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The Ornamentor of Verse by Tom Mallender
The feeling catcher sits
busy unfurling their thought world
distilling with a poorly controlled ink drooler.
Thoughts clear between sound grabbers
become garbled as hand talons
chase them with a word chisel.
The ink drinker fills with self-grown spoils.
The faultless ring-land a poor scribe
making it difficult to gather the word harvest.
Ideas wither, spoil, becoming lost
in the thought world's murk.
What is gathered, trapped or found
is threshed inside the mind mill.
Life’s echoes extracted
from shafts sunk deep into self
Thought ores mined, smelted, refined.
Mind forgings worked into ink stains
locked and bound within a thought keeper.
The word smith busy with this sitting work.

Ripple by Naino Masindet

Don’t you wonder sometimes about the birds,
The postman,
Where our breath floats to
when it’s cold?

Don’t you wonder sometimes
about wondering?
Falling into a thought,
refracting the consequence.

The last dying leaf
of the old oak tree.

1. by Yaiza Freire-Bernat

The world is my oyster but my mind’s adrift.
I don’t know what to do in this world that we live in.

There is so much pain but hope too.
It’s like the world can’t make up its mind and I can’t too.

I know where I want to go, it looks like bliss
Where I have a blank canvas that I get to kiss.

A bit of red here, a bit of blue there
or a touch of green here
in this scape of eternal tints.

Sprawling paints as if they glow, that’s what I like,
to let the imagination flow in its chocolate delights.

Bit by bit one step towards humanity
One giant leap for mankind,
Mr Armstrong did it all or was it just his mind.

I guess we’ll never know, creativity is a myth
that it’s all subjective that even I find amiss.

So ciao my good friend, I will see you anon
in another brain dump or another life along.


Time to Wait by Mark Holder

Spent too much time in a bit of a state
I haven’t got time to wait

Back with a vengeance and ready to shine
I haven’t got time to wait

Long way to go, I’m just sixty one
But I haven’t got time to wait

So much to do in this magical world
So I haven’t got time to wait

So much to see that my mind’s in a whirl
I haven’t got time to wait

Full of excitement but I need to stay calm
I need to take time to wait

Must keep my focus and not go too fast
I think I’ll take time to wait

Day at a time, simple pleasures to find
61 nowhere near to too late