Tuesday 30 December 2014

Saturday 27 December 2014

I love poetry

Poetry is on my map
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Ionosphere

Creation
Protrusion
Revelation
Undulation
Inspiration
Invention
Fabrication
Interpretation
Election
Erection
Communication
Elation

Connection
Acceleration
Cohesion
Perfection
Occupation
Oscillation
Illusion
Interruption
Deflection
Delusion
Division
Intervention
Masturbation
Isolation

Rejection
Constipation
Contusion
Desperation
Destruction
Dissolution
Hibernation
Redemption
Reflection
Conclusion



Friday 26 December 2014

The end of ekphrasis

Now it's your turn
But be careful
Don't extrapolate imaginary truths
Imagine at your peril

Tuesday 2 December 2014

Friday 31 October 2014

Cat's whisker



Those radio sweethearts never danced,
those radio sweethearts lost their chance!

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Thursday 30 October 2014

Opportunity knocked



Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We gave it five
And then it died
Was it ever ready steady go?
Or always no, no, no?
A hit then a miss?
Yes, a hit then a miss.

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Saturday 18 October 2014

A spoonful of sugar?



Do I know you?
Do I know myself?
Why do you no me?
Is it for your health?

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Wednesday 15 October 2014

Live life



Prudently peaking?
The summit surmounted
Feeling quite broken?
Stand up and be counted

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Monday 22 September 2014

A



365.2425
8765.82
525949.2
31556952

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Sunday 21 September 2014

A steal



Delta lady
How long has this been going on?

Heavyweight champion of the world
Tears are not enough

We don't want this fascist groove thing
Red planet

Common people
The sound of the crowd

Listen to the voice of Buddha

I bet that you look good on the dance floor
Tonight the streets are ours

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Thursday 18 September 2014

Fair game (or foul)



Rev
Roar
Vroom
Race
Bend
Scream
Rubber
Burns
Tarmac
Panic
Frozen
Rabbit
Headlights
Brake
Break
Thud
Blood
Fur
Hot
Cold
Extinguished
Exhausted

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Monday 8 September 2014

Death sentence



Alone
condemned
the man
sits
crying
into his
bucket.
Fuck it
he thinks.
Drip
drip
drip.
The weeping
never stops.
No one
sees.
No one
feels
his pain.
He dies.
Alone.

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Thursday 21 August 2014

Alone?



we are not alone
when you realise that
paradoxically
you become free

there are
at least in part
other people
out there
who share your way of thinking
your vision
your perception of the world
and
when you realise that
it is a great day indeed

the creative collective consciousness exists
tap into it!
when you realise that
creation begins

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Wednesday 25 June 2014

can I have my money back? (or funny I fort)



imagine lying in a hospital bed
and they've amputated the wrong leg
trouble is you're Mr. Smith
trouble is he's Mr. Jones
the man with the right leg called Mr. Smith
is next to Mr. Jones
I've got nothing against your right leg Mr. Smith
trouble is neither have you
unless you count Mr. Jones
trouble is there's been an administrative error
left right, right left
bottle glass, glass bottle
just then a butterfly fluttered by.

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Wednesday 18 June 2014

On being there first?



You are on a ship – it sinks – you are washed up on an uninhabited island – others from the ship are then washed up. Do you prevent them from coming ashore because you were there first? Alone and destined to stay that way because you ‘bagged’ the island first? What about the animals that were there before you? What if an ancient tribe had lived there and they’d just gone on their holidays? Does it really make sense to isolate yourself? What if you are ill? What if you need help with being a hunter/gatherer?

“No man is an island”

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Monday 16 June 2014

Doodling



















Doodling is like noodling with paper and pen
Doodling is canoodling cartoons with Zen

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Thursday 12 June 2014

Fuck nose



I have for all of my life often been too stubborn for my own good. Some of us need to learn that cutting off one's nose* to spite one's face is rarely a good idea!


*other bodily protuberances are available.

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Monday 26 May 2014

Study in black



Round and round
down and down
the abyss beckons.
Dark and darker
round and rounder
falling
free falling
no soft landing.
Sickness, motion sickness
pain without gain
tumbling to oblivion.

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Sunday 25 May 2014

Il pleut



the rain it rains
I listen
it's pouring down
perhaps I’ll drown
drip, drip
pour, pour
drip, drip
I listen
it brings forth life
it summons death
drip, drip
pour, pour
drip, drip is its repartee
drip, drip it’s my therapy

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Saturday 24 May 2014

Þy curious – letter þorn



Is it a P or is it a Y?
Or is it simply neither?
Ye old word of Anglo
and Norse is the
rather than ye
Th, th, th goes the þ
that is not a P,
the y that is
not a Y.

