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My blog ‘A Pretty Kettle of Poetry’ with my illustrations still gets on other blogs and is always a pleasure to realise that my blog has its admirers. Since 2019 on top 100 poetry blogs on https://blog.feedspot.com/poetry_blogs/ plus https://blogging.org/top-poetry-blogs/ and https://eztoolset.com/top-blogs/110-top-poetry-blogs-websites-to-follow-in-2020/ and a great mention – ‘The best poems served through this poetry blog will …

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I’ve just published my latest collection ‘End of an Era II’ in the menu above with the last collection ‘That Magic Call?’. None of the poems are new as I have been posting them since June when written. Quite spontaneously. With a few tweaks since though. The reason for the title of this new collection …

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You won’t believe thisbut it’s true.It’s a short journey to bliss.You can get it like new. Give it a chance.Live out your dreams.It’s a short journey to bliss.It’s all what it seems. You’ve got what it takes.It’s your thing.It’s a short journey to blisswhen you’re a big deal darling.

What was I saying?oh yeah that reminds me.It’s on the tip of my tongue.You’ve been great to see me! I’ll get it in a minute.No, don’t give me any clues! It’s easy!I can’t believe I can’t rememberWhatever happened to thingy? Ok I give up.Oh yes. Of course. Silly me!Yes, I know, it’s been quite a …

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Like listening to Moonlight Sonata.Reflection without being distracted.Looking at nothing reflected in a mirror.Deep in thought without an idea enacted. Darkness of the night.Waking up before everyone.Minutes buried to candlelight.Lying in wait and fitting a silencer to a gun.

You’re a good egg, Lilibetand we’ve grown up with you all our lives.In an era not long goneLilibet you’re the one. Black or white, rich or poorElizabethans all.With your profile on all those coins and noteswho wouldn’t want to see you more? On an island in the seaand around the world spinning in spacenewspapers today …

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On Pleasure Pielandislanders live life under a system called pie-in-the-sky.Plumbers fit pipe dreamsand statistics on counting your blessings are always high. Opticians sell rose-tinted glassesto see good things over the horizonand in every house, doors are fittedso that when one closes, another one opens. Every silver cloud has a golden liningand everyone’s glass is always …

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look at that bodythat is some bodybut now goneand nobody blood red tearsstick like gluetwo glass eyespeep out of the blue don’t care ifmeant something to othersmum’s the wordthere’ll be none of them closures

you’ve got bills to payand you won’t be able toup to your giraffe in itsomeone’s having a laughand here’s the graph you can’t feed your kidsthey’ll go withoutback to scrooge’s surplus pop by halfsomeone’s having a laughand here’s the graph you’re strugglingto make ends meetthe rope for your graftsomeone’s having a laughand here’s the graph …

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When I use my headto stick under the sandit’s a goody that beats evilwith comic heroes getting out of hand. miaow miaow miaowwow wow wowis a chorus to forgetbut one you’ll remember I bet. I got a low boredom thresholdbut I can’t be bothered to work out whatever that means.A tongue I can’t holdand a …

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