Submissions by graham_brodie
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
poem for adele
i look to learn
from a morning shadow
as you awaken to me
as you
your silent heart
has held me well
through last nights
empty hell
for ever more
may our hearts hold bold
winning away from war
just as colours spring
from folded wings
to rise through warmth
to soar
I love you
from a morning shadow
as you awaken to me
as you
your silent heart
has held me well
through last nights
empty hell
for ever more
may our hearts hold bold
winning away from war
just as colours spring
from folded wings
to rise through warmth
to soar
I love you
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poem for rosie
do not live like me
for I play no instrument
only listen
for I play no instrument
only listen
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that bay you saw, or, the bay we all see
the hunted wilted ships
harbour hidden beneath those cliffs
you saw through reflection
atop the roaring Irish free waves
sent crashing in by battle guns
soaring through pirate skies
as a king fell silent,
Mutineers rose dancing & singing
ancestral songs of freedom and love
whilst swigging sweet rum
whilst smoking sweet hashish
letting their souls rise beyond
times wailing grasp,
topsy turvy was the call
in our bay of dreams.....
if not grasped today will still
be offered up from the free rolling seas
in...
harbour hidden beneath those cliffs
you saw through reflection
atop the roaring Irish free waves
sent crashing in by battle guns
soaring through pirate skies
as a king fell silent,
Mutineers rose dancing & singing
ancestral songs of freedom and love
whilst swigging sweet rum
whilst smoking sweet hashish
letting their souls rise beyond
times wailing grasp,
topsy turvy was the call
in our bay of dreams.....
if not grasped today will still
be offered up from the free rolling seas
in...
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Growth
I was given a large wee
finger sprouting from my left
hand
next to a smaller bigger
finger
this large wee finger collects &
recycles poisons drawn in on the left
& laid down anew going
out on the right
like dancing I guess
my heart cleans my mind
the mistook mistakes, poisons,
like a brown blackbird may shift
courses of the winds, our sunlight
perhaps
even our clouds may shift
like ripples on a cake
when our hearts filter our minds
gathering poisons
to draw down from the doldrums
...
finger sprouting from my left
hand
next to a smaller bigger
finger
this large wee finger collects &
recycles poisons drawn in on the left
& laid down anew going
out on the right
like dancing I guess
my heart cleans my mind
the mistook mistakes, poisons,
like a brown blackbird may shift
courses of the winds, our sunlight
perhaps
even our clouds may shift
like ripples on a cake
when our hearts filter our minds
gathering poisons
to draw down from the doldrums
...
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jig
jump about in the sun my son
no mattering what you wear
the trainers or shoes
jeans or shorts
not one soul cares
nip about unbothered son
for it's all the same outside
as weather comes and goes with time
and our moon pulls every tide
so if what you fancy
is a change of tune then go for it!
fill yourself with light air
your freeing spirit of balloon
son
aye the much underrated misconcepted
air filled soulful balloon!
soaring about in the spaces air
watch as your spirit
soars
others might not...
no mattering what you wear
the trainers or shoes
jeans or shorts
not one soul cares
nip about unbothered son
for it's all the same outside
as weather comes and goes with time
and our moon pulls every tide
so if what you fancy
is a change of tune then go for it!
fill yourself with light air
your freeing spirit of balloon
son
aye the much underrated misconcepted
air filled soulful balloon!
soaring about in the spaces air
watch as your spirit
soars
others might not...
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mash up
making instant mash
whilst smelling our knackery pies
heating peas popping in the microwave
all to be plated for my dads dinner
and me
heading out to the rain
with pain
pushing my heart
to be free
whilst smelling our knackery pies
heating peas popping in the microwave
all to be plated for my dads dinner
and me
heading out to the rain
with pain
pushing my heart
to be free
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summer time
a flu spreads world
wide enough
enough
obviously for us to see
damage posted on line etc & right in your face
clowning
playing with your chances and your dared dreams of chances, so
sown right up tight then blown away like a fallen smile from fading children, or perhaps the advertised bomb
need is growing
so I start planting need is growing
wide enough
enough
obviously for us to see
damage posted on line etc & right in your face
clowning
playing with your chances and your dared dreams of chances, so
sown right up tight then blown away like a fallen smile from fading children, or perhaps the advertised bomb
need is growing
so I start planting need is growing
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yes or no
appeal to the innocent
cos the 'guilty' know you
pose for the flash
cos without artificial things you are unseen
pay supporters with smiles
to turn against and hate the 'guilty' with
shower praise on correct thinking
if it's in line with the party
and preferably your own ideas
forwarded at the meeting previous
rouse thunderous media clouds
to school the feed to the surface to vote
as you feed celebratory tales hence forth
oozing and gushing with the rightness of the world
...
