Category Archives: Poetry

Unknown Poet

Posted on July 14, 2015 by odeboyz

Beechwood fire burns bright and clear, If the logs are kept a year. Store your beech for Christmastide, With new year holly cut beside. Chestnut’s only good, they say, If for years ‘tis stored away. Birch and firwood burn too … Continue reading →

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Boat People

Posted on July 7, 2015 by odeboyz

Crimson waves of hatred race down the mountainsides, engulfing villages, towns, cities: a feeding frenzy of hate; a firestorm of hate. Consuming love, compassion and humanity: a hallucination of certainty. ‘These people are our misfortune’, is the watchword. All must … Continue reading →

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A World at my fingertips

Posted on June 30, 2015 by odeboyz

My fingers reach across the world On a key pad silently sat Beneath a screen of silent scenes Where words might yet, write my dreams. A font of knowledge, a research tool A toy of such delight It’s circuits work … Continue reading →

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Saggy Pants

Posted on June 16, 2015 by odeboyz

Like the pants that sag round my ankles of life Whilst the rest of the world crawled on When the symphony of strife cries shame I see, that my time has gone. I was special and once loved life In … Continue reading →

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My Liver and Me

Posted on June 9, 2015 by odeboyz

I give my liver hell But it forgives me once again My life is drinking (Chris)

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Metropolis: A Wordless Poem

Posted on May 26, 2015 by odeboyz
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Fairy Elephant

Posted on May 18, 2015 by odeboyz

There I am, in my bed All warm and snug & cosy When at 5:15 it has to be said My world is anything, but rosy. The rhythmic pounding of your feet Wakens me with a puzzled start While I … Continue reading →

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Zimmer Frame

Posted on May 12, 2015 by odeboyz

Displaying his balletic agility, and with Perspiration violating his upper lip Jim and his Zimmer are in harmony. Man and machine bonded together. A naturally graceful athlete Jim is Finely tuned in mind and body Ageing, an unnoticed triviality, Eye-catchingly … Continue reading →

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Flight to Scotland

Posted on May 5, 2015 by odeboyz

Up, before I went to bed The minicab lurched from street to street London City Airport – my Nigerian evangelist driver Did his best, to get inside my head. The airport bustle – sad termites Their thoughts silently screaming Most … Continue reading →

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Cinema

Posted on April 21, 2015 by odeboyz

The cinema looks like a warehouse, and feels ostentatious, relying on reflected limelight, buried limelight, awkward, buried in history; it is history. It warehouses focus group dreams, meaningless and safe. Safe when terrorised, safe when sexualised, safe dreams, anodyne dreams, … Continue reading →

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