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Fifteen minutes – for Speed Challenge, Prompt 70

I followed mindlovemisery’s lead yesterday for the 10 poems in 20 minutes challenge and found it a really mind opening, artistic release. So why not try again, like her, this time with a different time limit? I went for 15 … Continue reading

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Savage Hearts

  What made you think that I would be A chalice for your fears and dreams? Insanity flows far downstream Lost in complexity There is no place where we may be Our contradictions are our core Philosophers would love us … Continue reading

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10 Poems in 20 Minutes

1 Still free-floating from that star sprinkled night This morning in a café I saw the face of God on a colourful postcard He was winking 2 Counting the coins before you throw them into this gilded wishing well A … Continue reading

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Before the Sun

In such races do not run Do not worry little one Deepest dark precedes the sun When you fall and hit the ground Little blood and littler sound Nothing new here to be found Life’s a game, a turn about … Continue reading

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False – for Prompt 68 A Smile To Remember

The false smile of a sometime friend Just pretend Glittering eyes Be careful not to over-analyse A breathless kiss A broken game is all there this And how you beamed while smashing all my hopeless dreams A soul apart Behind … Continue reading

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Temporary Rubies

It is said of this river that long ago year It ran red with blood like a mad demon’s tears and the ice from the frost crystallised with the red like temporary rubies everywhere spread Beneath ravaged waters all of … Continue reading

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Pure

Half starved lying supine gazing at the iridescent sky May I partake of nature’s cure? Give me succour Make it pure make it pure You said we were just fiddlesticks left out in mid winter rain Each part of a … Continue reading

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Good Advice for Prompt 65, Advice

I told you once I’ll tell you twice I’ll never give you Good advice I’ll just project Myself herein In your despair My dreams begin And if from gods Are favours blessed I’ll give you scraps And take the rest … Continue reading

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Dwell

We dwell beneath Where shattered sunlight falls An hour a day Like godliness spilling Across barren floor We dwell within Our shadows but ourselves A murky cloak Indistinguishable from Our bodily form The hours of the sun We worship deep … Continue reading

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Rocks

I remember these rocks, do you? The water washed away the blood Across my mind such memories flood I cannot still contain their force And you just watch me And laugh, of course It never mattered Never mattered much to … Continue reading

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