THE OWL
It hangs on the thermals of the night
Scanning, rescanning by sound of sight
Looking down on the prey where it will feed
For the tell-tale scurrying it can read
Silently gliding through darkness and gloom
For vermin and rodents an... – by JP. | 1 View added 2 years ago
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JUST A QUESTION
As they learn by exemption of the day
They discard the wrong from their right way
And by exception prove some rules
That separates the wise from... – by JP. | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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GHOST... – by JP. | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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CONSOLIDA... – by JP. | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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CYBERSPACE
Unseen the two of this fandango
Held apart this distanced tango
One sees not the other there
Yet to oblivion they both stare
What could be? Or what cannot
They ponder long upon their... – by JP. | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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DROUGHT
A liquid asset as described
To be conserved perhaps imbibed
And not to waste sent down a loo
Nor hosed away whatever you... – by JP. | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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THE BLUE... – by JP. | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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HOT... – by JP. | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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CITY... – by JP. | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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FOOTPRINTS... – by JP. | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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THE KNIFE ANGEL
It stands in a churchyard with open hands
Looking down on the gathered in silent command
Dwarfed by the edifice of a Cathedral behind
With an open door consecrated, inside... – by JP. | 16 Views added 2 years ago
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SOLSTICE
Ride on the mist across the plain moor
Be there before dawn this vision ensure
To wait for the star that rises just here
Hold close the new born to open the... – by JP. | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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YES... – by JP. | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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WRITERS BLOCK
I wish the flow would start to stop
The muse knows not the hour of clock
Those words of verse infest the mind
Nomenclature of the rhyming... – by JP. | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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GREEN MAN
As green man sat to ponder his fate
He felt the suns heat burn his skin
This end he could not contemplate
As the atmosphere kept all heat... – by JP. | 16 Views added 2 years ago
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THE TERRORISTS
On a very hot day at the end of June
Three friends met in the afternoon
They sat at a table of the village pub
Cooled by a breeze as it wafted a... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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THE... – by JP. | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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BLUE SPOON
Each time I use that plastic spoon
The knife and fork now lost
I think that you grew up too soon
A childhood short... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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PREIERE’... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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ISOLATION... – by JP. | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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THE SILENCE OF A... – by JP. | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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A TRUTH
Today I heard the comments made
As I mingled at the wake
The anecdotes retold in trade
Some true but some quite fake
And if I had to pick but one
That told the truth of me
It would be of that time long gone
When I went out to... – by JP. | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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SEND ME
Send me your dream by morning post
Tell me true what you want most
Paint me the picture of what you see
If you have a moment to send it to... – by JP. | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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A FATHERS DAY
And as I wait that steel tipped footfall
My audit ready to recall
Beneath the roar of yellow gas
From a guttered mantle light shall... – by JP. | 31 Views added 2 years ago
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WILBUR... – by JP. | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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ALTERED... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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EARTH WIND AND... – by JP. | 22 Views added 2 years ago
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THE KEY
Lost in the bottle of broken dreams
Is the past you once had or so it seems
It lies somewhere near the final dregs
As it sits on the shelf it begs and... – by JP. | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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AJAX... – by JP. | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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THE FRIEND
Find me the place where this began?
That crack in the future if you can
Define the benchmark we both ignored
Cleaved by the thrust of a Damocles... – by JP. | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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THE... – by JP. | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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THE SPECTRE
The spectre is the predator
Inside the dome of power
A facet of a legislature
That stalks it hour by hour
And in the day they come to him
The children that are prey
The documents by hand flow in
As he grooms them every... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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THE BIRDS
Where did all the birds go?
As green changed to white of snow
Were they inside? Did they fly to hide?
There was not one to be espied
Where did all the sound go?
In the dull white out so low
No background noise, stillness came
It was not... – by JP. | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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WORDSMITH
Thoughts rain down on a barren page
Maybe of love or abject rage
A minute of life each word has bought
Each line a sentence or space a thought
A true-life quirk to buy a smile
The complex verse an unwound coil
Words so sad they... – by JP. | 21 Views added 2 years ago
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A MIDNIGHT CALLER
I slept all day and got up to find
When the gnaw of hunger came to mind
That a midnight caller was already there
And clearing my dish of much dreamt of... – by JP. | 28 Views added 2 years ago
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YESTERDAY
Yesterday’s words are falling away
Yesterday’s words mean nothing today
Yesterday’s words have no use anyway
To someone who wants to be no one... – by JP. | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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ABSTRACTION... – by JP. | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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PROOF... – by JP. | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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GUINEVERE'S... – by JP. | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Rhapsody in... – by jp. | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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THE RISK... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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TRAVELLER
Once more to the road of no return
Bearing heavier loads with nothing to learn
The bigot takes hatred as his friend
No wrongs to right no fences to mend
So on he goes in the way he chose
The outcast of virtue only he knows
A velvet fist in... – by JP. | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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A... – by JP. | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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AMNESIA
Remembered is the past recalled
A recollection ring fenced, walled
Held in the corner of a mind
In a place that I know how to find
The summer days, the times well spent
The fragrances from flowers sent
The taste, the smell of that consumed... – by JP. | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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THE... – by JP. | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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THE ARBITER
It is the father of today
The brother of tomorrow
A cousin of another day
The dirge of abject sorrow
So as you smile but hurt inside
A chameleon inbred
Recount the deeds to flout or chide
By which a future’s... – by JP. | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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THE SCANDALMONGERS... – by JP. | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Your carbon footprint is too big
If you are in a hole please don’t dig
Just take a reduction in that you use
We could just ban things or you can choose
You need to save more he smiled and said
Not a thought of the... – by JP. | 6 Views added 3 years ago
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A DAY OUT
Are we there yet dad is this the right road?
The three little time bombs all set to explode
From the hot back seat of a loaded car
They cannot believe that the sea is so... – by JP. | 31 Views added 3 years ago
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THE NEARLY MAN
Defend your space as best you can
It was just an eye contact, a flash in the pan
Erect the defence but do it now
This one got through but you don’t know... – by JP. | 11 Views added 3 years ago
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CALL ME
Call me with the morning sun
Bed warm before the day begun
Call me if you see my face
Beyond the dream so... – by JP. | 18 Views added 3 years ago
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THE SECRET
One kiss from you is all I need
A sign the blindest might just read
My shard of heaven snatched from time
That returned gift so... – by JP. | 15 Views added 3 years ago
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