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Haibun Thinking: Week 4 Freestyle Week – Springtime

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Michael

Feeling wretched, anticipation, in springtime, you descend into your separate hell. You destroy, maim, injure, your fangs into all and anyone in your path.  While nature is renewing outside inside you inflict your own insanity on all around you. Where … Continue reading →

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Poem 98 – Pension Day

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Michael

Any Thursday, in case you didn’t know Is pension day. The supermarkets are a flood With pensioners suddenly flush with cash. So many weird people with their weird kids You know the ones you never see on other days, Drooling … Continue reading →

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Prompt 42 Tired Surrender

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Michael

These weeks I can see the end You decline as each day passes First oxygen, Then the mask. The gradual filling of your lungs Breathing difficult Straining, rasping, My heart is torn seeing you like this. In desperation I ask … Continue reading →

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D’verse Poetics– Sketchbook // in-the-moment poetry – My Morning

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Michael

It’s early morning, Dawn breaking Silence apart from Occasional car, Birds chirping Parrots screeching The mist along the creek sits An ominous sign of the hot day coming. Out now escaping the coming heat. Up past the old cemetery Headstones … Continue reading →

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Poem 97 – No Work

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Michael

No work Today, tomorrow, the next Ever! Time stretches out Though a finite amount. Should I? Travel, write, paint, Chat, sleep? Or not? Life moves forward Time is only a measure Of the sun’s passing. Memories remain. New routines Old … Continue reading →

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D’Verse –Meeting the Bar: Songwriting and its Relationship to Poetry – Almost Loveable

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Michael

Almost Loveable On our first date you said I like you On our second date you said, I can see where you’re comin’ from On our third date you said Honey you make me laugh On our fourth date you … Continue reading →

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D’verse – Open Link Night ~ Week 131- Loss

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Michael

The sea was wild, I stood on the sand The wake swirling at my feet Watching and waiting Where were you? Why would you do this? To me? Do I wait an eternity? When do I give up? When should … Continue reading →

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Day 41 Consuming Impatience

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Michael

I am driven to distraction By promises made Which impact on My own perverse sense of expectation. People who say one thing and do the opposite. Its soul destroying when you believe something Only to realise that it’s nothing more … Continue reading →

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D’Verse – Repetition – Busy

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Michael

Are you busy? Please come in? I have tea, I made a biscuit.   It’s been so long You have come so far If you’re not busy I’d like you to stop by.   I never thought you’d come round … Continue reading →

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Poem 96 – Solitude

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Michael

It is time to withdraw To a place inside of me Where I cannot be seen I can be safe and alone To contemplate Where I am? Who I am? What I am?   I need to, as my demons … Continue reading →

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