Depression England Poems

Many people work as a daily wager,
Why depression is becoming common in teenager,
Why the silence from teenagers gone,
Why the violence mode is going on?

Do what...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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1 man 
all by himself no one understands 
The government even determine when he can see his kid
Now he got a bunch of stuff running...

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Being a child of the sixties
here in the UK life was a treat
such variety in all the shops
contrasts aplenty so much to meet

The history of...

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The rain falls hard outside. 
Grey clouds fill the skies.
A cold feeling is here.
The lost feelings won’t disappear.

What of us now?
Life’s changed beyond doubt.
Life where...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Ich have y-don al myn youth
“I have done it all my youth”
(anonymous Middle English poem)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have done it all my...

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Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Each...

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THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.

Young green plants seedlings growing on...

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The most human of things, that was once said to me, sat in the garden, under the tree, licking my ice cream, feeling the grass,...

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King Lear’s Voice
 
Nothing out of nothing
William Shakespeare
A king of true tragedy
No unconditional love.

No never and nothing
Machiavellian
His descent into madness
Dead to Heaven above.

Gary Bateman, Copyright...

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Why did they fight for our freedom of speech? 
when we as a nation are afraid to speak 
Led by a government that’s corrupt and...

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Forever a looser

I laugh heartily
I smile incredibly
And stand courageously
To blurt out
That you are a looser

You break families
You condemn them into loneliness
You forever kill their hope
But...

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There's this boy in the mirror, I wonder who he is.
 Sometimes I think I know him
sometimes I wish I did.  
There is a...

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Somewhere in the dungeon of my soul 
was a memory I supressed, 
and a song, a scent 
reignited the place and time long forgot.
And I...

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