Balls of cotton.Sheep on drugs. Floating in the sky above.Black hands picked them in the fields.White hands wove them in the mills.Balls of cotton.Sheep on drugs. Floating in the sky above.

https://nikkiwordsmith.com/lancashire-cotton/

A quick fire poem about the path to peace tapped out early one Friday morning. I hope you like it.

Bang at paper

not with gun

Bang at paper

fight for love

Stab at keyboard

not with knife

Stab at keyboard

force for life

wall is stronger than the spear

quill is lighter than the lance

pen ink rusts the sword dry

keyboard warriors type on and on

https://nikkiwordsmith.com/keyboard-warrior-poem/

Hello World

We made it!

We are early birds alright.

We have one tongue; we have one coin

We are beginning to see the light.

https://nikkiwordsmith.com/hello-world/

Of all the things to be…

https://nikkiwordsmith.com/humanitree/

*Fine thanks*

How are you?

I'm two kilos lighter because I can't eat
When I am stressed I can't exercise and I skipped
The gym for three weeks
Since I don't have time
To think but work
I'm tired, stayed awake
For four years
Fighting that part of me
Who feels useless
Tried to take control
Of my hand
Which holds a knife
Close to my throat
Wanting to set me free
From this world.

But thanks for asking.

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New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by Harriet Soper, who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems

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I wrote this poem in memory of a close friend.
Despite how painful it was apparently things always get better.
It's a reflection about death and what it leaves behind.
Please smile today, you may never know who might need it.

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