Life's Ups And Downs
By Bradene
A collection of poems,prosetry,short stories and flash pieces. Some sad,some happy but most true to life.
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I Thought I Heard You Calling
One I entered for a comp' not so long back, It had to have the last line I thought I heard you calling. Needless to say it didn't win but I like it anyway.
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A Fractured Verse For A Fractured Heart
A poem for this week's IP
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A Reflection
What The mirror sees
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A Triolet Of Woe ( For The I. P.)
Triolet of Woe
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Awaking
This was published in Bluechromes Anthology The Review Of Contempory Poets in which Andrew Motion had a poem.
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Between Two Bridges
Nothing survives forever
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Bitter Sweet In January
I wrote this poem to my husband not long after we married in 1991.
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Cause And Effect
A bit of a confession...
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Chain Reaction
That's life.
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Commitment Cancelled!
A Poem
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Creative Juices
Just a little bit of a confidence dive
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Cruel Tricks And Wrong Turns
Observed recently in Lincoln
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Lonely, Lonely.
Sometimes lonliness is the hardest thing to bear.
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The Return
It hurts to watch someone close die slowly and painfully...
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The Tricycle
A childhood memory. No words were ever spoken, only a line of a song as he peddled away...
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Overload
During an attack of Meniere's disease
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One Afternoon
A nasty moment...
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Faded Collection
Looking back can be sweet.
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The Face Rains
A little poetic whimsy
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Terror On The Top Deck
This is a true story, it happened to me in the fifties. I've written the situation from my perspective then, and from how a young girl of today would probably handle the same set of circumstances.
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Restlessness
Sometimes the grass seems greener...
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When The Music Stops
The unkindest cut of all.
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The Last Waltz
The end of the dance...
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End Game
A true account of a sad incident that happened to an acquaintance of mine.
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Life’s Humourless Joke
In life there is always at least one seemingly important thing left unresolved...
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Ink
Sometimes it seems my brain has turned to mush!
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Midnight Blue
This poem actually won me £100 in 2005 for the shared 4th prize in Forward Press's 100 best poets of the year, 2005 competition.
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First Day
Everyone should identify with this in one way or another. I just hope David Killick isn't a writer and contributes here! :)
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Scales Of Injustice
That's life. as they say.
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The Argument
The morning was behind them a wasted thing;
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Straying Footsteps
A broken Journey through life.
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The Waiting Game
All to do again...
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Life's Not Bottled
Self explanatory
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One Evening Late Last Autumn
I had quite forgotten I had written this.
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The First Day In The TB Sanatorium 1956
This is the first in a trilogy of poems about my days in the TB San' 1956
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Summer in the San' 1956
2nd in the trilogy Life in The San'1956 Edited Version
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Rabbit Stew and Sister Elsie. Life in the San 1956
Final in the San Trilogy 1956
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Last Lonely Corner
She sings along with the ghosts of memory.
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The Merest Moment
A re-write of an old poem
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Turquoise Silk
Poetry, New Seasons Writing Comp
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The Proposal
Another little poem
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No More Words
A Dark Poem...
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No Going Back
Bitter Memories
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The Reluctant Vagrant
Observed one wet winter day in Grantham.
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The Swinging Tree
I held a knobbly stick in my hand not intended for a weapon, a memory in prosetry
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Within These Walls
Good to be back. Been ill. This is just a moment, an impression caught while in hospital
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Past The Last Stitch
Red Dress and park bench ABC Radio Competition Entry
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Time To Act My Age, Or Is It?
A re-write on an old one
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Meneire’s Disease
I'm allergic to the medication so I have to ride out an attack.
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Googling Earth
Competition Entry
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Verity
He wasn’t ready to be tethered, I was too young to recognise truth.
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Our Mulberry Love
Not much inspiration at the moment so I'm posting an old one, Well,it does have one cherry in it! (:
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Struggling
Could this be my swan song?
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One Dark Night Long Ago... (A re-write)
She would imagine something dark waiting to leap out at her...
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First Desolation Then A Joyous return
After almost a year of recurring illnes and hospitalizations I'm feeling like writing again. my first tentative steps back. A Tetractys and a Triolet
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This Momentous Day
This, after a first feverish night in hospital.
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Winter Blues A paradel (Another I. P. )
A Paradel/Paradelle is a complicated poetic form. Google for explanation
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The Eyes Have It ( I. P )
he was sick of the sight of me…
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Without A Voice
Always ignored
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Winter 1947 ( I.P.)
This poem I wrote some time ago, it illustrates perfectly my dislike of snow and how fed up I am right now of the weather.
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