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Jake's Short Ballad, by Megan Lee

18/9/2015

 
He is here when winter comes

Cold and icy like a thousand old drums

But he is a trickster, one that is kind

Truly he is still a child of our past mankind

Thorny Girl, by Megan Lee

18/9/2015

 
Find a rose and what do you see

Something more harmless than a honey bee

But when you try to pick

It steals red with a prick

For that rose has thorns like she


The Shore Of Shame, by Gordon Lawrie

4/9/2015

 
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In the week this was written, a couple of photographs dominated the news. I wasn't sure it was appropriate to post them here, but eventually I decided we had no right to shut our eyes.

Where’s my mamma? 
Where’s my mamma? 
I’ve lost mamma and I’m all alone 
I want my mamma 
I want my mamma 
I want my mamma to take me home

Let me gather you up, take you in my arms, 
Keep you safe from the shore of shame 
Sleep tight my darling, you can’t feel the storm 
You’ll see your mamma very soon again 
You’ll see your mamma very soon again


Can I play on the beach? 
Can I play on the beach? 
I’ve only got here please don’t take me away 
Let me play here awhile 
Let me play here awhile 
Please let me play here, mamma let me stay

Let me gather you up, take you in my arms, 
Keep you safe from the shore of shame 
Sleep tight my darling, you can’t feel the storm 
You’ll see your mamma very soon again 
You’ll see your mamma very soon again


It actually has a tune of sorts as well. I'm not particularly religious, but I really hope someone's looking after him right now. All of them, actually.

True Blue, by Bobby Warner

4/9/2015

 
His eyes were an off-color blue; 
more like a dirty, blue-green hue.

"Get contacts," I pleaded. "Make 
your eyes true blue."

"You don't understand me," he 
replied. "You haven't a clue."

I grew to hate him, and that is true. 
At night I slipped out, to look 
for someone new.

Someone more suited to my 
taste; someone with broad 
shoulders and small, trim waist.

Someone tall, dark and handsome, 
too.

With a beautiful smile-- 
and eyes true blue.

    Poetry

    This is the section where fiction prose becomes something else. We still expect the poems to be short, though – sonnets, perhaps, or around that length at the very most.

    Poems submitted should be
    no longer than 160 words
    and contain
    no more than 16 lines.

    100 words remains the approximate target...

    AND SO THEREFORE:
    We have decided
    We really don't like haikus
    They're not proper verse.


    Please submit using the Poetry Submissions Page.


    Please feel free to comment (nicely!) on any poems – writers appreciate it.
    Just at the moment, though, we're moderating some of them so there might be a slight delat before they appear.

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