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birksy archive of published lines and poems on Linespedia.
"You lose them, bit by bit like grains of sand they slip through your fingers, back onto the beach, where they become rocks, that are then submerged under the unknown sea. So while you have enough san..."
"I never used to carry scissors, never saw the need, that’s changed now. I hold them tightly in my bag, Just waiting for the moment when I snatch them out to right that injustice in the world, the quic..."
"Just want it to miss, Each time, every time, I want it to just fly by, What a difference it would have made, No fear, no death, no media. But it never can miss, Just explodes as if a crazy firework, w..."
"More logs for the fire, they’re stacked fifteen rows deep, right up to the ceiling, though the fire’s nearly out. I watch the embers, glow then dim, under laboured, just a draught to breathe them, I ..."
"I carry a brain in my bag, Won’t let it go, I look shiftily left then right, Nothing’s coming Yet I won’t move. But you know I do, For I live quite near you, And at night I pass by your door, with my ..."
"How long has he leant on you like that? Drunk from his own bottle, read his own paper, It’s time he sat up straight, felt a little gravity, Good lord, he gets in a way of enough of it. Rise up, let h..."
"If he didn’t look so arrogant, I wouldn’t mind so much, the carton of drink, the wrapper he threw on the floor. But he sits like a plump turkey on a perch, as if he owns the place, as if he could tell..."
"Plug another hole, Never stop the draught, though Keeps on blowing in your face, Reminding you to breathe, sometimes, Close your eyes, accept it, Rarely are we comfortable, Always seems another draugh..."
"They have a routine, Stand up, sit down, Open diary, open mail, It’s a feet of engineering, At times they even manage words, Though a sentence goes begging. They both seem very busy, The pen marks al..."
"Limitless, Don’t stop here, Resting is the easy part, The toil is in the pushing, The thinking, the creating, We are all capable of our best, But few take it a little further, Too few are the masters...."
"Knocking on the back door, Look down, Do you let them in, Faces you don’t recognise, Wait patiently For you. Is there time to get out? Look down, Where would you go? Moving round in circles, Seems al..."
"Why don’t people share their papers? If you’ve finished, let me see, Instead of hiding it away, somewhere, Please fulfil my social need. Written December 6th, 2001 © on Dec 05 2001 11:22 PM PST, Simo..."
"It’s slowly burning out, Won’t be anything left tomorrow, Hardly anything left tonight, I wish I had more hope, But it’s long gone for hope. No more threads for us to cut, Almost at the end now, Can’t..."
"Sometimes when I see myself I have no eyes, just dark sockets that give nothing away, And it makes me stare, this empty beast, where did the real me go? But then I look again, and they’re back once m..."
"Jack and Jill, sat on the hill, drinking pints of water, Jack said “Jill, here’s one more pill, We’ll live happily ever after.” Up sat Jill, And stayed quite still, “Do you think one more would matte..."
"Other people’s words, Sometimes all I hear, Never quite my own. Want to shut them out, Whistle while they burn, Fingers in my ears. I wonder what they say, Never stop to listen, Can’t be very much. L..."
"The black leather goddess, looks over to me, never a smile, she’s far too restrained, a sip of her hot drink, a look to the heavens, I wonder how tall she thinks her pedestal is. Still, the black leat..."
"Almost star struck, Can it really be her? Could it be true she drinks coffee, and picks at blueberry muffins, in the same place that I do? I want to know the co-ordinates, to write them down, to say w..."
"The Christmas tree, The last thing we bought together, Still trussed up, leaning heavily on the fence panel, the broken fence panel as you liked to refer to it. We’ll be celebrating apart, Apart from..."
"Patio on the roof, Mum, they’re up there again, Laughing and playing, drinking fizzy drinks, and playing. Why do they do it? What can be the matter? They do it every day, (Whisper) Can I go and join t..."
"Camped in a field, The 7:55’s no way to be woken, Where are we today? Another green field of no distinction. Put on all my clothes, then venture out, No sooner have I left, my feet are soaked right th..."
"Our Derek, Needs a little reassurance, He’s not sure which way to move, And when he does, he still won’t take it. His words take time to form, Out of nerves, possibly something more, It’s hard to know..."
"Bridge – Bank – Bridge – Tracks Box – Sign – Bridge – Lights Tree – Grass – Rails – Tracks Trees – Bridge – Sleepers – Viaduct Trees – Steep – Tunnel – Green Light Turrets – Poles – Patio – Inspiratio..."
"Tired eyes, half shut, he rests, head in his mother’s lap, watching the scene, but only remembering the interval ice-cream. His hand rests, so light on my arm, it means the world to me. He’ll be grown..."
"Yeah, all right, sweetheart, I’ll be straight home, pop into the office first, clear my desk and trays, Not going to be there any more, don’t need that sort of hassle, Decided I’ll go somewhere else, ..."
"Leant over a table, she cries, tears fall on unpaid bills, lit by light she cannot afford. Not enough just to get by anymore, have to have to best of all worlds. Hear the credit sing the blues, too la..."
"The purple room, Invites no guests, But attracts us all. It’s there to dismay, No fun from the lights, No well meaning. It’s a room of reality, And we don’t like Reality, Even in a public place. Writt..."
"She looks like an old friend, Didn’t notice it before, Fondness spreads like a sweet disease, Through my long cold bones. Say one word, can I choose it? Of course, it’d be my name, Captured memories, ..."
"From so afar, I called her, Though silent was my voice, No real chance that she would hear, I had her in mine eye. Then I plead, hardly believing it is me, how had I become this unspoken self? Little ..."
