About jivepoet

I started writing poetry when I was 18, have won a few local prizes and enjoy performing in live poetry shows.
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HAVENFLIGHT

He stood on the edge of a suburb, where house windows faced an expanse Of bushes and forest and small hills; and readied himself, with a chance. He stood on the edge of a sunset, with houses not far from his rocks, And somehow the sunset was lengthened, slowed up through a trick of the [...]

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EIN KLEIN GEDICHT

Ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch verstehen. Ich (in der Schule) lerne. Und diese Nacht wir können gehen In das Tanzlokal gerne? Der? Die? Das? Ich habe vergessen. Dreizig Jahren sind jetzt vorbei. Willst du Etwas trinken und essen? Ich finde ein Tisch für zwei. Sie sind eine schöne freundliche Fräulein. (Wir spielen Golf mit Wasser), [...]

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CABARET OF THE CLOUDS

Soft footsteps walk through streets near school, Past yesterday’s townhouses. In each nostalgic molecule Is something, which arouses. Old lessons learned so long ago (Viola, drums or trigon) Resurface, just enough to know: Those tunes aren’t fully bygone. A new sound crashes near the bay, And shakes the stone rotunda. The sky shows nature’s cabaret, [...]

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BACK TO MY BUILDING PLACE

I was well prepared to build my house on firm foundation rock. I had gathered each material and every building block. I’d seen many things, that life could be whilst imitating art. I could cull the very best of these in each component part. I’d explored all possibilities, and worked out all the rules, As [...]

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All this and Heaven too

God made the World in just six days, And took one off to rest. He blessed it with some solar rays, To warm the first bird’s nest. God chose to give the world He made To man, made from the grounds; With just one rule: Don’t eat that fruit From one tree out of bounds. [...]

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