If Memory Serves me Well
...Collated papers filed and the bills paid
as the kettle whistled invitingly.
My son’s laughter drifting in through the window—
I have forgotten to close the billowing drapes.
A sempiteral table...
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Categories:
collated, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Age of Lies
...The Age of Lies
Inimitable political satirical sardonically charged empirical verse for commiseration.
Collated by the grand vision of lies that seem to defy all consideration.
Berated cons...
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Categories:
collated, life,
Form: Free verse
The Cockroach Hotel
...
Beneath the leaves
One may find
Scribbles of another kind
Written there are hidden truths
Collated by collective roots
Stashed under a different roof
Stored next to a bed of bark
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Categories:
collated, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
What if
...Everyone has a good side,
Everyone lives a bad life.
Only few can decide,
where they really reside.
Maybe I am, one of those few,
Because I don't understand others,
And I don't understand yo...
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Categories:
collated, angst, confusion, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Image of Deja Vu
...The image of the letters of Déjà Vu
Tells it true.
The eyebrows of the 'e' and 'a'
cast a frown, with the 'j' the snotty nose in between.
Its the face ...
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Categories:
collated, destiny, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Second Incoming
...A probe enters the solar system, lays low behind our moon
It’s mission, monitor mankind’s behaviour, we’re impugned
A decision needs making, if our planet should be dragooned
By sending a huge a...
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Categories:
collated, allegory, fate, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Fo'C's'Le Ashes
...Ashes collected into the collated casks and
Corked with animus, Moon Girl pounded on.
Drumming a dirge on the tanner's own flesh.
Pounding the seed of echoing hope.
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Categories:
collated, sea,
Form: Free verse
Fo'C's'Le - a Dream
...fo'c·'sle /'fohksel/ noun deriv: forecastle
1. the forward part of a ship below the deck, traditionally used as the crew's living quarters.
2. historical: a raised deck at the f...
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Categories:
collated, boat, endurance, history, native
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Flannel
...A flannel-washed-out school.
Unsullied nuns in a sullen line.
Again hearing the quacking of ducks
as new brown leathers shoes
stepped and skipped,
though skipping was a serious offense
behind...
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Categories:
collated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Inspiring Art
...Refracted shimmers
illuminates space
Inspirational
designs collated
in artistic mind
Immersed senses
in sights and sounds
Hues of nature
invigorates
Woodland walk
greenery
picturesque ...
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Categories:
collated, art,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Home
...Violated: my home
Robbed of its heart
Voided of its soul
That once lovingly collected, collated now just material
Stuff
Lies cloaked, shrouded in pained memory
Years of images
Unable to comfor...
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Categories:
collated, absence, death,
Form: Free verse
Collated Nightmares
...Anxious, I was at the door
to the vestry, rehearsing
words, visualising movements,
roles of others, checking prompts.
I've left it behind! Have I
the time to go back? Panic.
No.
Before the a...
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Categories:
collated, christian, dream, humorous, religion,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back
...Tsiolkovsky once said the earth was our cradle,
but one must leave their cradle someday.
Our race has long since mastered the stars.
To think we once thought we were slower than light!
Numberles...
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Categories:
collated, future, remember, society, space,
Form: Free verse
A Lady Spoke On Hard Talk
...>A Lady spoke on hard talk.
A lady spoke on Hard Talk.
Of how she was treated so.
By -’s excuse for men.
We have pigs, far better.
And those – excuse for men.
There was no expression in her...
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Categories:
collated, anger, bullying, courage, crazy,
Form: Prose
The Devizing of a Plan
...A personal view of the Devizes Neighbourhood Plan
and the referendum on Thursday at the Town Hall
All careful plans of men may fail and fall
And falter, crumble; leaving broken stone
No reason ...
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Categories:
collated, community, england, environment, house,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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