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The Lost Garden

I went to the garden of love. And saw what I never had seen. A Chapel was built in the midst. Where I used to play on the green William Blake Restless thoughts continually plagued, could find no rest...

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Pattern seeking

Rouged cheek on orangey, gold tan, liquid forming (through backdrop sky) a momentary Mohican, then gravity recalls the dyes. Reptile skull, or beveled helmet, unique form with unknown preset, solidity...

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The Poetry of Bathroom Body Discipline

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) After the fresh ZingTinG of Colgate white.. comes the face:    Special cleansing wash       Clearing skin wash (problem zones only)          Daily micro exfoliant Hair next:...

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Bideford witches

1682: Three Bideford women hung for witchcraft (the last recorded in England). 1992: Bideford has raised me, but will not hold me much longer. At school, a local Parish priest gently warns me: “You’re...

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I want to break free / on showing my Dad my latest single

“The saddest thing.. the wish to break free from your life!” The saddest thing.. at 10, to hear my Dad stating, not knowing his earlier strife – I’d understand in adult life.. the saddest thing....

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The day I became superstitious

A classic, clichéd family holiday: British seaside, Butlin’s chalets, fairground rides, candy floss, and Donkey Derbies. Sun shines – not on me: I stand in adults’ shadows. Dad urges me to pick a...

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Dverse twitter challenge

Poetry in one hundred forty, so quick to read in its entirety. Yet it drives the poet to obsession, just to offer twitter a new possession. (Over at dverse we’ve been challenged to write a twitter poem...

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The hidden poetry in books

I’m finally back home in Auckland, after just over three months of traveling. What better way to settle back, than to pick up the latest dverse challenge, which is to create a found poem out of book...

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Trivial Pursuit

As a bright teenager, I wondered how adults, who weren’t – all that, knew so many facts and took so many trivial pursuit slices. Fast forward >>> twenty years >>> “Which country...

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Personal Light Show

A Dada poem written for Dverse, with phrases taken from a psychological study of those who experience synesthesia when engaged in sex. Read more about it here The image comes from deviantart.com

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