Long Misspelt Poems

In the pantomime of pretend prose,
the moon dances on lonely nights.
Before the lights go out at twilight,
unforgiven ice cold hearts,
remain abandoned, hoping this is the end.

Her eyes like Eve were deceived,
by manipulative sea green serpents.
Stranded...

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From chaos to cosmos
From cosmos to Barbados
From Barbados to Cricket


Fifty odd years
CAT EEG Resurrection
An original me?


If you know
The fundamental difference
Between 1 and 2

First comes the moon
Second comes the yellow
Last come the clouds and bats

They move...

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Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning


Letters motionless in disarray fighting lost battles lonely at heart

Starved...

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CHRONICLES OF 3 DEAD BLACK MEN & ALTON

Louisiana: Alton Sterling shot dead.
Crime: selling CDs outside a grocery shop?
Outcome: "No charges for police over death",
says The Department of JUSTICE. Yes, 'justice'.
Methinks the last word above is...

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What am I doing?,
the strength of a real poet is to speak truth through words but most words I cannot pronounce,
 I struggle to recite my poems out loud, 
i realise i have misspelt as...

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If you wish we can sit together and talk of ancient wounds
do you know mine
do I know yours

In the stories of our different lives
what purpose would it serve
these life long bruises
that sit and fester in...

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When your dancing without care of being caught
that smile when you think of something that you
and the inner you find F------------------Y spelled funnily
---------------------------------U-  -----------L
-----------------------------------  -N------E
-----------------------------------  -----N
When you stop the tears when none...

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four years old and she was already looking for a Higher Power

her parents were bookworms and she piled one onto another

Hemingway and Nietzsche firmly stacked with Sartre and Poe

the latter she thought was misspelt because...

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Ah, those Sunday Blues...
Tomorrow's back to work...
I don't want today to end...
I'm in terror....
My first newspaper ad
As a Dept. Store toy buyer,
Full page, full run,
And the hottest game of the year...
And I've misspelt it!!

I cringe...

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looling for the magic man
to change us
trust if he was there
he would have given up
see that hate on the faces
but just can't understand
took your chance in digitised percentages
animals havent a word for evil
Give cats and...

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Satsuma, were you Man's first attempt at cloning,
neither orange nor tangerine,
misshapen orange, misspelt tanggerine
as you left the Japanese test tube,
ends flattened through lack of genes,
did they call you Fatsumo
ready to be fed by the thousand
into...

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I sing a song to my lost love
Who’s left this Earth and gone above.
(Or maybe she’s below instead;
Who the hell cares, cuz she’s dead.)
'Tis true she wrote bad poetry,
Wrote verse of opaque complexity,

But I cared...

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SPELLING TEST (there are over 30 words contained within this poem that are often 
misspelt by the common man)

We all do on occasion temporarily misspell.
Amateur or connoisseur of language,who can tell?
Conscientiously piece together,peculiar bits of...

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I’ve seen wretched souls 
fall poorer by stealth 
I’ve seen frail old people 
endure pain as they knelt 

Climbing mountains barefoot 
pilgrimages never stop
A penance for being born 
light your candle at the top 

I’ve...

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HIDDEN HANDS


I'm here on our shore
All above
Sands we used to measure
Timeís hour-glass.
You ran to the cape
Asterix from comic pages
The fisherman stopped you
Crabs chased, you ran in bewilderment
Mother sea, all tenderness gazed.
On a country boat on...

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You carry unseen
Your book of life
White gleaming pages
On which is written 
Story of your life!

Do not bend it
Or smudge it
Rip no pages
Or let not any
Falsehood be written 
Or truth misspelt!

On these pages 
Live the many...

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In dream last night when I talked to AI,
Our dialogue went on back and forth like this:
I said, look, brain sees what it likes  well nigh,
Hope, you help not with same human disease. 
Men...

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Classical is from the Middle Ages
in the mid-1940's we had Bebop
a fast-tempo 19th / 20th century Jazz
then along came Doo-wop
with group harmonies
the 50's brought us rock and roll
which developed the 1960's
(sad to say) Disco and...

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They are playing hard this time,
and all these broken pieces of shades and stones are thrown away,
and all these papers and chapters are enforced to get away,
into our homes and castles.

This time,
yet they call it...

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 A Footle Murder Mystery

The sleuth
in truth
Was miffed.
The stiffs,
As such,
Weren’t much;
No clue 
In view
To find
This kind
Of crook,
Who took
The stash
Of cash
Then wrote
A note
To tell
How swell
(Misspelt!)
He felt.

“It’s clear,
I fear,
The crime 
This time
Was done
By one
Who knew
How few
Are we
Who...

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You felt it when you sent your first love letter, 
you loved it when you got your first one back.
You smiled when you read that he loved you, 
you longed to express that love back....

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I feel betrayed... between the clasped
Sweetness the future promises the present 
Every now amd then my misfitness matters
With a thousand confusing dreams shatters
Mismatching with the world outside, for
Ever longs the journey to reach doom.
Mitigating every...

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No one knew who wrote them or when,
Like cinema posters that changed at regular intervals,
Misspelt swear words appeared on the wall of the urinal.

Written with moss, coal and laterite
They read sometimes like..

The breeze here is...

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No plaques?
No head stones?
He did not start the inferno.
It was a misspelt agony
in purple ruins.
Pain had no other name!

While thinking of him
I evacuated the matter,
completed the circle beyond solitude.
More I did not break the silence
worse...

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