ElasticBand

By maisie

Poetry of the elastic kind, circular and rubbery!
lovely....:)

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if

By maisie on Tue, 10 Apr 2012

if... (not a rewrite of the old and wonderful version...)
Love
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new carol: it is the season etc: Blessed be....

By maisie on Sat, 15 Dec 2012

religious carol
Spiritual
Poem
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10th day! the Snowplough

By maisie on Tue, 13 Dec 2011

can nothing separate two souls in love...?
Love
Story
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11 day

By maisie on Mon, 12 Dec 2011

"Hello," he said smiling down, this tall man with a hidden frown betwen two beetle thick brows
Miscellaneous
Poem
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1st day of Christmas1 Last poem of series

By maisie on Fri, 23 Dec 2011

last one!
Love
Poem
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2 out of 10 poems....

By maisie on Thu, 21 Mar 2013

poem2
Miscellaneous
Poem
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3 poem - aweful poetry run....

By maisie on Fri, 22 Mar 2013

Spin the bottle lazily, watch, anticipate; dance the down dilly down the old wooded lane. / Dance in the bluebells, in the sheaves arrow leaves; run down to the meir
Miscellaneous
Poem
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3rd day poem :) nearly christmas!

By maisie on Tue, 20 Dec 2011

another blasted christmas poem
Love
Poem
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4th day poem

By maisie on Mon, 19 Dec 2011

a fairy typical poem
Love
Poem
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5th day of poems

By maisie on Sun, 18 Dec 2011

more more more!
Miscellaneous
Poem
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6th day poem for xmas

By maisie on Sat, 17 Dec 2011

the christmas pudding
Love
Poem
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7th day pome

By maisie on Fri, 16 Dec 2011

collision pome
Love
Poem
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8TH DAY - WINTER HAIKU

By maisie on Thu, 15 Dec 2011

heck a haiku is too short!
Miscellaneous
Poem
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A Scot in London. (poem)

By maisie on Fri, 25 Nov 2011

poetry perhaps
Miscellaneous
Poem
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A Vendor's Tale of Old Books!

By maisie on Sat, 02 Jul 2011

A Vendor’s Tale of Old Books! In the silence of the soul, Light is the essence of being. I wandered up the road today, parched pavement cracked. Time’s eternal magic carpet – an
Autobiography
Poem
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A walk along a roadside nature reserve...

By maisie on Tue, 12 Jul 2011

The Camomile flowers mix with Daisies, Buttercup and Broad Beans along the overgrown edge of the field
Autobiography
Poem
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Another look back

By maisie on Sat, 17 Mar 2012

All the time we've been bound hand and foot to the payment plan
Miscellaneous
Story
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Bad Egg

By maisie on Mon, 15 Apr 2013

Bad Egg Someone boiled me a bad egg. It was ominously silent. Didn't say - outright it was a bad egg. Until the spoon hit the crust and the aroma hit the fire alarm and set all the sirens
Humour
Poem
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Bad Egg

By maisie on Mon, 15 Apr 2013

Bad Egg Someone boiled me a bad egg. It was ominously silent. Didn't say - outright it was a bad egg. Until the spoon hit the crust and the aroma hit the fire alarm and set all the sirens
Humour
Poem
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Bad Egg

By maisie on Mon, 15 Apr 2013

Bad Egg Someone boiled me a bad egg. It was ominously silent. Didn't say - outright it was a bad egg. Until the spoon hit the crust and the aroma hit the fire alarm and set all the sirens
Humour
Poem
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before edit

By maisie on Fri, 20 Jan 2012

oh er, i wrote a poem?
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Being

By maisie on Thu, 09 Jun 2011

A form; Reverse Cinquain.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Between Friends!

By maisie on Sat, 24 Mar 2012

sent to a popular ladies magazine..:) who once took a poem 'facially' and put it out with someone else's name...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Catch!

By maisie on Wed, 02 Nov 2011

poem I suppose
Miscellaneous
Poem
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celebrating christmas - 9th day of poems

By maisie on Wed, 14 Dec 2011

short poem
Love
Poem
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Decisions.

