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Be Lightning

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Written: January 01st, 2023
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My diaphanous wallet held the moon,
a curious sensation rose in my chest
pale at night
I stole a 
massive...

Categories: carrier bag, appreciation, encouraging, hope, success,
Form: Free verse

On Cottingham Green

...On Cottingham Green
Have you got a light he asked
Breathing whisky fumes in my face
The hand rolled ciggie in his mouth
Miraculously staying in it’s place
As he lifted the bottle
Up to his lips...

Categories: carrier bag, life, people,
Form: Rhyme

Loaded Guns

...Loaded Guns.
.
Windblown flosating discarded carrier bag
On an empty city street
The eerie silence of a ghost town
No mass of people and pounding feet
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Rows of abandoned shops boarded up
And...

Categories: carrier bag, angst, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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Streetlife

...I’m on my way into the grocery store
when I see him huddled near the shop doorway
In his outstretched hand
an empty coffee cup
I throw in a coin or two 
smile, and ask his name
I’m ...

Categories: carrier bag, environment, society,
Form: Free verse

An Heartless Woman

...Used like a man sized tissue
To soak up their emotions
And cast aside in the waste bin of their life
the destiny of man 
when in the hands of heartless woman
useful when in need
but easily disp...

Categories: carrier bag, hurt,
Form: Free verse

The Vulnerable

...He looks so small 
Huddled in the doorway
Curled up tightly
To keep out the cold.
Head tucked down 
In oversize jacket,
Life so young,
Yet worn out and old.
His identity in the
Carrier bag h...

Categories: carrier bag, society, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

Beachcasting

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The swing of the rod
100 yds plus cast, good stuff
get's you just beyond the breakers
to where the inshore fish feed.

Turn of the tide
and incoming too
where you started at low tide
usu...

Categories: carrier bag, appreciation, peace, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Blank verse

Billy No Mates Magpie: My Tree

...Outside my kitchen window stands a single hopeful tree
Such beauty in the ghetto is a saving grace for me
In the spring at night it’s silver buds shine like tiny stars
Twinkling by the bin store a...

Categories: carrier bag, beauty, bird, hope, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Humility

...That man that stands in front of us,
With his combed over hair, wearing
Ancient shoes and a semi vacant 
Stare, who’s card does not work
And oh, sort of knows that there
Is some currency somewhe...

Categories: carrier bag, truth,
Form: Verse

The Dog-Man

...He wears rags for clothes,
Tied up with string.
Spends all his money
On other things.

Has borrowed a trolley
To carry his stuff.
Many a carrier bag
One not enough.

What does he have
In t...

Categories: carrier bag, devotion, people,
Form: Rhyme