cos the 'guilty' know you
pose for the flash
cos without artificial things you are unseen
pay supporters with smiles
to turn against and hate the 'guilty' with
shower praise on correct thinking
if it's in line with the party
and preferably your own ideas
forwarded at the meeting previous
rouse thunderous media clouds
to school the feed to the surface to vote
as you feed celebratory tales hence forth
oozing and gushing with the rightness of the world
...
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look and connect now more than ever
inside or behind
anything but outside
looking at
it
not being
apart and with all
as connected
together
like acid and rain
perhaps
just
thrown or drawn
through the sounds of scurrying
scared childlike adults
raising iphones to their godless skies
to avoid eyes contact
the souls contact being hidden
denied and avoided
now seen as a threat on life
its self
where are we going?
in such blind hurry
we have all but gone forever apart.
(be very careful now out there as the...
anything but outside
looking at
it
not being
apart and with all
as connected
together
like acid and rain
perhaps
just
thrown or drawn
through the sounds of scurrying
scared childlike adults
raising iphones to their godless skies
to avoid eyes contact
the souls contact being hidden
denied and avoided
now seen as a threat on life
its self
where are we going?
in such blind hurry
we have all but gone forever apart.
(be very careful now out there as the...
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worse than dead
sitting on the third step crying
with his stray dog licking tears from his eyes
his wee heart breaks for the first time
at home
with emptiness as another only friend
holding his shoulders
as if to stop him falling
forwards to hit a worn red carpet
where almost his mothers last steps were taken
on her way out the door
his short life
beginning to grow longer along
now
as silence shushes his stray dogs mouth
full of salt
with water
with his stray dog licking tears from his eyes
his wee heart breaks for the first time
at home
with emptiness as another only friend
holding his shoulders
as if to stop him falling
forwards to hit a worn red carpet
where almost his mothers last steps were taken
on her way out the door
his short life
beginning to grow longer along
now
as silence shushes his stray dogs mouth
full of salt
with water
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Social police
didn't bother to wish you goodbye
nor enquire
always thought you thought
but never showed it
back up and towards us
as you leave
tatty bye
and gone forever
SHAKE IT UP AS YOU LEAVE soul
SHAKE IT UP AS YOU LEAVE
door gently secured behind you
we all relax
your sick games are over
so your on to the next one
never wished to meet you
nor ever again
keep travelling sailor
away to unsettle the next hame
SHAKE IT UP AS YOU LEAVE soul
SHAKE IT...
nor enquire
always thought you thought
but never showed it
back up and towards us
as you leave
tatty bye
and gone forever
SHAKE IT UP AS YOU LEAVE soul
SHAKE IT UP AS YOU LEAVE
door gently secured behind you
we all relax
your sick games are over
so your on to the next one
never wished to meet you
nor ever again
keep travelling sailor
away to unsettle the next hame
SHAKE IT UP AS YOU LEAVE soul
SHAKE IT...
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Soul Football
George Best played for football
and Hibernian F.C
Amazing time stopper
a Leveller,
Spacemen wanted to be him
as did kids like me,
the men at the time
didn't know what they wanted,
see when the ball
sat as his feet, gifted
beneath his fat belly
laughing,
the whole terracing laughed with him
lovingly willing creativity on.
and Hibernian F.C
Amazing time stopper
a Leveller,
Spacemen wanted to be him
as did kids like me,
the men at the time
didn't know what they wanted,
see when the ball
sat as his feet, gifted
beneath his fat belly
laughing,
the whole terracing laughed with him
lovingly willing creativity on.
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