Let me exhale 

Wait a minute

Let me exhale

I have been hurt 

Mentally, physically and emotionally

I have been ridiculed

Called names 

Shot at 

For what, because of my skin?

Take a look 

Yea in the mirror 

Now take a look 

This time at me

Tell me 

What do you see

Two hands, two feet, two eyes 

They are no different than mine

Separated by ...

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The past is held in the un-cut clearing
all the way to the other side of the cricket ground
and past the greenhouse
which you reckoned must have had a few balls
smashing through it over the years
and the nearby college,

drawing a line between the future
and what lies beyond the other side of the gate
leaving nothing but shadows
and rattling doors
of the boarded up club house
retracing...

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in my dream

I follow a Shepherd

without a flock

to a far away land

beyond the blue remembered hills

we do not speak

l'm guided along

with signals made with his crook

I obediently follow

there appears before us

a foreign place

bathed in golden light

I saw no human habitations

stretched out in front of us

countless mounds of earth

neat...

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Leaving Home

I kicked off my shoes in disgust

as I had more time to waste and wait

I was impotent because of my age

bound by the law to adhere and acquiesce

I stood and fumed barely able to conceal my anger

I wanted to smash something, a nearby fish bowl caught my eye

The word livid was beneath the surface of my soul

I was about to explode at any moment

I ...

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The children
stuck there at the top of the ferris wheel 
swaying between this view and that
spying
an open boat comfortably settled in the sand
decide on further investigation 
it's only at the end of the day
exhausted and entering sleep
the children
aware water follows every path down
know
they'll run a proud hand along 
the smooth gunwales of their own little skiff
thought they...

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I believe firmly
that all shards
no matter
how small and fragile
no matter
how fractured and forgotten
no matter
how long ago
they broke
can be mended
can be reassembled
into the vase they once formed
and that this vase
can be as strong
and as beautiful
as it once was

I firmly believe
that nothing
is beyond repair
nothing
can´t be mended
it just takes
more and more work
th...

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Some men only aim to please 
They constantly beg and plead

For you to answer their call
For they need you before they fall

Much deeper into a low
Where all it takes is just one blow

Job into a thousand highs
Or a long sorrowful goodbye 

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Forgetting such moments are not a cinch

Wow factor is a life free of glitch

Those moments are just dreadly screams

Even so, they are just dusky dreams

Panting, whimpering, yearning and lamenting deep

Hark! wake up before they engulf your luminous tinge of last beam...

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Your work lacks suffering
I hear the happily satisfied 

Middle class tones underlying
Everything you say

And there’s not enough space
In our collective hearts for it

After a hard day it doesn’t 
Ask the right questions

Or provide the right
Solutions

And I’m happy you’ve found love
But if you write about it

It just might fly out from under 
Your pen and then your songs

M...

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A man gets on a plane and sits in first class,

He was approached by the stewardess,a friendly lass.

"Sorry sir you'll have to vacate your seat,

And move to economy to rest your feet."

The man was adamant he was going to stay,

Even though first class he did not pay.

"I'm going on holiday to Torbay and I'm staying here !"

"First class you didn't pay sir,you'll have to move ...

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Filey England 1960 something. 

The shed smells of shit

Its not a shed its a chalet

Its boxed happiness

Its freedom

From desolation

Its a summery

Destination

With a swimming pool

Full of polio

Cold shivering 

skinny kid

Its the place

We leap

Like national sheep

Laughing in unison

Drunken fornication

Shimmering castigation

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Hand Count

Sixty times a minute

I have travelled round this face

Three thousand six hundred times an hour

I have faithfully kept pace

Eighty six thousand four hundred times a day

I’ve ticked along

Six hundred and four thousand eight hundred times a week

Always right and never wrong

Eighteen million one hundred and forty four thousands times an average month

Relen...

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A hundred days since lockdown began, stockpiling days seems so long ago.

Rationing of pasta, toilet rolls, hand sanitiser, the empty shelves full of woe.

Non essential shops closed along with gyms, restaurants, bars and schools.

Only two persons allowed together, was just one of the new lockdown rules.

A tired nurse went to the shop and broke down, she cried in sheer desperat...

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The only place

that my hair grows

is in my ears

and in my nose,

the consequence

of growing old

is hair grows where

it's not supposed!

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I was fine in my bubble

just some Moses in my own parting

and yes, you ruined my thoughts

and spun me in antonyms

I always wondered

why I prayed for apocalypse before sleep

and waking up, still whatever,

whatever, was always

outside

whispering planets secretly in my ear

you left me jungles and deserts,

you handed me worlds I never knew

what to do with

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I've seen one like a rose,
Permit to pluck thee
First sight I doze,
Thanks be thou who made me see

This breed is special,
Thou made of meek and honey
What could be more vital,
If thou isn't a journey 

Permit to make thee a garden,
Where birds would be guards 
There none would be stolen,
Thy fairness told with regards 

A being stunning like snow,
With thee I sow!

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Every morning when the birds are singing . They answer my calls and sing me a Song . You feel all is well . What ever they are saying . What ever they feel you can tell . They bring joy . And happines for all . When whistling there tunes . From near or far . What a reaction . O what a Joy .

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For my women you are Successfully Amazing.
Successfully Amazing at its best.
A walking human of love.

As natural as can be don't let the demons in the world take that from you because you are
Successfully Amazing.

Potential of Success and Ambition
Amazingly Beautiful to human recognition.

Hey do you see the way she walks.
Tall and straight with confidence.
She's Successfully Amazing...

