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Poetry Moments

I’m Awake at 4am

 

sky news

 

I’m Awake at 4am

carrie fisher

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Madaline Macann

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Beek chicken

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Save on your electric

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Buzz feed

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Car department

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Gatwick Airport

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Everything is great when your part of a team

 

I’m Awake at 4am

overpriced plastic

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Landfills

 

I’m Awake at 4am

H & M

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Ocado

 

 

I’m Awake at 4am

picking my husbands toenails

 

I’m Awake at 4am

How many pages does it take to be a book?

 

I’m Awake at 4am

champion burgers

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Porrage oats but overnight

 

I’m Awake at 4am

George Alexander Thompson

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Fairy rings

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Plantet Zog

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Sorting my tax return

 

I’m Awake at 4am

A haaaaaaaaaaa

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Terrible news

 

I’m Awake at 4am

fake tan is silly

 

I’m Awake at 4am

the c word

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Parades

 

I’m Awake at 4am

I do’t smoke

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Zack Morris

 

I’m Awake at 4am

P.J is blind

 

I’m Awake at 4am

...but she’s an incredible business model

 

I’m Awake at 4am

missing Teresa May…

 

I’m Awake at 4am

I love the idea of socialism but the Natzi party.

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Shein

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Always ultra night

 

I’m Awake at 4am

thinking about my feelings

 

I’m Awake at 4am

gringing my teeth

 

I’m Awake at 4am

asmr headspace & calm

 

I’m Awake at 4am

contemplating caffine

 

I’m Awake at 4am

terrible accidents

 

I’m Awake at 4am

amazing discovery

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Craig Charles

 

I’m Awake at 4am

sharpening pencils

 

I’m Awake at 4am

where in the world is awake ok now

 

I’m Awake at 4am

fantasy dog shopping

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Cheedar cheese

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Ireland is an island

 

I’m Awake at 4am

earings

 

I’m Awake at 4am

fretting about secondary school

 

I’m Awake at 4am

wobbly teeth

 

I’m Awake at 4am

my son...is so cool

 

I’m Awake at 4am

husband making face noise

 

I’m Awake at 4am

flip flops are unsupportave

 

I’m Awake at 4am

not looking at screens

 

I’m Awake at 4am

looking at screens

 

I’m Awake at 4am

west Croydon is busy at this time of night

 

I’m Awake at 4am

missing the craic

 

I’m Awake at 4am

telling myself secrets

 

I’m Awake at 4am

bargaining

 

I’m Awake at 4am

fearing all the things

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Tommy Hilfiger Boy

 

I’m Awake at 4am

scruncies

 

I’m Awake at 4am

HMRC

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Shotgun Carousel

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Making arguments

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Buning Sage

 

I’m Awake at 4am

eating my monsters

 

I’m Awake at 4am

writing it all down

 

I’m Awake at 4am

organising chaous

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Tupac is fine

 

I’m Awake at 4am

juggling thoughts

 

I’m Awake at 4am

yup not sleeping

 

I’m Awake it’s 8am

best get up...

 

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Today

 

My past is in no way tragic

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I won’t labour tomorrow by embellishing one bad time,

or two,

or three...

So my story is more attractive...

 

Like the ones that make T.V winners shine for their 5 moments!

 

Their stories are just BURSTING with tragedy!

 

and their winners?!

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I’d much rather sculpt my existence to be a series of events that led to today…

 

because dignity.

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End

 

 

Welcome to your new number!

 

I’m just turned 37

 

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My hats

 

I have many hats

 

for approximately 73 days I’m wearing my mother hat…

 

and hung somewhere in an intangible place in the future is my best friend hat...

my London commuter hat, photographer painter and big important art maker hat…

 

I know there are hats I need ,within my reach that I must find ……

the comfortable nap,

light UN-interrupted snack hat ,

alone in the bath with no toys hat….

 

But I’m in my mother hat ...Days go by go weeks go months... it feels even heavier,

or like I don’t wear it well, not like the other mothers in their mother hats

feels like it’s on even when it’s off , ( it’s never off...you can’t take it of Rah)

and I'm sure it’s getting bigger & bigger & bigger,

Can you even see me in my mother hat? ….

 

Of cores you can. It’s fucking massive and also truly remarkable.

