Playing in the Park
By Scott Bailey © 2014
A play in the park
Really knocks the wind from you
In these mature days
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Poem a day challenge #317 (Jewess)
Jewess
By Scott Bailey © 2014
A sweet sweet Jewess
Married the dark Jew hater
Irony with teeth
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Poem a day challenge #316 (Cages)
Cages
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The presence of cages does not reassure
Just confirms that there’s danger inside
So the rules on expenses just confirms the fear
That the vultures are circling once more
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Poem a day challenge #315 (Secret Laughter)
Secret Laughter
By Scott Bailey © 2014
One Cara Pilkington-Smythe
A dancer once young and lithe
Left the stage behind one day
Decided on a new way
Married an Oxford star
Together they went far
He conquered financial seas
She blew in like a breeze
To the corridors of power
A bee drawn to a flower
Sipping the nectar sweet
The world was at her feet
They had all they desired
No contingency required
Beautiful homes in beautiful vales
For them, their parents, easy sale
Perfect schooling for their son
Their family secure, every one.
Parties, holidays, swelling banks
Clever accountants give them thanks
Hide away the tax they’d lose
Living how and where they choose
But then the rain started falling
When the scandal came a calling
The houses paid for with expenses
Squirreled out from the benches
Made up claims and other tricks
The media brings names and sticks
Now their lives are not the same
Now they now live with the shame
With their reputation now bereft
It would seem nothing’s left
Except the houses and the wealth
And fine wine to toast their health
And education to ensure
The offspring’s path will be pure
And the network of protecting hands
And the ever-growing lands
And the secret contemptuous laugh
That may be their epitaph
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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 #309 (Green River)
Green River
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Green river long
Green river wide
Green river deep
Rolling on by
Thoughts dropped in
Like pebbles of time
No ripples betray the loss
Of a thought
Carry them far
To the distant sea
Maybe one day
A stranger will see
Them on a distant shore
And set them free
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Poem a day challenge #308 (Dust)
Dust
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Another long day
Topped off with some contentment
Others feel the dust
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Poem a day challenge #307 (Starfire)
Starfire
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Made of crystal
So clear
It can hardly be seen
The breadth of seven men
The height of the clouds
The top unseen
Inside
Sparking and crackling
Impossible
Bright and pure
It is filled with
Starfire
For miles around
The land knows no dark
Ever
The question might be asked
Why it was built
Were there anyone around
To ask it
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Poem a day challenge #306 (Daggers)
Daggers
By Scott Bailey © 2014
A dagger can be subtle
Not just a sharp stabbing tool
Can slowly cut away supports
Until they fray with time
And then it only takes
A single little pluck
And all comes crashing down
The betrayers hand unknown
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Poem a day challenge #305 (A New Path)
A New Path
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Dawn will bring
New joy for some
Sadness for other
A new road for little feet
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Poem a day challenge #303 (Dadda)
Dadda
By Scott Bailey © 2014
I think I have broken my toe
But I am just too tired to know
Stubbed it on a childproof gate
Too tired to see it until too late
But the pain and the weariness melt away
Into warmth when you hear them say
Dadda and they give you a smile
That gives you the strength for the next mile
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Poem a day challenge #300 (Windy Forest) (Tetractys)
Windy Forest (Tetractys)
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Trees
Shifting
High winds howl
Whistling, screaming
The trunks are strong, sturdy and hold the ground
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Poem a day challenge #299 (Twilight)
Twilight
By Scott Bailey © 2014
In an old tractor tyre
A circle of friends
Dwarfed and reverent
In that magic time
Between day and night
The twilight
With new-born stars twinkling
And potential enchantment
Humming in the deep blue sky
Disappointed by the call
To bedtime
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Poem a day challenge #298 (Happy Family)
Happy Family
By Scott Bailey © 2014
And then
After an hours silence
He warms our heart
With a carefully crafted picture
Mummy in a tutu
Daddy very tall
Then himself dancing
And his new baby brother – coming soon
And Lucas up in the sky
Looking down from heaven
Not your average family
But happy
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Poem a day challenge #297 (Black and White)
Black and White
By Scott Bailey © 2014
A black and white film
About black and white issues
With grey morals on display
In our multi coloured 3D world
What has really changed
Injustice still looks the same
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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 #295 (Red Pain)
Red Pain
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Lots and lots to write
But my eyes are failing me
Red raw pools of pain
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Poem a day challenge #294 (Keys)
Keys
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Keys can lock and jangle
Hold us safe and secure
Take away liberty or open up the doors
And the doors they can open….