By maisie on Thu, 07 Jul 2011

The billowed clouds, the ivory tusk,
Miscellaneous
Poem
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I can't do it. leggings

By maisie on Fri, 24 May 2013

ek a poem
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Truth (poem)

By maisie on Sat, 13 Apr 2013

Truth: Can be as clear as spring water - as innocent as rose tipped Daisies. Transparent as a n afterbirth held up to the light - to reflect the prisms of colour in the bell dome structure.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Visitation

By maisie on Fri, 21 Nov 2008

visitation... no answers here
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Let's start Again... 3nd edit! yes/no? help?

By maisie on Thu, 05 May 2011

3rd edition. i've lost the plot?
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Deja Vu

By maisie on Sun, 08 May 2011

long story about this poem, I'd love your comments! It was entered for the Netherlands Radio poetry comp, in the year they did medical, and was seen on Doctor's sites in the uk for ages.
Miscellaneous
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no title yet...

By maisie on Tue, 10 May 2011

strange fantasy poem that been twice written on envelopes,and now is typed up on here... its so weird!
Fantasy
Poem
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Insommia

By maisie on Sun, 15 May 2011

slightly daft poem.
Children's
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ICU

By maisie on Sat, 21 May 2011

ever been up close?
Love
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General Knowledge! (ip)

By maisie on Sat, 21 May 2011

um!
Humour
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lets start again - new poem

By maisie on Mon, 23 May 2011

new poem
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Happy Bits

By maisie on Wed, 25 May 2011

short pomes
Miscellaneous
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Cherry

Let's Start Again

By maisie on Thu, 26 May 2011

'Competition Entry'
Other Fiction
Poem
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Skim a Stone

By maisie on Fri, 27 May 2011

You were cold. A stone - smooth to the hand.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Double Rose

By maisie on Sun, 29 May 2011

I've been playing with this, for a night or two, not sure if it's good bad or ugly!
Love
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The Space Ship Shrink

By maisie on Wed, 01 Jun 2011

"curls round corners in a delicious"
Miscellaneous
Poem
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To the Fiends -

By maisie on Fri, 03 Jun 2011

To the fiends we make with our words - .
Miscellaneous
Poem
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My cat has fleas!

By maisie on Sat, 04 Jun 2011

OH please don't scratch, Let me tickle your tum,
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Princes of An Asian Race

By maisie on Thu, 09 Jun 2011

supposed to be written by a child...? anyone out there help with a drum score?
Children's
Poem
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Gold cherry

X Leaves A Flower - entered for the Margaret Reid Competition!

By maisie on Thu, 16 Jun 2011

x leaves a flower - poetry
Biography
Poem
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Zetta

By maisie on Fri, 17 Jun 2011

A peculiar condumdrum for the victim her nose in the perpectual s... hole. Too respectable by half, it's claimed,
Biography
Poem
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Early Morning Tragedy.... a first draft fun!

By maisie on Wed, 22 Jun 2011

A poem - written off the cuff first thing this morning, it isn't much, its awful bad, lol. Well this is fun!
Miscellaneous
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Safely come. (IP)

By maisie on Sat, 02 Jul 2011

from the ip....
Love
Poem
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Three in One.

By maisie on Tue, 05 Jul 2011

The tempest: My rose thorns your hand. A sculpture in a dark art,
Love
Story
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Political Slander - Herbert - (IP)

By maisie on Sat, 16 Jul 2011

a humourous look at the social scenery today...
Humour
Poem
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parsnips

By maisie on Thu, 13 Oct 2011

My daughter likes parsnips!
Autobiography
Poem
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Ultamate Question?

By maisie on Fri, 04 Nov 2011

pome
Miscellaneous
Poem
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PATHOS POETRY - THE - IF I WERE...

By maisie on Tue, 06 Dec 2011

PATHOS
Miscellaneous
Poem
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PATHOS POETRY - THE - IF I WERE...

By maisie on Tue, 06 Dec 2011

PATHOS
Miscellaneous
Poem
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penultamate verse

By maisie on Thu, 22 Dec 2011

a verse a day late
Love
Poem
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What was it like?

By maisie on Thu, 29 Dec 2011

pome
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Ducks

By maisie on Fri, 30 Dec 2011

on the subject of silence,
Love
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IP the world died etc...

By maisie on Sat, 11 Feb 2012

cynical love poetry - not!
Miscellaneous
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Rose poem

By maisie on Mon, 13 Feb 2012

bad 2 minute poetry
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Rags to Ritzes... (IP) this week...

