Poem: Running From Dusk Until Dawn: Stuck in a Year I Was Never Meant to Own – 21/10/19

 From dusk to dawn I thought of you,
 Obsessed, my mind ran through moments lacking your truths.
 Where passions were high and my fingers danced their little tunes,
 I begged, beseeched for you to listen 
 To my heart
 My beating
 For you so true.
  
 I yearned for your presence
 But you would not allow me this
 I rarely saw you
 Yet my words I sent them
 Stronger, becoming desperate,
 My emotions to you were amiss
 Yet when I thought of you
 All I could recall was a misting bliss. 
  
 What could I say to make you turn my way?
 To gather your feelings in a heartfelt kind of manner
 That would make you want to visit my world
 And here remain?
  
 I should have wished for something more
 Because with you there was soon a forceful need
 To escape
 To run
 Or at least
 Refrain,
 Falling in love was a misdeed.

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Prose Poetry: Daffodil – 20/10/19

The daffodil is strangely beautiful in its brightened yellow garb. In his coloured outfit of delight, he makes observers sing and sigh with breathy appreciation and flowing rivers of love.

He is modest, this daffodil, he does not ask to be seen for what he is not, he is not showy or greedy for eyes, he accepts what is given, where our eyes are cast.

But we cannot stare at anything other than him, his joyous melody of lightness seemingly singing, singing, through our innate senses of melodious being.

He also represents awareness, a sign of a reminder, but here he is simply here, present, and we appreciate his wonder. All the while though, there is a knowing that his sincere purpose is to make others show that we understand, we are aware, of his meaning we truly care.

His beauty can be deceptive, but he is now blossomed, into full bloom, like the brightened message he represents, we can take this flower with us, from hushed room to comforting room.

This daffodil is magic, and he is perfectly pleased with being part of a message, raising eyes, awareness and acknowledging the brave hearts whom the blossom is trying to help save with his blessings.

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Poem: Adorn Thy Clause: An Acerbic Recollection of 2015 – 20/10/19

 ‘Adorn thy clause, irreverently yours’, 
 You once held my yearning heart for ransom. 
  
 I spoke the loving words you never spoke,
 As my heart held open doors, 
 Now they’re firmly closed,
No in-and-out fairies a-prancing. 
  
 Many times, I proclaimed my ardour for you 
 With brightened smiles and flowery poetry,
 But the wool was pulled over my eyes, 
 And now it’s time to share the story.  
  
 Had you not made me walk your path
 Where I experienced your sheer manipulation
 And audacity
  
 I might have never found my true love and known
 How I deserved to be treated by another,
 Decently, respectfully, properly.

 The juxtaposition between my present love
 And your lying proclamations was a comparative
 Level of suffering. 

You should not have been allowed to
Remain in my life for that long
The fact you had is strangely amazing.
  
 Oh, call the lyrebirds, 
 And the peacocks with their brightened plumes!
 That evening when we first properly spent time together,
 We had our first emotional encounter in that starched white room. 
  
 But as likely with all your romances, 
 You caused this to become pear shaped,
 You blasted away any sense of responsibility
 You took my hard work, honour, and generosity
 For granted each and every day.
  
 Your behaviour should have been wiped away. 
  
 I didn’t need something or someone like this in my life,
 I’m actually glad that you pulled yourself away, 
 Excised me from my strife,
 For I had better things to write of, feel and say,
 I was worthy of the then-unwanted freedom you cast my way. 
  
 And for months I was required to heal, 
 My mental health wrecked and ravaged,
 I speak for myself, as I speak for all, 
 We are not all left that damaged. 
  
 So, I adorn my clause,
 To you I present not even as irreverently yours, 
 Not even sincere in the slightest. 
 But because of you, and how you make me felt, 
 Like dirt smooshed into the ground, 
 I realise and know that I deserve behaviour 
 Only of the finest merit.

