Long Prised Poems

Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL

Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you feel.
When you feel at...

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They will not forget 
to this they swear
neither will we ever 
get near the end of 
hearing of it all, I fear
So it's with the dedication
Of a sinner to prayer 
that they dole out their
perceived...

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Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag

One afternoon she had time...

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Bank robber Jim was one unlucky bloke
Went to draw his gun but the holster broke
It dropped on the bank floor
And went off with a roar
The shock was too much and he had a stroke...

Though he...

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Wild rumours spread that Justice Jones had died.
Drawn curtains fuelled speculation’s fire
And with the passing days it would transpire
That his black Labrador roamed round outside.

Where once a sweet perfume had filled the air
And nature’s finest...

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The wordsmith toils over hot metal fonts in wellsprings
Struggling like a blacksmith to hone and shape 
    thoughts and images into typeface words and poems.
To conjure up meanings from thoughts twisted, prodded,
...

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All my life I yearned for the answer,
To the king of all questions, Why?
Vowing to find the solution before
In my beckoning grave - I'd lie.
          ...

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 The first two limericks I posted the other day but Sara Kendrick requested that I write a sequel so added four more, I've included the two from the other day should you wish to...

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What if...the world weren't broken
And mankind loved each other
No poison words were spoken
And brother loved his brother

What if...the wealth of Nations
Was loosened from the greedy
Prised from their groping fingers
And shared among the needy

What if...the Vaticans...

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The hillside stained
in bloody mindlessness
yet nurtured with tender care,
tend heady dreams
as yet to be invented,
besotted, many virgin souls
fragmented. An awesome
power to wield, a thousand moods
to create, the sluice gate of an
intellect to be prised, an
ambiguous...

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The Day The World Ends. 
Sky and earth were lovers their children; sea, rain, sun and thunder; but they 
had no space, stuck in the middle of the lovers, so they prised them apart and...

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Gaia, the favourite Empress of the Emperor Sun,
The true definition of beauty,
Elevated above all else, none other could compare,
She wore a crown that placed her beyond others,
Richer than all her compeers, 
Only she had the...

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Panic as I open my eyes to a new world.
Leaving the path of seeing and hearing,
into this frightened  bundle of humanity.
Tried reaching out to feel the air,
Cannot even hear the sounds of living.

Fear of...

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it hurt so much that she prised out the molar in despair

with a corner post missing pain oozed from wounded flesh

one cavity exchanged for another but rawness lay bare

she tried painkillers and sedatives then settled...

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woke to the phone ringing early morning at four,
worried answered the phone fearing what was in store,
“ Mother had a heart attack” heard my sister say
tears flooded my eyes, I froze and could hear no...

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Horse chestnuts and long sticks scattered around
where children ,balancing along a wall
had tried their best to bring the conkers down,
since it was not yet time for them to fall.
Some shells were slightly open, and inside
lay...

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Thieving daylight stole my sleep, purloined 
the dust and bones of dreams, 
conjoined with sinking cold and deep, unleashed 
repellent buck shot beams. 

A light that beat on life condensed, lashed 
by the croak of...

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Life is the path that I've taken
Death is the path that won't happen very soon
Love is the path that will happen soon
And sertainty is the path that'll never come
Truth is the path that is already...

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Crisp cool chardonnay drenches their lips,
it's flavour running rivulets over their tongues
eyes widen over the candlelit table,
and he thinks about giving her sons

Rich sticky risotto slowly prised from bowls
mouthfuls devoured in anticipation
he wipes his mouth...

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The earth is beaten hard by working boots
and baked by scorching sun in early spring
that cracked like drying skin with calloused corns. 
As weeds are forked, entwined around the gate,
I prised the tendrils, pulling out...

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In limbo her soul breathes
The inky black of midnight crawling her skin
She watches his chest rise and fall
The rhythmic sounds lulling her to sleep

She pierces his dream with silent screams
Calls him awake with urgent longing
He...

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Shells wash up, on the shore, 
Of textures and patterns - galore, 
Embedded, in the sands of time, 
As waves lap up, of a fresh new bind, 
Children build model castles of sand,
Imagination of a...

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Muse
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Just an un-thought thought.
The least touch of a feather or
draught from
           the beating wing of a bird;
A telescope taking focus on
    ...

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The paramedic lent down, ignoring the noise, 
The commotion and the screams.
He was focused on just one thing, her in the driver’s seat, 
He ignored the other teens.

The lights and sirens, the urgency, 
He sat...

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