By maisie on Sun, 11 Mar 2012

um well er... a poem
Miscellaneous
Poem
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draft - no.1

By maisie on Wed, 04 Apr 2012

poem
Nature
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how to claim a title...

By maisie on Wed, 04 Apr 2012

well not really, who would believe this would work, I mean it's like someone claiming they;d won a poetry competition who didnt...
Miscellaneous
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Last supper

By maisie on Sun, 22 Apr 2012

unfinished raddish
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Light!

By maisie on Sun, 27 May 2012

The french pour les pensées singulièrement privés set down in sin. "My love, my love, Come straight to me." for the ovalata sings it's charm, a symphony.
Love
Poem
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The Olympian kiss (IP: Wellwisher)

By maisie on Tue, 10 Jul 2012

"It could be me, taking part, it could be . my brother, or son, or daughter or next door neighbour!"
Miscellaneous
Poem
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draft poen - a present from america.

By maisie on Sun, 21 Oct 2012

rise, and turn in dipdangle waves
Miscellaneous
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draft pome - Visit from the Auditors

By maisie on Fri, 26 Oct 2012

T.P left me his auditors; who came to check the books, in numbers large and magical, they pondered in black soot. The tales of them are legendary, the hearses are all arrayed
Miscellaneous
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ten days of poetry day 1

By maisie on Tue, 19 Mar 2013

poem
Miscellaneous
Story
Certificate PG

eek!

By maisie on Sat, 23 Mar 2013

eek!
Miscellaneous
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silly stuff... poem

By maisie on Tue, 26 Mar 2013

What can one say to pardon the day, when tight up inside it's stormy weather? . What can I do to move on through; when deep interior hides the stark hits of light. ...
Love
Poem
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Work blues ;) highs and lows..

By maisie on Fri, 19 Apr 2013

I wrote a letter.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Grotsomes in the Bathroom!

By maisie on Sun, 06 Oct 2013

Grotsomes in the bathroom, beware, beware, beware, they are up in the attic with a load of spyware. They bring in the nightmares: plural or in groups...
Surreal
Poem
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Fast flier

By maisie on Wed, 30 Oct 2013

Fast Flier He flies the storm as high as the starlings in a blue sky. It amazes me the passage of life, the boundaries, the quagmire of relationships...
Love
Poem
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Lost in Discussion.

By maisie on Sun, 01 Dec 2013

. The Rain Deer are in the garden; quietly once the night has stripped the light from the sky. They tip toe in. . Brown eyes keep a silent anquished...
Nature
Poem
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Left the Pool

By maisie on Wed, 04 Dec 2013

Left the Pool. Its barely cold, and outside the window the robin pccks up the worm in quick bites. Its almost too cold to think. Almost. Only the...
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

Carol will sing of many many things.

By maisie on Mon, 16 Dec 2013

Oh the Toilet Botherers have been busy, informed half the bus driving world. Just ahead of Sunday when the Evilistic Preacher will be heard. All the...
Crime
Rant
Poem
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Aftermath of Christmas. (a first draft thing)

By maisie on Thu, 26 Dec 2013

Twas the day after Christmas and all round the house, the adults were snoring... loud as drunk skunk mouse... and in each home the litter was knee...
Children's
Poem
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The Follower - Leggings ???

By maisie on Sun, 02 Feb 2014

The Follower! In the town there is a woman who wants a sycaphant or two. Lately she's become demanding about being first in the queue. She stands too...
Rant
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate 12

Frozen Daisies.

By maisie on Mon, 21 Apr 2014

I Frozen Daisies on the grass, makes me think of ice and glass... How cruel your fingers as the stem breaks. Enclosed: their beauty soars past the...
Spiritual
Poem
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Here on the Beach (IP) New edit. Possible not last...

By maisie on Mon, 28 Apr 2014

new edit above old one...
Romance
Poem
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Icarus Melted

By maisie on Thu, 08 May 2014

Icarus Melted. It's naive to believe in the groundness of things. My eyes are half-closed, shielded against glare. it's a balance: a see-saw fulcrum...
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate PG

the bench

By maisie on Mon, 07 Jul 2014

The Bench. I saw the sun rise, from the bench at the core of the garden. The first beams of light span out like a half turned wheel - exploded the...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U
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reflection - from the past ... Familiar Deeps.

