Posted 1 week ago
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Posted 1 week ago

When She Bleeds

You wrote a song

and you called it ‘when she bleeds’

and you used to sing it

just for me

and I would sing

along with it 

with you

And now you’re gone

but your words

still carry on

and only now

do I appreciate

each note you wrote

was written with

tears

Although

your song

was beautiful to me

the price you paid

inside was agony

with each note played

You wrote a song

and you called it ‘when she bleeds’

and you used to sing it

just for me

but now

I’m singing it

all by myself

Posted 2 weeks ago

Glider (by AngeloGravity)

Posted 1 month ago

When Spring is in the air

Winter won’t let you forget 

he was there

And pours his snow

In one last show

Of whitewash glory,

Freezing the new growth

In the trees,

Bringing the season

To its knees.

Posted 1 month ago

I guess I’ll be your April fool

For yet another year

And you can trick the happiness

From my every tear

You know that I will always fall

Into your jester arms

There is no way I can escape

From your crooked charms

Here comes your custard pie

Thrown plum into my pride

I don’t want to be your clown

But I just can’t wipe you from my eyes

I guess I’ll be your April fool

And hang my head in shame

Every time you lift my hopes

Then laugh them down again

I can feel you pick the thread

And tug apart my seams

Then I see you pull the rug

From underneath of my dreams

Here comes your custard pie

Thrown plum into my pride

I don’t want to be your clown

But I just can’t wipe you from my eyes

(Lord only knows how much I’ve tried)

But I could not bare to be without

Your lark inside my heart

So I guess I’ll be your April fool

Like I was from the very start.

Posted 2 months ago

Five Amigos

Five amigos

stand

in the sand

silent 

and still

dressed green

in tall velvet

beneath

the 

tumbleweed sun

not a button 

out of place

five amigos

proud as cactus

guarding 

their desert gold

from rattlesnake bandits

Posted 3 months ago

My Grandad Built the Chinese Wall

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall,

He did it in a week,

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall,

That’s why it looks so neat,

He built it because he was bored

And to block the Mongol horde,

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall

Using only his bare feet.

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall

They paid him fifteen pounds,

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall

Then landscaped the surrounds,

He built it out of sticks and stones

And a few hippopotamus bones,

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall

And he hardly made a sound.

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall

For his girl called Cath,

My Grandad built the Chinese Wall

And then he had a bath,

It made his muscles big and strong

But his armpits didn’t half pong,

So now I’d like to walk along

My Grandad’s right long path.

Posted 3 months ago

Snow Children

Like toys

tumbling

from 

a bulging sack,

snowflakes fall

and all 

the children

large 

and small

slip outside

from under the wall

to call

for more

to come and play

~ not one grown-up

to spoil the day

Posted 3 months ago

Slave to Dreams

A slave 

to dreams

Is my fate

The swirling worlds 

behind my eyes

Take no heed 

of my commands

Indeed, they lead me 

by the chain

To places I 

could never imagine

Or ever choose 

In sleep I am 

but a toy

Of my hidden self

At the mercy

Of his deeply 

embedded 

frustrations

Eager 

to be remembered

Posted 4 months ago

Piranhas

Like piranhas

the people

hungered 

for the band

so bad that each 

tore a piece

of their 

tasty sound

to take back home

and chew alone

then when 

the frenzy ended

and all the flesh 

was gone

there was nothing

left but 

the bones

but 

the bones

played on