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"Wild Birds"
Grifters in power,
Con men shuffling the marked deck,
Wild birds in the house.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Grifters in power,
Con men shuffling the marked deck,
Wild birds in the house.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Wild Birds"
Grifters in power,
Con men shuffling the marked deck,
Wild birds in the house.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Grifters in power,
Con men shuffling the marked deck,
Wild birds in the house.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Sweet"
Sweet, sweet is honey,
Dripping slow mellivory,
Bears feed at the hive.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Sweet, sweet is honey,
Dripping slow mellivory,
Bears feed at the hive.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Sweet"
Sweet, sweet is honey,
Dripping slow mellivory,
Bears feed at the hive.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Sweet, sweet is honey,
Dripping slow mellivory,
Bears feed at the hive.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Swift"
Rich men leaving town,
Taxes for our health offend,
Swift as swallows go.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Rich men leaving town,
Taxes for our health offend,
Swift as swallows go.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Swift"
Rich men leaving town,
Taxes for our health offend,
Swift as swallows go.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Rich men leaving town,
Taxes for our health offend,
Swift as swallows go.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Famine"
Long years of famine,
Yet this is a world of plenty,
Well fed hyenas.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Long years of famine,
Yet this is a world of plenty,
Well fed hyenas.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
October 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"Famine"
Long years of famine,
Yet this is a world of plenty,
Well fed hyenas.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Long years of famine,
Yet this is a world of plenty,
Well fed hyenas.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Strix"
They have but one god,
Their fullsome praise is for gold,
Strix eat human flesh.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
They have but one god,
Their fullsome praise is for gold,
Strix eat human flesh.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"Strix"
They have but one god,
Their fullsome praise is for gold,
Strix eat human flesh.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
They have but one god,
Their fullsome praise is for gold,
Strix eat human flesh.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Unicorns"
A mirror is blind,
To the hidden, to the heart,
Unicorns exist.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
A mirror is blind,
To the hidden, to the heart,
Unicorns exist.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Unicorns"
A mirror is blind,
To the hidden, to the heart,
Unicorns exist.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
A mirror is blind,
To the hidden, to the heart,
Unicorns exist.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Peace"
"Peace", the mass echoing
Politicians' false words,
Sunbirds will not roost.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Peace", the mass echoing
Politicians' false words,
Sunbirds will not roost.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
October 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Peace"
"Peace", the mass echoing
Politicians' false words,
Sunbirds will not roost.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Peace", the mass echoing
Politicians' false words,
Sunbirds will not roost.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Voices"
Tired old mens' voices
Pronouncing prohibition,
The white dove is caged.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Tired old mens' voices
Pronouncing prohibition,
The white dove is caged.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
October 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"Voices"
Tired old mens' voices
Pronouncing prohibition,
The white dove is caged.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Tired old mens' voices
Pronouncing prohibition,
The white dove is caged.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Cause"
We shall die you and I on the morrow ,
We shall fall on some foreign field,
We shall die you and I on the morrow,
For a cause long since concealed.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
We shall die you and I on the morrow ,
We shall fall on some foreign field,
We shall die you and I on the morrow,
For a cause long since concealed.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
October 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"Cause"
We shall die you and I on the morrow ,
We shall fall on some foreign field,
We shall die you and I on the morrow,
For a cause long since concealed.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
We shall die you and I on the morrow ,
We shall fall on some foreign field,
We shall die you and I on the morrow,
For a cause long since concealed.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
"Child"
Sleep, sleep now my wounded child,
Dream this war will be ended soon,
Then you shall soar free as the birds,
Flying in the light of the new moon.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
Sleep, sleep now my wounded child,
Dream this war will be ended soon,
Then you shall soar free as the birds,
Flying in the light of the new moon.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
September 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
"Child"
Sleep, sleep now my wounded child,
Dream this war will be ended soon,
Then you shall soar free as the birds,
Flying in the light of the new moon.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
Sleep, sleep now my wounded child,
Dream this war will be ended soon,
Then you shall soar free as the birds,
Flying in the light of the new moon.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
"Inhumanity"
Don't you hear the children crying,
Don't you see the children dying,
Safe in your comfortable sanctity,
The human race bound in bloody inhumanity.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
Don't you hear the children crying,
Don't you see the children dying,
Safe in your comfortable sanctity,
The human race bound in bloody inhumanity.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
September 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Inhumanity"
Don't you hear the children crying,
Don't you see the children dying,
Safe in your comfortable sanctity,
The human race bound in bloody inhumanity.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
Don't you hear the children crying,
Don't you see the children dying,
Safe in your comfortable sanctity,
The human race bound in bloody inhumanity.