By maisie on Fri, 01 Aug 2014

Familiar deeps. Sun sanded beaches with semi-permenant wave by emoted ocean. . I float suspended in liquid space. Jellyfish touch my breast, my face...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U

Rain fall. 2nd edit.

By maisie on Sat, 02 Aug 2014

Rain fall. I can write the rain. Simple in small words. Or can I make thunder roll- or the lightening curve? The music of the rain deters the mad hot...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

from a letter to a grandchild... chaffinches...

By maisie on Fri, 15 Aug 2014

I was standing in the kitchen washing the day go by all the dishes were in the sink, admist bright sunshine. . When all at once a flock of four...
Nature
Poem
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1 likes

Stonehenge - coloured (unfinished)

By maisie on Thu, 04 Sep 2014

How the dryness of grass defeats us the sallowness of yellowed failure, flint edged catches at our deep pulled breath. Tears at the teeth of...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

What little girls are made of...

By maisie on Mon, 08 Sep 2014

Oh Mummy gets her crack from the C..... .. Team, When it's televised she'll get her dream. She has no choice - she has to do what she's told. They...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

norwich - thoughts.

By maisie on Tue, 20 Jan 2015

57 words: Norwich. A knight on horseback rides down St. Stephens street, his armour is tarnished from the bloody dragon. Flown from Dragon Hall...
Surreal
Poem
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Lace - poem

By maisie on Sun, 12 Apr 2015

Image: 
Lace is always old. An edge of a wedding dress, scarce worn over a bed of satin, stained at the hem. which swings as if it had life. At the market,...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Lavender

By maisie on Mon, 13 Apr 2015

Lavender - A French variety: butterfly topped. Sits in an old zinc pot. It smells of summer days in the old way. Blue. The roses beside it, are not...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Bucket Man!

By maisie on Sun, 28 Jun 2015

John Davies "Bucket Man". based in UEA's Sainsbury's Collection. ............................. I grow up ........................n...
Opinion
Poem
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Favors - written for an online course

By maisie on Sun, 28 Jun 2015

Favors. In days em-blazed old, when all were very bold - We, as Knights would chatter as we polished dusk. The glow of the fire, warmed our socks to...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

New adaption: Psalm 23

By maisie on Sat, 18 Jul 2015

Psalm 23 (modern version) A Psalm of David. The Lord cares for me, I shall never be in need. He creates a green environment for relaxation, he steers...
Spiritual
Poem
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fruit - five times a day.

By maisie on Sat, 29 Aug 2015

fruit - 5 x a day. Nectarines are smooth, as skin is to the touch. It's enticing to soothe the cut of warm flesh, peculiarly mellow. No peach could...
Miscellaneous
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
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poem - no meaning implied.

By maisie on Mon, 31 Aug 2015

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Here's a shock! Mental block. Missed function. No luncheon. No meter, Nil greeter, Plead not guilty incredibly filthy. I'll be richer (one day) a...
Surreal
Poem
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Nightly.

By maisie on Sun, 13 Sep 2015

Nightly. The dark of the night fits me
Surreal
Poem
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poetry draft, peacocks.

By maisie on Wed, 09 Dec 2015

This is a gathering of ideas - and is not finished.
Nature
Poem
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Secondary Self.

By maisie on Fri, 22 Jan 2016

Secondary Self. My hair is a secondary part of me... Attached to the brain, it grows abundant, jubilant, regardless of racial tensions, in long...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Paean

By maisie on Tue, 26 Jan 2016

Paean *Inspiration point*
Miscellaneous
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
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Meanings... Bae

By maisie on Thu, 28 Jan 2016

Meanings...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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First Draft - A Moon of Bright Orange.

By maisie on Fri, 05 Feb 2016

First Draft - A Moon of Bright Orange. I had hair like a princess - I had curls like a queen. I had dreams of the dark side. The worst of the night...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Mouse.poem

By maisie on Thu, 25 Feb 2016

I had a brown mouse, bright, smart type. interlock wheel, smooth to the touch. . which glittered in the moonlight action. of my darkened hand. ...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Sonnet no: 4

By maisie on Tue, 08 Mar 2016

a sonnet - shakespearian version.
Romance
Poem
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Prepare Files. Please Wait.