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No more masks(Revised 2)

A poetic drama (One Scene)

( Egypt’s parliamentary farce)

(The spokesperson on the presidium strikes the table with a wooden hammer and asks for order. Participants become quiet.
Raise your hands and reflect your views on today’s point of argument— The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD ) on Blue Nile. Various people representatives raise hands,
The spokesman...

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#facebook,#friendship,#loss of friendship,#Social media, #lockdown

You don't have time and so

You're fading slowly from my life

Messages left hanging

Like smoke rings in cyberspace

But the fading is masked

By a feeling of liking and being liked

Which I tend to persist in

Because you still 'like' my stuff

As I do yours

And that seems to be a close enough equivalent

...

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~PROMISES~

From this point on,

I promise to be strong.

I promise to put my babies first, and be a good mom.

I promise to do my best in righting my wrongs.

I promise to remember the word patience...even on days that seem long.

This I promise to you:

I promise to always be true.

I promise to always love you.

I promise to always be your best friend. 

I promise that for t...

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Ankles crossed and

toes waving I

sigh at the clouded

light that creeps

across the kitchen,

through its windowed

permission,

its walls ignored

my jailed stare.

Tomorrow will

welcome frustrating

sunshine.

I look at my stilled toes.

Words and image Tommy Carroll

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after all these months

I may have decided to let you go

because we both know we never belonged to each other

but deep down I still crave for your touch

your fingers carefully moving around my body

your smokey lips on mine

my head laying on your chest, your hands caressing my hair away from my eyes

your arms embracing my tiny body and you saying sweet things in my ears till I f...

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I refuse to let you go!... although you are not mine to claim.

Even more so after every stolen moment together.

My soul feels as though it's occupying my body for the first time.

I can feel and hear my laboured breathing while the sweat created from the explosion of passion runs down each temple.

I hear nothing else but that sound...dragging me back to the moments before when you enter...

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The place that reside

Million neurons alive

Foramen Magnum leads the way

To many chambers that lay bare

Bare I say

For there is nothing that stays

Except for one

The chamber that contains

The memories to hold

The memories that haunt 

The memories that form 

The shadows of our brain

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Cryptic  9 down 1 across – after Malika Booker

Poem inspired by “The Golden Shovel” technique - A Parable of Sorts by Malika Booker the line used was “Us black rats with our rouge swagger that spoke.”

The title is taken from the number of lines in the golden shovel but also based upon the fact that black people are 9 times more likely to be stopped and searched in this country.

We knew th...

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'What's for dinner, chef?' said the house fly,
From his perch on the roll of kitchen towel.
He wasn't to know.
'Nothing you'd like.' I sighed
'Surprise me!' he replied.

It is summer, and last night,
Mosquitos robbed me of blood and sleep.
So when cooking a pasta sauce,
Zoroaster's recourse
Is a creed that I heed.

'Go on, surprise me!'
So I did. And I was right.
He didn't like it.

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I ain't a puppet, and don't wish to be one

This life is mine, I wish to live and have some fun

The way I want to live in city or wilderness 

It ain't anyone's task to see what I don't want to see

I ain't a puppet, so let me be what I want to be

I have my dreams and wishes so help me achieve these

I do wish to help you with your wishes too 

But for that don't bury my dream...

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Criminal deceit is out on the street

Along with its partner in crime called conceit.

The far right's in plain sight,

The far left's more discreet.

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MALICE

The little scavangers,
At the school fence,
Piercing the school window
With a look tense.

A boy of ten,
And of five,
Accompanied with a girl,
Little bit a knaive.

Oh my God!

They're entering into the fence,
All the boys and girls inside,
Looking at them,
With great malice.

Somebody says, "Call the guard."
While some suggest, 'police'
But I'm at my wits end to know,
...

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The story is the same

It’s always the same

Escape from wall to wall people

Festivities, trivialities

Desiring a different experience

Hear my heart beat

Truly breathe

Solitude where are you?

For once to be truly alone

Ways to seek

Seek and you will find

New Year’s Day finds me in a forest

Far from the moderate crowd

Rain lashes down and I care not

The ...

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A flash of remembrance on a start again day
The crumbling of memory, times fade away,
The dominant discourse is undoubtedly drear
The rolling of thunder, the future unclear. 

.......

Mesmerised masses accept the news of the day,
Never question the legitimacy of those who hold sway,
This woke intelligentsia virtue-signal it's true
They tear up the debt that we owe to the few.

......

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There comes a time 

when the tiny sapling will be a tree

ignoring all sighs,wounds and strom.

If you wish ,come and sit

under its shade.

There will be time when

we tide over the vortex.

There must be a time when

live to the fullest extent again.

Hold you fist tight and welcome 

the sobs and pains now.

Tomorrow we shall sing again.

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One Life is not enough

For those who are optimistic

those who have positive thinking and progressive mind

To create things, to implement ideas

To explore all colors of life

Life is like an ocean of opportunities

to explore talent,

to see the whole worldwide,

to discover new aspects of life by connecting things with ideas

which can’t be grabbed at a time

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(This might come across as a bit dewy-eyed.  In fact, although I made a good living out of it for more than 20 years, for the sake of the planet and my grandchildren, I don't mourn the loss of the coal industry)

Around the town of Barnsley there were 30,000 men

In hey-days of their glory; that was when

They worked the local mines for coal,

Descending down a half mile hole

To sc...

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A woman approached me today in the street

And said for a tenner she'd give me a treat,

And as I was bored and had nothing to do

I coughed up the cash and we went to the zoo.

