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Best Poems Written by John Scotter

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Ladder of Time

There comes a time 
Looking back on this life of mine

They say it’s a mid life crisis
It’s more like times oasis

In the mist of memory’s 
Some clear some faint
Looks like I’ve not been a complete saint

The ladder of time reaches high
memories locked in the minds eye 

Step by step we see the past 
Each run the ladder so vast 

One or two we need to forget
But often they slip through the net

Keep all memories good and bad 
Be Happy not sad 

Memory is a snapshot of time 
No one can take them 
They are all mine.

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Synaesthesia

Colour hides in a whitely glow
every colour we’ve ever known 
Reflective rays a spectrum show

Coloured days, names and numbers
See the world through coloured wonders. 
Think in colour, don’t you?
Your name clearly blue

Synaesthesia your my life
Colouring my every thought
Spectrum white and every sort 
Close my eyes and you are there
Years of coloured thoughts to share.

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Breakup

Disagreement filled messages
Miss-understanding cross fire
Every word become specimens

Parting waves of emotions 
Filling hearts with hurt
Leaving splitting devotion

New day shines it’s enlightenment 
Is this meant to be 
Time to consider whats right for me

Friends they gather with advice
Time to think 
I’m free no more in the vice

New friends they welcome me in
Hurt and pain shared
Thoughts of isolation grow thin

The future is bright 
New plans in place 
No more will you see my sad face.

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Mr P

Shock horror Parkinson’s
Grab this fate and run
Medication, Physiotherapy, great fun
Messing with my mind, Mr. P digs in
The chase is on to kill and not let him win
Voice down and
hoarse
Voice therapy of course
Going stiff and pain everywhere
My minds about to blow
Joined SLTPD my life started to glow
Help and friends, a positive I must say
Makes MR P so angry, I am winning every day.

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Love Lives On

RTears of joy roll down my face
Your words they touch my heart
love is with us we’ve won the race. 

Our lives are just beginning. 
Together we will live on 
Bonded like the notes of a great song 

Our song lives on forever
A joy for everyone 
Our light forever shinning
A bond so very strong

Now you had to leave me 
To heaven you have gone
My heart is so saddened 
but our love lives on

Your here in my heart
Your light for me to see
Until we are reunited
It will be, just me.

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River Peace

Pools of water sparkle in the sun
Rays of light having fun
The buzz of life is all around
A dragon fly passes by
Wings flapping how great that sound

The grasses whisper in the wind
As bee’s flirt with their nectar
Butterflies gentle flutter by
Dancing on the flowers like my mind

Splash a sound disturbs the peace
A fish  catching food, catches the sun
My thoughts drawn to his  domaine 
Life in the river  my thoughts insane

I cast my line across the river
It floats down stream as silent as the night
This ancient windy river 
it’s prize  of fish it fails to deliver. 

Peace is what I collect
Even with an empty net

Rays of light from everywhere
The gentle wind I can bear. 
The sounds of nature in my head 
Recharges my soul for times ahead.

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Resentment and Rage

Resentment and Rage

Such a sweet lady
Chatters away on messenger and WhatsApp maybe. 
Becomes a life line of care
Both ways we share

Closer and closer we fall
My soul, I gave her my all
Looking forward to a future of union

Love in versions not mine
Sends out words to define
Differences to great
Love so pure, no hate

Without a word gone
Stab in the back, cast aside
No explanation from her side

Resentment, anger, hurt and rage
This is the last chapter and page.

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Daughter

Such a little feisty baby
It’s a girl they say 
Pushing away her mum from the very first day
Where is my Dad from the start
Daddies girl at heart. 

Such a sweet little girl,singing dancing, laughing, jumping around
Such a joy of her sound

Growing up to be a girl 
Follow in dads shadow

Life in a whirl
Teenage years with all its demands 
Boys and work and all lives harms

Moving out to be with him
The nursing home a place of sin
My worry was for her care
To interfere or not a nightmare 

Back home to mum and dad 
No more reason to be sad

Off to Buddhism together we go
Finding our centre and mind control 
Peace in our hearts a glow
A lifetime lesson we got to know

Dad leaves and breaks your heart
We were never destined to be apart

You have your life with another love now
Off to Scotland I did allow
Broke my heart in return 
One of life’s lessons I did learn 

Married now both we are 
Distance is far to far
Never apart joined by our bond
Heart to heart, soul to soul, eternal, divine. 
Nothing can part this special bond
Father daughter, special friend
Spiritually bonded to the end.

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Copy and Paste

Copy and paste how could you say
My original thoughts written to you that day

I plead your love not to take 
copy and paste gave me heart ache

It’s all from my heart and not a copy
No need to overthink with your autopsy 
Copy and paste is what I would do
To bring you back to the me and you

My lasting thought is to be 
Copy and paste was all you could see

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Hotel Without Breakfast

# Hotel without breakfast
Tree lined country road 
The day is about to erode

Hotel sign flashed past
Somewhere to stay at last

Sunset shining through the trees dreaming of hotel beds 
Looking forward to stretching my legs 

Half a mile I think it said
I hope they have a lovely bed 

Here we are
Looking good so far
I hope they have a bar

Have you a room for the night
Double bed right

Overnight slept so well 
Despite the place looking like hell

Ghosts they stay here for fun
I’m sure I saw one 

Hungry after no dinner 
Full English would be a winner

Finding dinning room 
Empty, no sign of anyone 
feeling a sense of gloom 

Off to reception no one there 
This is a laugh do they care

Here comes someone through the door 
What times breakfast is what I’m here for

Sorry it’s bed only my dear
I thought you knew. 
What a disappointment through and through. 

Hotel without breakfast 
This will be our last