By maisie on Mon, 21 Mar 2016

A poem. blank verse.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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The Battle of the Somme. (1st Draft)

By maisie on Fri, 01 Jul 2016

The Battle of the Somme. The air was foul, thick and strong. The war was strung with barbed wire, the rats ran. The men who knitted, sang, smoked an...
Autobiography
Poem
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A Myriad of Hope. poem 1st draft

By maisie on Mon, 04 Jul 2016

A Myriad of Hope. A multitude of people walk by, intent on future career plans perhaps. A myriad of hopes. Their faces closed, glazed with fashion;...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Walk along an edge.

By maisie on Thu, 14 Jul 2016

Walk along an edge. The edge is undefined, past customers who consume with indefinate indifference the delicacies of taste, past a border-line cut...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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poem - I put my Washing out to blow!

By maisie on Wed, 20 Jul 2016

a first draft
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U

10 second memo poems - Instructions.

By maisie on Wed, 27 Jul 2016

Instructions. Follow the path with a twisted tail. Hold on fast to the ornate rail. Watch the Marsh gas lamps subshine the way, this is the adventure...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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3 haiku

By maisie on Tue, 16 Aug 2016

counted and found wanting
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Shopping Trip

By maisie on Thu, 18 Aug 2016

smallest shopping arcade.... Dereham NORFOLK - in use as antique/second hand shops.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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first draft, A quick flash

By maisie on Mon, 29 Aug 2016

A quick 10 sec. poem.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Gladly - an old poem re-edit.

By maisie on Sun, 25 Sep 2016

Gladly like the feathery motion...
Miscellaneous
Poem
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pondering on nationwide adverts...

By maisie on Sat, 29 Apr 2017

A building society jingle - a group of carol singing old white bearded men in trilby's...singing!
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Hello all, a poem!

By maisie on Sun, 30 Jul 2017

very rough, very much last night.... not edited. be warned...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U

You Tube and back ground.

By maisie on Tue, 01 Aug 2017

I'm looking towards You tube and performance due to a chap on here who does it! (blame him)
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate 12

Second You. Tube piece....

By maisie on Sat, 02 Sep 2017

from "Brantley Goes Home!"
Children's
Other
Certificate U

Civic Duty

By maisie on Sun, 12 Nov 2017

this is an attempt at a form, it isn't a perfect one, however I liked it, for the time being anyway.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The Works Once... poem 1st draft.

By maisie on Sat, 13 Jan 2018

The Works Once. I was the works once, bright, shiny, deep, took classes in earlier years, listened sweet. I spoke in five languages, heard the bird's...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Draft poem - It should be quiet!

By maisie on Tue, 06 Mar 2018

It would be quiet.... Except for the electronic hiss... that preludes the odd job Gods in. A virus collage in a corner blooms - Life caught in spiral...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U

’Cession

By maisie on Thu, 31 May 2018

’Cession ‘Cession begins, Stops the worm In the field. Stops the thought That forms endless Wheels in air. Stops the sun. The wind, the rain. Spans...
Surreal
Poem
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November

By maisie on Mon, 04 Nov 2019

If November ushers in the winter with the ice cold winds, and the dry star crossed skies are innocent… of sin, then why are we so transparent in our...
Nature
Poem
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Codes.

By maisie on Mon, 02 Nov 2020

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The Code. I awoke one morning On my forearms the code Of imprisonment and remembrance Came nearly intact to the surface. I wasn't sure if it was for...
Unclassified
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

Knowledge

By maisie on Tue, 28 Sep 2021

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please forgive me this one, its ages since I tried to write a poem, and this is the first real try out of my new computer - so.... Knowledge. It's...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Trees

By maisie on Wed, 04 May 2022

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Trees The trees stand at the edge of the garden fenced off from the Nature reserve. Tall thin red branched trees, slowly turning to brown. The spring...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Its Feb, and it's a time for Romance, only I haven't got any...

By maisie on Fri, 03 Feb 2023

Ships It’s the dilemma of all an age, That love is just a story, the ultimate Romance, the ginger in the dance. The eyes that meet in the night, The...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Warning from the bank

By maisie on Wed, 08 Feb 2023

Lloyds Bank advise all female pensioners. To watch out for Romance scams, since the average Age of victims is beyond 65, with a spree – self...
Romance
Poem
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