Aching Back
...Bearing in my back the ache of the day
I step in the bath and turn on the tap
to add hot water, stretch my legs away
before I wash my limbs and creases, slap
and scratch the scourer over front an...
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Categories:
scourer, baptism, christian, pain, water,
Form: Sonnet
Rain of Rose 1
...Colures transposed orbits closed whence derive the rains of rose?
Across million mileage magic and magnitude are striding
O'er holistic horizon svelteness and smoothness are sliding
Meridian frame...
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Categories:
scourer, allusion, magic, romantic, surreal,
Form: Romanticism
Ancestoral Roots
...Ancestoral Roots
I am a Taxi Driver in Liverpool
And the first thing people say
When they get in the cab with me
Is
Your not a Scoucer
Are you
Well
I was born in Liverpool
And i live in...
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Categories:
scourer, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Wind
...As a dealer she roams,
The corners she combs.
With aid from the night-
Goods she sells right.
From the east she flows,
The west she goes.
In the light she’s poor
‘Tis not dim she’s sure.
Troubled w...
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Categories:
scourer, celebration, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Plastic Gestures
...The trash has been removed by wind and truck, by hands
much smaller and hearts much larger than his.
The twinkling lights no longer shine on the tree
or in my eyes. Scourer of malls, hunter of tr...
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Categories:
scourer, anger, angst, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse