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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