Lovers, Liars and Just Good Friends.

some poetry grouped together because maybe they're about something similar. Or not.

I Am A Camera.

title should read: I Am A Camera

Down the Up-Osculator

A Cross Stick

A Minute of Your Time

The boy can't help it.

A Selfish Lover

Aren't we all?
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Above the Clouds

Skiers as birds! How contrived is that?

All About Alchemy

no cutting edge modernity here either.....

Almost Perfect

...
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An Apology for a Class

Poor Inez puts up with a lot...

Baroque

a misshapen pearl... imagine that

Beachcombing

no explanations... no apologies...

Being There

Well, Spack's is better of course, but...
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Between the Lines

Communication's never easy.

Butterflies

What can I say? A blurt, and I don't apologise for it.

Caligula’s Blushes

heaven knows i'm...

Card

Call me Val

Chinese Room

Chinese Room Argument, Searle 1980 http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/chineser.htm#H1

Choices

'I prefer not to'

Dear Gustav

A companion piece to this http://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/gustav

Nosology

A short poem about lurve

Unreal Conditions

if....

Shibboleths

loving the alien

Familiarity

Another poem about relationships.... oh dear.
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For You

I wore your tight silk against my intimate skin: so you could trace an outline of desire with a fingertip. As I do with mine. I grew my hair long so that it might cover your
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Opposites for Beginners

Staying married

Springs

Butterflies of love? Not half so romantic as they sound. But it's what the French call them.

Working Lunch

Yep, that about sums it up.
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Wing Walkers

A few short lines about a relationship
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Five Kisses

I was going to enter this for the Nostalgia Comp, but I just couldn't get it how I wanted it in time for the deadline.
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me myself & .i.

.i. what men think with
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The Whole Truth

...or some of it.

Morning Glory

How it is.

Shared Things

secrets

The Hand That's Dealt

it's about a game for two
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O Lucky Man

just a poem.

When I’m Old…

IPOW 04/04/08

The Shape of Meaning

Connect? If only…

Ending

...

Precautions

a poem, just that...

Excommunication

Whoever said talk is cheap? It's often cost me very dear....

Flattered

a poem... just that... just about...

Tandoori Marinade

for someone...

Tzara-ist Manifesto

Da da, da blah.... "Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, the howl of clashing colors, the intertwining of all contradictions, grotesqueries, trivialities: LIFE." [T. Tzara, "Dada Manifesto," 1918]
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Stopping Train to Hull

A train journey from a long time ago....

Open Secret

nothing special...
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Swashbuckler

this one's about not growing up...

Swashbuckler Too.

Swashbuckler... go on, pick another language you know, try and find a translation for it.
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Verbing the Noun

Verbing the noun... is that a euphemism?

Romantic:

A short poem about romance...

My First

IPOW
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Gustav

guess... Image is in the public domain... by the person you guessed this was about. About my first ever Ekphrastic, I think.
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Roller Coaster

not explaining this one...
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Rubbing Along

a short poem with no song titles in it.
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The Ill-Made Knight

apologies to T.H.White
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Instant Message

a poem...that's all
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Redress

This week's IPOW... The writer's revenge: writing about old hurts.

The Great Big Fight.

I'm just a dumb bloke, I don't understand women.

Lovetide

a short poem about, well... I won't spell it out.

Elegance

These foolish things...
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The Gift

a short poem about...

Down

Eeyore calling, Eeyore calling...

The Enemy

Tempus Fugit...

Safe Topics

You become jealous, when I tell you my plans. I remain silent on the meals I prepare or the bars that I visit, and with whom. You become angry, when I try for romance. I become frosty in
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Moments

it's about... no, you decide.
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Love Songlines

A random wander; twenty minutes worth.

Gitano

talk, talk, it's only talk... a word with a 't' ...

Mr Brown

I've been reading Niki72's 'We'll Be Happy etc.' http://www.abctales.com/story/niki72/chapter-nine-perhaps-love-and-sex-l... try it; it's much better than this poem.

Sad

a poem...of sorts.

Little Things

hmmm... not everyone's cup of tea... never mind.
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Memento

among my souvenirs...
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Talk To Me

...

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

Wishes

almost poetry... definitely doggerel
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Erotolalia

A bagatelle...
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What's the Time?

Only tange n tially connected to the IPOW

Words Are Not Enough

it´s up to you what it´s about...
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Let´s

...
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Too Much

Well we do...

In These Pages

...

Rose

...

Dizzy

nov 4 2011

Raggle Taggle

a poem...

Two Figures from a Hopper Painting

Hopper, not a great technician, but a witness to a vanished America

We Look Back

walk on by... nothing to see here

Mr Trent

If some things sound familiar, they should...

A Game in Black and White

Guess... Oh okay, it's Scheherazade and Shahrayr playing chess in the image.

And In Your Place

minimalist...

Five Corners

Photo is of the cover of a French translation of a Chester Himes Novel...
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Playing with Matches

There is more than one kind of match...
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Other Names Sound Sweet

by any other name
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Jouissance

Poem

The Placeholder

Um... yeah, well, you work it out.
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The King of Diamonds

Cards... Image is free for non-commercial use : Author: David Bellot - Berkeley, CA, USA 08/12
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Ring Around The Moon

It's about... ah no... whatever you want it to be about... Image is dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons 1.0 by the creator Annajohepworth.
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Moon-Tan Lotion

Best read while listening to Neil Young's Unplugged version of Harvest Moon. Image is wikipedia commons, Samuel Palmer's The Harvest Moon: the image is in the public domain.
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An Englishman in New Jersey

Written a while back, fiddled with punctuation-wise. Some events are based on fiction. Image is by Dylan Meconis Tiny Paintings: Mr Mxyzptlk non-commercial use permitted.

We Look Back

Image is free from Max Pixel and is used under CC0
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This Is Love

not about much... picture is free for non-commercial use. source Flicker.com
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Poem of the week

No Love Song

Short and perhaps saccharine, but I don't care... Image is from Pixabay and is free of copyright issues.

The Best Thing About Leaving

not about much... Photo by Edgar Pereira on Unsplash used by permission of the photographer

Gunslingers

You'll work it out... Image is from Open Clipart Library
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The Racket-ty Life

Sometimes I'm surprised I'm still here. Image has no known copyright issues.
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Bop Shoo Waddy

I just heard that UKAuthors is going under. Any CW site that leaves the stage leaves us all the poorer, with one less place for crit and love out there. Anyway this is one of mine from UKA that I posted in the dim and distant past. image is from flicker.com licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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Another Year

More odes from the crypt... It's about... 6 lines too long - or short, I don't know. Image is from pxhere.com
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Invitation to a Cocktail Waitress

Another poem poked at and fiddled with. Imagine it read in TW's bar-room growl while he smokes a cigarette. Image made by me at canva.com a collage of PD images