Love heartbreak & the damage of austerity

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  • Put down

    You’ll always put me down, Because to you I’m nothing more, But when I was with you, You said you loved me so, But now that we are apart, I’m…

  • A world

    You showed me a world of colour, A life as juicy as a pear, You gave me a guide to follow, Before you left, with her, How love can overshadow,…

  • Day 10 (Wednesday) Napowrimo prompt

    Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, we’d like to…

  • Day 10 (Wednesday) Napowrimo prompt

    Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, we’d like to…

  • Day 11 (Thursday ) prompt

    Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? Take a look at…

  • Day 3 #NaPoWriMo  #writing

    Prose poetry 💜💜 Not sure if it’s correct but I gave it a try!! “… our prompt for the day – optional, as always. Today, we’d like to challenge you to…

  • Day 2 of #NaPoWriMo month !!

    **Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a platonic love poem. In other words, a poem not about a romantic partner, but some other kind of love – your…

  • napowrimo/#glopowrimo has finally arrived!

    I’ve never done this before so I’m excited to give it a go. Today is the first day of the 30 day writing challenge. Napowrimo has prompted to write “…a…

  • Loved you

    I loved you because things seemed simple You had less time to worry about the small things And you was able to enjoy all your hobbies A trip to shop…

  • Our NICU babies

    My twins have been here for 6 weeks going on more weeks to come please donate to Scunthorpe NICU here is their wish list… https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2S6X5T9EFGKP1?ref_=wl_share Or order these items and…

  • What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

    What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? My childhood was very odd, it was hectic and jumpy. It’s difficult to write about it as I’m…

  • What is your favorite type of weather?

    What is your favorite type of weather? I love most weather, I find it hard in winter when it’s really cold. I had a bad winter a few years ago…

  • Exhausted

    I tried to sleep this afternoon But then they creeped out side my room The cleaner screamed the visitor shouted “You dirty filth what have you started!” “Nothing” The man…

  • Who cares you do what you want anyway

    Who cares You do what you want Anyway Who cares You’ll vent all you like Any day You’ll say all you need to You bleed all you seem to You’ll…

  • Insult

    I’m tired of your daily rhetoric Daily mutterings Accusations and lies I’m tired of the picture you paint of me That is far from the truth in my eyes. I’m…

  • Rules

    Rules, never made sense, I watch people even now, Say there are rules, But then not follow them. But shout at others, To follow them. I’ve never been a rule…

  • Purple crocus

    It’s the start of a new season Where the bugs and the bees will come Nature is awakening The birds they start to sing Plants they start to grow Trees…

  • ward 26 maternity

    there is a sanitary pad shortage for women who have just given birth or had their body cut into two but rishi just said we save 2p on our tax…

  • Friday

    friday, friday, is the day where everyone takes a sigh of relief, its the weekend, end of a school week college, except for those who are working on call, in…

  • Every 3rd Thursday

    Every third Thursday Came around like a birthday Content and complete In arriving and letting it all go And I loved it Being apart of something A family that took…

  • Regret

    Regret I don’t know why But it revisits me Time to time The summer of we I came to meet you At the Ella street festival So in love Like…

  • Mothers daughter

    Your mothers daughter He’s an emotional abusive arse hole Just like what her mother used to love And she can’t get out Because she’s finically controlled Escape and run to…

  • Listen here.

    Listen here, Behind your wrinkling crisp packets and beer, Who do you fear? Was it me? After all that fancy, Nobody cares it was all a fantasy, You wasn’t after…

  • Let down

    You let me down, At my wedding, You let me down, When you said you’d be there at the hospital upon arrival of our babies, Birthday, Christmas. I stared out…

  • Awoken

    I woke up with Jesus this morning, He made me a cup of tea, So I boiled him an egg, We have that kind of relationship, Where if he gives,…

  • A message to the stars

    It’s late, the gate has been pushing up against the side of the house and the wind has been desperately trying to get in. The cat is a victim, she…

  • Email:

    : Good morning, My mind has been poor. I forgot to reply to you the other week. About how you never respond. Then did the same back to you. What…

  • Everything changes but you

    Everything changes but you, The house changes, The way the world goes, Changes, The tough love, rough love, Changes. But you. There is nothing nothing that improves, Nothing that alters,…

  • A man

    And I know a man will never have a baby Or a womb It is not possible I have heard if they could they would But that will never be…

  • Secret lover

    Like me like you love me, Look at me like I’m not a child, Walk me through the graveyard Like the pandemic was never around, Love me like you miss…

  • Buttercups

    Only buttercups lay, Near fields of hay, Where once was whispered your name, And grace I gave, To love you gravely, Never did me any good. Our script now ripped,…

  • You never went back.