"From his pocket, the man pulled the gift; what they’d always wanted. Holding their breath, they waited, what would the stranger say? He whispered dreams, promised lands, they couldn’t feel the hands a..."
"Shore up the siding, One hand on top of another, fingers interlaced with the next, no gaps allowed to show. And if we feel it might fall, another battalion from behind supports the backs of those in f..."
"Once, in a minibus, I fell asleep, or at least pretended to, a ploy to see what may happen next. Suzanne, who sat so close to me, slumbered too, two phoney’s in the minibus that day. And we touched, j..."
"He leaves her, taking flowers, taking himself, no words spoken, not even a solitary look, as the train stops at the station. Window down, door swung open, confident step onto concrete, eyes focused do..."
"Meet Mr. Montague, A man whose life adds up to no more than a few dozen hello’s, less goodbye’s, and no conjoining words at all. Yet he smiles, he grins and wants to be liked, expects nothing, just ho..."
"Listen, for the clouds whisper, they say Rannoch, Aberfeldy, Pitlochry, they say Oban, Inverness and Aviemore, too. Will you listen, they sing loud, they keep their heads held so high, which, in turn,..."
"The lane, framed by evergreen, sits in shade, the hushed air scarcely moving the lightest leaves. Natures sounds float in from gardens, full of bloom, the grass awash with green, that waits the days f..."
"Flat against the wall, she holds her shallow breath, watches blackened robes, sway against a wooden floor. She bears a heavy cross, it could burn her olive skin, a weight deep in her heart, like she’s..."
"Nearly there now, step over step, field over meadow, the sun, once high, now sits mainly down, and the noises have dampened into earth. I catch myself thinking that there's nothing new, but I forget w..."
"The children play leapfrog, and their parents look on with sad hearts. Time's running away with them, and they wonder where they've been for so long. Outside they whoop and run around, while friendly ..."
"The Dubarry Perfumery, what a majesty you were, Thousands of feet of productionised smells, bottled and powdered, I wonder how you coped. Summer must have been fragrant, Winter a musk, and other time..."
"Keep me in safety, Keep my mind open, And let me live another year more, So I can keep my children Safe. Written January 2nd, 2002 © on Jan 01 2002 07:33 PM PST, Simon Birks 0 • 12"
"If I should die suddenly, and not get to say what I should have said, then to my friends, I thank you, you have made me laugh, and taught me emotions, to my family, I thank you, you have kept me safe,..."
"My heart is your heart, Tell me some of your hopes and fears, and I will gladly listen, for they are inseparable. Then, when you shut your eyes, before a sleep takes your thoughts, breathe deeply, and..."
"These walls aren’t as thick as I first thought, I hear it all, though silence should surround me. I think, though thinking should hardly be a part of me. There are others, who can tell my sins, but th..."
"Our masks, they see us through, and days are no more than treading water. For those that can’t, they sink, call breathlessly for help, hope that some above look down, serve charity upon them, bringing..."
"Is anybody there? Can you show me a sign? Do I look too deeply, Or just skim the surface, for no-one arrives, least none that I understand. I keep in silence the hopes I have. Want them to be more tha..."
"Nothing to write about, call it quits with the world lying like temptation before me. Even mediocrity seems a blessing, nothing but what has already been before me. Killing time the pleasant way, a hu..."
"Having a laugh, a nice day for a change, keep the fires at bay, run through leaves at your feet. Playing the fool, muted or not, nothing wrong with a friend, nothing wrong with the sun. Keep it quite ..."
"Laughing on top, shivering underneath, keep the hands steady. If this mirror is working, how come sometimes I can’t smile. Keep the camera clicking glossy shots, it’s nice to look back – nice to pictu..."
"A nibble, a bite, the soft woollen scarf, sends shivers down timbers long hung out to dry. A green scented sofa, through the slats of the blind, the moon starts to beckon, the hungry wolves cry. Who’l..."
"My wife tried to make me promise not to die, I said I couldn’t give her that promise. If I could save somebody with my own life, then that is what I’d do. Then, later, I saw her for a fleeting second,..."
"Completely wasteful, smiling buckets from ear to ear, can’t stop me losing. Takes work to win, don’t want to work, want to enjoy something of where I sit. Shut the eyes, till dawn prises them open, an..."
"It sits in a bag, neither right nor wrong, just there having grown inside them. It’s part of them, though we’re not preached that, to us it’s a disease sent to kill. So, when there’s no choice, it has..."
"I’m stuck, frozen in spasm eyes fixed towards her, so deep in the trance. I’ve come to a standstill, there’s no-one around me, I’ve leaped out of life, and it’s the strangest of feelings. She keeps wa..."
"There’s a breath of air, can you feel it curve between us? We’ll touch but never here, there’s a motion set between us. The smiles have fallen down, concentration all we know, keep it all within, thou..."
"Just tea for now, thank you, still have lots to do, round the home, the garden, the cat’s take up so much time, you know. Can’t stop as long as I’d like to, you must have chores, too, to do, some tidy..."
"Like a trophy, you were when I won you, though now, it’s all changed, we’re both the dying breed. Keep a space on the wall, for our heads, bruised through battles, not really worth much to anyone, any..."
"Don’t put up the sign, saying ‘Mediocre Over Here’, you’re nothing but, truly one of a kind. Written January 4th, 2002 © on Jan 04 2002 02:24 AM PST, Simon Birks 0 • 12"
"I know it's been broken, But I don't know by who. I know it's been broken, Was it me? Was it you? I know it's been broken, There's little we could do. I know it's been broken, I'll find someone new. W..."