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Just Writing My Own Poetry
Alcatraz
When love is closed Where sleep protests and prayers hang from your lips Forlornly I gaze at blackened bars above my head My view...
laurencewatkins
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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The Last Day
My hand holds a glass the amber fluid that takes my life My thoughts turn to depair feeding grounds for looking back At a life wasted My...
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Nov 29, 20241 min read
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The Saloon
A man lays down his life for a pack of cards Another pack is dealt Dealing a chance at life, a gun appears My gun drinks blood as eyes...
laurencewatkins
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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Wooden Fences & Wooden Crosses
We are given to this earth and we are taken away Our innocence is prayed upon us and uniforms are given out to little boys and older men...
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Nov 29, 20241 min read
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Sleep
A sea of light comes to me softly entering the room, stirring my lover into my arms Protesting sleep I lift my head silently seeing tears...
laurencewatkins
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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De La Sal 1918
As the water stills and the whirlpools surrender and cease, I lay back on the sweet moist grass that smells so tender and innocent. I...
laurencewatkins
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Mary of England part Two
My face is crushed, my hair bloody. My brothers face lies close to mine. I know we are both dying. He looks at me. I move closer our lips...
laurencewatkins
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Mary of England
The air is breathing, beating The lights above humble themselves so betraying a feeling of one's suffering Our chains are stacked loosely...
laurencewatkins
Nov 26, 20242 min read
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Snow
Thoust thy sweet lips have caressed and slaughtered thy soul with deadly poise and few words that bond me with guile creep into my soul,...
laurencewatkins
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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A Boys Death
I have tasted evil, yet the seeds of my dispair dwell beneath my breast germinating. I have begun to age so soon, my clothes sit ill on...
laurencewatkins
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Death at My Door
Though I feel death is flirting with my breath, cheapening my estate with drunken words and immortal scum. I long to deposit my body,...
laurencewatkins
Nov 25, 20241 min read
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My Body a Portrait for Lies Part Two
The unknown is the unwanted, though I have seen heaven in my dreams, I feel sure that it has cursed me. The dreams are never the same,...
laurencewatkins
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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My Body a Portrait for Lies
A stranger at the gate gazes on virgin bodies standing before him, pale in their neon skins. He sees souls that migrate, carried to hell...
laurencewatkins
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Life Be Stained
Life be it stained with glints of sunlight, or tiles blackened and shadows we walk, or floors that reflect like glass our armour winging...
laurencewatkins
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Undying Love
The world dies as the earth is born. The poor were bred to give thanks to the skies that spawned their hatred and migration towards the...
laurencewatkins
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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People People Everywhere 1944
I drink from a life of crime, covering my body with the ashes of my foes faces I love to work The people who die before me love me They...
laurencewatkins
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Through My Eyes
My strength though faint and confined fills my grieving heart with elements of remorse and humble dismay. Pawning my guilt onto grieving...
laurencewatkins
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Scotland
I stand before battle My standard to the front for all to see The cloth may have changed But the symbols have spoken for my family for...
laurencewatkins
Nov 19, 20241 min read
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Wherever We Are
The air is cold as my roses turn white and die My neighbour has gone without saying goodbye He lies on the ground outside my door as if...
laurencewatkins
Nov 19, 20241 min read
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Life 101
I lay with my head upon a pillow The hunger has come to me again Tears form in my eyes as I contemplate my misery I cannot remember when...
laurencewatkins
Nov 19, 20241 min read
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