Long Trenched Poems

Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become darker

I am also affected and when news gets explosive when...

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Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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As a new day arises, you are once again faced with that trenched alarm bell.
You open your eyes to feelings of emotional turmoil in the pit of your stomach, a remembrance of this living hell....

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It is a bridge of sleeplessness

and you

outside

his dream

In his dream he

is with someone else

with a new desire

in a different life

His body has shed

the skin of your memory

in his sleep

outside his sleep

Now the one

dreaming over there

isn't...

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As light plays upon the dark, that moon through stained glass windows
cutting a swarth across cobbled floors.
It seeps into the cracks like it's found home at last 
How a distant piano to a curious ear...

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I want to be in love with you again.

He searches for purpose, he begs for reason. He does so in a hectic manner, with no ease to the tension in his search. The answer sits...

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Walking along a maze of muddy walls stepping over rotting young men their boots gone,
Taking the scenes for granted as this is all I know and cannot even remember my home,
The trenched walkways are like...

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Walking along a maze of muddy walls stepping over rotting young men their boots gone,
Taking the scenes for granted as this is all I know and cannot even remember my home,
The trenched walkways are like...

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The old house stands still.
Rot has set in.
A flying termite caught in the webs of a dead spider, sway to the shrill of a ceiling fan.
All things sway.
Dreams rise and suffocate in the mouldering mortars 
Falling...

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angst, body, cry, hurt, imagery, insect, war,

DODOITSU 

(A MOSQUITO'S LAMENT)

THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB ©  

This sacrificial lamb starts
An aggressive night ensues
Mosquito’s ‘ding’ clarifies
Dinner is almost served!

TAKE COVER!  ©

I’m a prisoner trenched down
Under cover of...

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Mother don't you cry now
Daddy has gone to the sweet by and by
And I
Sweet music I do hear from the angels, so dear
I can hear them singing, singing
And mother doesn't ask why father has a...

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Bulldozers, drunk with gasoline
once again have scarred and maimed
a place, once green with grass and trees
Where we once heard the sound of breeze
and ghosts of children played their games
and were forced to leave their childhood...

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Old Soldiers
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Old soldiers not born for war at all.
Father's brave and cold
Send out to death
To defend..
Men with chili courage
Very valuabe to their children
Never had a chance
To be good cuddle daddy's
They were alone and in...

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savoured the roses in the garden
especially the climbing variety
because they had no bounds
and therefore represented 
the wild passion of change

the juice of fresh blackberries
ran down as he picked and imbibed them
consumed by their nature
he never...

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Have we met before, somewhere
In a crowded train
Where associations like fleeting cars
Carries cramped memories
Were you at some school with me
And learned the contours of my face
It is your eyes, madam
They linger like a slap on...

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Rainbow

It’s raining in my soul
hailing a hurricane of
desiccated tears drenched 
to the bones and trenched 
in my mindless mind

Constant pitter patter cracker
crocker like a desert under
water silence noise demise

Flooding iron cages of reason
leaks in abundance...

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While bulldozers, drunk with gasoline
Have once again scared and maimed
Where once grew trees and meadows free
Is now an earth, encased by concrete seas

Engines roar,  to drown our ears in echoed glee
Where ghosts of children...

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Memories' claws catch weakness, sore substitutes for truth
Mind's future sambas hipswung with anticipated brew


Mother bird waits for non viable form to peck forth
- Maybe deserves haven, hollow where wings never grew


Taken for pyschiatric watch, her...

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What’s wrong in old people’s behaviour?
Always they are interrupting to stop youngsters?
Few things come to learn on the age of time,
When a thing is wrong to do, they stop.

When a person buying a new car,
He...

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Moving towards high
In a transit  period of time
Moved up in the troposphere, mesosphere.

Like a pinnacle of earth
In the layers per layers
Like a feel good factor
But one thing you forget

You have a heart
Which is surrounded...

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Whisperers of sweet words clanging in her mind 
Eyes so weary, environs were the scattered love letters 
A night came, when a gentleman decided to pledge on her troth
As she walked in, rippling was the...

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There's more than just twelve feet of twain 
between total happiness and emotional pain
It's unfathomable, for they shall never meet
The distance is similarly much the very same
as is substantial derision 'tween cold and heat
There is...

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I will search for you
when stars seem to be mute
their sparkle shrouded by the cool soot of love's burning root,

I will reach for you
when my lips are lost, fever embossed,
as the night brings only frost,...

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Perhaps I knew, but was benign
to the simple beauty of her design.
The raven hair, the candid frame,
she wore her elegance just the same.

Perhaps I knew, but closed my eyes
when she left heart-broken to cry.
The silky...

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