Category Archives: Poetry

Incarceration

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

Your mind is a Prison, Where you play both the guards and the inmates.

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The Girl Who Waits

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

In a dark, dark house, There was a dark, dark room, In which a young girl sat, On the eve of her doom.   She lies in wait, For her phantom lover, To say her goodbyes, Before she leaves forever. … Continue reading →

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Imagism Exercise

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

The Sea and an Office Block The vast wave rushes across the ground floor as dull desks and dull workers swim in its ferocious tide, I hear the sound of confusion, I hear the sound of panic, I hear the … Continue reading →

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Rosie and Jim

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

I am the ghost of our life together In our lives, I was a shadow

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Generations

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

The eyes of the young Forever fear the faces of the old. The eyes of the old fear…

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Human Factory

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Hundreds of children Born with imaginations Educated into blindness. “I am doing well in school I am getting the grades Am I living the good life?” No, not yet. Thousands of students Looking for enlightenment Processed for capital. “I am … Continue reading →

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Cages

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Voices in the dark, Broken words. The Signature of torment.

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Stories

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Open marshes are dangerous places, like the minds of young girls. They’ll suck you in with innocent grin, and chase you out with your fear. Run away from the open window – real life ghosts cannot return from boggy death.

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Success in Haiku

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Chasing seconds the sun moves across the sky, to my mortality.

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Failures in Haiku

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Dry skin, cracks on the back of these ageing hands. Time ticks on, eternally. Numbers patiently wait for shadows to fall on their moment.

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Ballad of Biff the Dog

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Biff, brown Biffer the  Labrador bullet. Bolted like an avalanche of dark, frothy chocolate. Hillsides, glades, parks, the front bumpers of cars, all these places she went and more, never tiring, always grinning, never thinking. Especially never thinking.

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I try to Quit

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

I try I try to stop smoking dope But there seems to be not much hope, I stop and stare and try to think Perhaps I should just have a drink, But to be a drunk i did not aspire … Continue reading →

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The Violin City

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

The Violin City  They strut, they stroll Through alleys of urgent scales They walk tunefully, holding their bows Through the meandering tuneful wails To light their way they kick forth lanterns Out of tune, in tune As the corners are … Continue reading →

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Bathgate.

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

Bathgate chance came and was blown Long before I was born. Big business was our Jesus Christ But local traders nailed it to the cross and Handed over the Crown of Thorns. Now we have a Subway sandwich shop and … Continue reading →

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Occupational Hazards

Posted on March 19, 2010 by

Gazing intently across the savannah, I lean back in from the window, Pull my focus back to the repeater And the spent .44 shell casings, A throbbing down the starboard side of our vessel, Then grey bears down on the … Continue reading →

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poetry attempt (week 5)

Posted on March 16, 2010 by

oh lying being shepherd of mindless shadows cast eyes over land and sea build tower…fall down?

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Synoxypathos (short poem with examples of synaesthetic metaphors, oxymorons and pathetic fallacy)

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

Got Superficial Shoreditch on my little finger, Hipsterdom where genuine imitation 80s fashion lingers, But Shoreditch has a rotten heart of sexual pity, More brothels than anywhere else in the city, Got Gentrified Brixton, now under the thumb, But its … Continue reading →

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The Word at War (from Rhyme Well exercise, which is ironic because it doesn’t)

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

Run! the Old world is behind us We painted the streets, Wishing only to practice wishful thinking, And demand impossible things, But your answers came in riot-stick defeats, Words, once a purely uniting pursuit, Invented to run hunts of bison … Continue reading →

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Poem from the point of view of a kite

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

Suggestion from Bashabi By Caroline Fraser I sometimes get giddy when I look down onto the roofs of houses and chimney pots so far below. Most of the time I am a puppet, my strings are pulled by a child. … Continue reading →

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Carry a Poem

Posted on February 22, 2010 by

Carry a Poem – a poem you like, write, carry in a notebook, in your head A platform to share/read a poem – enjoying its form, structure, its rhythm and above all its WORDS!

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Carry A Poem

Posted on February 20, 2010 by

Of my favourite poems, the only one that I really carry around with me often, is W. H. Auden’s ‘Funeral Blues’. I think the last part is beautiful.  When I was younger I had a habit of scribbling down favourite … Continue reading →

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How quick, the end.

Posted on February 20, 2010 by

Written for Poetry week. Light catches the blade A second hangs, In eterenity I feel Nothing. Warmth spreads Blood, My life, Ends

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Haiku

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

The flower was red Its petals fall to the ground The flower is dead

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‘Girl’

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

The most important thing in life is to achieve, Impose high standards for yourself, When life gets difficult, you cant get up and leave. A problem is merely an answer in disguise, You’ll never get anywhere if you don’t want … Continue reading →

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Bedroom/View/Garden

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

At a glance, the bedroom is  a mix of genders, interests, passions – it is a difference of identities. Identities that spark off each other, clash at times, but bond nevertheless. These identities have imprinted themselves on the blank walls, … Continue reading →

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