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I love you like an atheist makes the sign of the cross; out of reflex, with no real hope of finding salvation or heaven.

I watch you like I’m a firefly trapped in a jar, sometimes envying the finality of the moth that was free enough to find its own flame to ride into peace.

I find you in the lines of love stories, the clink of a knife upon a glass, in proclamations left unsai...

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Before I'm put to rest.

There's some life lessons I've learnt.
Never betray your own heart.
Even when you fall in love

Before I'm put to rest.

Take heed in the advise of others.
Because life is so uncertain.
So focus, don't wonder

Before I'm put to rest.

Do good in your life and take care of your people.
The blessings you feel.
So answer their prayers, even if they tell you th...

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On the empty wall of my room

I think I'll put a picture of the rain. --

Hitting the ground,

And getting up to ankles,

The rain will be wetting my socks

And trousers from below;

Then my eyes will follow

Roof-edges,

Streets,

Sidewalks,

...tick, tick, tick...

Everything in the picture,

Until catching a black brolly,

And the shiny enamel shoes...

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My chair has been around for many years

It has supported me most of my life

It’s structure has mainly been very sound

Colour not always of choice but needed to blend

in with the requirement to fulfil its purpose

My chair has changed from time to time

It has seen many aspects of life and rooms

that didn’t always do it justice

in terms of ambience and mood.

Mood, ah y...

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A change is welcome

for the Lord

whether we want it or not,

for whatever reason, 

when HE feels it

to be truly just

by losing hope

due to a picture worst:

Some of us sacrifice,

what we love, 

for a reason

valid for recreation,

and some of us walk

a pilgrimage

shouldering a weight,

for a cloudy past. 

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THAT SOUND

(For Little Richard)

You liked to make a noise

Banging pots and pans

To accompany

Your boyhood singing

And always raising the key

Until they threw you

Out of the church choir

For making ’that sound’.

Later it made you great

A wop bap a loop bop

Tutti Frutti

Good Golly Miss Molly!

In and out of religion

And of confusing sex...

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Everyday Is Someday

loud minds
discard the many futures
eternally as snakeskin
as a plastic glowstick
nescient of the night
coursing mornings’ brief
unwise hope
and the air of Earth
like one deformed breath spread across
the once-crystal planet
observing as if from orbit
your own life, the avatar
you choose to be without knowing
annihilates all realms out of sight
and from just ab...

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The simplicity of life

The complexity of man

Of expectations not heard

And intentions hidden in the crevices deep within one’s heart

The double standards that exist

Yet the respect that is demanded

The trust that is violated

All in the name of self-love

Many avoid to be used

Yet find themselves culprits of being users

Of trampling on others, and leaving them...

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The connection that is formed in the inner spirit.

It is overwhelming and felt within every piece of my body.

It aches, like longing for something that is lost.

See somehow you took a part of me when I left.

The last time I saw you. I never imagined that would be the end.

I'm afraid that I will never get it back. I will never be whole again.

I know you didn’t mean to take it. It'...

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Discussing the idea of a parallel universe 

Is often intriguing and really kind of fun

But what really elicits my interest

Is the idea there's a perpendicular one

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are you bored of the love

are you bored of the drives

are you bored of the kisses

are you bored of the sex

are you bored of me trying 

are you bored of the dates 

are you bored of my family 

are you bored of the car

are you bored of my body 

are you bored of the laughs 

and my mother who loves you

are you bored of our life 

our future 

our nights

are you b...

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I've been responding in all the wrong ways
I've simply just an idiot
Trying to make everyone laugh
For my sins are carved into my skin
We never want to be evil or cruel
I know that all humankind can be

The human race hates change
The only time we can grow is when we'er uncomfortable
We let fear take over are mind
So we let people weaponize with our fears 
We become the monsters

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Spiraling down into heaps, ragged and gray, cracked crockpot hip sway
How many times a day do the flies find dead lips
Violence equips violence, self perpetuated static hate
Powers of state observed through grates, through threadbare shirts as they disintegrate
Inflating the lie, runflat tires crushing thighs, for his mom he cries
How do your eyes hold dripping pitchers back, how much empathy...

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वह आई थी पीला सूट डाल कर

हमने रखा था दिल को संभाल कर

आंखे फिर भी फिसलती रही मगर

उसकी जवानी पर जा रही थी नज़र

आज हमने देखे आम सरे आम!

होंठो से उसके छलकता है जाम

बातो में उसके एक मीठा पैगाम

चूम ले मेरा, वह होंठ; इतनी कसरत

बस चूमते रहे मेरी इतनी हसरत

हासिल मुझे हो जाए मेरा मक़ाम!

आज हमने देखे आम सरे आम!

आँखों में खंजर उसके, क़तल करती है

देखूं मैं जितना उसको ...

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Took me a week to realize 

That you were different 

A sad different to me 

Was it the new place?

The new place where you finally felt at liberty 

Or 

The new place where I wasn't with you

Was it those new faces?

Those new faces that made you curious

Or 

Those new faces that distracted you from me 

I tried not to freak out

I calmed and confronted myself almost ev...

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An ode is
What she is.
Whose belly bears a bliss.
She who cares like a flowerbed,
Breathes life with a kiss,
Smiles there, the mother lost in the abyss.

An ode is
What she is.
Whose smile, in a box, she keeps.
Buttons Bangles and candies tossed.
Amidst the night's multitude, she secretly peeps.
Weeps there, the mother lost in the abyss.

An ode is
What she is.
Whose tails we have ...

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May peace be with you,

the whole day through.

