New writtings
By pumadelta
This series is a collection of writtings exploring contempary forms
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Devil
This is part of some new writting after getting some advice from Mark brown..cheers mark!
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a walk down memory lane.
The morning sun glared from behind the silhouette of Hunched over oak trees, competing for space with The grave stones in the cemetery on horizons plane.
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Autumn's song
These trees, with leaves falling like Amber lanterns, sway to the rhythm Of this seasons dictate. Captures my imagination And paints a green canvas With an autumnal bloom.
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Bradgate Park
The darkened hues of autumn Began to roll over the horizon Like the hair of a girl with auburn locks. Gently swaying in the breeze like a belly dancer,
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brush strokes
Brush strokes are formed on a blank page And the simplicity takes me back to my childhood days Like the meanderings of a viola Taking the lead All my wandering roads do lead
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city hospital
Once you would serenade me in the dead of night With your piercing sirens and lit up the sky with Your illuminating strobes I would hear your intense heart beat, now just a lull
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Corporate Measures
I cradled you in my thoughts And sang to you hushed Sounds of grave songs Till the flush was complete I imagined your daddies eyes Staring at me lovingly Amidst all that blood
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I dreamed a dream, cursed are my thoughts.
It wasn’t me he thought: He spoke, Lying; defeat: A prison he didn’t wish to share. Barred from any dignity or resurrection; Barren was his night, a heart no longer able to bear.
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the persistence of memory
this piece was written after viewing salvador dali's art peice, the persistence of memory."!
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Serenoa repens
2nd generation afro Caribbean 1st world isolation 3rd world starvation My community stripped and dis-joint-ed Looking for salvation 1 parent family 2 siblings screaming mercy
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Slave Master
A poem about a cousin who was staying with me briefly.
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Pauline
The night before I tossed and turned Like a barbecued matador awakening all the demons that lurked in the shadows of my dream
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George Best
I held you in my arms Rocking you to the Chants of adoring fans Held tight As your rig amortised hand Clutched that bottle like I used to hold your baby Milk to feed you
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In a nocturnal mood.
. I love the night when the sun Disappears behind the curved hand of the earth And the heat of the ground dissipates Into the blackness of the sky...
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
If only I could hold that thought. If only I could stay focused long enough For whimsical fantasies to fly bye Like migrating birds in the sky. If I...
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Bird
This wood lined creature Perched on the bow of a disgruntled oak. With the finesse of a pirouetting ballerina Or a lily on the film of a pond,...
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That empty space.
I have no interest in poetry anymore Dare I say it life has lost it savour I try to read the most contemporary of the art And stop mid-sentence,...
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After the setting sun.
. Before your breath hits the glass pane And distorts what was once perfect. I lift my hand to cradle the droplet which forms. I’ve been here before...
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lost world
These harvest fields where walking dead In suburbs spread like separate sheaves, Where closed minds, stare stares from empty Rooms, baron, desperate...
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A seed of hope
The rain pauses, and the sun’s rays Breathe life into each diamond droplet- Causing a rainbow to grow- Arching from the pot of gold Where limericks...
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where do you find my love
Where do you find my love. When I was 10 my dad was off to the pen Not the one you hold in your hand But the one where men lose their souls Before I...
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Selfy
Pictures have memories, we view subjectively Like poems telling half-truths ...we thumb between lines they say cameras don't lie, but people often do...
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Paradise lost
I’m determined to stop! As my lips curl around another soggy end Bleeding with brown stuff The noxious fumes cloud my mind Hushing me back to a...
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This morning
This morning I shall make coffee From the finest Arabic beans With lashings of cream And sugar cubes from Caribbean molasses This morning I shall...
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The moment I knew
The sun bursts from beyond unkempt clouds Like a precious jewel it shines, each ray A stairway to the pearly gates. The air is thick heavy cloud...
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The neighbour from hell
Above the ceiling I hear footsteps Pounding floorboards like a demented animal Pacing from one room to another Doors slamming, I hope he falls. This...
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The coral reef
Suspended from strands of light Upside down lies a coral reef. My living room’s edge marks off its territory. Stippled hard droplets form its surface...
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2 texts and the phone still has'nt rang
2 texts and 10 o’clock and still no call The Segway music Bled into the end of the radio Sermon, reminding me of how we fitted together You light...
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Wanna be blues
So you thought you’d write a song Tell of history in the making Mask the tears of the disenfranchised council scum Blend your rythmes harmoniously...
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she sits alone this christmas
Soft sprawling light engulf the living room Her hat, which has seen better days Garnishes the oak farmhouse table Her tweed coat, discarded like a...
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I;ve waited now the blessing
My horizons are changing Mid flux, rearranging I’m aiming my focus Like a pointed gun Transformation is rising No more ambiguity or reasoning No more...
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Beatle mania
Blood red bleeds along cobbled stone Of rain washed streets A neon sign illuminates the cavern Ten o’clock and a queue runs Like a charm along a...
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creator
I used to think you were odd Staying in at lunch break Oils in your hand Canvas stretched like Canada You placed each stroke like your personal...
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School crush
Your thought pattern is unorthodox Like lazy bed rest in the middle of the day Shadows play steadily across your mind scape As you try to recapture...
