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995 · Jan 2016
6016
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Clawing our way through the city, pale, hunched and toothless.
901 · May 2016
gone
Kate Barkes May 2016
Your heart it breaks
in the night a dog barks
733 · Jan 2016
Fluffy
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Floating through pink fluffy clouds
Terrified screams
The plane descends
479 · Jan 2016
Untitled
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Behind a tattered hessian curtain there is a flickering light,
but this isn't what should be on her bedside right.
My first 20 worder (as instructed) - I may continue this one at a later date.
476 · Feb 2016
No longer mobile
Kate Barkes Feb 2016
Shattered glass
Shattered bone
amid twisted metal
rings the phone
406 · Jan 2016
A dead man
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Galloping through the mist his steed no hoof print leaves
406 · Apr 2016
Mud
Kate Barkes Apr 2016
Mud
Neath the cherry, snow and oak, there lies a sight to see; a pony called Norbett his grazing predicament plain to me.
393 · Aug 2016
Ride out
Kate Barkes Aug 2016
Luminous green grass next to a wet stone wall, tiny gnats decorate peachy mist. The evening sun now turns fells a candy floss pink and I trot on -smiling- down the lane.
382 · May 2016
10 word failure
Kate Barkes May 2016
Embarrassment and failure, writings of a loon must improve soon
380 · Jan 2016
Life
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Hectic life
Under strife
But solid
As man and wife
372 · May 2016
Get a fix
Kate Barkes May 2016
Just another hit she begs and her cruel master obliges
341 · Jan 2016
goldditcher
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Sickly and rich
laying in ditch
Rupert shouts
"that *****!"
311 · Jan 2016
Sean Hunt
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
He talks like Clint Eastwood
He makes my write poems
299 · Jan 2016
On the bridge
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Lumbering into his final step the lawyer has one regret
299 · Feb 2016
Untitled
Kate Barkes Feb 2016
Wretched continuous pain
now life will never be the same
294 · Apr 2016
Sean's smile
Kate Barkes Apr 2016
You've the nicest beam I think I have ever seen
Kate Barkes Apr 2016
Inside the tavern light is seen
Our unlikely group enter
We enquire about staying,
dice are rolled,
as we're playing.
290 · Jan 2016
First Ten Word Poem
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
I will rise
To the challenge
And get my revenge
290 · Jan 2016
Untitled
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
Juicy, ripe
He hates to do this
with the knife.
288 · Jan 2016
getting on
Kate Barkes Jan 2016
She groans and grizzles while he is proud and sizzles
278 · Feb 2016
Monkey's
Kate Barkes Feb 2016
With only one wish left
desperate on floor:
"the paw!"
269 · Feb 2016
Frantic
Kate Barkes Feb 2016
Frantic and wild
with only minutes to spare
they dare

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