 

 

 

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What’s the punt?

Poetry Moment 2020

Mise Raifteirí an file,

Lán dóchas is grá,

Le súile gan solas,

I really really really miss...1994

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If

 

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster.....

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I'm sorry I can't do this. This is a poem by Rudyard Kipling called titled "If" I shouldn't steal it. Plagiarism is not the cure for lack of inspiration.

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"Life is what you make it!""

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Right now it's a load of balls...

I let them out to roll about,

And bang some on the walls.

 

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British ecomomy… the floater

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Weatherspoon

Lyods

Piano & pitcher

Lager lager

O'Neils

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Larger larger

Shots all round

Chatting bubbles

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1666

Call your friends

Table service

Talk to strangers

Tell them a story

BBC NEWS

Spend spend spend

Hug a person

Hold the economy

Slippery nipple

Clap clap clap

Aperol spritz

Donald Trump

Call your ex

Hello beautiful

Winston Churchill

One more round

Colonialism

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Lager

Larger larger

Oi Oi oi

Lads lads lads

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Drink drink drink

Old speckled hen

Keep the economy flushing

Let's get a dog

Pizza menu

Sing sing sing

Shout across the bar

Nothing to see here

Salted dry roasted

don't care anymore

Shouting things

Asymptomatic

I'm not scared

Conspiracy theory

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Cheese & onion

Sneeze on a stranger

Terrible tummy

Flush flush flush

Time at the bar

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I don't want to go home

I love you mate

Cry on a shoulder

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I missed you

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I miss you too

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I feel fine

One more round

Down down down

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Flush

Nothing to be upset about

At all at all at all

Bang bang bang

Where's the nearest off licence

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KFC

Piss on the streets

Where's my wallet?

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Who are my keys

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Giz a kiss

My place or yours?

Everything is awesome

(I'm so sad)

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Let's do this again

I have zero inhibitions

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At a 2 meter distance....

Wearing a mask

Open the theatre industry.

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Artists march

 

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Heigh-ho, heigh-ho…

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I’m working

 

I'm not sure...
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What I'm for.

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Artists Call.

 

Hello " Eh-loh Eh-loh Eh-loh"

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Wonderfull advice from really great people .

 

Cant sleep you say?!

Put down your phone they say!

Stop screen time at 6pm he suggests

Stop eating caffeine he informs

Enjoy more exercise they recommend

Guided meditation she whispers...

Where's your advice now eh?!

At 3am!

Eh?

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Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap

 

I don't like clapping

It hurts my hands

That notion of clapping is so absurd ...

I mean you literally hit your hands together...

I wouldn't clap my face, my head or you... Its violent.

It's also hard to do in time with songs.

I'm not clapping anymore.

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How embarrassing

 

Trump...
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oh...pardon me.
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My sosh meeds feeds

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Stop bickering

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Stop it

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Stop it now.

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Time out.

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You're grounded.

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No wait....

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Just stop

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I just remembered

 

seeing Willow in the cinema..circa 1989

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Also Frozen

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Lord of the rings.

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That bit in Matilda.... The live show... When the go on the swings.

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Oh and... Christy Moore at Glastonbury...

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I thought I didn't like or need all that... Ye know?

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I do.

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Annual diologue

 

This was a good year I think in some ways...

"BUT LOTS OF IT WAS BAD!!!"

"Can I just say something, you're shouting?! " said the good year

"Sush now ...": said the bad.

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I can hear you can you hear me

 

Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!

No-ones in the room!

 

zoom zoom zoom,

wait…

 

nobody is in the room

 

 

tick tick tick .......tick tick tick tick

tick

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tick

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tick

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tick

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zoom...

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I'm lonely.

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Itchy feet

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I've been on edge of late,

World chucking about hate

terrible things here,

worse over there

I ...can't.....stand....... it............ anywhere.

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So I've tuned all the tv & radios to channel sesame street

... now the only thing that makes me anxious is my mortality

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cause the hosts Bob and Maria got old.

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4am...

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Birds are loud ...

They woke me from my dream,

it would be kind to wait till 8...

But they can't be told

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So I'm awake.

