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kris evans Jun 2014
Poles apart attract each other......
Just like you and me.......
We fail
only to make
success
taste that much
sweeter.
Making a date
to meet in
Jerusalem
on
Palm Sunday.
Heavy headed?

it's the morning
you haven't
put on weight.
(20 minute poetry)

#10word Siberia

In permafrost? or
listed as missing,
lost in the
floe.

#10word traveller

I visit this
ancient land
where the sand
meets Ozymandias.

#10word Bard.

Give me the quill
I have the will
to write.
Another deadline
headline
it's about time
they
sorted it out.
John Ryles Feb 2012
As the icicles cry

Bright spring sun

Wave’s winter goodbye
John Ryles Nov 2011
Great Oak
Acorn ripe
Squirrels harvest
For long
Winter nights
Brexit
wrecked it
for the ones
who wanted to stay.
feeling so so
is sometimes
as good as
it gets.
With thanks to Sarif Hossain and the conversation which prompted this
John Ryles Nov 2011
Perfumed candle
Laminar flame
Flickering stave
Casting shadows
Puppets misbehave
Waxing lyrical
bargain hunting,
as dangerous as
hunting for socks
that match
There should be an odd sock emporium.
Strip me down
and build
a
Kawasaki
from my
bones.
Demonized Angels Dec 2014
We'll miss you Andy, Our angel has gained his wings
Troy,
for an ounce of treasure
a pleasure a
Tempest.
Some try to save the world but can't save themselves.
Happynessa Oct 2017
Life tethers bodies
Mindfulness soars freely
Blissfully radiating loves light
John Ryles Nov 2011
Lies deception
Then you fall
Stay true
Honesty
Conquers all
truth will conquer
Wrestling winter

I fall as autumn
into her cold
embrace,
John Ryles Nov 2011
Umbrella
Keep me dry
Until rain clouds
Pass on bye
10 word poem
Poetic T Jun 2015
Echoes*
            Do
                 Never
                           Fade,
                                   They
                                           Only
                                                    Get
        ­                                                  Harder
    ­                                                                 ­  To
                                                                ­          *Hear..
Meghan Nguyen Jul 2012
The ones we trusted the most
                       pushed us far away.
Jinxx Dec 2014
This noose is my only friend in the world now
*lays my head in my hands* I'm kinda done with all this
Wishing
I
Had
Something
Kind
To
Write
About
My
Father
Atlantis,
a place to miss
when
planning a
Summer holiday.
We went everywhere
together
and got nowhere,

life goes on.
I stop there,
pop
her
the question,
awaiting
the reply.
Up in the
North country
even the
winds
blow frugally
Rock bottom,
not  a
good place
for a
vacation home.
We shatter no illusions
when  breaking through
the looking glass.
She
spins stories
like
spiders spin webs
I
am spellbound.
If you are
not an
ocean
do not
make
waves.
Out of shape
I bend slowly
into an old
man.

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