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Head full of steam, the end begins on Miller Street. A lifeless disc called Sun leads the funeral procession into the heavens. Factory city breathes through an iron lung, exhaling the smoke of "progress." Dark, dank vapors pollute the scepter, enter the throne room, and take the queen by force. Women and children develop industrial-grade hands and feet, they sleep on beds of coal, a fitting resting place: when they die, they are buried right beneath. The spiraling dance of looms, the incessant screams of machinery, here chimney stacks outnumber the men. An outcrop of crooked crosses on the hills above, the bier stands ready for the next in line, on Sundays each one prays to God it's not them.
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May 6
May 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM UTC
Cottonopolis
O DEATH, rock me asleep, Bring me to quiet rest, Let pass my weary guiltless ghost Out of my careful breast. Toll on, thou passing bell; Ring out my doleful knell; Let thy sound my death tell. Death doth draw nigh; There is no remedy. My pains who can express? Alas, they are so strong; My dolour will not suffer strength My life for to prolong. Alone in prison strong I wait my destiny. Woe worth this cruel hap that I Should taste this misery! Farewell, my pleasures past, Welcome, my present pain! I feel my torments so increase That life cannot remain. Cease now, thou passing bell; Rung is my doleful knell; For the sound my death doth tell. Death doth draw nigh; There is no remedy.
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Apr 8
Apr 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM UTC
O' Death, Rock Me Asleep (-Anne Boleyn)
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Old Woman of Galway There was an Old Woman of Galway, Whose portrait was hung in her hallway; The likeness was true From the horn to the blue Epidermis, the bluest in Galway. Old Woman of Bristol There was an Old Woman in Bristol, Who carried a polished Colt pistol; She'd shoot out the eye Of a far-away fly, This sharp-shooting Woman of Bristol. Old Woman of York There was an Old Woman of York, Who was visited once by a stork That brought her a baby, A graylien grayby, That devoured this Woman of York. Old Woman of Kent There was an Old Woman in Kent, Who gave up complaining for Lent; Her grumbling, however, Was louder than ever, And everyone heard it in Kent. Old Woman of Soho There was an old Woman of Soho, Whose personal motto was "Yolo"; She happened to die And came back as a fly That flew for a day around Soho. Old Woman of Derry There was an Old Woman of Derry As sweet as a Washington cherry; Whoever would meet 'er Would say she was sweeter Than any black, rasp, or blue berry. Old Woman of Dover There was an Old Woman of Dover, Who discovered a seven-leaf clover By the light of the moon In the blue afternoon In the hands of a changeling in Dover.
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Mar 25
Mar 25, 2026 at 1:34 PM UTC
The History of Seven Wonderful Old Women
She wonders if the world knows. She remembers she forgot to curtsey, to demurely eat darkness. Her thoughts were more inclined toward duplicity, the artifice in his eyes. She had espied two figures walking close together in the secretive moor, the absent lord in question hiding behind another's parasol. The thin smile upon his lips resembled an Icarus bird's injured wing when caught. She better understood why the angel in Lothian pretended to be dead when the love blood had drained. Her Biblically turning away from him would eventually cast pallettes of gray shadow on his summer of another lover. And if the world should know, it would not soon pass.
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Mar 6
Mar 6, 2026 at 4:35 AM UTC
Lord & Lady Afterword
The grey Themes flows like molasses Key figures bustle about the impending law Like ants on a crumb of coffee cake What seemed so important on that dark day Flutters past like wind through a forgotten rake What is more treasured than this entanglement? The men with insipid wigs evidently The public does not compare to Parliament Bicker until your tongues swell into pink sausages Time is a hair, caught on a nail in a plank, laying in the field Insomuch as your ignorance to the turnshoes clacking underneath you The porcelain haired fellows unfortunate to yield Barrels of whiskey they are not It’s a keg of a different sort Guy thinks the fight is worth being fought To worship is to be free after all In the minds of zealots that’s justification enough It was free reign in Eden before the fall There’s no formality strike the brimstone Cognition upon the floor erupting beneath them Cricket in the corner little black legs hone Not insects, yet footsteps close Law prevails no fireworks tonight Religious freedom prevails? Who knows? It was foiled, ruined by one member Gunpowder plot posse found the gallows Perhaps no one will remember the fifth of November
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Nov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM UTC
Out Fawkes(ed)
i don’t think i’ve ever been more in love with a city than i was with you. it’s inexplicable. the more i see this spirit of community, of togetherness where i live now, the more i miss my real home. it might be another country, but you took me in, held me like your own. one hundred and sixty thousand people, yet it was always one: the date whose flatmate played in my favourite band, the pub where a singer walked in and we had to act cool, even with fifty strangers, once, crammed into a living room. you were secret codes and piano bars, ropes above the thames, carnivals and day festivals. meeting someone, and keeping them forever. it was never just work. it was passageways, and talent rising like ivy through stone, having the world at my fingertips as though sitting on a throne without having a clue. but i still did what i thought i should, and found myself alive in the whole of you.
