It’s not the unknown minefield that you have to tread with care it’s the same old barren wasteland where the bombs are all laid bare Because the scars of new explosions are a potential yet unseen but the wounds that were inflicted fuel a pain that is still keen And […]
Poetry
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The Author, he approaches jaw all frozen stiff lips a bloody grimace his tongue averse to risk his eyes a dead eyed challenge to the world to be a myth his hands two tired instruments worn down from all the grift His past’s already written the future held in mind […]
Dedicated to the two thousand recently murdered by Boko Haram in Nigeria. No act of religion and no act of an evil ‘other’. Just a reaction by the same voices as echo across the rest of the world, those who seek to divide, suppress and control humanity in the service […]
Fistfuls of sand making a delicate castle Collapsed fifty times before by nature’s tides, by human feet by my own shaky handed defects Through bad intent or noble indifference the walls crumbled just the same But now base materials mix with the sweat of effort moulding disparate grains into hasty […]
Closed eyes avoiding the inescapable avoiding the endless fall of a cliff face crashing down to bright rivers bordered by currents to consume Feet on icy paths glare blinding in the sun and with open eyes the desire to run to fall and fly to waters deep a moment to […]
I started writing poems I vented all my spleen I wrote all of my feelings I gave you all I’d seen I nailed down words in narrow verse, testament to my self I filled the screen with driven thoughts to aid my mental health I shared all of my heartache […]
Can you purge what is to be purged can the fabric be made clean or simply washed to hide corruption Can you empty the house and call it clear while the bricks still bleed dirt When the flood passes are the tide marks washed away or absorbed into the mortar […]
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It’s a moment of occupation the ground below and sky above shaking and darkened by an invader you fear to look at And your home disappears a cell taking it’s place alien walls consuming once familiar streets And with a knot of nothing the occupied look on until skies clear […]
I can see those eyes that creature mangy, broken but vicious, fuelled by wounds inflicted when last we met Prowling with a snarl No killer, nothing so clean nothing so final though in the chase there may be wounds scratches and scars their mark more than their pain or just […]