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I can’t

I can’t get the chord right

There’s a break in the tune

It’s a digital fight

I should try the bassoon

There’s a buzz in the strum

It must be this guitar

A blister on my thumb

I’m no rock ’n’ roll star

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Praise

Praise me

Praise indeed

Indeed I would

Indeed I could

Could be stronger

Could be better

Better at being

Better than this

This trembling thing

This spirit

Spirit-levelled

Spirit faltering

Faltering fast

Falter at last

Last ditch effort

Last reprieve

Reprieve this time

Reprieve is mine

Mine to bear

Mine to give

Give enough hope

Give enough rope

Rope to hang

Rope to bind

Bind these ideals

Bind these wounds

Wounds weeping

Wounds healing

Healing the pain

Healing again

Again the abyss

Again remiss

Remiss of duty

Remiss in this

This monumental effort

This moment

Moment of doubt

Moment of decision

Decision to move

Decision to prove

Prove I’m alive

Prove I’m able

Able to rise up

Able to be worthy

Worthy of acclaim

Worthy of applause

Applause as praise

Applause for me

Praise

Me

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I object

I object, I really do

It’s really very basic

This farcical bally-ho

A universal Lasik

Might just bring us happiness

This path we’re on to reject

And let us now reassess

This mess, to which I object

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Love

So they asked, 'What's love got to do with it?'
And I smiled as I thought of my reply
Love, of course, is where all our answers sit
Even if, most often, we don't know why

Romantic love, the eros, takes control
It's a selfish, desperate need-me love
A piece of me to justify, inscroll
Your life fitting mine like perfection's glove

We can take solace in the refuge of
Family love, the storge of Ancient Greek
Or hold on tight to phileo, thereof
The heart of friendship, when life seems less bleak

But agapé is the crowning glory
Love unconditional, tell your story

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Brexit

Don’t fob me off with your toxic con

Soft Brexit is an oxymoron

We grin and lay down our hearts-filled flush

Then see the game is blackjack, and blush

Well now, there’s the rub

The price for talking politics with some guy in a pub

Waiting for this moment to pass

For someone to rescue us from this morass

 

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Playthings this Christmas

Christmas used to be so simple

A stroll though the supermarket

Of plastic race tracks and

Pink wooden ovens

Of lego blocks

And lego friends

and lego Star Wars

and lego Potter

Now it’s getting more complex

With v-bucks and

iTunes credit

and travel and lessons

and a million hopes and dreams.

I’m less and less convinced

That I can pull off the Santa thing

This year.

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Broken

Been there

Done that

Broken beyond repair

Broken beyond desire

And then, not.

 

Like Kintsugi

I’m more beautiful

And stronger

At the broken places.

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Clarity Pyramid

BRAVE

Fearless

Selflessness

Never gave it a thought

Did what I knew I ought

Stepped up, cried out ‘This is wrong!’

“The right thing, not the easy thing”

 

I found the form here, on Shadow Poetry

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Anti-this

Anti-human

Anti-acumen

Anti-country

Anti-effrontery

Anti-future

Anti-suture

Anti-common sense

Anti-sitting-on-the-fence

Anti-Middle Ages

Anti-advice-of-sages

Anti-me

Anti-probability

Antidote

Anti-misquote

Anti-politic

Anti-shambolic

Anti-this shit

Anti-Brexit

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Hungry for the end

The lazy conflation of want and need

Consumerism’s ever-open maw

The thoughtless idolisation of greed

Self-sacrifice on the alter of more

Our bellies full with abligurition

Starvation remains for too many poor

It’s lack of food, lack of nutrition

Failure to meet a basic human need

Hunger for stuff will destroy us indeed

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