Category: Poetry

Wasted Time

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The Darkling Door

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A big thank you to editor Manuela Timofte for publishing my latest poem, The Darkling Door.

I hope you enjoy the piece and have a few minutes to read some of the other wonderful work available on the site.

Here: The Darkling Door

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Richard

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Whispers of Failure

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Thank you as always to the fantastic, Manuela Timofte, editor at Gobblers by Masticadores for publishing my latest poem, Whispers of Failure.

Manuela allows a freedom of expression, whether it positive or negative, that enables such wonderful variation in the magazine’s themes. I hope you get the chance to read many more of the pieces than just mine.

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Richard

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The Girl

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A massive thank you to editor, Manuela Timofte, for publishing my latest poem, The Girl. As always, I hope you enjoy it, and please do take a little time to look around the site. There are some wonderful pieces to read.

THE GIRL

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Been and Gone

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A big thank you to editor, Manuela Timofte, for publishing my latest poetry piece, Been and Gone. This one’s a little different in that it’s a collaboration with my co-author and the girl who is my universe, Gina Maria Manchego. I hope you enjoy.

BEEN AND GONE

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The Hush

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Enemy – Inner Me

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Steel ribs cage the beast.
Burst free, my enemy!
Reveal yourself to the world!
A ridiculous proclamation
born of a ridiculous man.
I splutter out like a wetted candle.
Exertion meets exhaustion, as
steam rises like ghosting breaths.
Only the melancholy escapes,
grey plumes of inner me.
The shell remains untouched,
unlike the damaged mind
which reaches tendrils of self
deep under a paper epidermis
to ink out everything they touch.
Dark, they are, seeking crimson
warmth and love, an
extension to this endless pain.
A revelation. A blunt gift.
The inner me is my enemy.
I repeat this patient mantra.
But the cage is unbending
and the will behind it raw.
After all, is passing not for
blurring speedsters, or
those avoiding the view?
I have neither a view nor
the time in which to travel.
This heart thuds an agreement
when I would wish It
a stone-cold death.

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Bean Dreaming

by Richard M. Ankers

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Entering to a bell as though welcome,

overt smiles greet these scowls.

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With so many luxuries to enthral the senses,

we choose the simplest and sit.

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Classical music graces unseen speakers

hidden from view, not mind.

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This is ambience by design, perfunctory;

we close our eyes to elsewhere. 

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Curlicues of steam make mysteries

of a developing morning,

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that huffs and puffs beyond a 

forcefully fogged window;

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we chill to our forefathers as the bean,

prized and perfected, percolates.

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Leather seats make false luxury

for this temporary king of the hour.

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Brief lives pass in ever-cooling sips

and whorls of ochre gloop. 

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Time to go. Time to leave. The misting

cityscape is just another dream

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I have no wish to wake to, and

definitely no wish to wake from. 

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The End

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Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku

I’m delighted to have five haikus featured in editor Gabriela Marie Milton’s fabulous new anthology, Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku.

For anyone who enjoys this beautiful art form, please check out the new book on Amazon: HERE

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Richard

Paradise Misplaced

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A big thank you to editor, Manuela Timofte, for publishing my latest poem, Paradise Misplaced. I hope you enjoy the read.

Here: Paradise Misplaced

Please take a look at the other fantastic poems and prose on this wonderful site.

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Richard