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Perception

poem by John Prophet

Perceptions. Understanding. View of things. Processing. Processing input. Informational input. Capable. Only so capable. Processing unit provided, only so capable. Limitations. Severe limitations. Like a do... Read more

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Dispatches from t...

poem by Carl Halling

Introduction ‘Dispatches from the Trenches of Despair’ was finally completed around late April 2021, marking the end of a period of severe depression extending from around Tuesday the 13th to the end of the month, and ... Read more

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Dark

poem by John Prophet

Dark. Dark forces await. Align. Lust for power innate. Innate in some. Some less scrupulous souls. History replete with examples. Humanity racked with war. Throwing stones, to dropping nukes. New dark actors e... Read more

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Teetering

poem by John Prophet

Teetering. Humanity on the edge. Pace has quickened. Accelerating change, overwhelms. Inundating the senses. Power surges, crisscrossing the globe. Generations apart like never before. Fractures, tears in the mos... Read more

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The Sound Of Hea...

poem by Jay Shades

I will say yes oh yes To your will to your ways Waited sò long for my comeuppance Prayed for doors to be opened Exhausted by being racially knocked back And still the rain never came . I see everything Having to explai... Read more

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THE WILDERNESS...

poem by Frank Hornby .

"Somehow my young life had become a total pretence.. it was so hard for me to understand...because nothing made any sense. Carrying the burden of confusion...and a deep feeling of shame.... keeping the dark secret of my unwanted na... Read more

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Performance Art

poem by John Prophet

Barren, devoid of soul. Black and white. Lifeless. Nothing to see. Artists required, pallet in hand, medium infinite. Painting reality. Imagining the art. Each decision. Each thought. a stroke, a stroke of the ... Read more

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Gauntlet

poem by John Prophet

Gauntlet. From birth to death. The gauntlet run. Staying alive, ancient course once laid out. Running the gauntlet. From physical to mental obstacles evolved. Survival of t... Read more

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Someone I don't t...

poem by Hazel Frost

Eyes can't shine unless there's something bright shimmering behind, The tears I cry illuminate my pathway towards a land of hope I wish to find. The silence of nights contrasting the chaos of my mind, Lost in memories, I left my ... Read more

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Attainment

poem by John Prophet

Granite. Pounded. Chiseled. Formed. Daily routine. Pounded. Chiseled. Formed. What becomes. Years in the making. What once was no more. Earlier versions ignorant. Incomplete. Uninformed. Sage wisdom accumul... Read more

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Thought Machine

poem by John Prophet

Thought Machine. From out of nowhere they come. Not here then here. Pop into existence into reality. Many simply fade away. Some become. Some materialize. Solidify. Occupy space. From ... Read more

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Sojurn

poem by John Prophet

Valley of the dark. From one rim to the next. Sojourn. Navigation from one side to the next. Fraught with peril. Valley deep, dark. Serpents full. Journey fraught with peril. No choice. From one rim to ... Read more

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I need a deep sle...

poem by Talal Uddin

Death I have seen infront of my eyes/ It is playing in the Meditterrean sea/ Syria, Iraq & Afghanistan/ Mine also came from the death's mouth thrice/ With heavy sound, it was shouting at me/ How cruel the life is in this world!/ Wh... Read more

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Sprites

poem by John Prophet

Sprites in the machine. Counting out infinite realities. Infinite possibilities. Sprites, existing cross realms. Wafting effortlessly betwixt and between. Sprites eternal, pausing for a while. Etching out time. ... Read more

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Product

poem by John Prophet

Product. Designed as such. Milled and honed. Hammered into shape. Devised in flame. Cooled by earth, and water. Molded into form. Programmed. Environmentally coded. Created in a tempest. Behaving as such. Battlin... Read more

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Packaging

poem by John Prophet

Packaging. What’s outside. Wrapping, covering, hiding. Packaging. Different sizes, shapes, colors. Some shiny Some dull. Some simple. Some complex. No two alike. Packaging irrelevant covering. Shielding wh... Read more

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Strangeness

poem by John Prophet

Strangeness. Look. Look around. What the hell. What’s going on? Accepting what’s seen, what’s said. Flicker of existence. Firefly flash. What’s the point? Screaming headlong. Coming t... Read more

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Synergy

poem by John Prophet

Synergy. Interactions. Touches. Cross currents. Stuff of change. Lubricant of evolution. Driving force moving forward. Towards the future. Interactions, change engines synergy creating. Touches. Accelerat... Read more

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Clay

poem by John Prophet

Clay. Clay People. Malleable. Time/location sculpts. Shapes. Forms. Dictates. Anyone, anything. Easily manipulated, controlled. Time/location, determines. Determines what we be. Who we are! Hunter/gatherer. Greek... Read more

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Grid

poem by John Prophet

Grid. Systems in place. Circling the globe. Overhead. Underneath. All around. Grip tightens. Mind grabbing, strangling the soul. Free will denied. Canceled. The grid reaches. Reaches into the mind. Asimov’... Read more