Think and feel
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I see it now and I see it clear. Generations before saw their ways of life disappear. Now it’s us and now it’s here.
Technology does not feel pain or fear.
Where joy was found for hours throw...
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Categories:
kerb, absence, abuse, addiction, AI
Form: Free verse
The Coal Man Cometh
...About the end of times when
Carts were hauled by Shires,
Coal was king and homes
Were heated by open fires,
A seemingly huge dark figure
From my early childhood days
As he drove his horse and c...
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Categories:
kerb, change, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Self Medication
...Now Foreign Medicine, next Forest Herb,
Heart rate jumps, floored figure in a kerb;
Emergency phoning of a doc
Won't to acting like the Hardest Rock
"Doc, please, what do I do: I mean, now?
Also...
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Categories:
kerb, cry, death, health, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Winning With Addictions
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Don't quit. You will win
Alcoholics Anonymous includes God
The lesson: You have a spirit key
That can take you to victory
Never give in: be it good or dark, addiction
Jesus for me, demoted lo...
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Categories:
kerb, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts of the Tsunami
...I am driving my cab on a cold clear night
Looking for fares without luck tonight
Strangely the moon made things seem
As other worldly in its scheme
I saw her walking slowly near the kerb
As I...
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Categories:
kerb, spiritual, weather,
Form: Epic
The Rite of Passage
...The rite of passage
The old green wagon moves a life
Heads appear like nodding gulls
Eyes cast down searching cracked flags
Hopes from people sadly to be missed.
Un-walked limestone ...
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Categories:
kerb, grandfather, life, memory,
Form: Acrostic
Its a London Thing
...Time is up to the London devil
Crack fiends roaming the streets on a next level
Trying to get a fix from that genie bottle
Kilos and ounces sold by forces
Police can't touch anyone there just ing...
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Categories:
kerb, deep,
Form: Free verse
Love Above
...LOVE ABOVE
I hear him on the roof above,
A noisy, cooing, little dove,
Seeks a mate, that bloody song,
From dawn to dusk he carries on.
Got a plan to stop his singing,
Involves his neck, I...
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Categories:
kerb, bird, encouraging, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Tears
...I wipe a teardrop from my eye,
Another drops on the kerb,
I have a hole in my aching heart,
It's where you used to be,
Should it hurt as much as this?
You say you'll change, but you never do,
I...
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Categories:
kerb, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Blank verse
Online Dating
...Are you just a picture on a website
No, you’re a person and you're real
I’m sat here looking for a soul mate
Just scrolling past women on a screen
Hoping a million little pixels
Could be the w...
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Categories:
kerb, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Answered Prayer
...He was just out riding his chopper,
All of a sudden he came a cropper.
A head on collision with another lad.
His head hit the kerb at a terrific rate
The trauma he had, left him in a state.
When...
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Categories:
kerb, blessing, grandchild, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
The Amnesic Ant
...Sitting on the kerb, watching ants toil to death
I bemused myself with a thought,
What if i was god, simply drowned in pleading seas and wanton waters
Not aware of my true visage
Lost and forgott...
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Categories:
kerb, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Car Races
...I love the clean air, breathe the clean air,
I hunt the clean air in the race,
I want that distance between me and the field,
When they are all up for the chase,
Around the hairpin, through t...
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Categories:
kerb, car, fun, race,
Form: Quatrain
The Distracted Walking Law
...No walking while distracted - that's the law
Don't leave the kerb and step under a bus
Don't oggle that hulk, nor admire that chick
Keep all eyes on the road
No rocking along to music box
No whi...
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Categories:
kerb, self, social,
Form: Grook
A Quock Is Not a Quack Nor a Quintessential Quarterback
...Quickly quickly now quack quack quock" said the rook on a rock by the dock at six o clock. But no rock ever did tock so no quock could be audible now could it? Who on earth has really ever heard a qu...
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Categories:
kerb, allegory, baby,
Form: I do not know?
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