mouskouri Sings White Rose of Athens in German, and remembered how I had bought it exactly 40 years earlier, on holiday ...

The Stick in the Woods

A child in a world of pain. Somewhere deep in memory Ben remembers that child, he remembers blood specks in the snow.
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The Sunken City

Ben lay recumbent, strewn across the balcony, the searing heat of the mid morning sun rousing him.

The State I'm in attempting to learn. Years 1998 -2002

Learning lessons about life and maturing like a prized slice of Stilton and over cooked fish fingers.
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Pops

We buried Pops in his Sunday Best On that wet November morn I stood there in MY Sunday Best Shattered Tattered Torn “Private Viewing” an hour before

Monday Sonnet: On clothes

Written when a friend commissioned a poem on clothes. Enjoy!

Lost

I just needed to get a few things off my chest.

the hallucination

I just had a night full of dreams and visions: often what seemed like voices talking to me I was rushed through one spectacular neon kaleidoscope that was amazing and rather pleasant,

Do not judge me so harshly

and bethink me a fool's delight, my mind is as clear as morning light in the throes of a summer height, do not think that I do not love thee well, nor bethink that i do not tread the narrow path

LONELINESS

LONELINESS Why am I alone in a crowd? Gloomy, blank - eyed and worried Where can I find an answer? Do I have to ask someone? Or consult a doctor? My loneliness seems

WHO AM I?

WHO AM I? Who am I? It is the first time I asked This question It is directed at me For up to now I never knew myself My capacity Talent or skills It never occurred to me To ask myself

The Poet's Journey

!!I!! was from my mother's womb untimely ripped !!I!! was slow and then very fast to read and write !!I!! listened every night to Mozart for my youthful mind

do not

think me a mere fool to be played upon... i am a serious man possessed of many devious talents which i carry in my sleeve, do not think i possess venom, NO I possess sarcasm to make me a tool