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Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed

...Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...

Categories: tower block, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse

Tint Of Orange

...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...

Categories: tower block, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism

A Goa Restaurant

...The Goa restaurant was in a quiet neighbourhood 
a place with small shops selling domestic wares
of the things needed for everyday use
a place I would like to live instead of in a tower block
on ...

Categories: tower block, beautiful, color, devotion,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Olena and Pavlo

...Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then fell in love and had planned to wed
But like ...

Categories: tower block, death, love, soldier, violence,
Form: Narrative

Rock

...There is a big rock 
Which can't be removed 
By any caterpillar.
It is very rigid,
Unshakable,
Unbreakable 
Which is your pillar 

Be rock-solid as you stand 
On Christ Jesus the heavy Rock
...

Categories: tower block, 12th grade, animal, courage,
Form: Free verse

The Tower Block

...The elevator shudders -
then a muted ping as narrow doors slide open,
the conveyance only lifts one person at a time,
               when it descends it is always empty.

I've been here before,
...

Categories: tower block, poetry,
Form: Free verse

His Neighbors Window

...His neighbors window
has a glass eye,
it spies upon his thoughts
as they drift over 
the rim of his morning coffee mug.

Strange portals exist
he sees them everywhere,
orbs that never blink.
...

Categories: tower block, poetry,
Form: Free verse

What's In a Name - Word Play Warning

...My auntie whose name is Selene 
Will say things I deem are obscene 
She tripped over her cat
and exclaimed 'cooking fat!' -
My toddler had witnessed this scene

He said ‘Mummy can w...

Categories: tower block, cat, humorous, word play,
Form: Limerick

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...

Categories: tower block, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form: Verse

Surreal Pulse Rate

...From a gem-encrusted window’s moonlit sash,
I peer vacantly on monetesque impressions,
 as they wander every ink shade hue  pathway.
bag lady street hail loner, 
water colour lachrymose plight,
...

Categories: tower block, art, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Lyric

Save and Shame

...Promotion, bonus, we believe good job well done,
we saved money let's give the rich a ton,
aluminium is nearly as good as zinc 
nearly half the price that's how we have to think,
what about resid...

Categories: tower block, bereavement, betrayal, corruption, england,
Form: Couplet

I'M Better Person Thank You

...Once upon a time
Is that how all story's start
fairy tales from the heart 
not the darkness of fear 
of abuse from ones we hold so dear
the broken promises it wont happen again 
But it did over...

Categories: tower block, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Council Girl Waster

...Knocking on the door, can your mate come out to play?, 
or is she grounded for yet another sunny day?.
Meeting up with your mates, hanging around the park, 
getting up to no good, until way after ...

Categories: tower block, childhood, children, culture, growing
Form: Light Verse