Mirror
...When I look into a mirror
who is looking back at me
I’m hoping
really, really hoping
that it is me looking back
but how will I know
that it’s really, really me
can I believe only me
the one l...
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Categories:
humoured, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Derwentwater Santas
...
Santa Splash! And around they go.
'Round the islands and back, they row!
Surrounded by December hues,
reds and yellows, and brilliant blues.
Causey rises in purple glow
waiting the c...
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Categories:
humoured, boat, celebration, christmas, color,
Form: Rhyme
How To Find Our True Self
...when aspect of us that is not
becomes good humoured
equal through highs and lows
feeling God in each breath
ego relinquishing all doership
becomes silence of space
in, within but not of the wo...
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Categories:
humoured, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Distant
...
"Distant"
When winter came
it came fast
cold as a witch's t*t
unwelcome and
unwanted,
we hesitate
to move
any further within
the forest's interior
alarm...
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Categories:
humoured, muse, symbolism, winter,
Form: Free verse
Another Dawn
...ANOTHER DAWN
The morning winces as a new day begins
Mired in the half slumber of a restless night
And reluctant to engage whilst half awake
Like a trembling foot hovering over the brake
Good h...
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Categories:
humoured, day,
Form: Rhyme
Sally Doolally
...This is the story of Sally Doolally
A young maiden farmer from down in the valley
She kept a keen eye out for Thomas McNally
And dreamed of the day he would say, ‘Can we marry?’
Sally Doolally ...
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Categories:
humoured, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Musings
...
Today,
the emotions which arose,
contracted our consciousness
arising from aversion
propelled by ego
owing to
a response,
which we determined
as being harsh and unjust,
wherea...
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Categories:
humoured, anger, muse,
Form: Suzette Prime
May the Light Shine
...light weight lamps outweigh surrounding darkness
float on wavy strings of lucid reason and emotion
translucent Christmas decorations are up to cheer
but ill-humoured disbelief has tripped th...
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Categories:
humoured, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Last Laugh
...There he goes again
proving them all wrong
spent his life doing that
they don’t cotton on
Oh too right off in humoured fashion
mock each day and banter bash him
make a mockery oh enjoying...
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Categories:
humoured, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Without Dread
...Drop hints play with my mind,waste my time, wind me up ,lows and highs, this roller coaster,i'm on your ride ,surfing your tide,choking on water,flip me around , fill my ears with false sounds,empty ...
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Categories:
humoured, abuse, break up, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: Doubt Not Who Is Master of Your Conditioned Fate
...Villanelle : Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate
Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate
Ask only why your actions lead down the wrong path
All else makes for doubt doub...
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Categories:
humoured, fate, life, passion, surreal,
Form: Villanelle
I Am Not the Person You See
...I am not the person you see
I am not the person you see,
There’s a fool, a clown inside me.
Shackled by my chains and red tape,
Only in solitude does madcap escape.
Sometimes I yearn to let go...
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Categories:
humoured, how i feel, i
Form: Sonnet
Growing Up Too Soon
...growing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
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Categories:
humoured, age, growing up, lonely,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
All That 'Glitters' Is Not Gold
...They thought he was a harmless fool.
His hair dyed black
And eyebrows pencilled in,
The silver outfits -
Shoulders huge -
And platform shoes.
His lyrics less than lyrical,
Chanted, shouted
At his co...
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Categories:
humoured, work,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow's For Sale
...A tipped bottle on the windowsill
next to the wine cascade,
overlooked by the half --
(empty) – moon.
The cat that painted autumn
upon the trees, forgot me, instead,
green turned straight
...
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Categories:
humoured, life, people, sad, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
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