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I’m Awake at 4am

circles are round

 

I’m Awake at 4am

my heart is in my head

 

I’m Awake at 4am

thoughtfull traffic jam

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Aldi & Lidl

 

I’m Awake at 4am

colgate fresh

 

I’m Awake at 4am

teeth are unstable

 

I’m Awake at 4am

stuck to the earth

 

I’m Awake at 4am

yo sushi is unhygeinic

 

I’m Awake at 4am

getting louder

 

I’m Awake at 4am

awake

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Shane from boyzone

 

I’m Awake at 4am

being bullied from people in 1992

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Accepting global warming

 

I’m Awake at 4am

instigating…

 

I’m Awake at 4am

penalty fine

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Shark boy and Lava girl

 

I’m Awake at 4am

unsure if im breathing

 

I’m Awake at 4am

seeking approval

 

I’m Awake at 4am

wishing i’d see a ghost

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Shilpha Shetty

 

I’m Awake at 4am

the recyling gets collected on thursdays

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Tesco app

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Carcason

 

I’m Awake at 4am

my pores are all full

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Ctrl alt delete

 

I’m Awake at 4am

nothing is amusing

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Whoopi Goldberg is a person

 

I’m Awake at 4am

picking scabs

 

I’m Awake at 4am

not thirst not hungry

 

I’m Awake at 4am

uninitialised

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Commodore 64

 

I’m Awake at 4am

The love boat

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Dr Quinn Medincine Woman

 

I’m Awake at 4am

large men in armed lines

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Nothing compares to you

 

I’m Awake at 4am

missing children

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Eddie Redmayne

 

I’m Awake at 4am

la la la la la la la la

 

I’m Awake at 4am

I can’t hear you

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Sims4

 

I’m Awake at 4am

ammounting to nothing

 

I’m Awake at 4am

watching my son sleep

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Dog breath

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Eoin Jenkins

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Terrifa

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Easy jet will go bust

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Mayday Hospital

 

I’m Awake at 4am

tar

 

I’m Awake at 4am

reaching for the fucking stars

 

I’m Awake at 4am hot sheets

 

 

I should retrain as a nurse

 

I’m Awake at 4am

arse fuck cunt fuck fuck fuck fuck

 

I’m Awake at 4am

police are not in charge

 

I’m Awake at 4am

opening and closing windows

 

I’m Awake at 4am

marmite sandwich

 

I’m Awake at 4am

planning things I will achieve

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Callistan

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Horniman Muesium

 

I’m Awake at 4am

freelance

 

I’m Awake at 4am

37 years old

 

I’m Awake at 4am

not long now

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Jenna Marblres

 

I’m Awake at 4am

malahide castle

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Ruth Caesy

 

I’m Awake at 4am

not thinking about the Oceans

 

I’m Awake at 4am

organising the everything drawer

 

I’m Awake at 4am

testing batteries

 

I’m Awake at 4am

walking after midnight

 

I’m Awake at 4am

taking my temperature

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Addiction is like nut allergy

 

I’m Awake at 4am

Going for gold

 

I’m Awake at 4am

“I am” awake at 4am

 

I’m awake at 4am

popular culture

 

I’m awake at 4am

radio telifis eirinn

 

I’m awake at 4am

Sporty Spice

 

I’m awake at 4am

Applying for grants

 

I’m awake at 4am

Universal credit

 

I’m awake at 4am

Laughing about it al

 

I’m awake at 4am

Gary Glitter

 

I’m awake at 4am

Gay Bynre

 

I’m awake at 4am

Terrific emeny

 

I’m awake at 4am

Bad foot

 

I’m awake at 4am

Monzo card

 

I’m awake at 4am

trying to understand my memory

 

I’m awake at 4am

signing up for pole dancing classes

 

I’m awake at 4am

espresso martini

 

I’m awake at 4am

terrible stiff

 

I’m awake at 4am

Vicktor Meldrew

 

I’m awake at 4am

Craggy Island

 

I’m awake at 4am

Best in shpw

 

I’m awake at 4am

Problematic teenager

 

I’m awake at 4am

making a mixed tape

 

I’m awake at 4am

contemplating how birds think and know

 

I’m awake at 4am

the ever looping value of gold

 

I’m awake at 4am

Royal Albert Hall

 

I’m awake at 4am

Black mold

 

I’m awake at 4am

Fighting something

 

I’m awake at 4am

….it’s actually 9am….go do day now.

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