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Last Updated: 28/02/2010 11:55:04
Larkin 25 - It Really Was! (Inspired by Annus Mirabilis)
By Mike Watts
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Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen eighty three
(Which was brilliant for me) -
Between the end of Tennessee Williams
And Madonna's first LP
Up till then they'd only been
A sort of wanking
A secret stash of porn
Videos and magazines
Hidden around the home
Then all at once I met this girl
Who led me to her bed
And tutored me
On penetration
Fingering and head
So life was never better than
In nineteen eighty three
(Which was brilliant for me) -
Between the end of Tennessee Williams
And Madonna's first LP.
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Copyright Mike Watts 2010
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - This Be The Curse (Inspired by This Be The Verse) By Joe Hakim
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They fucked us over, our mums and dads.
They didn't mean to but they did.
They took free education, cheap housing and jobs
And left nothing for us, their kids.
Because they inherited the future,
Opportunity, optimism and hope,
While we got disappointment,
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - Larkin With Us By Gary Clark
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The Hull you knew has long since gone
How could it remain the same?
The deep sea port you wrote about
The fishermen you blamed
The grim face, head scarved wives
I think you really admired
You must have done,
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Poetry - Kowalski's OGM - With audio download By Brindley Hallam Dennis
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So, ya got through to Kowlaski's number.
Well, Kowalski ain't 'ome.
Mildred, that's his old lady, she ain't 'ome either.
Ya see, that's what ya get.
That's what ya get fer callin' such a dumb-ass hour.
That means you Hank.
Ya wanna leave a message, talk to the machine when it beeps.
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Poetry - The Gap By Chris Culshaw
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He lives in a bedsit now,
in a house peopled by footfalls, piles
of junk mail on the mahogany hall-stand
where a broken umbrella hangs
like a snared crow beside the pocked mirror.
His room in the eaves looks out over
sooty privets, to a gap between
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Poetry - Handing Down By Trevor Matthews
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She was sitting at my kitchen table
looking at her hands.
These, she said, are my mother's hands.
She had big hands like these.
Every time I look at them now I see her,
and she held them up in front of me.
Bright sun pierced the thinning flesh.
Inside I saw the shadows of her bones
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Poetry - Harrogate Bedrock, 1899 By Sarah Hymas
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What I love about you
I have yet to quarry.
Your worn granite face
holds the promise of mica
and buttoned sandstone,
a cladding for our home.
As limestone is local diamond,
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Poetry - Don't Know How To Put It In Words By Dayne Coyne
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Don't know how to put it in words
But I'm wanting to thank you
For being so honest with me
And though it might sound absurd:
But, apart from myself,
It is you who most helps me to be
So excuse me if I seem pedantic
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Poetry - I Don't Know What To Do By Zachary Brannon
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I don't know what to say, what to do;
all I can ever think about is you!
Not sure what you think about me never have been;
But in the end it's your heart
I hope to win! I
Will always be around, always here;
My heart, I'm sure, even skips a beat
Whenever you come near.
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Poetry - This Is Not A Love Poem By Mike Watts
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No
She didn't
Punch
A hole through
My breast bone
Rip out
My still beating heart
And then volley it
Out of sight
Somewhere
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Poetry - Since You Came By Bronwyn Ellis
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Is it a chore?
And nothing more
A phase you killed off years before?
A painful bore?
An anger cure?
An 'I can't be bothered anymore?'
We're both so young
Love should be fun
As good as when we'd first begunRead more...
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Poetry - Acres Wide By Terry Ireland
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Come sleep with me she said
Bring some warmth to my bed
That seems to spread acres wide
Now that it's empty on his side
Just for a while hold me tight
Shorten just one endless night
So full of hours that I have wept
Until exhausted and finally slept
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Poetry - Larkin 25 - It's Good Innit? By Catherine Scott
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This is Hull - wot we got?
Sanitization, deprivation
Unemployment, no motivation
Teenage mums, no inspiration
It's good innit?
This is Hull - wot we got?
Beggars on street
Coppers on beat
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Poetry - The Last Great Adventure? By Laurenceaux.
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An 'end-game' of addiction, the despair of a life only going one-way: some people are pre-disposed to drug abuse, as they are to alcohol abuse, quite possibly because they are 'bored', but more probably because they have lost essential feelings of self-worth or have become detached from mainstream society, a society with ever increasing demands for total conformity.
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Poetry - I Lost a Girl and a Car By John Dervishian
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You shit on my car
because I was
immoral
but that's alright
I was days shy
of getting that
thing repossessed
anyway
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Poetry - Another Night Out By John Dervishian
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She pours my drink
As often as
I request
And she pours
It well
No questions
asked
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Poetry - The Nearly Men By Terry Ireland
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I am one of the nearly men
Never quite the best
Not really of the crowd
Not quite one of the rest.
You see us in every photograph
When the prizes are handed out
Making up the numbers yet
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Poetry - Persecution Express By Mark Walmsley
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A full head of steam, to fulfil one mans dream,
The train leaves the station, with recognisation
Bellowing black smoke, as the cargo does choke
The heave and strain, of the departing train
Carriages all broken, blindness no token,
The screams and the wails, at the stories and tales
Across field and valley, does not dilly-dally,
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Poetry - An Old Vets Christmas By David Delaney
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He shuffles down a quiet darkened street,
alone, he always dreads this time of year,
cause locals, he just does not wish to meet.
He eats collected scraps and drinks warm beer.
Now as the rain begins to softly fall
he crawls beneath a long deserted shop,
and hears the singing from the nearby hall
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Poetry - Dreams By Dino
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These are the things
I'd like to call dreams
These are the things
That are just dreams
Rocking horses
Running nowhere
Big glass heads
With eyes of despair
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Poetry - Easy By Jessica Meador
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It's so much easier
To focus
When I can't stand
The smell
Living in this
Vacant hell
When I can't stand
To feel
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Poetry - Gone Forever By Katelyn Langston
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As I looked across the glimmering lake all I could do was sigh,
for I could never forget my husband, for he watches me way up high.
I can hear his old chair creak, when the whispering wind blows,
I still see his jacket on the coat rack when it snows.
I miss his soft and tender voice, coming from the den,
I miss his gentle footsteps whenever he came in.
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Poetry - Out Rage By Belinda Barchard
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pacing up and down
no one around
to hear the sound of me screaming
my gut wrenching squealing
I'm seething
might as well stop breathing
grab my wrists
and pin me down
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Poetry - Weekend Wasters By Bronwyn Ellis
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Mundane Mondays, tedious Tuesda'
8 o clock starts and sugar free muesli.
Wednesday's the mile point that breaks up the toil,
By Thursday you've buried your head in the soil.
Fridays the high day when weekend begins,
People mince round the office with permanent grins.
They're happy go lucky and no-one can spoil it,
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Poetry - I Probably Deserved It By Mike Watts
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Early hours Monday
I had this mad episode
I thought I was being
Strangled
I could feel the pressure
Around my throat
Fingers crushing my
Adam's apple
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