Autobiography
I cry
I cry, When I see someone in misery. I cry, When I miss my family. I cry, When I see someone begging on the road. I cry, When I see someone moan. I cry, When I miss the love of my life.
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I ATE "PINK PANTHER" BARS
When I was a little kid I ate "Pink Panther" bars; Ken Dodd and his Diddy Men My favourite TV stars. A plank across the barber's chair 'Short back and sides' Mum said;
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20th FEBRUARY 2009 - blog
My niece, one of them, has added me now on Facebook. I find it most peculiar, to say the least.
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AFTER MADNESS - CH 2 : 1 - Relatively Speaking
My little 'sister' Debra accepted my add on Facebook. My cousin Phillip did it last week. I understand Phillip because we always got on and he is doing music too, but Deb?
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The Lie
Lying low, lying, lying with me I am a lie, your lie, as we lie, I love our acts of lying, our Lack of rush, our straightforward lying, Our covers over our bodies like whispers,
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F*****G Awesome
I am fucking awesome There’s no one else like me And if you cannot see that You need to leave me be I don’t need your approval Your acceptance or renown Your need to feel superior
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On the day you came to stay
On the day you came to stay On the day you came to stay, I said some really stupid shit; like doesn't this toast all chewed up look like vomit, and I really dont care when your birthday is -
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More Than Just a Hat
After the snow melted And its ice tide had crawled away Revealing the road again We began to find things that we had lost; mislaid. For example: a woolen hat I'd bought you
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THE SAGA OF ME Versus ORANGE PLC (cont.)
I filled in a form on the Internet last week to get a free credit score and to join the site for a month for free, after which it costs £5.99.
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Not in my Backyard 1987
Political thoughts in the late eighties.
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Death in Southall April 1979
Homage to Blair Peach
The terrifying thaw
one & here and a lot of off-beat lines changes, used to jar your attention, distract you maybe.
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One small step (& it is so worth taking)
Balancing act: Luck & Jinxing
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I've...
I've been broken. I healed. I've fell. I stood up. I've cried. I smiled. I'am strong. I'am women.
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"Six Pennorth Of chips" ( I .P ) Now In The Magazine 23 Wow!
My Dad was a Navy man Through and through When home on leave In his unform and hat Bell bottom trousers Plus black shiny boots He would kick them off Come in and Pour a glass of beer
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Block
Because writing about writer's block is so in right now ;) 'My tongue fell hardest of all. This muteness spreads inwards, anger'
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Home is where the heart is,
Current I.P
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The Insomniacs Wish
Eyes wide Mind full Tossing Turning Push and Pull Silence reigns Darkness falls Yet slumber hides outside my walls Sleep, Sleep, end my day Take my waking world away
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Better left unsaid?
My stomach is jumping across hot coals as I long to tell you why I’m melting.
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WEARINESS
Weariness Bone aching, strength sapping weariness.
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Birds that flew
About the friends who are chasing their dreams and missing a lover.
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THE VOICE, THE CHOICE, MY FRIENDS REJOICE
In adversity there comes hope.
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You Two
You’ve made me rant, You’ve made me cry, You’ve made me lose my cool, But of all the things you’ve made me do You’ve made me hate you. You pushed me out, You laughed at me,
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My God, my God
Help me, Lord, poor child that I am. I have relied on alcohol to comfort me, to drown my dissatisfaction, my disappointment with the world, with myself. Help me to rely on you, My Lord,
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HOW QUICK (TRUST TO DUST)
One thing in life I fail to learn Is how quick a friend can turn, From someone you think you can trust To one who turns your heart to dust. You thought they'd always have your back
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The Bursting Bubble
Always put bit cold water in first the bottle won't burst. and throw it out before drifting off! Don't put your fingers in your mouth it is so bitter the rubber of bottle?
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lol
Who decides whats right and wrong who tells me whats acceptable and whats not whos life is this mine or yours please dont hesitate to answer make your mind up tell it to me streight.
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I kissed an Argentinian man on the Tube
in a South American way, not a British way.
