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Moving Mountains

I see you,Flawed masonry,Quibbling over pebbles,Pushing life’s boulders uphill,A sorry little Sisyphus,Eroded and marred, But I truly see you,Unlike those with sand in their eyes,There is yet seismic activity within you,You are a tectonic force,Wiping the smirks from cliff faces,Making molehills of mountains, There are alpine ranges in your path,It’s true,We all have our peaks to climb,But keep…

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Yachting

Do you see what I see?Upon our local tides,Like the odour of seaweed,A flotilla of elites,A horde of second home owners,Bleach-blonde and windswept,Boat shoes and red chinos,Onboard their carbon fibre trophies,Spinnakers like noble house crests,Do you see what I see?For the summer they buy the waves,A fashion show on the blue,A lavish display for the plebeians,A laugh in the face of living…

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8Ball

You must know,So you shake the ball,Hoping for some foresight,Some validation,But that little porthole offers little,Only half-truths and vagueries,There is noise within,It emanates from the internals of the orb,Malignant laughter,Padlocks and chains,Sloshing with answers unsaid,Mockery in every movement,It knows all,Everything kept in those inky waters,But it’ll never elaborate,It enjoys the…

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Early Hours

It is the mourning period of the last night,The early hours of the morn,When foxes cry and frost descends,I’m cloaked in the velvet breeze,Lapping softly against my cheek,This witching hour,This twilight,It is a meditative time,When the sky burns its many candles,Even as lethargy rears its head,It is pleasant,But it’s the calm before the storm,Something appears on the horizon,That eerie blue…

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Glitches

Were we meant to be this way?Chrome and lipstick golems,Matrices of issues and fallacies,Or are we full of glitches?Bugs in every interaction,Error reports aplenty,We twitch and palpitate,Walking like static,Our bodies morphing and shifting,Streaks of colour arcing off our forms,As if on an old television,As if made of pixels,Were we meant to be so technological?Without the means of recoding…

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Some writing music: Part 189

Hello there inmates!Another week, another meandering post by yours truly! It’s getting much warmer now and that can only be a good thing. Except for one point. It’s a bank holiday this weekend coming up and, while that is great news for anybody that deserves a 3-day weekend, it means I have some rather long and stressful shifts on the way. As some of you may have noticed already, my posting…

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Cryptids

The world is far more bizarre,More populated with oddities,Than we tend to believe,There may yet be things out there,Creatures unknown to science,Things in the mountains,Beasts leaving fur in pine trunks,Things in the woods,Hiding in plain sight within blurry photos,Things under the waves,Prehistory in Celtic lochs,Perhaps even in the sewers,Cold-blooded jaws laying amidst the grime,These things…

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Call Me Chaos

With glassy eyes you ask me,What I am,I am you,All of you,I am that hunger in your breast,The puppeteer holding you strings,I am the primordial ooze from whence you came,I am that voice in your head,That which raises your fist to another,I am the dark shapes in your periphery,Those whom make your pulse race,I am each butterfly wing removed,I am no theory,I am intrinsic human nature,Call me chaos.

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Beautiful Disaster

She was truly dazzling,It cannot be denied,But a fiasco nonetheless,A car crash with mascara,A shark-tailed siren,A fiend with perfectly painted talons,An armada of red flags,A beautiful disaster,For you see,Beauty is not worth in itself,A person needs more than that,Her most of all,What of kindness?Or wisdom?Are they not worthy of pedestals?Does superficiality supersede all?Looks rot away,Souls…

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Magic Tricks

It’s all a performance,All of it,Each breath wears a top hat and cape,Shuffling onto a stage,There are no volunteers here,Only a captive audience,But the tricks are played regardless,Global sleight of hand,Slicing maidens in twain,Pulling the heads of rabbits from hats,Smoke and ash and mirrors,And at the end,No applause is heard,A grim reaper is drawn,Is that your card?

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Sociopath

There was a man,Who appeared to lack emotions,Or at least the comprehension of them,His face was grey and blank,Almost reptilian in temperament,Like a mannequin in the best makeup,Looking the part but not grasping the role,Giving no hint of sensation,A stone wall against all,He would act,Often brashly,Regardless of the effect on others,He would pay them no mind,And no more to right and…

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The Grove

Come sit under the tree my friend,You are safe now,The green shall provide,This haven of the arboreal,This grove is for the lost,The hurt souls of the modern world,The canopy shall shield you from the rain,The worlds slings and stones,The fae among these toadstools shall regale you,Tales from the many fantastical realms,You shan’t go hungry,The fruit of these briars shall provide aliment,Be…

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Some writing music: Part 188

Salutations inmates!Here we are at the centre of another week eh? Hump day some people call it. What a bizarre name! Anyways, how is everybody doing out there? It’s been a fairly decent week here at the asylum. I’ve been slowly but surely getting to grips with my new employment. It’s a lot for me to take in but I’m getting there. I’ve certainly been feeling more productive because of it though,…

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Dragontongue

He sat upon a throne of hoarded gold,Smelted into shape by fires exhaled,A king without a crown,But a coronation of horns,He had the tongue of a dragon,The scaled epitome of absolute authority,A white-hot mailed fist,And when he spoke,Embers erupted at the sound,The storms coalesced and yelled praise,Mountains kneeled in thrall,Forests shivered in their roots,All beasts knew domination,And even…

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Grandfather Clock

I remember as a child,Every occasion the hour struck due,And that resounding tone would emanate,I would shiver,Knowing that time had stolen a breath,And it’d continue even without earshot,It was that antique grandfather clock,That accursed authority on time,With a pendulum of meteorite iron,I remember it even now,It’s stature like a judge at court,It was no humble timekeeper,But Father Time in…

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Compulsion

We all have addictions,Our personal highs,They’re the best sedatives for the world,I think we all have that one thing,That prime compulsion,That siren attraction,A chime in the back of your head,Do you too hear this call?Is it the rush of nicotine?The bottle or keg?Maybe it is the pixels onscreen?Perhaps the euphoria of narcotic oblivion?Or the praise of brownnosers online?As many fixations as…

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Imposter Syndrome

This work is complete,Another night at the forge,Though I remember naught,As if rising from a trance,My vision returns to clarity,As I gaze at the page,Assessing the words that I’ve spilled,I don’t recognise myself,It is like somebody else wrote them,Some imposter in my midst,Slicing my own vellum,Dripping my own ink,A man in my face painted inhuman,Wielding my hands like props,Raising these…

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