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Aug 31, 2025
Aug 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM UTC
i was somewhere lost in england.
(on the ten-year anniversary of leaving home) without looking back, she boarded a flight, concealing that piercing anxiety. to soothe the ache, packed her language as a guide, weeping quietly for her country. recognition came in tears, stretched paper-thin— that her home couldn’t yet grasp that love begins within. the early years, under flickering lights, were spent seeking solace. with inner voices softly humming— inhaling cheap wine, books as her compass— enough to outweigh not belonging. some nights, she danced until her heels worn the skin away, bleeding her truth into tile, whilst friends, thick as thieves, melted into laughter, and gin. she loved badly, lit candles to soften the silence that screamed louder at 3 a.m., scribbled poetry on the walls of her soul— long forgotten, left forsaken. her twenties were a strange gift, she never thought to ask for, memories scattered down the hallway, like spilled drinks, laced with honesty. sometimes the weight is still sore, and yet she’s walking, barefoot, unfolding.
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Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM UTC
...not yet a woman
Pints int sun Socks, sliders and chit-chat Walking home in zig zags Good people I miss all that Summer days Sunny haze Topping up the tan In the English rays Factor 50 Laid on thick When the temp strikes 20 The sunstroke hits Ice-cold bevs On a picnic bench Tunes blasting Pints thrown Am chuffing drenched The ciggies and spliffs Chasing the vibe Oh, what it is To be alive The beer gardens Packed to the brim “Sorry mate You can’t come in” Party in the park Barbecues And burnt sausage Go on then Another gin The English summer What a sight Top’s off, top’s on Golden days And Endless nights
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Mar 18, 2025
Mar 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM UTC
Sun’s Out, Guns Out
I think I'll go across the sea, And study music in Italy. Leave with only the clothes on my back, My jacket pocket full of little literatures. Or should I study English arts, In England? I doubt I'd read much, There's not a lot to see in a London fog.
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Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM UTC
Travel Studies
In I came to Dublin town, Riding one fine morning, I spied some Johnny Bullies And I started off a'cussing! Leave my home, Go on get out. Leave the whiskey, Leave the grub. Tell the king To go **** off And stay in his doe-hog hovel. O'er glens of An Cabhán There flew a rag of red, I tore it off from where it hung And ripped it all to shreds! Leave my house, You're unwelcome. Leave the rope & iron. Tell the king To go **** off, Lest he would rather violence. In Londonderry & Belfast, Pleasant little branches, We'll grow ourselves gigantic oaks Uproot their picket fences! Leave my home, Go on get out. Leave the whiskey, Leave the grub. Tell the king To go **** off And stay in his doe-hog hovel. Say the hounds are all but slept, Yet I still hear the barking. I think it restful pouting Readying for a real good bouting! Leave my house, You're unwelcome. Leave the rope & iron. Tell the king To go **** off, Lest he would rather violence. Hard to find good honest work, When of royal or noble; Hard to find good honest work If they claim you're not loyal! Leave my home, Go on get out. Leave my house, You're unwelcome. Tell the king To go **** off, And kindly don't respond.
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Feb 12, 2025
Feb 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM UTC
Johnny Poodle
A winters stare, Beautifully resonates in the air, A clear sky, a frozen pitch, I wonder if the beauty, will last more than a few minutes, The snapping of a twig, which was once part of the untouched view, A graceful swan as muted as I am in awe, Gliding by, Looking over by the hill, The mist breathing through the grass, as I pause once more, The grandest of oaks, silhouetted by the rising sun, Grips me to the core, Only in England… Say no more. © Darren Wall
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Feb 3, 2025
Feb 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM UTC
Awe
I wake up to the sound of cars driving through puddles, Splashing me awake; Whilst moments ago, I was dreaming Of somewhere far away. The rain should be soothing, As plump drops beat down Persistent in their rhythm, Hammering on the glass Whilst I hide under covers And I  do not wish to rise. ©️Lizzie Bevis
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Jan 7, 2025
Jan 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM UTC
The Rude Awakening
Enraged clouds of deepening grey   Advance with wind-whipped waters,   As tranquil skies begin to decay. The fierce wind howls like a ravenous beast Splintering trees like twigs with its might,   As nature's fury prepares to feast. Devastation rolls in like a violent dance,   As lightning splits across the darkened sky. Nothing in its path stands a chance. Heavy rain slashes through the air,   The surge greedily devours, Then vomits debris everywhere. In its wake, the lull exposes the carnage, And the savage toll we pay in defeat When we cannot best the weather’s rage. ©️Lizzie Bevis
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Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024 at 11:40 PM UTC
The Wrath of the Storm
The day I shall bore this egg along my will, beside my Witt, With dreams to **** or more . A sway I can't ignore Born and be reborn like Christ Around my faith, all that await. Life is a deadly gift I am a living rift With my surplus goals and desire. Nor those vain glories to acquire, Zeal above my will, debase me still Please write down my will.