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Story: Wide-Eyed Elven Pixie – 20/10/19

There was once a wide-eyed elven pixie. Let’s call her Hannah. Beneath the surface of something great, there lurked Hannah’s terror. Because underneath the façade of her perfectly manicured life, in the forest there dwelled something – a horror! – that would and could cause her much strife.

Hannah was an unlikely host to this being which attached itself to the one it fancied the most. This creature was shudder-inducing, this creature caused others to weep and wail, because this creature was abhorrently unpleasant and stank to high hell.

Upon Hannah’s back this creature was firmly attached, sucking, sucking the life from her. Because like a leech it drank from its victims, feeding more and more, this was the creature’s system.

The creature, Norbert, was a cruel thing to behold; he only thought of himself and how he could benefit from another’s pain and suffering twofold. He was selfish, uncaring, and manipulative as he rode on his host’s backs, and Hannah was suffering greatly from his presence, I cannot say anything less than that.

Oh, how she tried to remove Norbert, with a thick stick to poke and slide against his gooey form. Oh, how she grabbed at the awkward place he was situated, and tried to pull him off her aching back. And oh, how she managed to shift him just a little, with a shriek and a squeal Norbert know his days were likely limited.

Then Hannah had a wondrous idea! She leaned against a rough tree trunk. Holding the wood either side, hands behind her hips, she grated her vile pest against the surface’s bumps.

“Nooooooo!” Norbert wailed as he came away in pieces, like the innards of a bag of shredded three-cheese mix for Pizza night’s meal. Soon only the suckers with their strong suction remained, her lower back felt much better, perfectly lighter all the same. The pieces of Norbert tried to reform themselves into their former being of parasitic venom, but they would not be permitted, because Hannah decided to quickly eat the lot of them.

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Poem: Cheer Girl – 19/10/19

 She cheers for me,
 She cheers for you,
 She’s there standing by the side lines 
 When we are down and blue.
  
 She encourages us
 To be the best that we can
 She calls out motivation and speaks of 
 Our inner and outward strengths.
  
 When we stumble
 If we fall,
 She’s roaring now,
 She’s having a ball!
  
 She screams for us to keep on going,
 That we can perform what we wish to be
 Our dreams must be ongoing
 Her voice she does not think of saving.
  
 And then from the side lines
 She now rushes onto the court
 Holding our bodies then raising us up
  
 She swings us round and round
 Like children on the Hills hoist
 And reminds us to enjoy our lives
 In all our successes, 
 Failures,
 And future joy.

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Prose Poetry: Hoot Hoot – 19/10/19

Hoot and holler, holler and hoot, they express their blatant approval as you walk past their scene. Where you are not viewed as a person, but an item, a beautiful thing to be objectified and admired without the understanding that you feel and express yourself too. Now you hoot and holler, toward them you shake your fist and call, standing up for yourself, you won’t take their disrespect at all. With surprise they lower their eyes, ashamed, awash with embarrassment, they should have known better, to perform their social role with the respect they’d been taught to express at home.

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Prose Poetry: Expulsion – 18/10/19

I have long ago released all ill feeling for those whom were once in my life, for the former alliances, for the ones who took advantage of a young naïve woman who was I. For those who exploited the gullibility in a cruel selfish manner that meant only they would be the ones benefiting, I speak to you now: you have no effect on me anymore, it is easier to forgive then commence forgetting than to cling to the hatred of years before.

While it is effortless to recall angered words about them, in my being, in my core, I don’t feel anything bad or negative for them now, not anymore. It’s as though the thick black soot of anger and slime which permeated my being when I recalled them has simply annihilated itself, wiped itself clean.

Certainly, I can detail my former anger and sense of insult and offence but what would be the point in that? Live and let live. These beings are the ones who have to live with who they truly are, how they are themselves, and that is quite possibly the biggest sucker-punch of an irony to be known and seen. They will one day be suffering; this I can assure you. The conscience has a way of making oneself accountable for their actions. And I know to stay well away from these types, because for me, the warning signs signal in my mind for evermore.

