By Scott Bailey © 2016
Substance over style
Fresh political approach
Or a dream too far
In response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #80
Haiku
Start the year with poetry – Still available 365 poems just for your enjoyment.
Poem a day challenge #350 (Butterfly)
Butterfly
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Sod the camouflage
Be resplendent in the sun
Flutter high and shine
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Poem a day challenge #337 (Blue)
Blue
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Heart beneath blue skies
Bluer than the deep blue sea
Rage into the stars
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Poem a day challenge #336 (Logs)
Logs
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Stacked high and waiting
All ready to be consumed
And give out their warmth
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Poem a day challenge #327 (Magic Time)
Magic Time
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Brass cantilever
Golden cogs and diamond heart
Magic seconds pass
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Poem a day challenge #326 (Dreams)
Dreams
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Dreams flying away
In an excess of real life
The stars just don’t care
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Poem a day challenge #324 (Sunset)
Sunset
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The sun setting large
A swollen ball of fire
Birds settle to roost
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Poem a day challenge #323 (Wishing)
Wishing
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Getting what you wished
Is not always what it seems
So wish well my son
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Poem a day challenge #321 (The White)
The White
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Cardiology
And ophthalmology plus
Good old A and E
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Poem a day challenge #320 (Knowing)
Knowing
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Knowing what has gone
Savouring what is to come
Surfing in between
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Poem a day challenge #314 (In the Deep)
In the Deep
By Scott Bailey © 2014
In the deep deep dark
Where pressure builds all around
Scarce light is precious
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Poem a day challenge #313 (Rusting)
Rusting
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Yellow meadow bright
In one corner, rusty red
An old iron shed
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Poem a day challenge #312 (Racing)
Racing
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Always racing on
How about stopping for once
To take someone’s hand
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Poem a day challenge #311 (Tiger)
Tiger
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The wild tiger caged
Is more dangerous than those
Who roam in their realm
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Poem a day challenge #310 (Wooden Heart)
Wooden Heart
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Where my heart does dwell
In misty old woodland dell
Where wolves and stags roam
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Poem a day challenge #296 (Bright Lights)
Bright Lights
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Hospital again
Depressing, familiar
Sometimes, bright lights hurt
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Poem a day challenge #291 (Silicon Hell)
Silicon Hell
By Scott Bailey © 2014
In silicon hell
The servant does not obey
But who is the slave
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Poem a day challenge #270 (Searching)
Searching
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Unknown search terms – ten
Wonder what they were after
That brought them to me
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Poem a day challenge #256 (Heaven’s Light)
Heaven’s Light
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Heaven’s holy light
Roving bright light a searchlight
Burning upturned eyes
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Poem a day challenge #255 (Dark Waves)
Dark Waves
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Bobbing in the dark
Tossed on hell’s furious waves
Seeking safer shores
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Poem a day challenge #248 (Normality)
Normality
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Back to the old grind
No time to rest or relax
Life go on its way
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Poem a day challenge #247 (Home)
Home
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Panic over, back home
Two parents both tired out
Child bursting with life
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Poem a day challenge #246 (Worry)
Worry
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Yet another day
Of waiting in hospitals
Worried for loved ones
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Poem a day challenge #228 (Committed)
Committed
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Decisions taken
Gateways opened, paths chosen
Following hope’s trail
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Poem a day challenge #226 (The Path)
The Path
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The story lingers
on. History casts its shadow
Misty Times ahead
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Poem a day challenge #220 (All I Am)
All I Am
By Scott Bailey © 2014
A pillow, a rock,
A wage slave and a lover
Is this all I am
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Poem a day challenge #219 (Winter Winds)
Winter Winds
By Scott Bailey © 2014
My head is twirling
And whirling like winter winds
Against solid stone
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Poem a day challenge #184 Stressed
Stressed
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Supposed to relax
From the endless stress of work
The phone doesn’t stop
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Poem a day challenge #183 Surf
Surf
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Reverberating
Boom! Surf crashes on the shore
Golden sand twinkles
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Poem a day challenge #181 Pounding
Pounding
By Scott Bailey © 2013
My heart is racing
Not for love but for madness
It is pounding fast
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Poem a day challenge #180 Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Seven sisters done
Their stories written down now
Still their light shines on
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- Poem a day challenge #178 Merope (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
- Poem a day challenge #173 Calaeno (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
- Poem a day challenge #171 Alcyone (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
- Poem a day challenge #175 Maia (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
- Poem a day challenge #174 Electra (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
- Poem a day challenge #172 Asterope (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
- Poem a day challenge #179 Taygete (Pleiades) (thehouseofbailey.wordpress.com)
Poem a day challenge #163 (Snoring)
Snoring
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Snoring on my chest
Warmth and love resting at peace
An early night in
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Poem a day challenge #156 (Water)
Water
By Scott Bailey © 2013
A silent sunset
Calm waters ripple slowly
Dark storm clouds gather
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Poem a day challenge #132 (Ups and Downs)
Ups and Downs
By Scott Bailey © 2013
From joy to worry
As sickness strikes yet again
Families hold tight
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Poem a day challenge #131 (Relief)
Relief
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Weight from shoulders lifts
Unanimous approval
The road is still long
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Poem a day challenge #108 (The Pool)
The Pool
By Scott Bailey © 2013
They trickle in
The protesters, the bitter, the dispossessed, the poor
They swirl in slow currents
Exchanging thoughts, views, ideas.
An oasis for the outcasts
The Man sits by the pool
And fishes
Taking what he needs
Watching the rest
The pool holds no threat
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Poem a day challenge #107 (Late)
Late
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Eleven fifty
Nine and almost out of time
Yet still ploughing on
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Poem a day challenge #106 (Proud Dad)
Proud Dad
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Hushed concentration
Then with a sudden surprise
His name is written!
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Poem a day challenge #104 (Storms)
Storms
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Clouds piling up dark
Lightning flashing – sky to ground
Rumbling all around
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Poem a day challenge #103 (Explorers)
Explorers
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Wandering the shore
Through new lands everyday
Ancient fishermen
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Poem a day challenge #94 (Web)
Web
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Glistening silver
A delicate spider web
Fallen tree around
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Poem a day challenge #93 (Fallout)
Fallout
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Taut relationship
Strained over a bloody mess
Chemical fallout
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Poem a day challenge #92 (Boxy)
Boxy
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Worn out, knackered, done
A brimful of boxy fun
In old Legoland
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Poem a day challenge #72 (Autumn)
Autumn
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Autumn golden brown
covers the hard icy ground
a leafy carpet
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Poem a day challenge #71 (The Songbird)
The Songbird
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Bird sings by the pool
in the spring in a soft cool breeze
her voice a sweet sound
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Poem a day challenge #68 (Time Cycle)
Time Cycle
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Time and time again
So it is out with the new
In with the older
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Poem a day challenge #67 (Ancient Coast)
Ancient Coast
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Where the crashing sea
Meets the shifting cracking ice
Hunters hunker down
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Poem a day challenge #66 (Raw)
Raw
By Scott Bailey © 2013
More than a year’s passed
Memory is still red raw
Watching blue eyes fade
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Poem a day challenge #64 (Energy)
Energy
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Starlight is silent
Waves crash and roar on the shore
Then there is matter
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