Tag Archives: Resistance

Bigotry

Bigotry lays there Laden with loss It has no legs To stand on No wheels To move it forward Like a giant boulder It grows denser With each passing year It gathers moss And loses ground And even the Good … Continue reading

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Rise!

Did the months really fly south that swiftly? Did our passion settle into a slow smoulder for good? And what is that blurry speck floating in the waning distance, where once our young eyes held high in court? Wake up, … Continue reading

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Miserable Shit of a Day

This day couldn’t be meaner If it knocked me on the chin and Left me splitting blood and broken teeth. 24 hours rotten to the core, So tainted it’s spoiling all the other days Packed on either side. Today is … Continue reading

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Teeter Totter

we’re a lop-sided teeter-totter, you and i one pushes off too hard and sails through the cloudless sky crashing the other to the ground with a hard thump one day i’m flying and the next day i’m bruised black and … Continue reading

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Break

i took a break from those words that haunted my lights, my brights and every shade of grey. words that eviscerated and contorted my voice. left me wondering who was talking to whom. i sat on a spate of grass, … Continue reading

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Broken by Nothing

The bones that held me up Were little more than straw Brittle shafts that snapped under The pressure of silence Broken by the weight of nothing I’ll just lay here in the stubble Waiting for some farmer On his tractor … Continue reading

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Along the Marsh

> Along the marsh ferns run rampant in the generous, wet air and moss hangs in youthful oblivion, impervious to the cold gathering round. Tall grasses heed the signs of winter settling in though; their lithe stalks bend over in … Continue reading

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Wedged

When you want to drive a wedge in, want to spit things apart, you will use anything you can get your hands on; an argument, a misdirected word, you’ll even hammer silence down into the cracks. And you won’t back … Continue reading

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Poetry in Motion

When I broke open, words and blood spilled all over the sidewalk. There was God and good and Type O floating in a sticky puddle at the curb. I scrambled to pick up all those letters, to cram them back … Continue reading

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Lightening Up

…some poems aren’t literary works…they’re just small bouts of truth… You wont read another poem from me about God or Jesus, or prophets or psalms; those were someone else’s myths, not mine. I don’t need divine intervention to tell me … Continue reading

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