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A poet's heart
I’d like to read your stuff If you have time to share Your heart, your soul, lay it bare That bitter divorce that left you cold That unspoken word...
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Bully
I saw you both bleeding as they clawed you To helpless to respond Too black to show your cuts I didn’t fight but stood beside you To show my...
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Sea siren
Sea siren An open window is a poems charity Where a lamppost is lit in the mist of dark Where death lurks like oily green slicks On seas, where dead...
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The cottage in the park
I know he’s been here before That urine stained stench sticking To the barnacled weeded flowers Fag butts dropped like bullets Around the foot of...
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sin
Sin Sin is so subtle Like that ice cream sundae You shouldn’t eat Like lying in the blistering sun to long Like talking to a salesman on the phone It...
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The beautiful girl
There was a beautiful girl Who had brads like the iron rope bridge Her hair soft like candy floss A smile I would give a world for She has such a...
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my unmade bed
My unmade bed I’m in bed again this morning I’ve just turned in its 5am I still haven’t spread the Egyptian cotton sheets My head pounds from...
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spirit, soul and body.
I’ve been idle for too long Like stagnant water in a Foliage littered stream Give me air, let me breathe I’ve procrastinated like a song A needle...
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Helen
I know you are an eye Prying to know the story of my strength You see through my existence And tell all my history People I don’t know See the past...
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Painting pictures, a world view
You once observed the Sahara Through bifocal binoculars The image you cued like an artist With your swollen thumb And with this you painted Your...
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Over the hill...
He plays hoop with his chums At the tarmac ground Unsuccessful he shoots as if a stray Cannon ball, uselessly lost to oblivion Circles he runs till...
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My secret space
Commentary books of the old faith Line my walls like regimented soldiers Finding their way there by chaos and disorder A tatty Latin school...
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Hand it over
It’s 9am and I’ve forget to pray Wonder if the lord has got my back today Baseball cap on and my rucksack strapped Dizzy out the door because of the...
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a walk down green dolphin st
Amber glow lights pave my way Dazzling shards of blue and green Bright red neon lights glisten and shine Amber leaf smoke rises in swirls Cascades in...
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The autistic boy
He comes out at night With the purple clouds And sepia stars Making his entrance From his mother’s yard To the verge of grass His tone his now...
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A stranger who wants me to call him dad
I visit you once more At that broken down nursing home You now call your home Climb over brambles and misshapen Rubbish bags, to view through...
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wish
Wish I wish I had of learned at school And not broken all the rules Sitting at the back of the class Being a clown and a class room fool. I wish I...
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A poets dying wish
Let me be recognized for something Something other than the hue of my skin And slick talking swaying hips Swinging to Latino rhythms beating out of...
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The cultural quarter
Confetti once had a life of its own Before it got torn and rubbished for A known good cause At Arthur’s wedding, during the war They used maps of the...
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Daniel
One day you sat there in that well-kept garden the sun breaking through the clouds rain drops dripped from the broken gutter as if competing with the...
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the cultural quarter pt 2
The corners of the cultural quarter Are bursting like tar soaked lungs. Haemorrhaging empty fag packets Lay strewn in rain washed streets. Blind...
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A meeting of kinds
He became human that day Rubbing shoulders With life’s betrayed and out casts. Lit candles to welcome newcomers Hugged the bi-sexual host And kissed...
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I am a migrant
I am a migrant: I’m shackled to my birth; I live day to day From Hand to mouth With no hope for tomorrow; I have not jumped over walls Or climbed...
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the struggle within
The struggle within I have been too held back By this birth this skin, Hiding bruises, scars Blood and sinew. I need to be born again Formed anew in...
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no more heroes
No more heroes I found out yesterday That you really don’t and Never have loved me It didn’t come as a shock But hit as hard as death its self Once I...
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Judas Priest
Judas Preist He counted his money Stack by stack. Fraternised With the well adorned Women at the altar of shewbread. Threw his goodwill offering Of...
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The elder tree
Where I’m coming from Those sottish children, who dance To the burning bush of mountain top experiences. Their passion set alight By flickering flame...
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The waiting room
As I enter the waiting room The queue extends like a snake... With arms shoulders Impatient shuffling feet.. The eyes behind the desk Are busy hiding...
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The Church of Hypocrisy The Greater
I walk through Leicester’s City streets, the place where Evil casts its dark shadow. I am met by gaiety and pride. With stealth I slip its grip And...
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Loneliness
I live alone and Too have to bare The solitude silence Of isolation. Unable to choose a unique thought to dwell on in the Vacant hours. Unable to...
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Everyone is beautiful in the dark
Midnight claws at her nocturnal skin like a lover despised and that lie lay-strewn like Confetti across your bedroom floor. Another illicit notch on...
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Vaping
I suck hard on the Rubbery plastic tip. Empty my nostrils of Air. Deplete the cartridge Of its white misty smoke. The room is dark but night’s...
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A Camel through the eye of a needle
The news spread through the wards like arterial pumped blood With first hemorages of news feeds Flashed on iPhones until it seeped Through on to...
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Lady Fatima
She’s trapped climbing 8 legged the glass stairway To her doom. I caught her Moreover she caught me Full throated as I puffed on a Marlboro light...
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