Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Spam Poetry

Sometimes there is a kind of beauty in the random words spat out by a spam generator.

The link below is the same kind of thing but I have no idea how it was written or generated. Perhaps it is just a wierd translation of something else.

http://bit.ly/bQ4Q47

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Taking Off

I feel it dying all around me
A detachment from who I used to be
I've withstood the battering, taken the bruises
Survived the destruction of who I thought I should be

Now the wind blows gently
Till it finds a hold upon my broken flesh
And lifts away that old skin
To reveal a new person within

I flex my hands and feel the blood rush
An excitement grows at the new possibilities
I want run and run, push myself to the limit
Go further than I was ever able to before

Now the wind is harsh upon my face
I head into the future more capable than ever
Unwilling to bow or break again
As I take off like a rocket, I wonder what is my fuel?

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Where do I go?

Everyone needs a safe place
Somewhere to ride out the storms
A refuge from those who are after your blood
A space apart from everything else
One hidden corner where you can catch a breath
Everyone does, but mine has gone.

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

A Winter Break

The cold crept in
And froze our love

The frost took hold
Our blood ran with ice

The snow fell deep
Entrenching our positions

Arctic winds prevailed
Blowing us apart

Now here we stand
Poles apart

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Wanting It Somehow Healed

I wish I'd been there for you
In the dark moments that shaped you
When your innocence was lost
And your spirit broken

I wish I could have given you the love you needed
Before you knew you did
And when it would have made the most difference
And saved so much future heartache

If I'd been there in those moments
I wouldn't have stood idly by
I would have waded in to prevent your pain
And change your life for the better

I hope that your future would have changed
And somehow we would still have found each other
Be living the life we should have had
If you had done the same thing for me too



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Now playing: The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

To or from?

My feet take me to places I know
Retracing the routes taken in happier times
As each footstep takes me forward
Into another memory
Each Footstep also allows me to walk away
And leave those memories behind
They no longer are brought to life
By the love and joy they once held
Now they are drained and gaunt
The soft warmth replaced by a razor-sharp edge
Unable to embrace them any longer
What once used to course through me
Giving me life
Leaves me nothing but an empty shell
What happens then
When my feet have left the familiar behind



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Now playing: Out of Eden - Come & Take My Hand
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Why love?

When can you tell if the love has gone?
Is it when the smiles fade to silence too quickly
Or you expect someone to disappoint rather than fulfill?

Is it possible for love to overcome the onslaught
As your feelings are swept away in the stony glare of incredulity
And forgiveness loses its meaning?

Is love true if its focus doesn't acknowledge it?
Does it wither and wilt if not given the attention it desires?
Or is it self-sustaining and eternal?

Does love flow from a spring?
Is it powered by an unending source
And received gratefully?

Is love something that can be demanded?
Will it be forced to do another's bidding?
Is it there to satisfy someone's need?

How can I know if the love comes from me
Or is a reaction to the person that holds my heart in their hands?
Is it validated because I say so or because she does?



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Now playing: The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Night Tricks

At night, the still air
Carries sounds that aren't there
From places that cannot be
Too far for the eye to see
They skitter and they scuttle
Dark noises in the gutter
Unnatural in the night
Non-existent in the light


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Now playing: Moby - Come on Baby
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

That Place

There's a place I live
And I place I long to be
Home is an empty word
Though it still tugs at me
I need to keep on searching
Looking to the horizon
I will find someone
One I can rely on
Painful though the moment is
It cannot last forever
A light will break soon, through the clouds
And bring a change of weather
Then I will stand, in new arms
And know I'm not alone
On that day, born in love
I will have found my new home


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Now playing: Cast - History
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Misery - The End

Do the vulgar words show what's inside?
Or are they an expression of the pain behind my eyes?

Can I be forgiven for the things I've said?
Is the lapse that I'm cursing, a sign I am dead?

Why can I find no words for the good?
Nothing to describe life of a better mood?

Why does my misery compel me to write?
When my tortured thoughts visit me at night?

How am I unable to voice life's beauty?
If I write one more dirge please shoot me!


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Now playing: Celia Cruz - Feliz Navada
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

No Peace

No peace comes
I lay here
Head thumping
Mind churning
Wanting to know
Why

Is my destiny fulfilled
Do I fade away
Or soar

What happpens next
Is my only question
Out of hundreds

I could push it away
Fill my mind
With empty thoughts

Loud enough to drown out the hubbub
Large enough to block the pain
Safe enough to ease the worry

No big thoughts tonight
Just sleep
Please, sleep

Yet I know it's not there

So, instead I try to make sense
Where there appears to be no sense

And I wait for the answers to come


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Now playing: The Carpenters - When I Fall in Love
via FoxyTunes

Girl from a dream

She may be good looking
or she may not
Whatever God gave her
She's happy with what she got


She knows what she wants
And she don't take no shit
She can see the good things
But doesn't hang onto the bad bits


And that signature style
Curly locks that flow
Or sometimes gone frizzy
But that's fine y'know


Her humour is cheeky
She likes a good rib
Telling me my flaws
But, she's fun with it


I'm not sure she's out there
But if I had the chance
I'd take her by the hand
And start a new dance


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Now playing: Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Me? Frustrated?

