Looking Back Through a Front Windscreen
...Inevitably places have changed,
where I was born looks like an alien city to me,
it's now a tourist trap for indigenous aliens.
The world was younger back then.
people were more dangerous yet muc...
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Categories:
blancmange, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Old Mans Dreams
...Old Man, all alone
remembering his bawling baby, being sick
and of spotty girls with golden hair
daydreaming of pink blancmange and pies
Friday nights
once he was a lad full of brass
punchi...
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Categories:
blancmange, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back With the Handbrake Off
...The world does not look now
like a place that I once belonged to.
Opening an atlas
the maps looks like nowhere I have ever been.
I pass through different windows now,
white rabbits lead the ...
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Categories:
blancmange, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Before I Die
...fence with those wee thin blades
punch a lion in the face(obvs quite shortly before i die)
trip up a running giraffe
hang with a sloth
make a list of buckets
if in was in infinite
would it be i...
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Categories:
blancmange, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Liaison Dangereuse
...
“liaison dangereuse”
Tear a thin line
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips
no nurses gloves
down my neck
along my throat
with somet...
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Categories:
blancmange, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
She Made Me Pay
...by staying
That is the poem
here's the ways to look at it
-is this a joke about a transaction
-is this a plea for a love lost man
-a mistreated child about his mother
-an encounter
-anybod...
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Categories:
blancmange, poetry,
Form: Free verse
And Have a Nice Day
...Humanity has banned swearing
i don't know what the coitus to do
Stubbed my toe
Blancmange does not seem to do the trick
The mammary gland in my work
such a coituser too
This plaster born out of...
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Categories:
blancmange, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Scenes At a Child's Birthday Party
...Dad had left on urgent business,
something to do with a workers' dispute,
and Mum was at the next-door neighbour's
on one of her 'brief' visits.
Mary, the birthday boy's elder sister,
had just d...
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Categories:
blancmange, birthday, childhood, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
White
...
"WHITE"
White is a vacant colour
there is no substance
there is no depth
there is no surface
to check beneath ...
White is a base colo...
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Categories:
blancmange, color, dark, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Puddings
...Jam roly poly, treacle sponge
And sticky toffee pudding head the top of my list
But apple pie, rhubarb crumble
Or a decent cheesecake are hard to resist
Banana splits, eclairs or brownies
Dump...
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Categories:
blancmange, food,
Form: List
Wedding Bell Blues
...The tradition of marriage,
Bourgeois blackmail and baggage,
Is it all a bargain for men,
Is this what white weddings meant?
All the love that is lost,
And what is the ultimate cost?
A divorce c...
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Categories:
blancmange, husband, romance, romantic, society,
Form: Free verse
3 More Excerpts From the Lost Book of Tuberlantis
...Retrieved Passage 3:
From The Book of Days, Sonnet 2
For Lo! I must relate this tome to you
who gather here to listen and believe
to tell the story I believe is true
before my sanity (BARK!)...
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Categories:
blancmange, culture, gothic, humor, humorous,
Form: Ballad
Black Blancmange
...Viscid,
Black,
Highly spoonable.
Floating,
Submerged,
Gellid pieces.
Flotsam,
Jetsam,
Relics of life?
Putrescent,
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Categories:
blancmange, allegory, angst, life,
Form: I do not know?