What would one
have asked for
on Blockbuster?
I’ll have a
thorn please Bob”?

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Friday 23 May 2014

Krafty werke



I sometimes think that it is I that is the showroom dummy!

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Thursday 22 May 2014

Perfection



And, I do love you.
I watch you sleep
The insomnia banished
So content
Baby-like and beautiful.

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Monday 19 May 2014

Friday 16 May 2014

I stopped the world



I stopped the world,
I got off,
I thought.
I thought they’ll be another one along in a wee while.
And, there was, so
I got back on again.

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Wednesday 14 May 2014

Whale meat again



We are all just pond life
swimming around
getting nowhere
in the dark dank
stagnant soup.

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Saturday 10 May 2014

SMOKING KILLS



BRICKS RUSTING METAL PADLOCKED DECAY GREY PALE CROWNED IN WEEDS THE AROMA OF WEED WAFTS BY GRAFFITI GLORIFIES THE ANGST AND FRUSTRATION OF MODERN LIFE WINDOWS CRACKED AND BOARDED UP THERE'S NEVER A GLAZIER WHEN YOU NEED ONE PAIN PAUSES FOR A PINT OR TWO OF INDUSTRIAL CIDER FALLS OVER FACE DOWN IN FISH AND CHIPS GETS BACK UP AGAIN LIGHTS A CIGARETTE SMOKING KILLS

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Tuesday 6 May 2014

Heads or tails (BPFMP Nº5)



Wishing well are you for real?
I threw a coin into the murky depths
Plop!
Eyes shut tight and fists clenched in hope
I made a wish

I am sure that when most people
Make a wish
They wish for:
Vast fortunes or good health
Frustrated men for beautiful women
Visa versa
But being of a ‘foolish’ nature
I decided not to be so selfish
Unless of course
Wishing for:
Universal peace, freedom
Equality and food for all
Is being selfish

Because it would make me happy
It would make millions happy

I can see slogans saying
“Love Rules OK”
As i wait for a bus
The bus arrives
Someone stands on my foot
In a race for seats
My heart cries


15/11/76
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Sunday 4 May 2014

Times four










May the fourth be with you,
  as the old joke goes.
Yet I still need to say it.
Perhaps because,
  or because perhaps,
  like Skywalker I believe that,
  eventually good will out.
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Thursday 24 April 2014

Incident














Did anybody notice?
Did anybody care?
Did anybody see?
Was anybody there?

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Friday 11 April 2014

Altered Alliteration
















I sit in the peace gardens basking in the spring sunshine.
Phosphorescence pours, people pass periodically.
I pause, I ponder pedantically on a piece I have profoundly perceived.
I am positive towards peace.

Meanwhile the preoccupied public perambulate.

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Thursday 10 April 2014

Citric acid



If you are one of those people that needs an answer for every question. Even when an answer isn’t normally available. You can always console yourself with this. The answer is a lemon.

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Lessons learned in life Nº1



Be yourself.
Because no other bugger will do it for you!

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Monday 17 March 2014

Al Capone guns don’t argue



















You record my phone calls
You pirate my downloads
But please don’t call me Scarface

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Sunday 16 March 2014

Down with the flue



Pot after pot
What a lot
Uniformly different
They wait
Not yet exhausted
Lofty heights reached
Clay blackened and bleached

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Time and tide wait for no one



Floods are a great leveller!
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Saturday 1 March 2014

Elephantine musings















We reflected
As we dipped our trunks in the water
Surely elephants must forget sometimes?
Or have they just got a good PR agency?

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Friday 28 February 2014

Thursday 27 February 2014

Not all road lead to Rome



















They reached the river
There was nowhere to cross
They were stumped

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His bite is worse than his bark!



















The godfather may look ‘armless
But the organisation has branches everywhere

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Wednesday 26 February 2014

A quick gander



















Hey goose
Hang loose
A truce?
Call me
Bruce.

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Monday 17 February 2014

Blind faith












In the land of the blind
faith, the person who
questions rules.

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Wednesday 8 January 2014

Mindfulnessness




Mindful of the nothingness
Mindful of myself
Mindful of the monkey-nuts
Sitting on the shelf

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