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  Nov 2014 Paul Butters
DC raw love
My thoughts never stop
I'll think what I will
It could be sad
It could be good
It's about my life
The life that I had
It's my time for forgetting
I must forget my past
I know think of the future
The life that I'll have
I see to the future
From my past
Paul Butters Nov 2014
As I lay dozing in my bed,
I write poetry in my head.
Playing the page with well-worked words,
A mix of adjectives and verbs,
My Voice it resonates with musical sounds
And my imagination knows no bounds.

I like that!
I declare,
So soon I’m rushing down the stairs
To grab my pad.
Scribbling it all down
Did I forget to mention noun?

Forgetting words is just the pits:
That sends me into raging fits.
I’m on my laptop soon enough
To add more verses, off the cuff.

Microsoft Word becomes my home
As now I’m really in the zone.
I just can’t stop myself from doing this I know:
All I can do is let it go.

Paul Butters
An how to poem.
they don't ask questions
they act there and then

guns on the streets
randomly blasting away
ever poised to cut short a life
with a ruling spray

guns misdirected
not utilized with forethought  
causing the Afro American community to feel
like it registers a naught

the leveling bevel
of justice not seen
control is in the hands of cops
with bullets so keen

on the streets a disquiet grows
black youths given little of no chance
by the men in uniform
who call the dance

they mow them down
they take lives away
which leaves on the streets
a saddening tear to stay
the wind
the wind
it howls and howls
it howls its howls
in howling expression
it howls its howls
out of repression
it howls and howls
long its sprite
it howls and howls
not being contrite
it howls and howls
in howling verve
it howls and howls
unperturbed
it howls and howls
flouting its air
it howls and howls
everywhere
the wind
the wind
it howls and howls
with a howling
scowl
  Nov 2014 Paul Butters
Francie Lynch
There's no hurry
For one to worry
About the end
Of days.
Is there Spirit?
Will we meet?
Will you have wings
To lift your feet
To prance and dance
On sheep-shaped clouds,
Or put a halo round my head,
Lift *******
To raise the dead,
To incarnate,
Transmigrate,
Regenerate.
I'd be okay
To disintegrate,
Adding mass
To a world
Growing in depravity,
And losing its gravity.
  Nov 2014 Paul Butters
Erenn
Aligned to unite
With others who lost their way
It’s a mess we perceived
To those in dismay
These lines create dreams 
For the broken
For the ones never spoken-
Of Love & Courage

Conjuring up notions of time
Structuring of desires preludes
To pursue what’s lost 
To preach and beseech truth
Faith denotes eternally
Surviving pain and deceit
What speaks only bleeds
To fabricate amity

Not fazed by power
But to denote greed
Greed of Love & Passion
Exhaling Hate & Deception
To succor the pillar of fate
To exist in this factual state

Your heart's a fragile thing. 
Everyone’s heart is. 
Don’t ever contaminate hatred
Contaminate love instead.
We're only humans. We're not perfect.
We come in different colours.
Don't hate on things/someone you don't know.
Don't erase a race/religion with intent of hate
Contaminate love instead.
Paul Butters Nov 2014
Meh
Meh is what I say
When I feel that way.
It’s all in the expression:
That’s the lesson.
I ain’t a troll
‘Cos I say lol.
Our language is growing,
Toing and froing,
Ask old Mister Owen
(Our English Master back in the day).
I play these words
Along the page,
Hoping for a Golden Age
Of growth.
Not revolution, just evolution;
Some may say pollution
Even ablution.
The constitution
Of Progress.

Paul Butters
A product of the internet and mobiles.
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