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Mood Shift
A moment of madness, A moment of sanity. A moment of sorrow, A moment of joy. A moment of laughter, A moment to cry. A moment of geniuses, A moment of insanity. A moment of genuine love,
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A Song for the Birds
I don't have the WORDS I don't have the WORDS I don't have the WORDS... to say to you Leave it to the BIRDS Leave it to the BIRDS Leave it to the BIRDS... is what I'm gonna do
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Today I Looked In The Mirror
I wake in the darkness of early morning Brush away the clinging gossamer of sleep In the quiet which feels as though no-one Has ever touched it, stirred its gentle air.
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Like they used to
Writer's block
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Dreaming Spires
A collaboration with a great guy and dear friend of mine ;) 'Sleep-walking, last night, retraced my steps to Oxford.'
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The Theatre
ὑποκριτής Wordless I have found these words between the Chinese poems and the stars when shutters lift from the empty stage. The props are strewn across the boards,
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Love Me Tender
Il tear of his face and make him scream cut off his fingers, then rip out his spleen Il skin him and gut him just like a dear hang him on a hook whilst feeling sincere
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Poem from a Raincoat Pocket
WIP
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april that year..
Small dark quiet space, a branching, reaching, fingering of roots, a stretch of stem; sap is rising -stirring seed, budding tree... slow, relentless, unstoppable, sweet as air; old as time...
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Tree, by Spring.
Leaning on the sky, strong silhouette delicate as lace; unclothed branches stretch, spreading thin traceries, bark on blue.. this winter tree is last to green;
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You, again..
Silence of the phone stretches to weeks; you always fading, moving backwards, dimmed. I do & don't care, watching my wanting; you're in my head, hopeless; your presence had me fixed, focused;
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washed ashore
a tree trunk washed ashore. three days it took from where i saw it first bobbing in the possessive (unwilling) sea for its deliverance upon the dry shore.
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worth it??
A leaf in the air - you danced past me, whirling fingers open to everyone, touching on me... Fit dancers body my foreign landscape briefly I relearnt how now vanishes
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huh..
you know I don't see you much you stand there like an everyone with your shirt and all and your skin in the present tense and i want you special your eyes are dark like jet
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mother
The day hangs like a hat. Do i matter? We drink tea. Outside the sun blows rosewards, my head is bowed. Schoolteacher - the hole of your silence throws me into the blackboard.
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S.O.U. LETTER TO EDITOR
"IN PRAISE OF SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY"
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Lee Brilleaux's Boots
So we reluctantly leave, Just before Wilko finishes the final number and I hug my skinny sister, who, out of love and kipping on a mate's sofa in Mornington Crescent, wears her bright
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Lonely
A fine morning, A fine thought, A depressed man, A torn cloth. Lonely as he was, With violated rights and clause. A person who was my own mirror reflection,
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GET OVER IT (on having my story for Haiti rejected)
I entered a story in "100 stories for Haiti", I didn't get in, I got upset, I thought what was really important, I laughed at myself, I wrote this poem
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All The Best
The time has come, To stop considering books to be a showpiece item, To get dissolved in them, Just like sugar in water. To concentrate more than, The concentration level of sulphuric acid.
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The Princess
United by the hierphant, we bridge the sacred mysteries. No one knows whether to slap or hug the princess;
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February 1st 2010
It's my partner, Dean's birthday today. He hates them so has had a few lagers followed by a couple of brewery special ales and is now asleep.
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The Old Fire Station, Bethnal Green. PART TWO
A homage to ... well, lots of things, really.
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The Old Fire Station, Bethnal Green. PART ONE
A homage to ... well, lots of things, really.
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Travails Of The Travel
Travails Of The Travel Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar
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Travails Of The Travel
Travails Of The Travel Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar
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Good Enough?
You have readers like followers, the most beautiful comments left behind for your works.
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AN END TO THIS
This is another poem about depression. It is my personal feelings, the things I find the hardest to write about. It was written in 'real time' as I was actually experiencing them.
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