Tag: poetry
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Get off the fags, Seussy
Asked Dr Seuss to stop smoking but he didn’t Emergency room, morning 25th; how Grinch stole Christmas Cat in the Hat developing catarrh The Lorax with suspected pneumothorax.
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Greying river
Of an age such that Raging river hasty Finally assuages. No more will I like a wild spring glaive some hidden glade in the Swabia No more am I the geese-shadowed Ganges, hungry for burnt bodies I am a puddle of muddled language, petrol-pastelled I am a fruit pastille choking a kestrel I am Thoth’s…
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A box of old things
Millennials scrolling mousewheels to squeaking exhaustion Trawling through old photographs No loose hard copies in shoeboxes beneath tossed beds Or kept locked up like anchorites in red Afternoon Tea biscuit tins Name, date and place written on the back in red From moment of penning until dumping upon death unread Jpegs of epochs where I…
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Did I summon you?
I have not seen you in a decade I stared at a picture of you this morning Then, on my way back from the shops, gazing At my feet in my way, you heying me from your bike Face of a stranger, how strange the world’s ways How the hidden sympathies intentions convey Bidding magnets…
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Smelling the past
Scent memory’s brother Indeed, smothering scent you send lends pensievity Teased at sense level, to ecstasy hastened A tickling feather zigzagging a wrist’s inners where a bracer strip fastens You are a pleasant nosegay Keyring, slipgate to memory place Vast unfixed estate Waging war against the state of myself.
Alchemisland 