Long Tumours Poems

It’s Christmas Eve, Babe
In the car pound
It shouldn’t be this way
Should not have been found

But I’m the lucky one
I am the thirteenth one
And when I got a scare
I hi-tailed out of there

But everywhere I went
It...

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"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."  
E.E. Cummings

Amber hues kissed twilight's platinum pigments that night,
beckoning ivory pearls to weave patterns of astral flames.
Charm of...

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Before:
When no middle ground can be found amid rifts
They’ll send in a few unsolicited gifts
The east and the west shall politely decline
each incoming gift with a two fingered sign

It’s ‘You show me yours and I’ll...

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We all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the saddest thing in life is we have to grow up.

As...

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Where do you start,
When this world opens up
In front of you,
When this hidden view
Reveals itself in one big bang.

I knew I wasn’t normal
From an early age
But when you hear it all, 
It still shocks.

The attempted...

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It’s fifty years since people said
Look… on the tele… Hitler
And maybe you just sat there stunned 
Like something big had bit ya

There, on the keyboard, Ronald Mael
His brother, Russ, the singer
They grabbed me then, forevermore
Their...

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2: If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Rumi

In realms of illusion,
pain is a sharp reminder of reality.
I've been polishing since the day I was born,
reluctant to resemble the...

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Opaque

Self-determination digs the fight, 
Between lovers, crevacies and urns, 
Sunken to the black scraping the rust, 
The syntax to velocity 27 epic tech bust.

Velodrome phoneticised tightness of gyte,
Forced gynaecology for terse, gut and creation, 
Random...

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I once was asked, "What is my worst memory?"
The memory that haunts me,
Making the darkness suffocate me,
Until i can no longer tell if i am breathing,
Or being caressed by death's embrace. 

But, how can you...

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Let’s pretend I know how to tell the secret.
The secret of our lives.
Like children running mad into each other.
Like bank exchanges in line.
Finally at the window,
And no one understands a thing.

The mind that forgot me...

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Anna Kerr Tate / Read poetry
A cancerous growth in i times
I'm an ever-growing tumour
That grows from deep within.
You won't feel or know I'm there
As im the most evil of all sin.

I'm working with the devil
I...

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Swirled in the majesty of springtime dust,
Infused recombinant DNA,
Genetically modified dandelion clocks
On the breeze are borne far away.

Super-weeds with strangling intentions
To spread from estate to estate,
Mutated betrothals with arable death,
To marry the wheat and cross-pollinate.

Where...

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Swaddled in a grey woollen scarf
Soft rain falling gently on your face. 
Crows CACKLING in the trees overhead
Tipping leaves, laden with droplets,
DRIPPING  like heavy tears,
SMACKING the concrete path below.

You sigh as you draw close...

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Sickness and tragedy

are not punishment

but facts of life

viruses attack

wars kill 

tumours grow

leukemia strikes

blood vessels clog up, burst

the innocent are killed by

drugged and drunk drivers

psychotic people act out dreams

that only make sense to them

in a parallel...

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Chinese whispers and the rumours,
do some brains have blisters and tumours,
spreading gossip forever continues,
slaying all logic to rest in tombs.

These lips leak lies like lethal fumes,
wear thick lipstick and bad perfumes,
they want a war of...

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