Wednesday 27 December 2023

Poetry of 2023

 Changing with age.

It’s took so long to learn 

how to be happy, even though

 I haven’t been always been unhappy. 

Take what life throws at you, 

not that you do but you learn 

to live with excepting any.

Love happens if it happens, 

if so it is a case of when.

Life is too short and you don’t 

know how much time you have left.

Therefore’ do what you can 

and when as much as possible 

what makes you happy because

 time doesn’t always come round again.

I will be honest say in my 

younger days I couldn’t live

 without love and romance, 

least what I thought, 

I couldn’t admit though but now I can.

Now what life is meant to be, let it be.


I’m too  old now to chase, 

worry etc like I used to in the past, 

about things

 that probably won’t be so

 let’s wait and see. 


I’m not old, 

I’m not young,

 I’m middle aged, 

not passed 

my sell by date yet, you know 

what no one has because no one

 is old today, we just go up in numbers. 

One thing I have realized since

  I been middle age, I’m stronger

 minded than I thought I was, 

surely I’m not alone. 18th December 2023


We are all poetic not.

  We just have words that 

mean everything and nothing, 

action is true meaning that we see.

we are all

 novel and story writers and more,

We just need to know what we want to tell.

If we can’t read and write surely we can tell.

A poem  a story and more is our minds,

 we all have many to write or and tell.

Can we or and do we want to write 

or and  tell what is on our minds?

If we can’t speak, surely you can 

make signs to what others,

 shake your head to yes and no, etc. 

We have words in our head what

 they may be, it is just getting 

them down on paper the way 

others understand. 19th December 2023



Poetry speaks.

Poetry speaks like the robin 

red breast in the trees covered in snow.

Poetry speaks like the frozen 

milk on the doorstep from the milkman.

Poetry speaks like the birds

 pecking the bread off the bird tray.

Poetry speaks like a parrot, 

pretty Polly, Pretty Polly, 

whose a pretty boy then? 

Poetry speaks like writing in red ink, 

the blood is too much to take, as it 

smuggles on the page, as you drew 

the robin red breast. 19th December 2023.


Everyone can make poetry

  because everyone can chat.


We can all talk to each other 

so why not write what

 we say into a poem?

A poem of mind and voice.

Dis is thy a poem, this is thy a poem. 

The mind never shuts up or

 thinks nothing at all. 

From a writer’s block to too 

much for one to say for themselves. December 2023



You may not see me but I see you.


You may not see my face

 like you once did

You may not hear my voice

 like you once did. 

I can hear and see you, 

I’m looking down on you. 

Think of me as dust in the air

 that has disappeared. 

I’m a sleep in the air and 

inside the ground all the time.

I’m  alive but I cannot 

be seen and heard.

Yet I am alive I can be

 seen  and head now but one day 

in the future, I won’t but if you

 can see and hear me, 

when people wouldn’t be able to, 

we will be in contact. 

For now I am here to be seen

 and heard in life.

I’m still here, I  always will be,

 you may not always see

 me and heat my voice. December 2023


Mystery and unknown.

 Was I dreaming as I heard

 a human screaming?

This was the same time 

the train started to set off 

to a mysterious place from

 a mysterious station.

Everyone heard and everyone

 got up from their seats, 

wondering who 

was screaming and why.

Yet there was no sound 

of a shot of gun,

 was it a stab of a knife?

The mystery was, 

no body was found.

It was probably outside where 

no one on the train saw.

The further the journey, 

the louder the train.

Surely I was dreaming, 

as I reported 

the screaming 

to the guard, 

I think he thought 

I was crazy as he said.

“It is all in your 

mind girl”. 

It could have 

been anything, 

I thought but may

 be it was all

 in my mind.

Like someone

 outside

 jumping over

 the railway,

 surely not as the

 train was moving, 

surely not at all.

The guard looked around to

 see if anyone was harmed

 on the train but 

no one seemed to be.

Maybe it was out the train 

or in my mind.

We were unaware that some

 time during in the journey, 

it snowed really heavy

 as before getting on the train, 

there was no snow to be seen.

Why would the train 

carry on driving?

It seemed as if there

 was no end to the journey.

As time went on, it started to get

 dark or was it a 

never ending dark tunnel,

 where a light

 was hard to be seen?

What happened to who, 

from who or where, why

 was never known.

Just maybe is was themselves

 to themselves,

 how is is a long 

term or forever mystery.

Make your own story. 29th December 2023 


 The storm.

The wind was roaring.

The rain was smashing against 

the windows with the rain.

The birds tweeted and

 twisted till they screamed. 

The sounded so close, 

I thought they were

 inside my home.

In time, they must have flow

 into the trees.

I could also hear fireworks, 

going off ready for new 

year in such a heavy storm.29th December 

 

 

 

  What did we do without the internet?

Read books,

 write, 

watch tv, 

play games.

Now there is a world of 

panic when there is no internet.

Why is that?

What could be worse?

The power goes off, 

there’s no light and heat.

You can’t have a hot and food

 in winter time but some 

how you are still alive. 

30th December 2023






The whole world come to a standstill.

Small amount of snow on

 the ground, schools shut 

or and the heating has broken.

Where as at one time,

 it would be roughly up 

to six feet of snow and

 children would still 

have to go to School. December 2023 

There’s no power to power.

Too much storm, too much rain, 

then not enough rain.

Muddy and wet as the power

 goes on and off any time it wants.

No heat, 

no water, 

no hot foods, 

no hot drinks,

 no tv, 

no devices, 

on light.

How did generations before us, 

manage without power, 

electricity, 

water etc in the homes.

Buckets,

 rivers,

 streams,

 seas, tin baths, 

candles 

and more.  31st December 2023

Poetry 

Poetry in a mind of words in

 our minds but everyone expresses. 

If a mouse or any animal could talk, write etc in ways we understand, what would they tell us us?

Would they write or  and speak poems?

What ever goes through their minds?

We just don’t understand animal language, only human language. 

Whatever must animals think of we humans? Who knows? 31st December 2023 


Why not live on rain water.

Just put a load of sauce pans under the black or and grey cloud and let water into them, then drink it.

Think of the money we would save if this was the case, only it would have to rain every day every where.

Just think how soggy the grounds would be in a world of rain but how dry it would be in a world sunshine. 31st January 2023 


We have had enough rain to make rainbows.

There are rain spots 

on my windows.

The chimney is smoking 

from the local pub, as

 pale blue blends into 

the white and grey clouds. 

As the rain slows down 

but the sky is undecided

 what happens next, as it slowly

  starts to go grey again but 

there are no rainbows to 

be seen with all the 

rain we have had.31st December 2023 


 

 Power of words : power of poetry.

Words that come from our minds but not everyone expresses them in the same way.

Not everyone expresses them in poetry and not even words but in the mind. 

Words and thoughts are wonderful thing to think, say or and write.

Positive, even  the negative and emotional in a way of trying to clear one’s mind instead of keeping it all blocked inside. 31st December 2023 to 1st January 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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