He keeps a flute in his boot. Plays for strangers, hears it brin… Sleeps on a stone bench near the o… Sometimes gets drunk, hollers, cau… On good days he flaps about in his
By Stanley Collymore You were just another Nigger and… consequence to anyone with even th… semblance of importance attached t… And frankly why should it? For th…
So smile just one more fake smile, try to cover up one more bloody sc… whisper to the world “im fine” one… because now you’ve finally found h… Darling, your pain has been relea…
Why bother keeping score when death assures that things always end in a tie Soon you’ll be able to get rid of death
Oh this earth is a mineful of trea… A goblet, that’s full to the brim, And each man may take for his plea… The thing that’s most pleasant to… Then let all, who are birds of my…
New job, Better pay! God answers prayers! Just not our way! © From A Grateful Poet’s
Memories play in my head like a mo… when your eyes were bright and you… Before the devils virus clutched a… With his vicious plan to crush you… He has torn and ravaged your poor…
You should at times go out from where the faithful kneel, visit the slums of doubt and feel what the lost feel; you should at times walk on,
He is trapped in a dark place, Trapped in an empty room like a dog Set him free let him fly away like a bird
Sometimes there exists in life, Times of trials and tribulations, Adding to the questions held, And all our inner frustrations, Our minds hold tornadoes of though…
The Temple in Darkness Darkness broods upon the temple, Glooms along the lonely aisles, Fills up all the orient window, Whence, like little children’s wil…
‘O for my sake do you with fortune… I almost took sad Shakespeare’s t… So closely fits his sonnet line by… The wretched case in which my life… Fraud, falsehood, avarice, the bea…
The car in front of me is going at 45. It’s a 60 road but he’s doing 45. I’m all for safety (my car’s not a sporty drive) but this is a fast road, flat and wide. The bends aren’t enough...
IF, by his torturing, savage foes… The breathless captive gain some t… Yet hears the war-whoop howl along… And dreads the reptile-monsters of… The giant reeds that murmur round…
for the beauty of the day we wept huddled mass one, singular in thought we
In the hours following the highest point of the moon my mind is left to wander, set free from the intellectual prism of a broken man. In these glass walls I am trapped forced to see a m...
I like the way you greet me As though you’re waiting to meet m… Without the opportunity Of doing so discreetly You ought not to do
By Stanley Collymore How could Martin Bashir or the BBC likely have been remotely responsible re the willing actions of an
Wake up, because your dreams are o… Sleep, because in your mind is a s… Lay down, because in your passiven… Stand up, because there will be a… Quiet, because in your silence pla…
I shall not soon forget that sight The glow of Autumn’s westering da… A hazy warmth, a dreamy light, On Raphael’s picture lay. It was a simple print I saw,
THEY bathed in the fire-flooded… Life girdled them round and about: They slept in the clefts of the mo… The stars called them forth with a… They prayed, but their worship was…
Innocent, vulnerable, she stood, Surrounded by vultures, misunderst… Male intellectuals, on the rampage… The Campus rag, where her dreams… Clutching her bag, a lifeline of s…
(From the French of Charles Baud… All nature is a temple where the a… Pillars breathe often a tremor of… Man wanders in a forest of accords That peer familiarly from each ogi…
My heart shatters into pieces Hearing the screams of a demon Sounds of lust in the air Fill my lungs with despair
In the meadows by the Avon, Underneath the slope of Bredon, There we often used to wander, My girl and I. All around the thrushes singing.
A lot of changes have happened in… enough to break someone’s soul But I’m still alive inside barely feeling whole I’m such a great woman
How odd that there is beauty in breaking into pieces to sand the edges
I’ll drink from your overflowing c… To ease your pain, make it my own To share your burden, lighten you… I will drown myself in your glass To make life a little more bareabl…
I am trying. To do the right thing. To say what needs to be said. To stay out of fights. To be honest with ones.
My mothers soothing embrace is all… Even though I should remember all… Even though I should remember the… Even though I should remember bei… All I do remember is being you