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tgb archive of published lines and poems on Linespedia.
"I am the spider I crawl I spy the world below I see all I spy the man Raise fury’s’ hand I spy the wife On whom it lands I spy the brother Crawl into bed I spy his sister Who he makes bleed I spy the ..."
"Mourn with me o’ nightingale Make sorrow the loss His loss Dragged back down Down to hell. What songs he sung to her Charmed from the lyre Given from the sun The muse What songs he sung. And jealou..."
"I was cooking for you that nightsmoked ham and egg saladwine, cooling by the windowradio playing, classic FMRachmaninoff Vespers, I heard the belland upon the doortwo policeman stoodto blight my world..."
"When I awake, its the thought of youI miss youI wish for youlying under the open windowsun on my facechildren playing outsidecars drive bythe worlds awake.Quiet nowschool has swallowed childrendrones ..."
"Smell of disinfectantStark white wallsClean as a whistleSeem nice, little voicesThe kind of place To have a breakA little breakEmmy’s goneHands shakeWalls fallingStop shouting, little voicesI’m crying..."
"Cousin Sarah, Sweet sixteen years old Sits two feet from me, Hand, trembling on pale alabaster knee. How can this be wrong? I crank up the song “Bolero” Just like in the movie The one with Bo And some..."
"There was a wee rabbit who lived in a field, Who’d often dream of a great summer yield, Of sunshine, and fresh grass, and warrens, and does, And he knew of this place if he’d dare only go. Twas a par..."
"My life seems to slip away A little extra every day Behind these bars I’m bound to stay Because I loved you so. Ah hate the food served in a cup Ah hate the way they strap me up I hate the wall, the p..."
"Nan & Granda I mind when I was very young, And my parents were na near, I’d look around, caught in panic, See my Nan and naught to fear. I mind when I was maybe older, A big lad chased me home, My G..."
"The one I love has left me gone far in the arms of another man she took her stuff and left a note no goodbye kiss no parting sorrow just empty bed and dusty wardrobe. Now my house seems empty of laug..."
"One More Everyday people, pass me by I lie in the gutter Wonder when The world turned its back Spat in my eye Said, go on Skin up Just one line A little pill Puff on this pipe Jab at my arm And a Ja..."
"F I flirt with foolish fancy, Each week’s dreary close. I am lifeless, listless, All that I am, Wrapped in hope till you come. I ache to know, Of you. Of your hands, I have watched them Glide across..."
"I am the gorilla And I’m here to have some fun To get down with the honeys And to shake my hairy bum Armed with my bananas I slide across the floor Grab the 18th birthday chick And dance, groove, some..."
"My bed Cold cruel words bigots and apathy the world is so big so terrible immeasurably barren till wrapped in my duvet I smile and am warmed a place to shelter of succour denial and denial’s strengt..."
"The big soft snooze wagon to there I retreat after good day and bad to bed a big soft snooze wagon transporting me to the land of nod. I sink to mattress, close eyes breathe…breathe…breathe my minds..."
"What moment in life if one you could only have would you live within for pleasure or purgatory for love or for sin your first kiss an innocent passion shared or a drunken fumble at a party in the li..."
"Who am I I am a friend I think of others but for what reason? To make myself feel good, to wrap away guilt, and be smiled at. Altruistic, or selfish desire? Am I alone or are there more of me, that I..."
"I think myself a happy man Thanks most to you My dreams I see I almost touch I almost hold to me You show me hopes And once there’s none You smile at me To me And make me feel a man Not full of boyi..."
"The alarm clock it is buzzing I turn and switch it off Its five AM, not again, Time to get up Stagger to the bathroom Raise my eyes for the first time There’s rain…there’s always rain. Ten minutes la..."
"I saw a flower, a precious flower, Being tussled by the wind, I bent and thought to pluck it free, But what a terrible sin. For hands like mine are clumsy and large, The flower they’d surely tear, A ..."
"I gave to you my dignity my precious secrets to behold to hold the true of me within slender hand and felt fears rise as I did so. Trust is gone, the bitch she crushed it trampled under her size 5 do..."
"I want little bit of heaven To laugh, to smile To cry, to hide To see those who are close And hear those far away To know with surety They’ll return someday I want to fit in To live within The worlds..."
"To speak a dream is the easiest thing, Quick is the wish, but bitter the sting, Of shattered hope and lost ambition, All victims of the cynics attrition. They say aim low, be grateful your lot To hop..."
"Souls I have had four souls, And three yet still to come I remember two Vividly, with joy and at times regret Two also, are in my deepest past Lost except to dreams And mothers remembrance Another ..."