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Karen Hamilton Nov 2015
There she was on stage
The Theatre was packed full
Her face painted
Like a porcelain doll.

Lights shone down on her,
Red velvet curtains draped
It's like we were in
The Eighteen Hundreds

She was in full view
Her long black hair was
Camouflaged with her leotard

The spotlights must have
Blinded her eyes

She danced as
Delicately
As a feather,
Mystically and
Artistically,

It was entrancing to see
My friend who was
Starring the show.

The audience were captivated,
Gentlemen smoking their pipes
Nodding heads of approval,

Swift,
Soft,
Subtle movements
Mesmerised the greater crowd...

And then she speaks.

She speaks poetry
In so many words,
Words I can't relay,

I wish I could remember,
But I remember
How it made me feel;

How it made every one feel.

The strange eeriness
Mixed with elegance,
Her words harshly whispered
But true...

The crowd errupted
With applause
"Bravo" "Bravo"

And then I wake....



© Karen L Hamilton, 2012
This is the dream I had about my friend Sammi. I remember telling her and she said that she done a model shoot years ago in the description I described seeing her,  I can still picture it as clear as when it happened.... coincidence?
Daria Jun 2014
The dark silence loomed around us
Like a knife ready to fall
We feared our blood being spilled around us all

When the first scream errupted I was ready to run
But the dark all around us made me stumble and fall
When we realized he died, we all sprinted in fright and
hoped that we all got out alive.

Running forever in chaotic silence
Trying too hard to keep surviving

Screams all around me cut through like spears
Swiftly dead bodies were falling from spheres.
These spheres were like slicing bullets
they were, like enclosing traps with goo and gore.

Running forever in chaotic silence
Trying too hard to keep surviving

We followed the underground path,
until we spotted a metallic ladder
Climbing and climbing, the screeching growing louder,
We opened the lid and climbed out of the sewer.

Blinding light hit us like searing pain,
and blinded us all though we thought we might be safe again.
Some more screams errupting, as dead bodies fall, we quickly
clmbed out of our imprisoned hall.
This is just what I felt after reading Maze Runner, and so I took one of the moments and made it into a poem.
Bridget Cassidy Jun 2010
tonight the streetlights shall guide my way
as i scramble up and out of the lonely street
there's a man walking vigourously behind me
it occurs to me i should pick up my feet
he starts to get faster picking up pace
i swipe the twigs and leaves infront of my chin
all of a sudden it seems it's errupted into a race
and i was so set on never letting that man win
i hid in a bush and waited for him to pass by
as he asked another member of the public a question
he said 'have you seen a girl with chestnut hair about this high?'
as he added on more with a humble expression
"she dropped her bow on the ground infront of my feet
i wouldn't want her to lose something that makes her eyes so bright"
they replied "i'm really sorry i haven't, but that is very sweet"
he replied a simple, 'thankyou anyway and that is quite alright'
i emerged from the bush, he turned around with me at his glance
he held out his hand and smiled gently to give me the bow
he said ' i would have given you this earlier but you didn't give me the chance'
i said "thankyou, i am greatful more than you will ever know"
he stood there for a while and then said "well i guess i'll be on my way"
as he walked off i noticed he dropped a piece of paper from his sleeve
i picked it up off the ground and held it in my hand
i was running after him faster than you could ever believe
Mateuš Conrad Mar 2017
if only for the upkeep of the urban myth, as to see
        the light in a dilated pupil
encrustin the ghetto iris
of the sight of three but some would
argue four colours:
that of brown, blue and green,
and the last: grey...
and how the copper skins too to agitation,
because there was no identifying polar opposite...
and when opposites were the norm
and we had gilfriends and we made them
mix-tapes... and they would later
tell you about: that time
at oxford circus at 5 a.m. before marks &
spencer
opened and i had this mix tape
you made me, and it had king crimsons'
song epitaph tattooed on it...
              or what later became (that funny switch
your brain turns into looking for words?
that's a thesaurus)
pensive drunk or rodin's worth of being pensive
                                       being sculpted?
hence the multitude of actors!
who made so much tosh that **** had to be born;
  yet
                      to have lived the most
"unbelievable" life necessary, to have been
as necessary as a hammer, if anything...
i wonder what life the man who made beer could
have be bound to in orff's o fortuna equivalent...
    what could ever resemble a tattoo if not poem?
hidden, out of sight, dare recognise the imprint:
dare you lose your sight?
                    i ask because i bow,
     bau...                matters of welsh influence
on these icicles worth as isles...
                for worth of a better history fetish:
edward the confessor does more for me than
the myth (or what later becomes a century's worth
of care) of arthur... i have absolutely no reason
to state that to be an omnivorous fest of ego...
   luckily we have this unit that can be magnetic outside
of psychology, and outside of fictive narratives and
applied to reality... i'd state
genghis khan and carnivores...
                           buddha and herbivores...
like i'd never write fiction because i cared too much
for any existing "sensibilities" acquired or in line
with the staged attire of the times...
   indeed, the holy spirit is a construct that's most
unstable in the holy trinity,
the fraction that's most unstable and polymorphic,
it took 20 x 100 years for it to be faded,
too much vogue errupted...
  to much change...  
                                 and what ensued was a desire
for stability.
                  if that ever helped.
i like the thought of having made a mix-tape
for a girl and she told me she listened to it
at circa 5am on oxford street going to work
to mark & spencers, and that the song was
king crimson epitaph, and that oxford street
was akin to a graveyard at 5am...
            it was all about making an indentation,
wasn't it?
         too small, too subtle and otherwise
too lazy to encourage reciprocation...
                    too great?
i'm thinking seagull papa and seagull mama
regurgitating food and doing an equivalent of
**** *** into the gobs of their chicks.
efni May 2023
we sat together
in line and in silence
as time becomes tied
a noise errupted of
thoughts and prayers
self-claimed prosephies
but what if this noise is relative

if he scratches his nose,
and i do the same will it be
mimicry or mockery

12/05/23
the passenger's seat is not to be seen by me
the only seat meant for me is mine

— The End —