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Poetry - The Lesson By Joe Hakim

There's a lesson to be learnt, even if I don't know what it is. I'm at a friend's house and I'm checking my e-mail and there it is: a poetry organisation has nominated me for    Read more...

Poetry - Heron By Katherine Horrex
	Puffed up, portentous. Mortar board tassels Flapping with distinction in the breeze, a heron Has with ease cast off his fledgling's first year rags, Graduating from estuary banks to next door's pond- A task that has presented him a sharp thirst It seems, as he sips at the siphon before sniping fish Read more...

Poetry - Snakes and Things By Andrea Longstaff

	When I take pictures my eyes realign At the end of the day I sleep in a barn The wandering insane impinged on my pain So I listened to music 'till sunrise When she asked for my name I said "I don't know" I'd forgot who I was a long time ago Read more...

Poetry - Now She's Gone By Mike Watts
	Every Friday was pizza night And we'd share a large pepperoni With extra chilli And a box of fries Which I always dished out 60/40 Because she was too gorgeous To be ruined by equal portions. Read more...

Poetry - I Can't Speak For You By Paul England

	every turn I ever took left me questioning my mind I'm picking through my closet but the truth is all I find life has left me lost feeling only blind Read more...

Poetry - The Petite Bourgeoisie By Laura Fry

	Your parents did their best for you And that's why money's always meant a lot They were never well-to-do So you'd do so much better, so you thought Baby-boomer, Sixties child Sex and money all rolled into one Read more...

Poetry - Juggling Chainsaws By Joe Hakim

There's a gig I need to do, a flat I need to view. There's a point to be proved, a sofa to be moved. There's a table to be cleared, a reputation to be smeared. There's a drink I'd like to taste,    Read more...

Poetry - These Streets By Mike Watts
	These streets are as mean As a dog gone mad The raised fist Of a drunken dad A thousand wasps In a swarm of fury A hot and hungry Read more...

Poetry - I'm Confused By Sven Rez

Two quid fifty a beer! Out three times a week Hundred quid for alcohol, taxis and that greasy kebab And I'm not on about your mum What about the drugs? What about the new clothes for a night out? Read more...

Poetry - Depression and Grime By Laura Fry

	The turkey is burnt, and nobody's learnt That the whole malarkey is nothing but twaddle Uncle Bert's put his new socks in the bin And Grandma's on her third bottle of gin Christmas time Depression and grime Read more...

Poetry - Definition By Sven Rez

A degree does not bring happiness A holiday does not bring joy Sadness brings pain Without sadness, no one will be happy A light does not shine A star cannot shoot    Read more...

Poetry - The Crude Politics Of Petropublicans And Democradicals And Indepundits By Del Abe Jones.

	Where do we get these people Who fight new energy Then, raise the price of oil For their greedy industry? Where do we get these people Who build the cars we drive Read more...

Poetry - The Warriors Holiday By Del Abe Jones.

	The holidays are upon us And Christmas is drawing near But for far too many Families There won't be a 'Happy New Year'. Their loved ones are off at War In some far-off foreign land Read more...

Poetry - Dead Flowers By Paul England

	I hate these fucking lines the ones that tell the truth these lines that tell the world about my misplaced youth lines of yesterday still playing in my head Read more...

Poetry - Away from Here By Sven Rez

Meeting new people with same enthusiasm of life To travel so far on my own Out here, there is no stress or worries A far cry away from home Sitting here on the golden sands of paradise The night filled with thousands ...    Read more...

Poetry - Bruises Look Nicer in Twilight and Snowshoes Cause Blisters At Mealtimes By Andrea Longstaff

	Smoking crack in a rickety shack Hoovering up pygmies while wearing a mac She was reminiscing about a girl called Jack Well bugger me it's still raining. The metaphor's ran a race for life The Queen didn't mind when Read more...

Poetry - Nature At Its Best By Cathie McCarthy

Standing on the cliffs edge Watching the sea at its best Waves getting vicious and wild Beating away at the lands coast I almost feel the anger of this action The strength it takes As it washes away a little more land    Read more...

Poetry - Somewhat Between Scenes... By John Winn

I saw butterflies flying in the sky I notice that they do not fly so high But drift along a pleasant breeze which is neither here nor there With windows closed I can see darkness Detached from a modern "bring down" world Sacred texts hold you in place    Read more...

Poetry - Chants By Shaun Heesom

	I drank a glass of auld lang syne And burned the mistletoe I walked down 'Chants' Like I used to do on Christmas Eve Many times before How it has changed Who did this? Read more...