May aches and pains

sail away with the blues.

May sunrise open your eyes, 

experience make you wise.

May your soul find its way home

on the wings of love. 

https://youtu.be/1oCksFrWMHY

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splintered saints 
laced with dentene words 
all pearly white
Like the gates made 
of the bones of slain fae
in the conquest nobody talks about 
in bibles, beloved

but really they're just pocket protectors:
drivers of us snake-folk,
catchers of miraculous stray bullets,
and the low fruit of cherries picked
held up on high-- 
higher even than the lichens
that broke the sacred rocks 
...

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I've got some secrets I admit, but who are you to decide if this is as far as I'll get? I don't want to pass with my pride out of reach but I also really want to no longer fucking breathe

Nail all the images I try to escape from along the lining of my mind. Then manifest each one into what I truly fear inside.

Shedding my skin just to slide back into the same disguise I thought I'd destroyed...

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The greatest things in life cannot be seen,

Like happiness, love and serenity,

Anger, malice, wrath and rage,

I'm sick of these feelings as I grow with age,

There's more to life than being locked up,

Slamming dope and running amuck,

Looking over my shoulders the paranoia doesn't stop,

The fun is all gone and the streets are too hot,

Life on the run has turn into a drag,

...

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t's too hot

To sleep

Yet we long

For these days

Of discomfort 

When all we want 

Is to wallow and bask

To sit in the sun

Let the day 

Drip slowly by

Smile at the sky

Listen to the birds

Watch the busy people

Buzzing about their 

Days

Trapped in their little boxes

Running their little 

Machines 

Sweating out

Their busy-ness

And their busin...

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For a week now you have felt uneasy,

noticing signs. With skies even brighter

than those you dreamed of, you sensed a frenzy

in the crazed speck you crushed on a worktop.

Mapping imaginary lines across

your kitchen’s granary tiles, they have sent out

explorers – hewers and drawers –  to probe

your landscape of leakage and spills.

Tracking down their base to a crac...

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The Walrus-man’s Tooth

“Can thy ‘elp us Cocker?”

I looked up to see a stranger

Someone I’d never met before

Looking more like a walrus than a man

A pear-shaped man-mountain

And with a long drooping ‘tache

His wet sorrowful eyes pleading

“Can thy ‘elp us Cocker?”

“Why, what’s up?” I asked

“Toothache”

“Toothache?”

“Aye.. Friggin’ toothache”

“Blee...

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In this short blessed experience called life
We wake we sleep we eat we breath and if we r lucky we wake
Not just eyes open awake
Third eye awake
With this comes changes opertunities
We take
Lessons we mistake them for mistake
Social media a fraction of our life fake
Fake love ...fake give ..real take
They want us programed in to play ther game
They want us to think wev gone insane
They...

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Just have another drink
However many it takes to numb the pain
However many you down to try and paint on a smile
Because nobody knows your story
Nobody knows what you've gone through
What you've endured
What you've put up with time and time again
How alone you feel even in a crowded room
The countless wasted tears and self inflicted wounds
Because nobody knows
They try to feed you adivce...

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Invisible blindfolds

Are what we're now wearing

Law of the land

Almost past caring

At a crossroads we stand

Courageous but frightened

All of our senses

Incredibly heightened

Take care of yourself

Make your own choice

Never ignore

Your own inner voice

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Turn the dial for the clocks tick and tock and never stop,

Spare a smile for those who keep their guard and never let it drop,
It’s a cold heart that stares out into the world and denies that beauty trickles in,
And the boldest part of the girl that sees the truth above the sin,
Her gift is that love runs through her to the core,
And when the world offered hurt she took that love and offere...

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The warm soothing feeling

Of whisky laden blood

A numb fuzzy sentiment

Who bothers about the flood?

He drowned, you know

It was his fate

No saviour around

No-one at his gate

Waiting to wave a friendly hello

No-one as his cornerstone

Just the taste of vomit from below.

The warm soothing feeling

Of a laden missil...

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Crimson ultraviolet lust

And I could fill my head with sand

to sink to the bottom of the ocean 

And wait for it land

Then soak me up 

Like nothing more than soapy water splashed against a car

Over and over

Until we sparkle with diamonds in our eyes 

And love in our hearts

Because maybe just then

We can finally realize that all good things come to an end 

That ...

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He did not know there was no chicken pie left
Listen, hear and act
This would make an interesting composite poem.

New perspectives on Andy M
token messages carried across the breeze by a kite 
we are all somebody, 
an infinite possibility of celestial irony
along the pavement to the pinned snake
scattered pebbles of poetic mystery

Hope Andy M hasn't been whisked away on a kite!!!

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Refinement in destruction
  the world in ashes
Comfort in darkness
  the past hidden
Warmth in mortality
  the future precious

There is an eligance in the demise of who you once were
  a satisfaction in the ascension of the person that now walks in your shoes

The death of expectations
The birth of hope

Do not imprission yourself behind stubborness, embrace your fear
Release your h...

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We're all going down the plug hole

me included.

I thought for a minute it was a waterslide,

I wonder what's on the other side?

Might as well enjoy it

it ain't the cresta run,

with all the shit that's going down

not half as much fun.

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Staring out the window,

I watch my husband trundle our cart down the walk.

He's off to the grocery shop

With a clear list and loving care,

Wholly capable, looking fine,

Mentally ready for Covid restrictions.

All I want to do is kick concrete,

Bang walls and smash glass!

That would sure startle the neighbours

On this quiet spring morning.

There is now a period of ...

