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I Have Lived Before the Clocks

...I have lived before the clocks were wound,
When silence spoke and stars made sound.
My hands once etched in temple stone,
The prayers of kings, yet slept alone.

I knew the scent of burning leav...

I Sea I Sea

...I don’t need a gruff, a beard, to point the way.
I sea! I sea!

The silken waves lapping over me,
my memory

of what lies in the deep, in the dark ebb
and flow. I sigh, I glow!

O Captain, I...

The Girl I'm Infatuated With

...The Girl I'm Infatuated With

The girl I am infatuated with
Tells her friends that she ignores my advances.
This flirtatious game she finds dismissive
Still, I stay the course and remain ...

Stay Salty

...Violently mimic the wind,
stay salty yet flow like water;
With an attitude stay thick skinned,
violently mimic the wind;
Keep poetry neat and well penned,
then punctuate it to slaughter;
Violen...

Orchid Oxymorons

..."Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~ Rumi

Dear Diary,

I’m a hopeless romantic, 
a sentimental ...

Golden Shovel

...In a cynical realm where truth is tainted in black, rises she, 
amidst whirling vortexes veiling reveries where she walks.

Yet society thrums thick skinned lies, whilst morning moon sighs in-
si...

Queen

...I’m honoured to be ‘Queen of Poop’ -
My title on Poetry Soup
Themes like constipation
May cause indignation
I’ll never not write on brown gloop!

All poets have got their own style
...

The Trapped Wasp Tale

...*** The Trapped Wasp’s Tale ***

Today I am a wasp in the room
Noticed when
Sights of light began the sounds
Of my tap-smacking
Head bangs
Trying to get through the glass pane
In the wall, fo...

Corporate Poem

...There are many treasures hidden
In my sagacious corporate brain
I retrieve them when I need them
Then I place them back again
They are tightly packed together
Like a bunch of thick-skinned grape...

Poets

...POETS


Desert dust before the rain hampered our walk
                       on the Oregon  floor
             boards creaked with late afternoon lore
                 
Dry gin in a glass wait...

The Ukrainian Flag Flies Again In Kherson

...The Ukrainian flag flies again in Kherson, it is a joy to see
The Russian army are running scared from Ukraines military
Russia pulled out its army saying it was a tactical move
But against Uk...

Thick Skinned - What It Feels Like For a Girl

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“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl”



When you speak 
it’s as if stars cascade
out of your mouth 
galaxies you produce
musical incantations 
that I listen ...

Black Labels

...she reaches behind the smokescreen

of her sunken eyed curtain veils

films of tears void of translucence

stoke reminiscent ashes that trace

another blinding thick-skinned defeat

hidden ...

Pando Waits

...in Pando's shadow a young maiden sings
wander'd to and fro peat bog feet sloshing
auburn locks adorned in daisy crowned rings
quite unaware that something was watching 

one with thick skinned c...

All, Or Nothing At All

...I don’t limit who reads my verse,
only who I answer

Each word thick-skinned and armor-clad
all questions zero-sum 

(To Nelson Riddle & Frank Sinatra: March, 2021)...

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