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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 5d

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this is the story of a life
part one.

Poem about shyness.

this is the story of a life
part one.
the birds flew south
marked by the clock
while the man below
governed by chance
jokers wild
met her glance
and upon a vaulting
beat of the heart
coyly turns
to spurn
the worldly ways of love
while up above
the birds flew south
so he berates himself
even a little
hates himself
and when
a second chance to say,
in a rain-refuge cliche,
fails him again
words of innocent love
from inner voice
remain a stranger
to his mouth
while up above
the birds flew south

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 10d

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As darkness encroaches upon the day
And sun struggles to keep cold at bay

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 12d

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the ship awaits us all
invitation to another shore
upon the final boarding call
before the dark forevermore

Poem called Finale about bereavement.

the ship awaits us all
invitation to another shore
upon the final boarding call
before the dark forevermore
soon the sails will surrender
to the course beneath the veil
we will wave as we remember
the light before the pale
taken by the gentle breeze
we will watch them sail away
till soon the last of life leaves
in the dusk of their final day

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 20d

Absolutely crazy. There has always been a “knowledge gap” where these people live, but it seems to me that the “gap” has become a chasm.

Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 20d

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She knows that once,
the man was hers to hold,
their flower was gold

Poetry about dementia.

still gold

Once he loved her
like the day loves the sun,
their story shone
with lustful
and zested life.
They revelled in
their vital lives:
duality served,
in singular love
and caress,
upon a word
or look.

Yet now,
his stare denies
her pallid heart and
remaindered smile.
Love lives now only
in long laments
for the golden flower,
here in its final hour,
as the weld dissolves,
and the constant
becomes dissonant
once more.

He can't recall her face.
Nor touch, nor kiss,
no moments in joy,
no days of holding,
nor needing her.
No name comes to
his lost lips,
no smile for her,
save fleeting greet,
and again retreat
to an unfilled mind.

She knows that once,
the man was hers to hold,
their flower was gold
when love filled their hearts
and minds.
With hopes forlorn that,
perhaps somewhere
in the painful voids
of her lover's old
and crumpled mind,
a petal lies,
still gold.

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 21d

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So she fakes wild,
thinks of the child
she's left at home.

Poem about poverty being the root to prostitution.

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · 28d

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please don't ask me
to be the strong one
I can't fight the falling rain

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Mental Health Awareness poetry
Suicide Prevention poetry

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Sep 16

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now years
like a ticking clock
temporal shock
here and gone,

A poem about how time speeds up with age.

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Sep 1

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words,
even in their
finest clothes
full of grace
will fail to find
the beauty of your face,

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 30

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can I recall my
ill chosen words
please
they chose me
not I them

Poem

apologies
can I recall my
ill chosen words
please
they chose me
not I them
a moment of
extraordinary juice
shook them loose
like an open sluice
spitting long
I was wrong
too late now
you're gone

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Tick, tock, tick, tock, it's coming again.
Who's child is next to die?

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 25

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It's all about
the pink.
Think.

It's all about
the pink.
Think.
Is it me or they
who drives
the things I say?
Do?
Is it you?
Or is it them,
the people who
shout the loudest,
sound the proudest
of their message?

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you.

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Nika Bardo 🌹Detroit/FMTY @nikabardo.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Kate Phyre @katephyre.bsky.social · Aug 23

Awe 😍

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 21

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#poverty #youth #benefitcuts #LostGeneration #Austerity #Starmer #ToryCuts #StarmerCuts

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Strength

I wish I was much stronger
With a never ending will
Where possibilities abound
Without a happy pill
But I'm just fucking not
I'm an easy broken mess
If a glass is holding water
Well, take a fucking guess.
I need a drink to make it
Through an average day
And once the bottle empties
There's another on its way.
So leave me to myself
I know this, it's my 'thing'
It's just my fucking life, and
Here, I'm the fucking King.

Mental Health Awareness

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 16

#poetry #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky #PoetryOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #Poems
#gangs #gangster #choices #ink #guns #knives #brotherhood

the Big sleep

He makes his sign,
displays his ink,
wears his brotherhood
like a deification
and withers his youth
as to the fire thrown.

His is the life of the knife
and gun, never alone, always
his "brothers" by his side,
'cept those who died.
His is a life of belonging
to the life he leads,
believing in creeds,
the "brothers" by his side,
'cept those who died.

There are others who, while
never "brothers" are as kin as others,
yet seem impervious to signs.
They, the ones who choose
a different path,
walk another way,
choose to think
along different lines,
they have their creed too.

Stay wide of those who seek
the breast of brotherhood
and fate implied,
ink for life,
and gun and knife,
'cept those who died.

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you.

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Steve Poetry @stevepwales.bsky.social · Aug 15

#poetry #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky #PoetryOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #Poems
#poverty #wealth #benefitcuts #tories #ToryBenefitCuts #StarmerBenefitCuts

If only a Labour government was the saviour of the poor that it should be.

if you can see
an opportunity
in vulnerability
if you see
only cost
in the lost
if you see
a revolving door
in the helpless poor
if your only cares
are the billionaires
and the bottom line
is your only design
if ninety-nine percent
is the world you resent
you're a Tory voter
bar none

If only a Labour government was the saviour of the poor that it should be.

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