© 2025 Robert Stirton
#try #poetry #reflection
"Wind"
Wind blows off water,
Lifting the sails of small boats,
Angry seagulls squawk.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Wind blows off water,
Lifting the sails of small boats,
Angry seagulls squawk.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
September 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Wind"
Wind blows off water,
Lifting the sails of small boats,
Angry seagulls squawk.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Wind blows off water,
Lifting the sails of small boats,
Angry seagulls squawk.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Red and White"
Red and white martyrs,
Rebels without a just cause,
Dimna seeks the throne.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Red and white martyrs,
Rebels without a just cause,
Dimna seeks the throne.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
September 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"Red and White"
Red and white martyrs,
Rebels without a just cause,
Dimna seeks the throne.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Red and white martyrs,
Rebels without a just cause,
Dimna seeks the throne.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Delight"
She runs a finger,
Tracing the perspiring spine,
Salty, sweet delight.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
She runs a finger,
Tracing the perspiring spine,
Salty, sweet delight.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
August 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"Delight"
She runs a finger,
Tracing the perspiring spine,
Salty, sweet delight.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
She runs a finger,
Tracing the perspiring spine,
Salty, sweet delight.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Ghosts"
Ghosts of the East End,
Stalking innocent, bar none,
Hungry buzzards soar.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Ghosts of the East End,
Stalking innocent, bar none,
Hungry buzzards soar.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
August 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Ghosts"
Ghosts of the East End,
Stalking innocent, bar none,
Hungry buzzards soar.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Ghosts of the East End,
Stalking innocent, bar none,
Hungry buzzards soar.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Red"
A memory cuts,
Scything as a gory blade,
A blood red rose blooms.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
A memory cuts,
Scything as a gory blade,
A blood red rose blooms.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
August 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Red"
A memory cuts,
Scything as a gory blade,
A blood red rose blooms.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
A memory cuts,
Scything as a gory blade,
A blood red rose blooms.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Lone"
Rain falling steam heat,
Disappearing dream vapour,
A lone wolf slinks off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Rain falling steam heat,
Disappearing dream vapour,
A lone wolf slinks off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
August 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"Lone"
Rain falling steam heat,
Disappearing dream vapour,
A lone wolf slinks off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Rain falling steam heat,
Disappearing dream vapour,
A lone wolf slinks off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Esplanade"
Down the Esplanade,
Sixties, flicker film childhood,
Seagulls and sideshows.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Down the Esplanade,
Sixties, flicker film childhood,
Seagulls and sideshows.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
August 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"Esplanade"
Down the Esplanade,
Sixties, flicker film childhood,
Seagulls and sideshows.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Down the Esplanade,
Sixties, flicker film childhood,
Seagulls and sideshows.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Blue"
Sweet tastes of lost love
Bringing pangs of bitterness,
Blue columbines bloom.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Sweet tastes of lost love
Bringing pangs of bitterness,
Blue columbines bloom.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
August 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Blue"
Sweet tastes of lost love
Bringing pangs of bitterness,
Blue columbines bloom.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Sweet tastes of lost love
Bringing pangs of bitterness,
Blue columbines bloom.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Afresh"
Eden burns afresh,
Free will sets all trees blazing,
A black kite flies off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Eden burns afresh,
Free will sets all trees blazing,
A black kite flies off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
July 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Afresh"
Eden burns afresh,
Free will sets all trees blazing,
A black kite flies off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Eden burns afresh,
Free will sets all trees blazing,
A black kite flies off.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Beyond"
Tick, tick, tick, time bomb,
Where is the sound coming from?
From beyond kingdom come.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Tick, tick, tick, time bomb,
Where is the sound coming from?
From beyond kingdom come.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
July 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Beyond"
Tick, tick, tick, time bomb,
Where is the sound coming from?
From beyond kingdom come.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Tick, tick, tick, time bomb,
Where is the sound coming from?
From beyond kingdom come.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"Red Bones"
Bundled red bones strewn
From the river to the sea,
Carrion crows feast.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Bundled red bones strewn
From the river to the sea,
Carrion crows feast.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Red Bones"
Bundled red bones strewn
From the river to the sea,
Carrion crows feast.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Bundled red bones strewn
From the river to the sea,
Carrion crows feast.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
"#Marram"
Waiting on the dawn,
Interred in swaying marram,
Whisper wind shuts eyes.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Waiting on the dawn,
Interred in swaying marram,
Whisper wind shuts eyes.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
July 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"#Marram"
Waiting on the dawn,
Interred in swaying marram,
Whisper wind shuts eyes.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside
Waiting on the dawn,
Interred in swaying marram,
Whisper wind shuts eyes.
#try #poetry #create #thelightinside