Category: Poetry

He’s getting me surprises Afforded by enterprises I ain’t privy too, but I realised this: That he keeps me safe  Holds me in the black of his iris So I’m never misplaced.  I have two weeks To broil in an excitement With no shape.  He’s getting me surprises Something I usually hate But the trust [...]

The innocent in godliness is really the bones It means any postcode can be home It means you come back after goodbye Just to be shone Why that cross around your neck Graces your collarbone And blesses you with soft sweet tones Letting you know you’ll never walk alone I wanted to be Christened, to [...]

The hottest place I’ve ever been Is turning cold We have each other though So four hands to hold We’re earning old Earning days of mooching And nights to be of told You said I’m "beautiful" Inside and out And I turned gold As I rooted about In the footwell  Bent and folded As we [...]

Why do so many of my old poems relate to you? It’s like you were always here, and I always knew You’d come, always knew you were the one Who would turn my world spun, and lunge Deep into the belly of my creativity And my creations  Like you were the one that was meant [...]

When the bad days outweigh the good Will you still tell me I’m brilliant? When the bad days outweigh the good Will your love stay resilient? When the bad days outweigh the good Will that comfort turn militant? When the bad days outweigh the good Will you still see me as innocent? By Lyric Deep.

If I was a food I’d be a passion fruit Because I feel everything Personally But I’d get eaten With cutlery For optimum Burst of seed I’d be pink in my blush But black pocked Underneath Still the beauty Of me At the market Will make you see The shine of skin Over the other [...]

This is just like drugs You make me feel so good So loved But that sobering moment  Always comes And I’m struck by hard thumbs Turned to crumbs Strumming on blisters And numb tongues Wishing I wasn’t so Brutal on the up Cos now I slump In the dump Of heartstrings in the sun I [...]

Like walking ducks and the carriage key tucks As trucks dance beside me I fuck with you highly Slyly I might be in luck As you chuck me a sloppy chance With a sloppy glance And I’m wearing the padlock like pearls She tells me to stop being awkward But I’m just one of those [...]

I’m all coffee no belly-full So my jitters are plentiful  These brain farts are seminal And I’ll admit I’m a sheep Deep in the retreat Of buzz’s heap Every cell beeped  So further into me I sent them all  I creep around with so many thoughts I go quiet I’m concrete under the marching feet [...]

There’s that moment past midnight When you’re the only one in the house that smokes You sit on that front step, that balcony And toke as the city strokes Your burning hair with its fluorescent flare  Daring you to share in its busyness  You’re lizardess in your creeping Steeping in your deep treating Of solitude, [...]