Messy
...I'm a messpot
Things I place I can't spot
I come back so tired from work
To clean the place I shirk
I put it for tommorw
I can't trace if someone has to borrow
I wish someone comes into...
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Categories:
deranging, adventure, age, allegory, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
A Feel For History
...Are people who sense a direction in history,
and before history,
throughout prehistory,
who feel their way through organic-systemic evolution,
merely progressive polypathic mystics,
not quite ex...
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Categories:
deranging, health, history, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Poets - Xxxvi
...Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965
The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid, Dante...
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Categories:
deranging, creation, poetry, poets, word
Form: Epigram
Front Page of Paper
...Front Page of Paper
What if new poem I were to start;
Everyone ended up tearing it apart;
Completely re-wrote the whole thing;
Tears to eyes of people did bring.
Who saw an email stammer and...
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Categories:
deranging, humorous,
Form: Couplet
A Cambridge Lamentation
...This place is always a little lonely
At the weekends...no noise and life,
I like solitude,
But not in places
Where's there's recently been
A lot of people.
Reclusiveness protects you
F...
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Categories:
deranging, christmas, city, england, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Time
..."Give it time........
It'll be fine.
Give it time.....
It'll be okay."
Don't you say it again!!
Time is that ****
That's chuffing me off from my heaven.
Time is that ****
That's shoving...
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Categories:
deranging, anger,
Form: Blank verse
This Side of Love
...May you never be on the wanting side of love
The needing side
The reaching side
The “You are my life” side of love.
May you never be on the thirsty side of the love
The withered side
The shriveled ...
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Categories:
deranging, longing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
This Side of Love
...May you never be on the wanting side of love
The needing side
The reaching side
The “You are my life” side of love.
May you never be on the thirsty side of the love
The withered side
The shriveled ...
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Categories:
deranging, lost love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Bloom Not, Wolfsbane
...Bloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind
The girl was luscious in the wake
Rising at break of dawn
If only she knew I was a ...
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Categories:
deranging, adventure, angst, depression, devotion,
Form: Ballad