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 Mar 2015 Leigh
Aniseed
Madame Salamander
With her small, speckled spots
Spread smoothly over her
Skin, similar to the sun.
Tiny toes tip tapping long treks
Through tough terrain.

Madame Salamander
Grand and glamorous, great gales
Of green-eyed ganders give her
Gosh awful grabs as gifts, gabbing
Gleefully of gross gourds.

Madame Salamander
Feel her filmy eyes on her
Flat facade furrow into a feverish
Gaze as her words fan further
And farther whilst she fabulates.

Madame Salamander*
Let her linger on her long legend
Of little lizards lipping to large
Lions and licked away from
Their lovely lives as lizards.
A very old poem I wrote.
 Mar 2015 Leigh
Joel M Frye
why a poet?
because a poet
hears the words
which sing the
purest harmonies
because a poet
paints their portraits
in pastels
of phrases
because a poet
dances their agonies
into leaps of faith
and pirouettes
of passion
because a poet
sees
the beauty
in the commonplace
and captures
the moment
in a snapshot
of ink and white
because a bloodless world
cuts itself
a thousand times

and the poet bleeds
For my friends here and around the world on World Poetry Day.
 Mar 2015 Leigh
Joel M Frye
Fe-lines
 Mar 2015 Leigh
Joel M Frye
Your words slink around
my legs, purr insistently,
nuzzle at my hand.
 Mar 2015 Leigh
Lottie
I've yet to find a religion
That doesn't shun the others,
Just because their god has a different name.

I've yet to find a religion
That doesn't say everyone's entitled
To their own view as long as its the same as theirs.

I've yet to find a religion
That doesn't condemn women
To being inferior just because god's a dude (apparently.)

I've yet to find a religion
That doesn't insist its followers
Do unto others as theyd have done unto them.


I've yet to find a religion
That doesn't disregard that rule
When it suits them to ignore "gods" words.
you might have noticed by now, religion isn't my favourite thing
 Mar 2015 Leigh
Joel M Frye
Some people are
insightful; many others
merely inciteful.
Well to consider before posting on social media.
 Mar 2015 Leigh
Joel M Frye
Beautiful, brutal,
"...our business is rejoicing...";
strings being tortured,
trumpets scream in agony,
tympani broken at end.
Quote by Dmitri Shostakovich.
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