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Walking Shadow

To quote the Bard: "Life is a walking shadow." Recent events have inspired me on this one....
52950Oct 2017Nov 20175 hrs ago

Ships in the Night (To Cafe)

For the years that I've been on here, I have crossed swords with some and had agreeable chats with others. Jim was certainly of the latter. He wrote f...
631130Oct 2017Oct 2017May 16

Jeeves

Jeeves of course was the butler....
50941Aug 2017Aug 201712 hrs ago

For Cailin

“I do all that becomes a man….he that does more is none.” Don’t look for heroes, I’m not Theseus battling the Minotaur. Once someone showed me th...
43610Aug 2017Aug 2017May 2

A Prawn By Any Other Name.

Well...when you think about this poem in a metaphorical sense...it's really quite profound!...
50050Jul 2017Nov 2018Apr 29

The Search

I don't come on here very often now but I noticed that one of your poets..."looking2share" put up a controversial poem about the nature religion and G...
50620Jun 2017Jun 2017May 7

Poetry

A bit of a whim really. I just thought I'd provide my historical perspective....
62660May 2017Feb 2020May 16

What is Love?

The strangest search of all...finding love....
56360May 2017Jul 2017May 1

A Fairy Tale

I love fairy tales especially with a happy ending....
47350Mar 2017Mar 2017Apr 29

Christmas Tradition

It's the time of the year for Xmas poems. Here's one I revised....
1,16840Dec 2016Dec 2016May 8

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Maybe this is the answer to that age old question....
1,57490Dec 2016Dec 20166 hrs ago

Ten Little Girlfriends

I was looking through some of my past attempts at poetry and I found this one. I thought I'd submit it to such an esteemed site. Remind me to write th...
67640Oct 2016Oct 2016May 2

What Women Want

This was written some time back. I don't think things have changed that much....
72180Sep 2016Nov 201612 hrs ago

The Journey

Some literary and mythic allusions in this one. When Theseus destroyed the Minotaur he returned to Athens by ship. The signal was that if he had white...
1,007200Jun 2016Dec 2019May 17

Inspired Folly

The title is based on Professor Higgins quote in "Pygmalion". "What is life but a series of inspired follies." From my experience...too true....
839120May 2016Jun 2016May 11

Love's Labour's Lost

Yes a borrowed title but an original poem....
924130Aug 2015Aug 2015Apr 29

When The World Falls In

When the world falls in, You can deny. When the world falls in, You can grasp at securities, The bricks and mortar, Of belief and self. The cast...
972170Aug 2015Sep 2015May 16

No Title

I was reading through the poetry of Elo and it inspired me to write this. It's great that we can be inspired by other "poets."...
726120Jul 2015Jul 2015May 9

Blind Date

An oldie and a goldie....
72340Jul 2015Jul 2015May 5

Strange Meetings

The subject of this poem bears no resemblance to Wilfred Owen's prophetic poem set in WW1. I just thought of how, when you get to a certain age, your...
95670Jun 2015Jul 2015May 14

The Siren's Song

What can I say about this poem? The only fantasy is in the mind of the fantasist. We set our ideals but know that there is no such thing. A basic flaw...
740180May 2015Jun 20155 hrs ago

I've Known The World

Just some thoughts....
863160May 2015May 2015May 10

Power and Control

Some people need so much control in their lives. You wonder how it starts and how they never learn....
868110Feb 2015Jun 2015May 15

Feeling Special

My thoughts are that most people on this site are searching for that special feeling....
69750Dec 2014Apr 2015May 10

Quintessence of Dust (Paloma's challenge)

It's good to see great challenges emerging again on the site. Well done Paloma! For those interested the title comes from a very famous speech by Haml...
959310Sep 2014Dec 2014May 4

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