richard downes

Poet, Photographer, Trainer, DAO Associate Artist, Hornsey Town Hall FB Group Poet in Residence, Curator REaD Rhymes Live, Poetry Group Facilitator.

[richard downes @socialmodelling]

I try to talk of love
Enraged by explosions
In the land i love best

My heart feels the hatred
Of others and bleeds red

I try to talk of love

1 A2 Poster
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[richard downes @socialmodelling]

Here in the apple of my eye
A worm is rotating slowly
Blinding me to bad times coming

I see a world turning towards
Men with minds that hate feeling well

When their bilious mouths can spew

Spew excessive streams of hate speech

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Free. A Poem and more given freely
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another poem with som eof my favourite images. Check em out here https://t.co/wO6Zib1oQm

[richard downes @socialmodelling]

A Photographer looks at empty streets
He dreams of finding someone to portray
Knowing he is the only one who's left

And he remembers them. Remembers names
Shadows, silouettes, white mounts, metal frames

Faces he knew can only haunt him now

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Along the safe path away from winking
eyes; blue, green, grey, emerald, flippant fingers
and assorted inducements to cave in

Along the safe path black suits with white shirts
Gathered with a tie strung up by mother

Along the safe path where i will not go
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Nonsense and seriousness.
Which do you prefer and why?
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A change is coming to the care system
We are to be looked after by robots
Cost efficiency. The name of the game
Service from Bender Bending Rodriguez
From the "Bite my shiney metal arse" branch
Who has comic catch phrases aplenty
Who will keep us ....
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I like one of these poems.
I don't mind the other.
What do you think?
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5 random picture poems
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[richard downes @socialmodelling]

the fire sizzles like scissors snapping
at the tattered robes of the messiah
hoisted on to a cross in prophesy

God's absence of love aligned with duty
like a proud mother holding her baby

meanwhile on Beltane cows driven through ash

1 A2 Print
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poetry from m y perspective
please enjoy
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[richard downes @socialmodelling]

We climb
the stone to fall
into chaotic chasms
full of despairing sailors
who drowned first before us
before we had the chance
to fall ourselves
from the stone
we climbed

1 A2 Print
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Above and Beyond
Cloud clad skies, stars and black holes
Where the fabric frays

1 A2 Poster Print (Other sizes available on request)
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[richard downes @socialmodelling]

lose yourself in pictures and Poetry.
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Remembering Thatcher's Accountants visiting Haringey and Commenting on the Stonehenge Tunnel - Nothing too Heavy Then.
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Is it all too many drums and horses
Too many lollipops in a sweet shop
One too many ding dongs for the ice cream

Can you see the future burning slowly
Can you see the trouble you're now facing

Was it the fripperies from our dandies

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You
looking
at me looking
looking at me looking
looking at you looking at me
looking at the blues singer
singing the blues
blue me
you
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X marks the spot where the chimney was
the chimney that belched the smoke
the smoke that the workmen made

the workmen that made the product
the product that made the profit

that profited them not

it profited them not
(full poem here)
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Here's a fun one

Follow the instructions and have fun - don't forget to leave a comment on the blog (not here)

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