My Heartbeat
...My heartbeat; twinkle, twinkle, like a star-
Secured up above the celestial might.
It keeps sparking its continuous light's bar...
When nothing shines upon my humble scar,
That tarry hopeful b...
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Categories:
spark off, appreciation, art, courage, devotion,
Form: Villanelle
The Poems I Never Wrote
...“Time waiting to be inspired is time wasted. When inspiration throttles your neck, go to your desk”- By Poet
With no cover ups, let me be frank
At times my mind goes utterly blank
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Categories:
spark off, angst, betrayal, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Mind Your Language
...Words can foster friendship
Words can create enemies
Words can trigger disputes
Words can help settle them
Words can spread terrorism
Words can counter the threat
Words can launch an offe...
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Categories:
spark off, courage, irony, wisdom, words,
Form: Free verse
Alpha Pistols
...Alpha Pistols
It’s a nice warm summer’s evening in 2004
The cool man was on top of the Manchester tower block
He fires down with various guns at his lower targets
There is a builders yard two hun...
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Categories:
spark off, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form: Verse
Writers Block
...Sat for hours looking at the clock,
waiting for the answer after the knock,
grounding the spark off the electric shock,
it's just another case of writers block....
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Categories:
spark off, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Contests
...We don't need no stinking poetry contests
with criteria and requests
sending us on a quest to try to test who's best,
it's a con test,
conning contestants like peasants
or towards a trap like ...
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Categories:
spark off, fun, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Fire of Choice
...Thought knocks slightly behind the eyes,
A frayed spark off soft flint flaking steel,
Careening amidst a nest of kindled emotion.
Deaf mind crooks awkwardly, blindly crooning,
Nothing but silence...
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Categories:
spark off, desire, evil, fire, lust,
Form: Prose
To My Mother
...My mom does be a shining lady, one among a million
She had been the one giving me support ever since I was born
She was the one to spark off in me, my love for books
She was the one who would read...
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Categories:
spark off, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Quatern
Nothing To Lose
...When you are pushed back by your foes
When your very friends desert you,
When you have reached a dead end
And have nowhere to go;
Then spark off with a blast
That will destroy all humiliation -
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Categories:
spark off, dedication, encouraging, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do I
...I can’t find the words to tell you how I feel
You confuse me, you excite me
You make me feel like something
But I know I’m alone and alone
I feel safe that way
But somehow I feel threatened
I...
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Categories:
spark off, confusion, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse