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A compilation of published poems
Rhythmic poetry inspired by Fit but you know it by The Streets
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Rhythmic Poetry
Inspired by Hobo Johnson
One of the winning pieces on the Word Spoken podcast -
You said nothing but you were saying everything
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The morning after you were put to sleep, you came to visit me in my dreams. I was carrying you through the big park behind our house that Mum and I had walked you so many times. You said nothing to me, which wasn’t unusual because you said nothing physically to me anyway because you were a dog. But in that same way actually by saying nothing all the time you were always saying everything. When I walked around with you, you were in a nice soft blanket, and you were as light as a feather -- so the expression goes. The fact that you weighed nothing made me feel uneasy because I know you weren’t your normal self, but it also made me think of you already as an angel. As I walked around seemingly aimlessly, so dreams seem to be, although they are not aimless at all.
You gave me the chance to tell you everything I loved about you so that I could say my final goodbye to you properly. I can’t remember what I told you, apart from how you were the best dog swimmer I’d ever seen and reminded me of an otter. You said nothing but you said everything just like you always did and that’s what made me know that it was you visiting me to say a final goodbye.
The morning after you were put to sleep, you came to visit me in my dreams. I was carrying you through the big park behind our house that Mum and I had walked you so many times. You said nothing to me, which wasn’t unusual because you said nothing physically to me anyway because you were a dog. But in that same way actually by saying nothing all the time you were always saying everything. When I walked around with you, you were in a nice soft blanket, and you were as light as a feather -- so the expression goes. The fact that you weighed nothing made me feel uneasy because I know you weren’t your normal self, but it also made me think of you already as an angel. As I walked around seemingly aimlessly, so dreams seem to be, although they are not aimless at all.
You gave me the chance to tell you everything I loved about you so that I could say my final goodbye to you properly. I can’t remember what I told you, apart from how you were the best dog swimmer I’d ever seen and reminded me of an otter. You said nothing but you said everything just like you always did and that’s what made me know that it was you visiting me to say a final goodbye.
struggle
Published in Issue 5 of Eclectic Magazine - https://www.instagram.com/p/CIRQJBQneZl/
The Fall
The Fall 2
Roadkill
Loose torso
Decapitated head
Gammy eyes
Mother nature's finest deer,
Strewn across the A1 a modern-day sacrifice
I'll get out the car
I'll jump across the road
I'd run a thousand miles for you, deer
I'd turn back time for you, dear
Back when the roads were stripped of death
When only the contorted trees shuddered at horrors of the future
You will be saved
From the stinking motorway
I'll sweep your mangled bodies up into my wings and say
"It's alright now darling, the future isn't here yet"
And roadkill would only be a secret that hung silently in the shivering air
Decapitated head
Gammy eyes
Mother nature's finest deer,
Strewn across the A1 a modern-day sacrifice
I'll get out the car
I'll jump across the road
I'd run a thousand miles for you, deer
I'd turn back time for you, dear
Back when the roads were stripped of death
When only the contorted trees shuddered at horrors of the future
You will be saved
From the stinking motorway
I'll sweep your mangled bodies up into my wings and say
"It's alright now darling, the future isn't here yet"
And roadkill would only be a secret that hung silently in the shivering air
The Terror of Tabloids
Trust me. It's beautiful.
Object Poem
Bananas in Pyjamas - Freud and Jung (Oulipo)
B1 - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
B2 - Dreams by Carl Jung
B1 - A dream is the fulfilment of a wish
B2 - A dream is a psychic product
B1 - Dreams reveal the whole nature of the dreamer
B2 - Losing teeth
B1 - Enrolled in the memory as a harmless fantasy-picture
B2 - Crowds of people
B1 - Intermingles all the images of life
B2 - What is the purpose of a dream?
B1 - I have already dreamt this
B2 - Questionable morality
B1 - Afterall, it's only a dream
B2 - Intrinstic value of their own
B1 - Not in my wildest dream
B2 - Typical dreams do actually exist
B1 - Manifest and latent content
B2 - The dream disguises the repressed complex
B1 - Waking life has thrust the dream as if it never happened
B2 - Religious compensations play a great role in dreams
B1 - A dream within a dream
B2 - Regarded as a truth-telling oracle
B1 - Fragnt of the dream suddenly emerged
B2 - A dream is a theatre in which the dreamer is himself the scene
B1 - The hat is really a male genital organ
B2 - Strange and disconnecting product distinguished by many bad qualities
B1 - The forgetting of dreams
B2 - Typical dreams motifs... flying, climbing stairs or mountains
B1 - Steep inclines, ladders and stairs
B2 - Images which have been found in human psyche
B1 - Impressions of our childhood
B2 - All oblong objects in dreams as phallic symbols
B1 - Sexual content in dreams
B1 - Dreams are the royal road to the uncouscious
B2 - Dreams by Carl Jung
B1 - A dream is the fulfilment of a wish
B2 - A dream is a psychic product
B1 - Dreams reveal the whole nature of the dreamer
B2 - Losing teeth
B1 - Enrolled in the memory as a harmless fantasy-picture
B2 - Crowds of people
B1 - Intermingles all the images of life
B2 - What is the purpose of a dream?
B1 - I have already dreamt this
B2 - Questionable morality
B1 - Afterall, it's only a dream
B2 - Intrinstic value of their own
B1 - Not in my wildest dream
B2 - Typical dreams do actually exist
B1 - Manifest and latent content
B2 - The dream disguises the repressed complex
B1 - Waking life has thrust the dream as if it never happened
B2 - Religious compensations play a great role in dreams
B1 - A dream within a dream
B2 - Regarded as a truth-telling oracle
B1 - Fragnt of the dream suddenly emerged
B2 - A dream is a theatre in which the dreamer is himself the scene
B1 - The hat is really a male genital organ
B2 - Strange and disconnecting product distinguished by many bad qualities
B1 - The forgetting of dreams
B2 - Typical dreams motifs... flying, climbing stairs or mountains
B1 - Steep inclines, ladders and stairs
B2 - Images which have been found in human psyche
B1 - Impressions of our childhood
B2 - All oblong objects in dreams as phallic symbols
B1 - Sexual content in dreams
B1 - Dreams are the royal road to the uncouscious
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