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My fists are on fire

And my hearts pounding

My minds going round in circles

My belly is empty

Rumbling with the acid of my rage

From the remarks

I have had made

And I’m so proud

Of never standing down

There’s blood in my eyes and aching in my soul

Because love has never found me

I want it to stop

But I don’t seem able to say no

To the fingers that are po...

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May you wish..
Wish on Dandelions
Wish for that
Wish for this
And then,
Wish never to have a reason to wish..

Roovi

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जिस मिट्टी में जन्मा था तू 

उस मिट्टी से मिलाने लाया हूँ 

जिस गाँव से बनी हस्ती तेरी 

वो गाँव दिखाने लाया हूँ 

जिस गर्मी से तप तू कठोर हुआ  

वो सूरज दिखाने लाया हूँ 

जिस नरमी से तू मृदभोर हुआ 

उस चाँद से मिलाने लाया हूँ 

सोता था जिस ओस की चादर ओढ़

वो आसमान दिखाने लाया हूँ 

हर बातें जिसकी देती थी तुझे झँझोड़ 

उस काका से फिर मिलने लाया हूँ

जी भर के ...

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The tears today that from your eyes flow
are not the same as yesterday
For yesterday you cried because 
you were bruised and felt the hurt
Today the rain that falls is fresh
It falls to wash away the pain

You have tasted kindness unexpected
Overwhelmed  as you learn all is not lost
Someone touched you with compassion 
Offered their warmth that fills your heart

You savour your tears t...

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No envelope today I have to seal.
That familiar sadness today I feel. 
Today as always is bitter sweet.
The card I write is now complete.
I clear the grass where it's grown.
In the June wind it blows on stone.
I shed a tear and a few words I say.
I think 'if only' as Dads card I lay.
But in Gods wisdom it wasn't to be.
He decided one day to set Dad free.
Head bowed low, I walk away sad.
...

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FEAR (edited)

what is fear
false evidence
appearing real
hard not to react
to things we feel
so much to fear
things we can't see
swear we hear
things far away
and very near
since beginning
of time
fear's tricked
eyes and minds
didn't know what
something was
labeled it
monstrous
what's that shadow
is someone there
thought i saw a figure
probably just the glare
under the bed
...

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The world begins in winter,
Barren, fresh and new,
Life begins in winter,
Hidden, obscure, but true,
All that was has been stripped clean,
Cleansed by snow and Ice,
Yet beneath that pale blanket,
Lies the first breath of new life,
.. ..
Spring comes in the brush of wind,
Peeling away the cold,
Life begins to reveal itself,
Be it brand new or ages old,
Blossoms spread their petals wide...

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It use to be exciting being on my own.

But every since the very first time I met you, I knew that I never wanted to be alone again.

Grey green eyes, your warm hand over my thigh, I never want to be without you.

I never want to be without you and now I am without you. I find myself grasping the ground as I look around for you.

You brought me up out of the cold and deep and cherished and...

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So bid we farewell to Andy and Jel

With sadness and loss, but some joy as well,

For they are our friends, we know this will stay,

Long after the van takes their stuff away.

Andy has this house and how they have more, 

As they head to the land of hills and of Moor.

So raise up your glasses and take a wee sup,

And toast their departure, with Bottom’s Up!

The house just behind...

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Dear Daddy! 

I’m gathering all the strength that I have to write this, in memory of you on this Father’s Day 

The lil girl in me craved for her father always.. 

To pamper her, to spoil her, in many ways.. 

Those bike rides with the moon light was magical 

Those 30 secs phone call was my boon for survival

Our letters bought  shivers in my knee 

All I ever wanted was for yo...

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 6 o clock in the morning and venus is still shining defiantly above the sun,
It matters not nonetheless, she will fade soon like everything else,
The morning floods every crack and crevice
But it drowns out everything above
The subtle finer beauties, that's why I always say, can only be found in absence of the sun.

Little by little the creatures of the night retreat back into the shade,
A...

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I made a big mistake

Giving you the chace

Your just another notch of regret

Go ahead light up another cigarette

You play my heart like a video game

I swear boy I aint some dame

I ain't  stupid

Got hit with the wrong Cupid

You pointed your arrow staight at me

Until so other bitch filled your fantasy

You straight up fucking lied

You shouldn't...

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Now that lockdown is finally easing, 
Into shops once more people are breezing. 
People know that they must still keep apart, 
Though in the towns long queues restart,

After such times of stress and strife, 
We strive to return to a normal life. 
But are we buying what we need? 
Or celebrating that we are freed?

Some may see all this as funny, 
As people return to spend their money. 
...

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I, crave some escape.

Just want to crack open the seal,

To make myself feel real.

I'd forget the consequences of my life,

Drift to the motherland in a glass pipe.

When I feel at loss,

It's by my side,

Assuring me things will be alright.

Cocaine, heroin, and weed.

LSD, methaphetamine--

They've all been good to me. 

Even when I try,

I can't get away.

I guess th...

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We are tired.

Tires that are not tended to 

Forgotten 

Flat

We are tired of being tires. 

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Its jaws are too wide;
Into the deep it dived,
Echoing my cries.

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An angel to be,

A dream everyone aspires.

She will be goddess,

My grandmother used to say.

Enormous white wings on me,

A white dress,

Peace and innocence in both my hands,

And patience in my mind.

I was born with all of that indeed.

Rare is diamond

And so are the wings

The reason they chased the part of me,

To snatch it and make it theirs.

I let the...

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A flower may grow in the strangest of places.
So long as its basic needs are met.
But if you take them away, it will wilt.
Watch as the petals fall.

