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Psychologically still thirteen
Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship, 
(whereby one or the other of us)...

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Categories: takeaways, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form: Rhyme



How Will They Remember Us
How will they remember us 
Those born after the war. 
What will they say about us.

Will they fully grasp the level of our sell out
Our denial of simple pleasures to our children,
Not letting them know...

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Categories: takeaways, allusion, anger, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal, bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters...
five months ago to the day

Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice,
when yours truly (a fool
and his money went separate ways)
mine cherished nest egg,
I would immediately miss
lesson immediately...

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Categories: takeaways, abuse, age, anger, angst, baptism, betrayal, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Easy Don'T Come Easy
Easy don't come easy.


When I think back to what we had,
It breaks my heart and makes me sad, 
Not because we said goodbye, 
Just because we didn't try.

A love that's true is worth the fight,...

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Categories: takeaways, feelings, future, i miss you, true love,
Form: ABC
A Shaggy Tale
A Shaggy Tale
By Jan Beaumont ©

My hairdresser - like me -
is still on lockdown
My image in the mirror's
made it crack
I'm thinking I should go 
into the bedroom
Turn the lock and stay there 
till she's back.

I...

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Categories: takeaways, fun, funny, giggle, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Playing With the Paint
pickle a paper and print paint playfully pointing pins
Knitting needles in a fish and chip shop is about as useful or as necessary as eating a soup with a spade. Dramatic are the arriving interludes...

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Categories: takeaways, absence, allah, allusion, angel, aubade, beauty,
Form: I do not know?
Again-Circa 2013
****Dedicated to my bestie and those late nights and early mornings filled with turbulent tears and triumphant takeaways from early lessons and heartbreaks****

Here I am again, coming to my end. Again, and again, and again....

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Categories: takeaways, best friend, feelings, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Nights Out
Disco dreams and disco balls 
Big city,bright lights 
Pub crawls and bar fights. 
Mini frocks and hair dyes 
Made up faces 
Mascara filled eyes. 
Vodka martinis and champagne 
Bus trips and black cabs 
Standing in...

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Categories: takeaways, nostalgianight, night,
Form: Rhyme
Am I the Only One
Am I the only One who sees the need elsewhere,
Who objects to TV's in the takeaway shop here,
The hospital waiting room over there,
And one in the adjoining corridor, just to be sure.
Huge ones at too...

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Categories: takeaways, analogy, anxiety, blue, business, care, cheer up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Table Manners
I don’t know about you but I think it right
That kids should eat at the table, most every night.
Sit down with mum, sit down with dad
For these are the best memories you’ll ever have.

There will...

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Categories: takeaways, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Urban Decay
Relic of a raucous night's revel
In an empty shop doorway
Stands a solitary cider bottle sentinel

Bundles of bedding. Beneath 
Huddles a barely visible body
Whom I have to skirt around

Shop windows blacked out and blinded
With nothing to...

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Categories: takeaways, death, obituary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Just So Passive
I’M JUST SO PASSIVE

Trolling all the restaurants and the takeaways on the high street
Whiffing all the smells of the cooking, but: never stopping to eat

Then it is off down to the local pub, to whiff...

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Categories: takeaways, crazy, passion,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs