Date: Thursday 1st January 2015
Style: Acrostic
Title: New Year's Resolutions

New Year. New Me.

Everybody's mantra this day

With good intentions to change

You can do it, come on!

Effort, application, planning

All the things you want to be

Replaying again this day

Surrounding and suffocating

Rallying yourself again

Egging yourself on, again

Sometimes dreams come true

Only hard workers succeed

Lazy? I have been, yes. Weak.

Undeterred, I try... again

Tick. Tock. Relentless clock

Into my mid thirties now

On and on and on it goes

Now or never they say

Sometimes. People. Do. Change.

Date: Friday 2nd January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: The Dead Inside

I am the dead inside
A non-fatal cancer in every cell
Inoperable, undetectable
This symbiont; a quiet, subtle hell

Massaging dying flesh
Performing expected actions
Smiling through empty eyes
Going through daily motions

They are the dead inside
Doublethink, doublespeak
Shiny red apples rotting at the core
Earth does not belong to the meek

Reacting with expected sympathies
Masking flatlined emotions
Displaying social empathies 
You're really just waiting to die

We are the dead inside
We breed, we multiple
The unloved, the unlovable
Wallflowers, thorny and wilting

Paying lip service to condition
Counting wolves in sheep's clothing
Jumping fences in circular formation
Spider hurdles leading back to the start

You are the dead inside
Singing shrill and mockingbird
Rats and rabbits can scuttle it seems 'Blissfully unaware' is a disguise

The dead inside 
Expands like a leather balloon
Pressing against your rib cage
Suffocating, but not killing

I am the dead inside
They are the dead inside
We are the dead inside
You are the dead inside

You are the dead inside
You are the dead
The dead inside
You

Date: Saturday 3rd January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: Colour of the Day - Grey

Grey is the colour of the day
Is it grey, or gray? That depends;
Are you from the U.S. or the UK?
It makes no difference in 'how you say'.

Overcast, cloudy, spitting-down, cold
Warm on the sofa but feeling so old
Above the patio doors ceiling of mould
Bare branches outside missing summers scold

Zane Grey wrote 'Tonto Basin'
Macy Gray 'On How Life Is'
The 2nd Earl Grey liked a cup of tea
L. H. Gray liked to sew, it's the shiz!

Fifty Shades of Grey
Expressions can be ruined forever
That's not a gray area for a grey man
On this gray o-greyest of days

Date: Sunday 4th January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: Back To Work Tomorrow

Back to work tomorrow
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
Back to life, back to reality
Back to the daily grind

Two week break for Christmas
Catching up with friends and family
New years booze and merriment
Reflections on the year just gone

Too much rest will make you lazy
Eating too much and lounging about
Routine of work keeps you healthy
Help you trim your figure so stout

Work-life balance is the optimal goal
Try to enjoy what you're doing
Making the most of time so limited
Tick tock that clock keeps ticking.

If you don't plan to succeed
You plan to fail
Don't put off until tomorrow
What you could do today

New Year's Eve 2015
It's much nearer than you think
Another year will be over
Will we be any nearer to our goals?

Date: Monday 5th January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: The Empath

I've had an expressionless upbringing, devoid of positive emotion

I've built invisible barriers higher than sky to protect myself from hurt

I can sense the energies of others changing the mood in a room

I reflect your energy back at you like a mirror

So can't tolerate negative people for fear of absorbing their spite

Empath's can be old romantics who desire to help

Your anxiety is killing me

Avoid the bad news on TV

Your anger is a distraction

Affected well by uplifting music

Your selfish heart offends my eyes

I'm turning away, closing down, like an unloved seaside town

I'm building my barriers higher than babel

I'm 'zoning out' to music to keep your hateful noise at bay

I'm closing my eyes and staring into space

I'm emptying my mind of all you might have to say

You are a 'Mana Vampire' of the highest order draining me of life

When a dreamer grows up and dies inside its hard to ignite buried passion

Turns out introvert is the best defence when under attack

My labyrinth of barriers and painted emotions hides a seed

There is life in the ruins after all

A glimmer of hope, like a brilliant shining grain of sand

Not quite so dead inside after all

Date: Tuesday 6th January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: Fatal Flaw?

Do I have a 'fatal flaw'?
Do I come from a cursed bloodline?
Perhaps it's nature or nurture?
Some sort of unintelligent design?

Like apples and oranges in a bowl
Everything I touch turns sour
Every endeavour doomed to failure
There will be no greatest hour

Alpha male and the cheerleader
Beta male finishing second
Omega the scapegoat accomplisher 
Gamma invisible but accepted
Sigma the manipulative douche
Delta the unwanted
Zeta does he exist?

I think I know which one I am

Some days I really should hold up a mirror to myself less

Date: Wednesday 7th January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: Live For Today

Live for today
Don't throw it away
That's what I say
To you

Set yourself free
Forget the past
It doesn't matter
It won't last

Power to the meek
Gain the strength you seek
Hear the words I speak
To you

Learn from your mistakes
Regret nothing
No matter what it takes
Feel something

Love to the lonely
The one and only
You're no phoney
Sweet and wonderful you

Live for today
Hope for tomorrow
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery

Laugh at the moment
Dream forever
Hold your head high
And live for today

Date: Thursday 8th January 2015
Style: Free Verse
Title: Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

And why does it cry fowl play?

When it is neither a goose or a turkey

And it's certainly not Christmas Day.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The mad hatter asked Alice this riddle

"Your hair wants cutting" he carried on

And whistled to an invisible fiddle

The Internet says:

...as a group they are both responsible for many murders?

Although a group of Ravens is an 'Unkindness'. A group of Crows is a 'Murder'.

Easy. A writing desk is a rest for pens and a raven is a pest for wrens.

Poe wrote on both

Because there is a 'b' in both and an 'n' in neither

Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!

Because neither is ever approached without caws

Alice was perplexed by this rudeness

The mouse wrote a song in his head

It was, "Living Next Door To Alice"

Well, who the **** is Alice?

Date: Friday 9th January
Style: Rhyming couplets
Title: #saveinkvite

Inkvite is an app for collaboration

A writing app for every demographic

Adult and child from every nation

Writing fiction so organic

Every genre represented at a click

People reading, rating and reviewing

But recent news hit me like a brick

Server costs they may not be renewing

We're trying to sort something out

Adverts, premium membership etc

We wanted to let know what it's about

A free library, stories, a plethora!

#inkviteinspires is a story prompt

#shoutoutsunday shows the winners

With amazing talent you'll be swamped

To loose this we'll be sinners!

So, #saveinkvite, don't let it die

Come check out the app and join in

If a talented community goes, we'll cry

Don't let us find this app in the bin

Date: Saturday 10th January 2015
Style: Rhyming Couplets
Title: Pet Peeves

People who get in the lift when you're trying to get out

Friends who arrange to meet and stand you up, what's that about?

Passive aggressive colleagues who do very little work, and put work on you

Ineffectual management who allow bullying to happen, and support it too

The black heart of human nature and the lies we tell each other

The fact there is nobody you can really trust, including you're own mother

Mana vampires, attention seekers, martyrs, victims and fools

Liars, bullies, your Machiavellian heart, and moronic empty tools

There are a few pet peeves that bother me, when I care to engage

Generally I can't feel anything though, acting away, smiling on this stage

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