To the beat of the wind.

This is ok.

Let it go.

Watch as the flower decays.
Seed pods dehisce.
Stems weaken.
The body begins to curl.

All energy now put into reproduction.
But there isn’t enough.
One last painful sting.
A final...

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A minute’s silence
among tomatoes, baked beans.
Brush away a tear.

An old song’s moment,
broadcast in the superstore.
We WILL meet again.

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Dandelion Sun (opening poem from Fledge published by Maytree Press July 31st 2020)

A child’s sun finds a dream in young eyes.

In blinks of dandelion eclipses,

refracted light reflects on retinas

holding warmth in ragged leaves

below a flower standing up and out.

Ryegrass and foxtail for company,

a golden head of petals,

swaying and slight,

is there and gone and...

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As the scales fall from my eyes

There's no place to hide or disguise

What once passed for love

Was a fierce fist within the glove

That jabbed and stabbed our lives

Before the sucker punch

That sent us reeling

Reeling

Reeling

You sought no mercy

Save under the cloak of darkness

Where your shame seeped

Through walls and sheets

To scorch the cheeks

Of th...

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Ignored she was attention always went elsewhere,

Some said implicitly so some did explicitly so.

Mind is strange and plays games more than often

Triggering the unrest,

This time at its best and the stand did soften

It’s the rise of another jewel,

In the essence of womanhood a pure marvel.

Cords connect, so do eyes and so does mind

The restlessness has come to a standst...

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They say it will soon be over

That it's just a teenage thing

They dont know what they're saying

Last night I gave you my ring

Its like I'd known you forever

We seem to go back to Creation

To the shrine of Adam and Eve

We send our invitation

Midnight at the end of time

Midnight at the end of time

I'll love you at least until

Midnight at the end of time

...

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So silently
So peacefully
Stillness that be
Break to a break
Pause to a pause
Days
Differently

So peacefully
So suddenly
A strange gift for me
Under a lock
Under a key
Self-discovery

The shrunken world
Behind the curtain
A pantomime
The song bird sings
For motley dreams
Of troubled kind

A candle light
A touch of love
In pestilence time
A kiss good night
A kiss for my
...

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Stars are many, moon remains one

My only mistake was, 

I thought you as a moon

Amidst the million Stars, 

I misunderstood 

But we were already that far, 

Closeness was just of periphery 

And not the core, 

But foolish me understood 

It as josephine kind sore, 

If it would have touched your feather

It would never go as it went, 

From the very beginning you signal...

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Hurt,

Hurt by the circumstances,

Hurt by the situation.

My heart is filled with pain.

Even though I know it’s not my fault,

I still blame myself and cry myself to sleep every night.

I walk in the shadow of who I used to be.

Longing to be understood.

I am a shell of my former self.

My faith slowly fading away in the darkness.

“Mercy, mercy” I cry,

For it is the only...

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Poupée de glace modelée par les regards 

Figurine de lumière 

Mais carcan de toile 

Fuite impossible 

Grâce piégée dans la création.  

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Graceful hands and legs, clumsy like a newborn lamb,

Beautiful to see, heart filled with glee,

She glides across the floor.

Pianist's hands reach for things, angels wings, she wishes she could sing,

But that is not her talent.

Talented quiet heart, that's her art, she always thinks before she says.

Thought before action, is her reaction,

and I'm almost thankful,

Thankf...

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Lives threatened by what they don’t know
Dictated by police banners of hell
Don’t let anyone escape their reality
We are all victims of false dichotomy
Black or white we are all longed for
Children of a false enemy 
Rise up and sense the difference 
A red flag goads us towards sensibility
Neutral props of a false economy
Rise forth and take the enmity
The discourse of truth will out
N...

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All lives matter?

You mean the people in Care Homes?

The G.I Joes who died on the beaches of Normandy

The guys who never came back from Vietnam and the folks they sprayed with Agent Orange?

The citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

The body bags brought back from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The native American Indians?

You mean General Custer’s life mattered.

The homeless?

Do th...

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Undeserved cruelly cutting words from someone

who had been created out of love,

raining down like physical blows

bruising, breaking, belabouring, bloodshedding,

robbing you of well-earned peace of mind.

Affection, respect, compassion thrown out,

rudely discarded as valueless.

But no Good Samaritan passes by

to cherish, console and comfort you,

applying an ointment of rea...

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Once upon a time (as all good stories start),

Were the bestest of friends – one soul, one heart.

It must have been so, as all were agreed –

God, Science, Fate – each one had decreed

That forever and ever, irreversibly twined,

They were bound to each other, were one of a kind.

Both raised with love and care and devotion,

Their lives were set, wheels fully in motion.

So,...

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In the ruins

Of my temple

My fireplace

Once in control

Reminiscing

My warmest kiss

In the arms of

My arsonist

To face new growth

Beyond pardon

The path across

Burning demons

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If I could form my feelings into words

It’d be different from anything you’ve ever heard.

If I could form my feelings into words

I’d tell you about the first time I saw your eyes because your gaze gave me feelings I’d never realize. 

If I could form my feelings into words 

I’d tell you about the first time you held my hand because I finally understood the things I could withstand.

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"Who rescued from the rescuing?"

Graffiti authored unknown

Intent on subverting back down

That plinth levitation through questioning

Control the lie enough for truth

It was always first and so feared

Rendered into diminishing boredom

That first question open to guesses

"Who are distressing the distressed?"

Ensures long arguments

Seconds wasted enable di...

