Category: Poetry
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I don’t think about my skinVery often, although it is a colourThat has provoked a reaction in othersBoth negative and at timesPatronisingly positiveBecause my ethnicity…
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Exhaustion weighs upon mySoul, as if on my head is aCrown of leadAnd offers of gold seemPreposterousEmptyPromises of gifts I’ll never seeLead not gold is…
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Brightest beacon of Purest procrastination I watch to avoid
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I wanted one glassBut drank five more to avoidPricey vinegar
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Why is being average Never quite enough? Why must we always strive To be a cut above? If everyone is better Than what we call…
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Last night’s meal was lovely It went down very well But sad to say it’s left behind A less than pleasant smell The garlic, herbs…
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Badger went to call on Fox But Fox had gone to buy some socks Then Badger went to look for Mole But could not find…
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I’m often hungryWhen I’m boredAnd I’m often boredIt’s said thatOnly boring peopleGet boredI find that expressionUnhelpful to my plightAnd quite boringI’m not boredBecause I lackSufficient…
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It’s probably bestWhen reflecting on the pastNot to focus too muchOn what actually happenedWhen a bit of embellishmentAnd some outright liesCan ameliorate the narrativeAnd render…
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Oh empty deodorant canWhy do you sit thereOn my bathroom shelfMocking me with your emptiness?I should have thrown you outSeveral days agoWhen first you stopped…
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Early one morningOn a high street like any otherBefore the retail giants had even begun to yawnI saw a man asleep in a doorwayIn the…
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Welcome back to my regular Monday feature where I publish something that looks like it might be a poem but on closer inspection may not be…
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I didn’t know what to write todaySo I wrote this,And tried to make it look like a poemBut it obviously isn’t a poem.Although it may…
James Proclaims! 