Silver is the primary key
The opens up our home
We do have gold but is worn
From use and years and time
Some keys are rows of black and white
And open up our hearts
With wondrous weaving melodies
Soaring sounds from worlds apart
But the keys that give me magic
And warm my ailing heart
Dance beneath my fingertips
As dreams flow from my art
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Poem a day challenge #293 (Seventy Billion Fingers)
Seventy Billion Fingers
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Seventy billion fingers
And more
Have all in their time
Reached out for
The pure
Purely human concept
Perfection
The perfect car
The perfect job
The perfect house
The perfect friend
The perfect woman
The perfect man
The perfect hold of
A perfect hand
Yet what we still don’t comprehend
Perfection brings us stress in the end
Outside our minds it does not exist
So in pursuit we forever twist
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Poem a day challenge #292 (The Tower)
The Tower
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The tower in the wood
Lonely and silent
Seat of many dreams
Where it was a palace of power
A refuge for outlaws
A romantic spire or a foreboding spear
A collapsed heart
Once vigilant
Now silent
Crumbling
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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 #290 (Market)
Market
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The free market
It pervades every part of our lives
Every fabric of our society
Why
Why did we choose
To put all the power
Into the hands of the few
Greedy individuals
Powerful because of their greed
Who’s great idea was that?
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Poem a day challenge #289 (Drumming)
Drumming
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The heart is the drummer
The lungs a violin
You bring on a timpani roll
That rumbles to my feet
For you I am an orchestra
Though I often clang and clash
I hope my humble melody
Might catch your heart
In a dance
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Poem a day challenge #288 (Rain Falls Down)
Rain Falls Down
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Rain falls down
And I like it
All around
In the air
Soaks me down
To the bone
Washes sorrow
Far away
Those who eyes
Despise the weather
Don’t know joy
In the rain
A day’s a day
Weather’s weather
Drink it in
In every way
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Poem a day challenge #287 (Reins Let Go)
Reins Let Go
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Events gather pace
Decisions have now been made
Now enjoy the ride
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Poem a day challenge #286 (Cutting)
Cutting
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Consuming and not creating
Planning and not making
Thinking without doing
This is the path they took
Into the undergrowth of
Tape and law and greed
So now in panic
They are fighting their way out
Cutting, cutting, cutting.
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Poem a day challenge #285 (Wrong Things)
Wrong Things
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Perfect thighs
Perfect abs
Perfect eyes
For perfect lives
We give our teens
Aspirational dreams
Of fame and fortune
Imaginary screens
And every flick of every light
Every glossy page so bright
Every song of every type
Every ad with teeth so white
Every billboard, every bus
Every website we like or plus
Every search and every text
Every life that we connect
Every meal and every drink
Every label phrased succinct
The many many many times
Perfect views assault our eyes
Programming the soft and greying minds
To covet
The wrong things
So much effort
Is required
For those minds
Are really wired
With the truth
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Poem a day challenge #284 (Magic Box)
Magic Box
By Scott Bailey © 2014
It purrs like a magic cat
Glows like a willo’ the wisp
Warms like toasted buttered bread
Its spell cast out to the silver screen
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Poem a day challenge #283 (The Cat That Turned)
The Cat That Turned
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Bubblepot the cat
Decided it was enough
So stole mankind’s keys
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Poem a day challenge #282 (Grey Dove)
Grey Dove
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The Nobel peace prize
The nominations are in
Are they serious?