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Free will is a thing of beauty
I could say that out loud, but I don’t 
I am not sure whether I choose to
Or whether I will, or I won’t 

There are options there if I want them
Some dangling worms I could bite
Some carrots and sticks, some tricks to unpick
Some say that I can’t, but I might

I’m static but find myself drifting
I’m clueless with plenty of clues
In stillness, I’m steadily...

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I cannot be the

Perfect Indian daughter

You wish for

Long skirts and

Full sleeves and

Hair braided back and

Bangles and necklaces and

Collarbones covered

Don’t talk back

Serve the men first

Speak quietly

Or not at all

I am not that child

I have thoughts

And I yell

And I wear t-shirts and v-necks and shorts

(Not too short)

And I eat, I don’t serve,...

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When George Floyd was murdered and cried ‘I can’t breathe’

it wasn’t your fault

you didn’t kneel on his neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds

you are a good person, you were horrified

you empathised with his community, deeply

but if you don’t speak out

if you don’t enunciate

if you don’t find your voice

no matter your inability to articulate the right words

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We come as passing visitors on the rimrock of this vast abyss,
awed by ancient desert rocks with ever-changing hues.
We marvel at these stones laid down in tepid seas
before the dawn bird flew,
grandeur timeless, yet so transient.

A raven races up from the canyon with joyful croak,
like a goblin fresh on vacation from his work in Hell.
He arcs above, then plunges deep into the chasm
with...

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In its gentle and peaceful flight

To the rhythm of the sound in romance,

Love got me drunk in the morning.

At the morning sound of the rooster

My soul barely touched the ground,

I was drunk on you oh Love!

You barely passed, I passed away

But when evening came!

The freshness of silence knocked on my door

The sweetness of regret sifted my memories

Like the morning...

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Tear the statues down
put them in a museum
have their achievements weighed 
against their modern moral faults
Give them context
It feels wrong to venerate
values we no longer share

Tear the problematic statues down
it’s time to move on
They’ve had their light
they’ve had their vaunted praise
let them slip into the past
I don't want to walk beside
the likeness of a slave trader
on m...

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She is the form-fitted sheets and a comfortable mattress. She is the low hum of a ceiling fan against the backdrop of a creaky house like the calm within battles against the chaos without. She is the sweet smell of lilies, ink, and water based glue sometimes accompanied by the scent of rain. She is the perfect paper smell from my nightly three chapters in my latest bound adventure. She is the glow...

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Preamble: I'm an English as second language teacher in Higher Education. In this current period of more-than-doubled workload due to the hurried and inexpert transition to distance learning, this poem was prompted by one unnamed submitted file too many...

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Dear student,

You are unique.

You’re the only you in the world. It’s true,

So I understand for you, ...

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This time last week the Sausage Man

Was selling bangers from his van.

He cheered the locals with a joke,

His natty headwear was bespoke,

A new bandana sparkled red;

But now the Sausage Man is dead.

For all his quips and attire,

Thoughts of him will soon expire;

Yet in the town, grilled crisp and brown,

The sausages are still for sale.

What is the moral ...

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"Falling"

Keith walks with mirth in his eyes
Like a child that just got a new toy
His feet were quite unstable
Wobbling like he gonna fall.

Has he not fallen already?
Why bother rising?

He stood against love all his youth.
Its presence at home was a sham
"It was only a shadow."
He concluded:
"Since it wasn't at home, 
It couldn't be found elsewhere."

But he met defeat today
S...

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On the Seventh Watch:

A little after midnight, I was told to watch from 3,

The darkest hour looming, don’t why it fell to me.

And I was blurry eyed, like other souls,

Whose hearts somehow had all been lost.

Hold your ground, won’t you hold your ground,

Hold it while the Angel’s draw their lots,

Defined by everything that I am not

On the Seventh Watch

Waiti...

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What is this life so full of care
When we have too much time to spare.

Time to spare in great dis-ease

Considering the impact of this vile disease.

Time to see as the hours pass

Only our reflections in the glass.

Time to watch in broad daylight

The streets as empty as the night.

Time to sit and think of others

Brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers.

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Hands up

On your knees 

It’s not an instruction 

It’s a threat

Because your skin

Your hands 

Your hoodie 

Are a weapon 

So you drop

You drop like Trayvon’s skittles 

You drop like Tamir’s BB pellets

You drop like Michael’s cigars 

Or you drop dead. 

Each breath could be your last

Breathe breathe breathe 

I can’t breathe

Please, please, I can’t breath...

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“For there are many reasons to live, I forgive to perceive”

Over a thousand times my feelings were planted,

Rooted by fear, tears and guilt. 

Growth stops as water overflows,

Lightning becomes my beginning,

Voices seem annoying,

Everything feels nothing but forgiving fills me in. 

“For there are many reasons to live, I forget to set”

Ominous of my own shoes, I choose t...

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Our home, a pale blue dot in the vastness of universe's untouched beauty, a tiny, spherical world, afloat in a immensity of space and time. Here for a moment, and then we're leaving for the eternity. In the school of mortality we learn to acrobat over the abyss.
Alexis karpouzos

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No one comes to see me now,

though social distance will allow

someone to visit now and then;

still… no one comes.

A friendly face would be a treat

if they would only come and meet,

and simply chat with me again;

still… no one comes.

It isn’t hard, I’m always here,

since I’ve been trapped so long in fear

I almost can’t remember when;

still…

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I’m wondering what happened this time

You were here one day and gone the next

You took root in my mind again and I let you

Then you leave me hanging

I can’t even question why you are doing this

I keep telling myself you owe me no explanation

But then you left this breathless space in my chest

And I don’t know what to do with it

Feels like goodbye is in order

But I’m not ...

