Blindfold
...BLINDFOLD
I hear childrens voices
filled with laughter and noise,
hopscotched in endless streets,
mingling in sometime dreams.
I hear childrens laughter,
pitching above the hum drum,
of spec...
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Categories:
carers, arabic,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix-Souled
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Women —
we are the fault lines of the world.
Every shudder,
every quake,
every heartbreak —
we hold it.
We turn pain into knowing.
We carry weight like it’s woven into us.
We feel everythin...
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Categories:
carers, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Rest is revolutionary
...Rest was a luxury black people weren't granted
Something we wanted
But couldn't afford it
Our survival was more important
Constantly looking over our shoulder
Wondering whilst we're walking
I...
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Categories:
carers, color, history, poems, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Your Question
...How on earth we have found each other?
You asked in one of night messages
In the facebook groups its one way or another
On the same train we were passengers
We got off at the same station
We too...
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Categories:
carers, bereavement, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Convenient Diagnosis
...Droolin’ Joe Biden has been on a media blitz trying to gaslight you again that he isn’t an addled old fool before a couple books telling of an orchestrated cover-up by the White House and congres...
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Categories:
carers, america, political,
Form: Political Verse
All the President’s Men
...It’s one thing to be senile
and lie in your own drool.
It’s another to be President
and be that droolin’ fool.
So ask yourself, America,
of all the President’s men…
who was runnin’ the c...
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Categories:
carers, america, corruption, political,
Form: Political Verse
circus chagrin
...
the crowd dispersed in floods of tears
disappointed that the spectacle was over
when madness resolved and sanity became restored
the clown’s persona now unmasked
make up made down for a grima...
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Categories:
carers, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Sipping Coffee
...“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste
I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart
Breath by breath thus that my soul presence...
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Categories:
carers, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Young Carers
...Tender hands ,soft cheeks ...
setting the table with food, made
by their little hands, caressing the hair
of their mom, while wiping the corners of
the mouth, gently feeding their mom
the deli...
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Categories:
carers, appreciation, children, mother,
Form: Free verse
Nineteen
...[Wrote this during Covid in a ‘Ring a ring a roses’ frame
of mind. Wasn’t sure what archaic rules were in place around
the world, so sat on it. Basically… in England, ‘other people’
were ...
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Categories:
carers, anxiety, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Man 50 Child
...A 50 year old
Child not Man
Sent out into
The big wide world
All on his lonesome
Shouldn't have really
In
Reality though been
Without parental
Or
Carers prior consent...
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Categories:
carers, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
...I knew my ancestry and my dad was a joiner,
But verged on disowning my mum for labour,
Not married in history yet throbbing with spark,
Love, truth, kindness fibered the gelled dark.
A stunner...
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Categories:
carers, christian, death, emotions, history,
Form: Quatrain
Arena of the Elderly
...My last foray into this arena
Had me living memories, not wished to share
Here I go again, another visit
Into the elderly homes, we wish not
A sunny day, another gathering
Carers working, maki...
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Categories:
carers, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Free verse
A Carers Point of View
...I love you so and
I want you to know
That the care I feel is deep
I won't let you be alone.
I see you struggle as you
Force on smiles through the pain
But it feels like hope's in vain!
You'r...
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Categories:
carers, age, care, health,
Form: Lyric
People Who Help Us
...There are many people who help us,
They help in many different ways,
They help people of all ages,
And people of all abilities.
Farmers grow food for us,
Carers help people who can’t mana...
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Categories:
carers, appreciation, hero, thanks,
Form: Free verse
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