Cum Spilling
Outa my dick
Cum dripping
Offa your lips


Cum slipping
Outa your arse
Cum stringing
between our hips


Cum sticking
On my balls
Cum licking
Your pussy drips


Cum eating
From your mouth to mine
Keep cumming
Alla the time


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Now playing: Voice of the Beehive - Don't Call Me Baby
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Good enough?

The shimmering illusion of borrowed dreams
A goal beyond most people's means
Striving to be the epitome of another's ideal
To show them I'm committed, to prove my love is real
Why then do I have to be someone else,
And how much am I doing it for myself?
Does it matter, if it benefits all?
Am I just setting myself up for a fall?
Is it selfish of me to want to clear up my mess,
When my presence affects others happiness?
Well meaning though my intentions are
If I'm absent, would they be better off by far?
Ambitions for the future that aren't my own
But will guarantee my place in what I call home
Burn them onto my mind, erase all thoughts of me
Can I do that? Is that something I could be?
I try and I fail, Try again and succeed
My own Sisyphus' rock, but do I want to be freed?
So many questions as I question each motive
How much longer, how much more do I have to give?
Don't get me wrong, if I could change I would
It's just I keep wondering if I'm doing any good.


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Now playing: Theaudience - I Never Have Been Done
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Let it take you

Let the ride take you
Let the wind blow you
Let the world lift you on their shoulders
See where you go

What is there to fear?
When there's no further to fall
So go with the flow
It's the only way you'll know



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Now playing: Moby - Feeling So Real [Old Skool Mix]
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Discarded Thing

Discarded thing
Lying on the floor
Neglected in public
Where were you before?

Discarded thing
Were you happy then?
Do you remember
Way back when?

Discarded thing
What happened to you?
Who left you to this?
What did you do?

Discarded thing
Did you let someone down?
Hurt them in some way?
That they didn't want you around

Discarded thing
Do you want a second chance?
Take my hand
Let's dance



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Now playing: Julie London - I'm in the Mood for Love (Every Night at Eight)
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Truth and Beauty

Some people want to see the beauty in things
I want to see the truth
Beauty can be used to disguise anything
Truth allows you to appreciate a thing for what it is
I don't want the consolation prize of 'at least it looks good'
I want to know i've actually found what I was looking for in the first instance
I want to know my motives were correct to begin with
And if they weren't then I want the chance to change that
When I get what I want and i'm not sure I'm right
How can I be happy with the embodiement of something I didn't really know I wanted
I need to peel back the layers where beauty makes it's home
In the world around me
And more difficultly
Myself
The truth is that people often lie to make themselves more beatiful
Lying not just to others but to their own hearts first
I am my own enemy in my search for the truth


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Now playing: Lamb - Gorecki
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Intruded upon
By ghosts of past lives
Habits of being
Worn out and used up
Beacons of personal history
Illuminating interactions from long ago
Shadows of things forgotten
Dance around my periphery
A piece of me
In a piece of them
Trying to re-unite the whole
With so much of myself
Now a part of others lives
What remains?
Where do I live?


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Now playing: System 7 - Big Sky City [J.O.S. Mix]
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Crying in the Jobcentreplus

Crying in the Jobcentreplus
No longer in control
Overwhelmed by it all
Emotions take hold
Unable to stay on top
Regret, grief and humiliation
Washing over me
Relief and elation
A weight removed
Under unsympathetic eyes
What more can life do to me
I will rise
I will rise!


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Now playing: The Jam - The Butterfly Collector
via FoxyTunes

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Struck Dumb

I'm so stupid
I speak words that have no meaning
I think
I know what
I'm talking about
Instead
It's all so much hot air
It ain't fair
I want to describe what goes on
In my head
I want to give voice to the feelings
In my heart, but
I can't
I see others who have no problem
In communicating what they say
I see still more people who say things
I know they don't mean
Intentionally
I don't want to be like that
I hold the truth
In the highest regard
I rate falseness as the core of
Inhumanity
I have nothing to say
In the face of untruths
I blank them
I ignore them
Inwardly
I abhor them
It is the truth of the spirit
In the words of a man
Involuntarily told through the actions from the
Inner heart of his self
I'm off again
Itching to speak words only
I want to hear
In the
Interests of
Individuals who
Interact on the
Internet
I should be struck dumb



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Now playing: The Prodigy - Diesel Power
via FoxyTunes