    You never went back, After the dog died, You never painted the hallway, Or up the stairs. Didn’t put down the carpet or fix the holes in the ceiling, You…

  • A year

    In a year, I left you, I begged for you, I cursed at you, Confessed to you, Lusted for you, Lost you, And waited for you, And waited for you,…

  • Swearing is ugly

    Swearing is ugly So don’t do it But if you do Do it with wit.

  • Snail shell

    she met you with an empty snail shell you slithered right into you both carried the burden of the world till the cracks came seeping through. soon she left and…

  • Alcohol

    Are you happy? Like, really, happy? Because the percentage you drink by the end of the night adds up to about 34% Does that mean you’re only 34% happy? Or…

  • A wish

    You used to tell me wishes are dreams, All dreams are just the same, But when I wished for you just to be near, The dream it never came (even…

  • Please keep subscribing to my channel

  • Happy new year!! Please subscribe to my YouTube channel I am so close to 500 subscribers.

  • Poetry on my YouTube channel

  • Poet murderer

    I was murdered By a poet His words wrapped around my neck His lack of words wrapped around my neck Murdered by a poet Bashed to bits by key board…

  • Why does the grass not grow

    Many years ago I placed seed Where you left weeds I pulled the yard apart Put love back into the soil But the grass still would not grow.

  • Boxing Day? Podcast? Cleaning up?give us a listen pop us on in the background ❤️ #podcast #Hull

    https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talk2mehull/episodes/Humber-Rescue-Christmas-Special-e2dlg8u

  • Podcast Christmas #Hull #podcast #local #newyear #humberrescue #podcasting #radio #talk #local

    Here’s our podcast with Humber Rescue please give it a listen and please give some support to the volunteers at Humber Rescue 🛟 hope you enjoy x

  • Podcast

    Podcast incoming 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Humber Rescue please follow and listen…. Please also inbox us if you fancy a chat in the new year about anything and everything you don’t have to…

  • Looking at you.

    Looking at you, As you look away, Trying to avoid every last gaze, Why did you come here, Why did I wait, When happiness was always, One step away, Looking…

  • Not funny

    I can’t be in the same room, As you, Because of what you’ve done and what you do, It’s not funny, no not at all, You think it’s a game,…

  • 25

    When I was 25 I was just alive. By just alive I mean I just survived. 25 I was all over the place. Trying to scramble. Trying to race I…

  • Interview with SpokenLabel

    Was a delight to finally chat earlier this year with Andy N Poet from SpokenLabel

  • Day 9 Odes #napowrimo

    Ode to chocolate ‘you’re sugar on my lips, but a life time on the hips’ I don’t mind, your taste is divine, melting as we speak, undressed from plastic, unstuck…

  • Day 8 prompt

    Prompt for the day takes its inspiration from Laura Foley’s poem “Year End.” Today, we challenge you to write a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two…

  • First Sunday of Na/ #NaPoWriMo

    Prompt : postcards : wish you were here DAY 7 Henry, hello love, I’ve been meaning to send you a postcard for some days but I get caught up looking…

  • Day 6 …well doesn’t time fly by NaPoWriMo

    ‘Today’s we’d like to challenge you to write a poem rooted in “weird wisdom,” by which we mean something objectively odd that someone told you once, and that has stuck…

  • How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

    How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? I don’t. I find it very hard to say no and create boundaries I often want…

  • did you really love me

    the way that you sit and ignore the way i seem to fit inside the room when you are there did you love me? did you care? i see that…

  • Who was your most influential teacher? Why? A lot of my teachers in later life, I had a wonderful teacher at secondary school she was an IT teacher before technology…

  • What tattoo do you want and where would you put it? Flowers, a moon a sun Butterflies And some other ideas I’ve found in the past Arms and back possibly…

  • that was yesterday

    yesterday didn’t seem so blue and today this feeling is new to you you ask why i behave like i do and i say that’s because it was yesterday and…

  • Drowning. (NICU stay hospital ward c section) not making sense

    I’m drowning, Already dead, My body cut, I’m like pencil led, The only function I feel, Is when I’m fed, It’s working, But I’m hurting, It’s walking, But I’m broken.…