Poetry - The Next Buzz By Michelle Dee
	I turn the corner there's a queue going right down the street. The occasional shriek as excited young girls, dream of men they might meet. My feet make no sound as I pass around people standing. Striding for the door I .. Read more...

Poetry - Whisky By Shaun Heesom
	I woke up early No I didn't it was late My head was clear and alive No it wasn't it was hungover I thought how great life was- - nah I didn't Read more...

Poetry - The Cloth Actor and the Cold Walk Home By Joe Hakim

The Cloth Actor is in tatters, too battered to focus or notice the shadows of bare branches like hands clutching at ankles on frosted pavements    Read more...

Poetry - Another Day of Infamy March 20, 2003 By Del Abe Jones.

	An unprovoked attack in Forty-one That some say, could have been prevented Sadly, now we have another one From lies our Government invented. We are coming on five years of War More than forty-three hundred killed Just so, as some say, the Pres's wishes Read more...

Poetry - Display By Katherine Horrex
	The night is cannon-pocked, illuminated intermittently, and with every boom the tune of the 1812's denouement. War-cries drench and pound against the skin. High in my garret, I am feeling hot nostalgia for an unknown epoch- its whole framework rattles as they skewer the air- streaking Read more...

Poetry - My Street By Paul England

	People say I'm different cos I speak the fucking truth the man I have become leaves me questioning ones youth at 18 years old I was a crazy cunt so willing Read more...

Poetry - Yourself Believe In By Sven Rez

Do you believe in fate? Does fate believe in you? Do you believe in God? Does God believe in you? Do you believe in coincidence? Does coincidence believe in you? Do you believe in science?    Read more...

Poetry - Whisky By Shaun Heesom
	I woke up early No I didn't it was late My head was clear and alive No it wasn't it was hungover I thought how great life was- - nah I didn't Read more...

Poetry - Really, What is it all about? By Joe Hakim

It's on days like this I wonder why - why I continue to fill the glasses of these hollow well-scrubbed professional something or others:    Read more...

Poetry - I Have Never By Mike Watts
	Smoked or taken drugs Had jewellery dangling from my lugs Been tempted by a teenage tart Held a lighter to a fart Backed a horse that's won a race Had a virgin on my face Thought Jim Davidson was funny Read more...

Poetry - Hull By Rucko
	Inspired by common clay, It's nature's wasted face, A failed bohemian, With not a single ounce of grace, No grassy rolling hills, No sparkling streams or lakes,    Read more...

Poetry - For the Dad I Barely Knew By Laura Fry
	Your friends, they still miss you today They say you were larger than life You're still in my mind I've still got my short memories You were gentle and kind Laughing brown eyes And almost raven hair Read more...

Poetry - Who Will Care When We're All Gone By The Lazyswede
	I am just a simple man in a world where love Is hiding far away, far away Pain and anger all around yes this story's been foretold Long ago, long ago When will we learn to get along who'll tell you that they Want to end it all, end it all, Read more...

Poetry - When Indie Rock and Metal Collide (Or the goose that laid the golden egg) By Michelle Dee
	Tables moved out of the way as GST play "Class A" Front man Dave wants his band's free beer, He'll get it later have no fear. The kids get a taste of the microphone Bellowing out "all that you know" Standing on speakers wearing Ray Ribeiro's cap Not cap in hand, they couldn't Read more...

Poetry - Day Off By Joe Hakim

I'm not going to work today it's raining outside but I feel ok, my bed is comfy and I still feel sleepy and I know no one's going to ring me. For the first time in weeks I'm free - so I'm going to be lazy,    Read more...

Poetry - I Remind Myself of Me When I Wasn't By Andrea Longstaff
	As I opened my mind With a key that's not mine I wondered if I could paper over the cracks As I strolled down the halls And bounced off the walls I learnt to transcend the trivia Read more...

Poetry - Destiny By Laura Fry
	A Yorkshire November Set the scene for our perfect day And I still remember Each detail as if it were yesterday Church bells were ringing Late autumn wind ruffled my bridal gown Read more...

Poetry - Rocky The Rat By Mike Watts
	When I was ten I was given a rat A pet shop reject As big as a cat That shared the shed With my brothers rabbit Read more...

Poetry - Trade Winds By Scott Rorrison
	Trade winds blow o'er the boisterous azure sea,     To Africa's savage shore, land of kings,     Where Nile reeds softly dance with the dawn winds: As you used to, drunk on old Jack and me.     Perhaps Rome? Land of Romulus the great, Where olives, lemons, lustful Latin's dwell, A fierce city, born when brave Troy fell, Read more...