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Poem a day challenge #281 (Vales)
Vales
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Everyday
Everyday
The wistful mist
Rolls on its way
Following
The winding trail
Along the twisting
Shallow vale
Rolling down
From dew green hills
Pausing by
Abandoned mills
Sinking slowly
To the sea
Dissipating
Energy
Underlining
Morning green
Making bursting
Life serene
Until it rises
Into the air
Joining with
The clouds somewhere
Becoming one
Losing shape
From narrow trail
It does escape
Now no more
Gone away
Now no more
Gone away
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Poem a day challenge #280 (I Robot)
I Robot
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Take out my brain
Drain my dreams and aspirations
Remove the need for rest
The requirement to switch off my thoughts
Make me a robot
And everyone else
Will be happy
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Poem a day challenge #279 (Freeflow)
Freeflow
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Watching him dance
Watching him move
Sometimes tired
Sometimes in the groove
But always with the zeal
Of four years of age
May it always grow
May it never fade
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Poem a day challenge #278 (Together)
Together
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Yet another step
Up the winding stairs to you
Slide down together
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Poem a day challenge #277 (Autumn Leaf)
Autumn Leaf
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Once I was a seed
Bursting with potential
Waiting to spring out
From darkness into light
Once I was a sapling
Fresh and green and quivering
Stretching up with hope
To the bright blue sky
Once I was a tall stiff tree
Sturdy, proud and strong
Branches reaching all directions
Roots dug deep and true
Now I am an autumn leaf
Tossed upon the wind
My direction is not my whim
When I land…
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Poem a day challenge #276 (Running Through Trees)
Running Through Trees
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Hunting or hunted
Running through trees all my days
To find a still rest
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Poem a day challenge #275 (Recovery)
Recovery
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The country’s getting richer
on the shoulders of the poor
The economy is booming
but blood stains mar the floor
A thrifty generation
careful with what they earned
Now watch it all dissipate
belying what they learned
For they are forced by empathy
to shore up their progeny
Or watch them being bled
by powerful gluttony
By vampires way up high
in lofty towers sleek
Deaf to pleas of mercy
They cannot hear us speak
And with contempt the vampires
farm their herds with glee
Until we have no more to give
And they’ll see the fallacy
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Poem a day challenge #274 (The ShadowMask)
The ShadowMask
By Scott Bailey © 2014
The shock of the ShadowMask
Silent in the street
Where did it come from
To whom does it speak
Does is tell of blood
or does it tell of talk
Does it say charge on in
Or careful where we walk
The starlight high above it
Does not stir a spark
In those deep black orbs
Those eyes so wide and dark
So tell us now oh ShadowMask
We send this plea to you
We forsake all other thought
So tell us what to do
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Poem a day challenge #273 (The Deep Cold)
The Deep Cold
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Disappearing into the gloom
Undulating side to side
Alien but of this earth
Slow, cold life
In the deep deep dark
So far from the hearth we know
The strange eel like creature
Eases in the deepest cold
Leaving divers dumb
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Poem a day challenge #272 (Cold Winds Blow)
Cold Winds Blow
By Scott Bailey © 2014
So it grows
The discontent
Of fiscal winter
Even sceptics grumble
But will it tip
Will we finally
Drop our stiff letters
And stiff upper lips
And revolt?
Or sip a cup of tea
Settle back
And vote for the best singer/dancer/skater
Instead
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Poem a day challenge #271 (Timeworn)
Timeworn
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Childhood senses
Seep away
The textures of touch
Savoury tastes
And sweet
The exhilaration
Of G-Force
The warmth
Of a bed
The brightness
Of a blue sky
All wilting away
Smoothed plain by time
and tasteless demands
and saccharine
Bound by safety
belts and laws
Hot fevers
of uncomfortable dreams
Under greying skies
How
to get it
back?
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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 #269 (Giants)
Giants
By Scott Bailey © 2014
I have seen giants
Striding over the land
Power on their shoulders
Stern and strong their hand
Never do they falter
Never seen one stumble or fall
Always do their duty
Always answer the call
Through storm and wind and rain
The carry their burden true
Though other links may burn out
The giants stride on through
So remember this and tremble
Even the giants will pass
Fall into dust and rusty ruin
Scattered in untamed grass
One day their burden will dissipate
Their purpose will disappear
And the duty they discharged so well
A memory dimmed with time
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Poem a day challenge #268 (Dazzled)
Dazzled
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Light that hurts my eyes
Bright yet darkness in disguise
Leaving me dazzled
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Poem a day challenge #267 (Desert Dancers)
Desert Dancers
By Scott Bailey © 2014
In a growing desert on flowing sands
Sinking down into dried oasis
A market thrives
Rich men and women trade
Food for souls
Hot air for agreement
And everyone dances
While the sands sink
Everyone laughs and sings
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Poem a day challenge #266 (Grey Wolf)
Grey Wolf
By Scott Bailey © 2014
Grey Wolf pounding
Across the hard packed snow
Fierce heart pumping
Hot against the cold
Breeze like blades
Cutting headache pulse
Scent of blood
Fires instinct deep
Frost hangs shimmering
On the shaggy pelt
Grey Wolf coming
Endings will be dealt
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