Who Ordered Mushrooms - 2025
...When no middle ground can be found amid rifts
They’ll send in a few unsolicited gifts
The east and the west shall politely decline
each incoming gift with a two fingered sign
It’s “You show me ...
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Categories:
tumours, song, war,
Form: Rhyme
Rock Gods
...It’s fifty years since people said
Look… on the tele… Hitler
And maybe you just sat there stunned
Like something big had bit ya
There, on the keyboard, Ronald Mael
His brother, Russ, the sing...
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Categories:
tumours, music,
Form: Rhyme
A War Beneath Skin
...Cells held secret ballots in my bones,
voting for mutiny in whispers.
Cancer, that drunk architect,
scribbled collapse into my blood's blueprint.
They built black gardens in my lungs,
where br...
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Categories:
tumours, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Starlit Destinies
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"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."
E.E. Cummings
Amber hues kissed twilight's platinum pigments that night,
beckoning ivory pearls to weave patter...
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Categories:
tumours, absence, lost love, romantic
Form: Abecedarian
Trials of my heart - Mixed
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2: If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Rumi
In realms of illusion,
pain is a sharp reminder of reality.
I've been polishing since the day I was born,
reluctan...
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Categories:
tumours, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Scary Tale Of New York
...It’s Christmas Eve, Babe
In the car pound
It shouldn’t be this way
Should not have been found
But I’m the lucky one
I am the thirteenth one
And when I got a scare
I hi-tailed out of there
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Categories:
tumours, america, horror,
Form: Lyric
World War 3 - Who Ordered Mushrooms
...Before:
When no middle ground can be found amid rifts
They’ll send in a few unsolicited gifts
The east and the west shall politely decline
each incoming gift with a two fingered sign
It...
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Categories:
tumours, war,
Form: Rhyme
Rumour
...Rumours, as close as a heart,
Deadlier than tumours,
They attack to a victim,
Hurl them down
It can hurt anyone,
even when they are in town,
It follows them everywhere,
Screaming out loud,
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Categories:
tumours, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Results Day
...Swaddled in a grey woollen scarf
Soft rain falling gently on your face.
Crows CACKLING in the trees overhead
Tipping leaves, laden with droplets,
DRIPPING like heavy tears,
SMACKING the concre...
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Categories:
tumours, cancer, health, romance,
Form: Free verse
I'M Just a Deadly Cancer
...6
Anna Kerr Tate / Read poetry
A cancerous growth in i times
I'm an ever-growing tumour
That grows from deep within.
You won't feel or know I'm there
As im the most evil of all sin.
I'm wo...
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Categories:
tumours, africa, anxiety, body, death,
Form: Blank verse
Worst Memory
...I once was asked, "What is my worst memory?"
The memory that haunts me,
Making the darkness suffocate me,
Until i can no longer tell if i am breathing,
Or being caressed by death's embrace.
B...
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Categories:
tumours, fear, memory,
Form: Free verse
Word Say, Word Slay
...Chinese whispers and the rumours,
do some brains have blisters and tumours,
spreading gossip forever continues,
slaying all logic to rest in tombs.
These lips leak lies like lethal fumes,
wear...
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Categories:
tumours, slam, social, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Opaque
...Opaque
Self-determination digs the fight,
Between lovers, crevacies and urns,
Sunken to the black scraping the rust,
The syntax to velocity 27 epic tech bust.
Velodrome phoneticised tight...
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Categories:
tumours, atheist,
Form: Shape
No Such Thing As Forever
...We all arrive alone naked and vulnerable,
crying our eyes out, not knowing -
this is the first day of the rest of our life.
I guess the saddest thing in life is we have to grow up.
As children ...
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Categories:
tumours, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump
...There is a President, Donald Trump
Thought to have the U.S. stumped
All his policies
Sorry, his follies
Likened to cancer tumours clumped...
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Categories:
tumours, horror,
Form: Limerick
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