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Nov 12, 2024
Nov 12, 2024 at 4:21 AM UTC
WILL
I had been staring at corporate blocks of incestuous dual notation, rippling within a multitudinous sea horn. Many of my skins partook in the abuse of subterfuge in order to forget the sea horns. We would head into the night, deep into oblique dens of solitary apparition, conjuring that which had plagued our mental cognition. With cascading light festering, lurid transcendence of encumbered paralysis began. Physical forms traversing innumerable alleyways of dread, between concrete moulded into the shape of modernity and cables transpiring towards opaque operating systems which would import and export our collected consciousness for the trade of gelatinous brain matter, had overcame us. Sliding into abyssal-black tar of stroking, crawling, writhing primal sludge; subsequently escaping through pores of sweat coagulation, allowing silk-woven experience to be spun within a lair of manifestation, coinciding with visions of mutilation.
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024 at 6:18 AM UTC
Interlopers
Saint George is an englishman Who never came to England Born in ancient Turkey Fighting for the Romans Saint George is an englishman Who never met a dragon Willing to be martyred Killed for saintly passions Saint George is an englishman Adopted as our own Our nation full of mongrels Imports a classic hero
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Apr 23, 2024
Apr 23, 2024 at 6:17 AM UTC
Saint George
It was two decades ago today when an actor took his final breath. When he starred in Doctor Who, he starred in "The Robots of Death". His name was Russell Hunter and he was born in February of 1925. Next year would've been his 100th birthday if he had survived. Hunter starred in nineteen episodes of "The Gaffer" and one episode of "Born and Bred". People in England were sad twenty years ago today because they learned he was dead. In 1976, he starred in one episode of "Play From A". He also starred in "Daddy's Girl" and "Up Pompeii". Hunter starred in "The Cockleshell Heroes" and one episode of "The Bill". When it comes to forgetting him, the good people of England never will.
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Feb 26, 2024
Feb 26, 2024 at 3:52 PM UTC
The 20th Anniversary of Russell Hunter's Death
Spoilt from birth, Pampered and needy, Being the spare an inherited curse, Leading to actions often quite seedy. Great aunt Margaret blazing the trail Questionable choices aplenty, Drugs and alcohol steering her sail A life of regrets, vacuous and empty. Followed by Andrew possessing of valor But aimless and vain in every respect, His choices a mess, cause of great clamor, So by way of example what to expect? As to his mother, that heart-shearing tale, The lovely Diana Princess of Tears, A tragic figure determined yet frail, The ultimate victim to her own inner fears. But a glass half empty is a mindset of sorts, Blindly ungrateful to privileges bestowed, Clouding his mind with nothing but torts, Leading the spiral down a winding dark road. We the onlookers can only but hope That time and experience will yet prove the key, Shielding his fall from that slippery slope, Grasping the change which for now he can't see.
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Jun 8, 2023
Jun 8, 2023 at 11:29 AM UTC
Prince Harry's Spiral
Morning was sudden-made as an onwardness of hills, Meant for donning crusade in chainmail glistenings, The sun visored in misty slats of cold steel, To glimmer fusty through the godded grove, A holy sepulchre, earthly-dim to its rafters of oak, Where the forest-fall of sunlight shed its rosework, And a red-breasted bird, its song-flight of dappled gleam, And in the meadow, where colorful whorled the tale of Saladin, Wayside flowers shook beneath the destriers' cloth caparisons, A sunny fullness of vales for the crusaders' forest-heartened lungs, And when this furthering of sights was sunken from, Still an onwardness of hills to Jaffa like steppingstones.
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Apr 16, 2023
Apr 16, 2023 at 10:11 PM UTC
Lion of the Hills