Martin Wardley
Sobriety?
The calming, steady hand of sobriety For days and weeks and months Holds and comforts Soothes and cools Dilutes the cruel Guiding the...
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Martin Wardley
Apr 21, 20221 min read
The Dale
The bronzen dale lay bathed Lit gold by the late-day sun Wonderfully, Gloriously swathed While the light warns of night-time to come The...
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Martin Wardley
Apr 14, 20221 min read
Nowt that can’t be mended
His broken heart won’t mend But he’s laying down foundations To simply walk again With lowered expectations One foot before the next Is...
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Martin Wardley
Apr 14, 20221 min read
Risk
Risk sits in twisted conflict With safe secured stability She elicits wondrous opportunity And delicious possibility Permitting dreams to...
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Martin Wardley
Mar 30, 20221 min read
The ego of men
When the ego of men Time and again Take hold of their actions And souls There’s no place to hide And little respite When the outcome of...
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Martin Wardley
Mar 23, 20221 min read
Benighted
The words on a wind whisper in Voices familiar herein Of family, friends and of home Who trouble the blood and the bone These companions...
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Martin Wardley
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Eye to eye
Bobble-hatted football-coaching Shouting from the side-lines Lucky socks in howling gales And dismal, calamitous score-lines From whence...
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Martin Wardley
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Warmth
I buttoned my coat to the cold As the man of God spoke his words Words lost to the wind whipping in Words lost to the incoming rain As...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Disappointment
It didn’t quite happen I didn’t quite make it I wasn’t nearly fast enough I wasn’t nearly good enough I didn’t possess the skills I...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Minging and Priceless
Minging and priceless Miserable and precious Frozen and warming Repetitive and transforming Draining and fulfilling Focused and thrilling...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Decisions & Actions
He told me of our fate She impressed on me to cogitate: By decisions and by actions We fall or we will elevate To hide our lies may tempt...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Layer of Lies
Wanton Fabrication Gross manipulation Clearly exploitation Under watchful eyes Just another layer of lies Clear misrepresentation Driving...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Excess
Excess which breeds excess The more without the less A joyous brawl at best At worst desire to be addressed Pointless resolution To...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
The ladder
The ladder leaning lonely ‘Gainst the whitewashed wall Leads purposefully to nowhere Nowhere at all Like a solitary elder statesman...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
New Year
New now to you and new to me too New for the many, new for the few New way to reconcile, new way to view New time to measure the lies and...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
A highland bar of note
Like a relationship neglected It was just as I suspected Once rekindled it would be As if it never skipped a beat These walls bleed deep...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Break
Having a breather Taking a break Downing tools Away from the ignorance of fools A little respite A short sojourn Rest n recoup Rise from...
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Martin Wardley
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Seasons Turn
Rusty trees And ochre leaves Denuded boughs And fading greens Yellows, reds And those between Seasons turn While Summer flees An icy...
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Martin Wardley
Nov 10, 20211 min read
It’s not what I do
It’s not what I do It’s what I am It’s not the metrics The measurements The likes or the streams It’s not these gorgeous, gorged Or...
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Martin Wardley
Nov 2, 20211 min read
The room and I
The walls are a shade darker than the last time The shadow cast by the lazy shade slightly longer by a doleful sigh The drawers yawned...
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