Long Well turned Poems

Artists are not so different,
at times glossing over truth,
hiding beneath a sheen -- 
some extra linseed goes
a long way...

What is this cry for realism?!

Picasso sought deeper meaning
via grotesque breasts~ elongated
elephant snout limbs -- perhaps believing...

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We love this road,
it has trees.

The manicured ladies
stand upon the lawns,
beacon with unwinking eyes,
scrutinize beneath shading hands,
pry open primped lips,
proclaim their fierce love.

We love this road,
it has folks.

Those maladjusted to suburbia
hear and move on
knowing they...

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I dreamed some day I would be a man 
Who was brave, and strong, and true.
I dreamed that in the years to come 
I might find someone like you.
You're a shaft of light in my...

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If you are reading this you are most likely alive.

                     a poem reader…….
  
...

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When I was your lover I was a volcano
Throwing out light and life like lava
When you were my love you gave
Me that energy to burn
Sparkling fizzing and crackling alive.

When I was your lover I was...

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I found some strange multi coloured beans
And planted them in well turned soil
With care I watered them and pulled weeds
yet after a month not one single shoot.

I had cause to go down in my cellar
looking...

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Brexit Sonnet No.4
‘Year of Trial and Error’
 

So now it’s waning, our year of trial and error,
Our brush with one inglorious year just gone.
We’ve had it all, deception, lies and terror,
With inappropriate MPs movéd on.
Votes...

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I love the reality the dark keeps,
without designer drugs or alcohol.

It is as deep as the void from which light has sprung.
To speak of mighty waves the sea released.
To follow boldly solstice no drawn drapes...

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chase the butterflies.

find all things you think are valued
from their anus, from their fore head
fortunate memorable, upside down, well turned.

smell the favoured flashes,
sentenced air wings fountains
sometimes behind, beside to the top of the mountains.

it is...

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Sadly sadly farage it seems?has become self-important
Upon the world scene.' Denigrating a man who called for
His help..' in rallys in London..That were really well turned out.'
Is he taking for granted an empathy from Trump.? I've...

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