I can’t imagine being like some of those self-serving, arrogant, selfish people I once knew. They would have to come to terms with how they treat others, and perhaps for them, there is nothing wrong with being advantageous, fashioning circumstances benefiting themselves and themselves alone. They do not think kindly of me, nor do they think of you, they precisely alter the methods and exercise their wiles until you’re backed against a wall, with nothing more to say. Unfortunately, occasionally our self-control and courage take a sick day.

Do not allow yourselves to be affected by these types, nor the memory of what these types have performed. They are unworthy of your anger or spat spite, instead allow yourself to be free of negativity, they’re worthy of nothing in your life, nor space in your mind. They are gone for a reason. To the memory of them a firm goodbye.

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Prose Poetry: Your Little Birdy – 17/10/19

Broken, he seemingly fell from the heavens, into your considering view. Into your loving care and concern, he assisted at healing you too. As you nursed him back to health, hand rearing, listening to his joyous, tenuous calls and providing your skills of motherly loving, you watched him and his confidence grow tenfold, in the days you spent together.

Then disaster would strike, oh, the horror, as differing birds came to sweep your Birdy away. Yet he is now looked after by a larger other, of his own kin; you smile to yourself, knowing he is finally grown enough for freedom with his own kind, with his other hopefully he will stay. Though, close to your heart his memories will forever remain, and you wish for him as a guardian of your land, you know you cannot will him to be anything more than free, as the moment that he flew from your hand.

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Prose Poetry: A Bouquet of Fronds – 15/10/19

You, my dear, are like a bouquet of colourful, delightful fronds. Rare in my life and treasured and adored, I hold you close like this exquisite leafy arrangement, because of our love I am truly assured. Need not there be gifts of diamonds and gold, of precious gemstones set in shining silver — those gifting days have long passed. I caress you, like the bunch of bright and perfumed foliage to my chest, and breathe you in, your precious, peculiar scent. The heady perfume that you create without even batting an eyelid, a resonance felt in my heart as I inhale, then heavily exhale and once more, I breathe you in. I draw in as much as I can from your loving presence in my life, and know intuitively that unlike the glorious bouquet that you happily presented to me, your existence in my life will never be fleeting. You, my love, will always be mine.

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Prose Poetry: The Flowing River Meeting Place – 14/10/19

There was a river flowing from my heart at the point where we first met. Two streaming rushes converging into other, as we assessed and smiled and interacted with one another. I drew pictures on the back of your hand, little symbols here and there, you allowed me to be cutesy and my childish myself, and I so love that about you, that of my personality, you were immediately made aware and you didn’t back away, you didn’t seem to care.

Your water brings me sustenance and lifts the dehydrating fog; disallows my heart from becoming parched and dry, and nestles me into your hydrating, plumping love. At this rushing river where our hearts were made known of each other’s presence and traits, are where we meet daily, our emotions intertwining together, becoming vines wrapped alongside and with each other. Because that is how we are, our fates are now twisted, into tightly coiled shapes, and the thorns? Why, they’ve completely gone missing.

Because there is no longer any room for personal barbed pain or undying senses of loneliness to be noticed, harped upon, and saved. Because together we are stronger, in charming and less charming circumstances we will remain with great ardour, and in saying this I will strongly ascertain that our love for one another will remain as long as our forevers.

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Poem: Running From Dusk Until Dawn: Stuck in a Year I Was Never Meant to Own – 21/10/19

Prose Poetry: Daffodil – 20/10/19

Poem: Adorn Thy Clause: An Acerbic Recollection of 2015 – 20/10/19

Story: Wide-Eyed Elven Pixie – 20/10/19

Poem: Cheer Girl – 19/10/19

Prose Poetry: Hoot Hoot – 19/10/19

Prose Poetry: Expulsion – 18/10/19

Prose Poetry: Your Little Birdy – 17/10/19

Prose Poetry: A Bouquet of Fronds – 15/10/19

Prose Poetry: The Flowing River Meeting Place – 14/10/19