Finding a purpose
...What is my purpose,
What is my dream,
Is life meant to hurt us,
Why is my life so mean.
Life is a test,
Life is a mission,
Life has no rest,
When you've lost your ambition.
Life is 10yrs...
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Categories:
cert, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Eleventh Hour
...I made lots of plans and vision boards
And lots of New Year Resolutions
On how I'd swim in bullion wads
By the Christmastime celebrations
I'd promise myself a new PC
And new clothes and shoes ...
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Categories:
cert, appreciation, thanks, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Jingleheimer Schmidt Got Nuthin
...Daquayvious Sorey
Incredible story!
He went for the Tigers
Instead of the Tide.
But what more amazing
Than the yards he’ll be blazing:
His birth cert had room
For his name to reside!...
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Categories:
cert, appreciation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Criminals Just Do Not Get It
...Criminals just do not get it,
When if they only opened their eyes even a little bit,
They would see a much better fit,
When the law gives more opportunities inside it,
Than outside it.
Don't t...
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Categories:
cert, addiction, analogy, art, books,
Form: Burlesque
Siouxsie's Sore Throat Broke Me Down
...Many years ago in the mid-70s
music was my idol especially concerts
Glasgow's Apollo was my regular venue
loved night's there fabulous to be a cert
The Queen of Punk in these times
Siouxsie an...
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Categories:
cert, journey, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme
Covid 19 April 2020
...It's twenty twenty there is a new threat
A virus with no cure as yet.
Its a pandemic, its all around.
An antibody needs to be found.
Globally politicians and proffesionals have aired.
A lockdo...
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Categories:
cert, appreciation, community, death,
Form: Free verse
The Pathologist
...There was no rancour in the brain, or canker,
no legions, in fact this brain could be re-used,
the heart had been torn apart but looked perfect,
what had caused this terrible damage - what do you ...
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Categories:
cert, death, heartbreak, life,
Form: Prose
Looking At Myself For 24 Hours
...Well, what is a typical normal day?
firstly nothing is planned for sure
semi-planned maybe no cast-iron cert
so honestly, I like them always newer
8 am on the dot up wash dressed
start aright...
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Categories:
cert, day, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost Paradox
...Take a look inside,
Both dead and alive,
Simultaneously?
How can we measure it,
If something is living, yet finalised?
Propose a second proposal,
Preferably pick a second one,
Work, well tha...
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Categories:
cert, conflict, confusion, stress,
Form: Prose Poetry
Make Believe
...Heroes of the silver screen
Dancing amongst the bullets
Real life Dead cert.
© Harry J Horsman 2018...
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Categories:
cert, destiny,
Form: Epigram
Erratum Domini
...ERRATUM DOMINI
There must have been some terrible mistake!
A fault in records or in time continuum
Check my birth cert. for a counterfeit or fake!
They got wrong the name or date at very minimu...
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Categories:
cert, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Accumulator
...Arsenal first Friday, always start well
New signings too, will give Leicester hell
Arsenal easy, next,
Liverpool in the early game, a win at a canter
Watford offer up more presents than Santa
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Categories:
cert, football, irony, money, soccer,
Form: Free verse
Mad
...Bun the feds dem coming str8 from the lava ground
A young brother moving mad cause I brown
I hate the police force their all full if pricks
They had the audacity to call the authorities
Bun that ...
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Categories:
cert, rap,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Indoor Universe
...The the clock strikes nine
And gone is the last sip of wine
To numb my sorrow of you leaving
God I wish it wasn’t so easy
Why is getting over it harder for me
Indoor universe
Where my hurt ...
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Categories:
cert, universe,
Form: Lyric
The Mask
...Each day as I awake to face another endless task,before I show my face outside the door I don the mask,
So no-one see's the real me,it's a front ['n' that's a cert],the mask it's my security prevent...
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Categories:
cert, addiction,
Form: Acrostic
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