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Sleep-talking

Explanation: I just like it. It is again reminiscent of the times that I used to be on the phone until the early hours of the morning. I like the long drawn out rhymes of talk and morning as it feels peaceful to me. I also like that I was able to have the same scheme of the different third line in the first three stanzas.  I don’t really know what the ending means. I guess it is a…

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Lying

Explanation: I wrote the first stanza and left it for a bit trying to work out how it would end. I like that there are two characters and that the two stanzas have abstract rhyme schemes to reflect the difference between the two characters. The first is about you and the second is me. The change in subject and rhyme scheme highlights the distance between the two characters.  I just like the…

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Sitting

Explanation:  This poem directly followed the mess that the tory government made of the “school-dinner scandal” where they refused to feed kids from lower income families who relied on free school meals. I guess the complete lack of empathy angered me enough to write a poem. I think the poem was written in two parts with the first two stanzas coming first and then the others being formed…

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It's raining outside

It’s raining outside

Explanation: This one came from a bad place. I wanted it to reflect the gloom that I felt at this time and how it was just grey; there was nothing specifically wrong, it just wasn’t right. I wanted to encapsulate the murkiness that I felt at the time.  The poem begins at the start of the day, as dawn breaks. Usually this is a spectacle as the sun rises but today no one noticed. It was much less…

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Civility

Explanation: This is just a play on the fact that alcohol is a social lubricant and it makes you tolerate people more easily. Perhaps saying you could fall in love is a bit of a stretch, but its poetry, what else are you meant to do? I like the flow and the fact that it builds to the final line with the realisation that the world is different when sober and some of the people you tolerate when…

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Behind her eyes

Explantation: This is one of my favourite poems at the moment, as I like the narrative and the way that it flows. I guess that it follows a tour given to the voice inside someone’s mind. Like with some of my other work we are presented with this person as a she and nothing more, her identity is anonymous. We follow as the inner workings of her brain are explained to the voice and how she deals…

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Memory Lane

Explanation: Being honest, I have no idea where this came from. I guess I have been romanticising the idea of having a person, who you can talk to all night. I used to spend hours on the phone, late at night, talking about life, just setting things straight, I guess. This could be the real life replica of said calls. The conversation about needing to leave and then staying up until sunrise feels…

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You and I

Explanation: This is another poem that seems strange for me to write. I normally write about deeper issues, like death, pain and sadness, but this poem is relatively calm; may I go as far to say pretty? There was no theme that I wanted to explore through this poem, except that of the feelings of the present.  I guess that this was one of the few times in my life when I was focusing on the…

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Moment of calm

Explanation:  This feels reminiscent of the summer months spent lounging in parks with basically no commitments and nowhere else to be. I love the sense of freedom that a lack of commitments or requirements presents; you can just exist with no obligation to do anything, and I love that feeling. For some reason this feeling always reminds me of a late summer afternoon, an hour or so before a…

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Paradox

Explanation:

This poem was directly inspired by a t-shirt that I own. On it is the word paradox in black, with paradise written over the top in pink. I love the ideas created by that shirt and how it enlightened me to the closeness of those two words, which became the start of the poem. From this I had the first two lines mulling around in my head and I just liked them, so they stayed. The…

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WW3

Explanation:

The first stanza of this poem was written long before the rest of it. I wrote the first four lines and liked it, but then let it sit for a while. I think it was around the time when North Korea were doing their thing, threatening America. For a while, we were under the impression that World War Three was going to break out. It felt like the same drill as previous great wars; there…