i have a life
i have won a life
i have made a life
but it was not always easy
Category: Poetry and Writing 2019
All the poetry and writing from 2019
St Ann’s Road – Written Sunday 1st December 2019 (Aged 44)
when i thought back
to our time
in st ann’s road
it broke me
and i cried tears
that had been fermenting
for twenty plus years
Stepping Out of His Shadows – Written Sunday 1st December 2019 (Aged 44)
i am not my father
or my dad
i do not drag around his baggage
or share a cap
Somewhere – Written Sunday 7th November 1995 (Aged 20)
somewhere we fit perfectly in
somewhere we live life to the full
but never so cruel
it is out there, a little bit of paradise
We Are the Little Ones – Written Sunday 1st December 2019 (Aged 44)
We Are the Little Ones in short, words cannot romanticise the cruelness of some human beings their lazy words cut … More
The Path – Written Thursday 28th November 2019 (Aged 44)
not the path built with crazy construction
the one with a tentative rope bridge
and a side or order of destruction
but the path,
i integral to my being
Cold Spread – Written Tuesday 28th November 2019 (Aged 44)
yes, this feeling of otherness
is inner bred
but how they like to talk down –
pat me on the head
ruffle my hair like cold spread
She Wore Her Wife’s Dress – Written Thursday 28th November 2019 (Aged 44)
she wore her wife’s dress
the loving support may no longer be physical
but beyond emotions
it remains, even with such pain
and as she sleeps
she is with you, for keeps
Some People Seem at such a Loss – Written Monday 25th November 2019 (Aged 44)
what does it mean
to show you value people
and on that idea, you are keen
it is a loss
a deficit
a debt from some trauma based cost
Nuts (Assume a Wrench) – Written Monday 25th November 2019 (Aged 44)
they breathe a sigh of relief
and suggest the counselling
as if our emotional being
has blocks, a, b and c
do mistake emotional –
for fragility
do not think, nuts, and assume a wrench
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