January 2012
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My Thoughts - Strangers and Pilgrims by Vivienne...
It may come as a shock to some of you, certainly those less aware of ‘me’, that I am not a man for naive sentiment and emotion. I know some of my poetry can seem as such, and I often talk of ‘peace and love’ as if I know what I am talking about, but frankly, this dark soul does not have a clue. When I write there is a marriage that occurs between my thoughts and my emotions...
Clichés
A wonderful, but curious trait about you, is you make clichés come to be. My digestive system wrought with chrysalis, as butterflies emerge inside of me! And now I suffocate, so breathless, for you steal my air when you are near. I don’t see you creeping up you see, distracted by birds that suddenly appear! My legs have turned gelatinous but my knees stay firm to knock. and in your...
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Scam Emails
My word how these things amuse me! What is more, as a writer they are a fantastic source of names. I got the name of the protagonist from ‘Easy as a Bee, See?’ by just checking through my junkmail and spotting a name that was appropriate for my character. But they really can be a joy. Their poor wording, and overtly ridiculous tone make them magnificently stupid and how people fall for...
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Inventing Some New Species
Okay, my brain has been in a weird place for a few days now. I seem to be quite emotional, unable to focus on serious things and my imagination seems to be rather overactive. So, I am running with it! And as part of this running with it, I had the idea of a new species. and thought “Why not make up more!?” So I will! I will give their common name, Latin name (although the Latin shall...
New Guest Poem from Archer
You may remember quite a while back now, I hosted some poems by this chap, Behind Eyes and On Being Twenty Five - They were both excellent and if you are unfamiliar you can read them here http://mercerspoems.tumblr.com/post/11148468832/guest-poems-from-archer
Well, he has sent me another poem of his to share, so here it is. E What old god, which fair fates, Set arrows to time? No revoking, no...
Space
Marvel at the splendour of the cosmic beauty, hot, passionate like the roaring fires of stellar fusion I bask in your coronal warmth. A pull, a draw, gravitational - Hold me down. What is this feeling? gasping amazement, my breath taken away in the vacuum as I gaze at the distant twinkles, beautiful, rich, alluring. In the midst of this dark, shining beauty, Cupid draws his celestial bow....
Words
I could stare at these blank pages all day waiting for your words to fill the void. Waiting for the relief from isolated torture that comes from being wrapped in your warm, blanket sentences. Each word like a spring bird, chirpy and smile inducing. Dancing in flight around the skies of my thoughts. How I love to see them, to hear them. How I wait, each cold roosting night, for dawn’s break...
Life Through a Screen
Hanging around with my processed, plastic friends, having fun. Seeing their liquid crystal eyes light up, backlit, burning bright. Communication through rhythmic finger taps on plastic painted keys. I no longer need to nod my head in signs of affirmation. I merely click “Likes This” instead, oh wondrous wonders. My friends know my business through globally transmitted updated...
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SOPA, PIPA and Copyright Oom-Pa-Pa
Today, people may be waking up to find little corners of the web inaccessible to them. This is in protest of the US House Bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, for short, and it’s sister act, PIPA or Protect Intellectual Property Act (rather Orwellian in its name) “Online piracy!” You say, “I am firmly against it, good for them!” Well, actually think...
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Buy My Books
You can read them on your Kindle, You can read them on your phone. You can read them if you’re single, they’re probably best if you’re alone. You can read them on your tablet, You can read them on PC, You can’t read them on an aglet, for they’d be too small to see. You can read them in your living room, you can read them on the bog, you can read them at your spinning...
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Comes Out Your Bum Like a Bullet From A Gun
oh diarrhea! It’s a horrible thing is it not? One minute you’re going about your business feeling fine and dandy. The next, you are overcome with an unusual lethargy. Then, you are blighted with abdominal pains and before you know it, you’re darting off to the nearest lavatory to deposit something that has the consistency you would expect of something processed by the bladder,...
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The Ex-Factor - Homogeneity Kills Us As...
The television was on. Saturday nights were always the same. Minds being violated up and down the country as barking, clapping seals, drooling from the apathy their brains now feel for life, applaud people with okay voices for singing versions of songs other people wrote and performed much better than they did. This is not entertainment. This is not culture. This is the modern, ‘civilised’...
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The Iran Situation and Self-Inflicted Wounds
Have you ever done something really fucking stupid and regretted it…Like tease a cat. You know how it is, you’ll be playing with a cat, he or she will be rolling around mindlessly flailing at a piece of string or something with naturally instinctive aplomb, you let your guard down thinking it is all a game and then next thing you know you’ve got red lines traced all down your...
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Another Moan About Politics
It seems the political race in the US is heating up a bit. How do I know this? Because it is no longer about politics and all about pointlessly slandering other people… It would not be so bad if it was being done cleverly, with some wit and satirical flair. But it isn’t! I guess this is what bugs me most about the facade that is Western politics; we make it personal, and take it...
On Falling
The Seraphic beauty held aloft the wondrous, silken horse-hair bow and played with it the strings of my heart like some fluttering, arrhythmic cello. This, the ambient background music to what could be a beautiful plummet. A descent into sane madness from a sad and lonely aloof summit. Or, a savage drop. A suicide dive. A shameful, rueful fall from grace. That leaves my body as tattered...
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Viva La Resistance!
Resistance, we know what that is, right? Going against the grain? Standing up for what we believe in? Being resistant, being human, being strong minded, willful and overall, being quite awesome! It’s not that simple for some elements of humanity, you know? Sometimes they are bound by dogmatic rules and regulations. They may be involved in societies, groups or religions that don’t...
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Amateur Pornography: The Problems
I am fairly certain you will know what pornography is. I am also fairly certain you will know what an amateur is and therefore, shall be able to put the two terms together to get a clear picture of what I am talking about…Sadly, with what I am talking about, you rarely, if ever, get a clear picture! I am not sure what saucy element of the human mind it is that enables some of us to be quite...
Reflections on 2011 & Hopes for 2012
I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while but some personal issues have rather got in the way, but given that my friend over at http://zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/ has just done her little New Years blog I feel it is, therefore, not too late for me to do one. 2011 was a shit year, I’d use the ‘annus horribilis’ term if I did not think it...
