The Ghost

Once we were orphans
Nationless
And now once again the voice has stopped
Just echos
The haunts just rooms
The rooms just space
Love
Thin, palsied
As fragile as a newborn
Has met its end
The depression of cotton,
The hum of the coffee machine
The scrape of a chair
Mourning has taken me
The vapour of breath
Erased
Before
Now
Tomorrow
And disappeared

#loss #redemption #love #death

#Poetry #religion #war #freepalistine

Who owns heaven?

Real estate is hard to come by these days
But Don and Ben
And the other guy
Made a deal with God
And now they own their private Idaho
A slice of paradise
Of timeshare
Corruption is divine

No More Songs

Some days I barely see the sun
The vacant mess that I've become
My soul is half asleep.

And yet willing was the leap
I shook your heart awake,
But still, out cold in its steel case
The battery shut.
Until another reanimates,
This spirit barely breathes.

CBT

Picking out shrapnel
In a jigsaw of feeling
I find my last peace

#poetry #mentalhealth #therapy

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of ‘woman’ excludes trans women. This is going to put so many post-transition girls and women into horrible situations. Given how many old women are pushed for this, I worry for this generation. Has today's youth been heard, or is it more bullying from their elders (which I see a lot of in the UK)?

First they came for trans women. Then they came for the non-binaries and trans men. It's a dark day when the UK and US bully together.

Siege of Carthage

Pushing away as the sky fell
Pieces clattering like china on tile
We stood as the walls of the city broke open
We stood at the sound
But now we only cling to each other
As the time rolls over

#poem #poetry #war #trump

Ok so I’ve watched the trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme, a couple of times and I still don’t know what it’s actually about? Nevertheless, it’s out on May 30. https://kottke.org/25/04/the-phoenician-scheme

When you get invited to the NatSec group chat....

The Dream

I had a most magnificent dream last night,
And tossing and turning,
I wished I could reach you
Across this bed of darkness,
And wrap your sleeping form in its embrace.

And so I send my dream to forge the oceans,
Willing your name on the wind,
A wave of sound.
Moon and stars over its head for shelter,
Hold my love straight and true until morning,
For sleep is fleeting in its hold.

#poetry #dreams #poet #literary #longdistance #night #love

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#supportartists #poetry #writing

I love this anecdote. It's thought-provoking and evocative. Full text of story is in the alt-text.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party
via https://imgur.com/gallery/knitting-corner-xk1h6st

#knitting #shortstory

#poem #Poetry #poet #love #death #memory

Weren’t we lucky?

To be in that room with you,
That twelve foot empire
Building cathedrals
As wars of two
Broke open outside.

To share those hours,
A universal possession
That gripped us both in its thrall,
Like moths searching for a light.

To live,
In a house without walls or doors
Strangers and yet companions
An hour is millennia,
A second is a lifetime.

#poem #AI #assisteddying #love #aging #tech #robotics

Machine
By SilverThief

What’s the point in falling apart?
And yet the copper is still rusting
The wires a plastic halo
Hook up to heaven
Stop it combusting

A wondrous machine
Promethean
And yet still adjusting
To this lost desire
A brokenness
A painful lusting.

Art restores this soul
And yet preserves in sharp relief
This dust
Bury it deep
For what is a lifetime of longing
But a century of sleep?

Save The Prince Charles Cinema - https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-prince-charles-cinema one of the best #cinemas in #london is under threat...

#poem

Sanctuary City

#poetry #socialjustice #buildbridgesnotwalls #sanctuarycity

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

#HappyNewYear2025

Revisions

And I know it seems like a lifetime,
Or feels like a moth in the headlights—
Dizzy with the feeling of ascending
While you're falling
Under the artificial lights.

But tomorrow, there’s a good chance waiting,
And there can’t be motion
Without a technical hitch.
The score is reset to one,
Though it’s only a calendar
From which pages are ripped—
Another turn around the sun.

I have been reliably informed that it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go, please be vigilant

There's a thin mist on the tops
But It is clear enough,
And I can see where I need to go.
Seven crows
Calling from up high
And I can see Orion
In their falling
So beautifully they fly
Against the breeze
Blowing from the north
A partridge pair
Kneeling at the foot
Of a ruby-jewelled
Hawthorn tree
And there's a love song
in my heart
My love.
#poetry

Carol

The shadow of the sun on snow
The Robin in the tree
He calls spring up like an old friend
From dreams of winter's sleep.

And in the sky
Fireworks like angels
Clothed In gold and red and green
Watch over the beery crowds below wassailing merrily

The cattle shed is long gone now
With shepherds, kings and sheep
But the old refrain still echos on
From the poet to the thief.

#merrychristmas #poem #christmaseve #christmas