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Les gens du Bocage; les hommes du débarquement 

During the Second World War my father served in the RAF Volunteer Reserve. He was always grateful that he trained as a Wolseley car mechanic before the war which meant that he could go into the RAF as an aircraft mechanic. Although he didn't land in Normandy on D-Day he did go within four weeks of the invasion and was pinned down for several weeks...

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Pane of People

People break, 

some even shatter

Once broken they are no longer perfect

However using the strongest glue, 

 you can glue them back together

 The cracks are still there, of course

But they are strong

by the glue that holds them together 

But when shattered,

functionality is impossible

No glue can fix these tiny pieces 

An attempt can be made

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Poems have been written, protests held,

People have been killed, words spoken,

Folk have mobilised, only to be smashed,

and still we find deaf ears amidst those who rule –

and whilst love rules, the baton kills,

and whilst higher minds transcend, power has brutality,

and whilst force against force isn’t the path,

the pound and the fist do dictate,

the vested interest will n...

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I can see it in your eyes

I can feel it in your soul

The path seems so confusing and you just don’t know 

I tried to fight your battles

I tried to keep you safe

I tried to give you love but you just ran away

Then I opened my eyes and realized

The battle isn’t mine 

So I closed my eyes with a broken heart and cried 

And then I prayed to God that he shows you the way back ...

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A laughing Parrott ate a carrot as
an Elephant climbed up a tree,
he was chased by a Mouse who wore a Pink blouse and liked to swim in the Sea,
A Lion passed by who flew his kite in the sky while singing to two dancing Llamas, 
and a juggling Giraffe was taking a bath while wearing his woolly Pyjamas! 

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The need for me to seek your time

To add to mine to multiply

The pebbles of shining instants

Laid down side by side

Carefree and careless of

The incoming tide

The need for me to waste your time 

To be the void to vilify

This idea this chimera 

That your fate is already

Waiting for you in

The next moment

The need for me to search for time 

To quantif...

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I can't breathe

Said the man full of colour

To the man

Whose colour had drained away

Along with his humanity.

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For you my love, I hope life is hard.

I hope you’re stunned by the pain, crushed from deceit,

So jolted with anguish it knocks you clean off your feet,

I hope the blare of injustice deafens your ears,

That your eyes are blinded by hordes of your fears,

For you must choke on the bitterest of tears,

And you must endure the cruellest of years,

To believe in your bones t...

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I can't breathe

Yet the rope still tightens

I can't breathe

Yet a malice still looms

Like the gallows which threaten

My life, death laughs in my face

Says my name

Breonna, Eric, Michael, George,

Names forgotten or ignored

I will not equivocate, nor excuse

The life and liberty they have taken from you

Till the day comes

Where justice does not discrimina...

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Intuiting multi-dimensional truths

The art of being

Harmonious communication with every atom spiralling

The highest vibrational energy

Illuminated pathway

Intuition followed

Emotions guiding

Existing beyond dimensions

Being love

Living love

Limitless within love

www.deanfrasercentral.com

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Love they say is the source

The Holy Presence in the soul

The Holy Presence that is the soul

The permiation of every atom

The radiating osculation 

What might seem to be the paths of an ulterior motive

Driven by a hand

A hand that also has a voice

The Word

Guiding pure light

Began to construct

The points of light

That we can begin to see

when w...

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Calling onto the masses
Whom no amount of classes
Would open their eyes
To the hate and despise
That people of colour receive
And how their hearts grieve
To the endless blood shed
And countless bodies dead
To years of uncalled for attacks
And merciless whacks
To all the foolish, never forget
That you are in great debt
To all the souls you have scarred
And dead bodies you disregard
An...

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Suffering in silence is second nature
for people wrapped in hated skin;
your life under constant siege because
you are a scourge on sight;

a blight in expensive sneakers,
a member of a caste unworthy
of empathy but if you can
somehow Dinesh D’Souza
your way through existence,
everything will be fine.

The Stanford Prison Experiment
was a glimpse of human savagery
put into a uniform;
...

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When i'm hurt i plead with myself to run from the pain, but how many times can you run without falling ,how many times can you dream with out waking up to reality, death's a lie to depression that my brain often turn to. LIFE's a lesson one of the reasons i listen.

I walk to the shadows , slowly forgetting what the light actually feels like. I creep to the shore to take my final breath,to hug t...

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Steam covers the windows , stars blanket the sky 

& it seems as though it’s only night when our demons do arise 

Addicted to the feeling , of not being alone

Craving the seduction , no one wants to go home .

Your hands are on my body , it all starts slow and then goes fast 

Euphoria the only feeling , and so long does it last .

Your kiss it makes me quiver , sending shivers ...

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this mummifying is so glorious

give me the bandages to bury his face,

his closing caricature and the,

the one I desired to decorate

in seconds we slipped to the hours

holding jokes with steady smirks.

Sometimes I doubt we were sober

perchance drunk on endorphins,

fleeting his sorrow in airless punches,

ironic the satire we spoke fell flat,

spiked us stoned and still w...

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We were free as birds until today
Now we’re in lockdown and there will be hell to pay
This country we live in has changed overnight
Our freedoms have gone and who among us put up a fight
We were told to stay at home to save the NHS
Whilst Dominic visits his Mum in Durham no less!
Its clearly one rule for us and another for them
You can travel where you like if you have a mate in No.10
Whil...

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