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Harry Is A Poet

Harry Mason

A audio archive of the poems up at http://harryisapoet.blogspot.com/

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00:01:21

#210 Sharing Joy

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/11/23

It is a singular delightTo find one with which you share a passion and flame. As you both shine bright With whom you need to feel no shame. Far to often, we enjoy Hiding ourselves and our inspirations away For fear that our joy Will be shunned and scorned without delay We'd rather protect That small flicker that makes us feel less small Than let it grow and infect To spread wide and to fully engulf all The risk is far too great What if they are right to bring us down? One thing I've found of

00:01:21

#209 Brave

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/11/16

"Hold on, be brave" - the eternal maternal refrain.Taught to be thought, implanted in every infant.The most meticulous mantra, made in the mind.To be repeated eternally for every tough situation you'll find.Have to eat something bad tasting? - Hold on, be brave.First time public speaking? - Hold on, be brave.Getting an injection? - Hold on, be brave.Experiencing life? - Hold on, be brave.So, here's the thing. The thing when we're told to be brave.We're told what bravery is - bravery is saving the

00:02:24

#208 Lost in Time

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/11/10

I've been lost in space many timesMisplaced my way and trespassed linesIt's fine. I guess.Sometimes I leave a messBut mostly, it's for the best.Because it's only by going places we aren't meant toThat we realise where we're supposed to be.Echolocate our way to home in the midst of this cacophany.So let us sound out the solution to the problem I now seeI'm not exactly sure when I am supposed to be.Yes you read that right, and no, I'm not talking in jest.Because in this world I always have so little

00:02:02

#207 Fish in the Sea

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/11/02

You're heartbroken again, aren't you?You've seen life's turmoils through and throughWell don't worry. After all it should be plain to seeThere's always plenty more fish in the sea(This line was said with a big, wide, devious smileThat hung on the narrator's face for a whileAfter all, they knew your life and knew the scoreAnd how many times you'd heard that line before)Of course, the issue with that saying is clearYou'll find another fish if you persevereBut some fish are sharks, with a nasty

00:01:45

#206 This Fragile Mind

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/10/26

This fragile mind was meant for only one end.See, this fragile mind, it was meant to bend.Though it's so very easy to snap and shatterParticularly for thoughts that matterIt must stand strong, must persevereFor every thought it minds to hearYou can talk of fractures, talk of a tearA raptured mind will withstand any wearBrains? They fold. They envelope all info anewIf given something bad it'll absorb that tooIt can't discriminate, there's no auto-filterRemoving that which will knock you off kilterTo

00:01:52

#205 Mind in Anger

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/10/19

I've never seen a man change their mind in angerNot while they're screaming 'hang him' and 'hang her'If they hate your message *and* they hate your gutsDo you think they'll ever admit to being a klutz?Because when they remember the argument on their ownThey wont remember the message, just remember your toneUnless of course, they have thought of some sort of retortAnd then they'll be eager to re-enter the verbal tennis courtOnly focused on serving you up on a platterWithout being focussed on the

00:01:03

#204 A Decision is Made

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/10/12

Life is on holdAnd feelings are cold You have to be bold 'til a decision is made You'll start to stress Just do you best! You can do nothing less 'til a decision is made So hang on tight Stay up all night The future's not bright 'til a decision is made The time has come What must be done Has just begun 'til a decision is made You're nearly there too You wont have much to do If you just choose As a decision is made See, now, isn't this so much better So much freer with every letter You'll be

00:02:27

#203 I am not done

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/10/05

I lay dying.I should have been laid dead. But I lay dying.I saw Death beside me. I saw her outstretched hand.She did not force the handshake.She never normally needed to.Most accepted it willingly, grasping for her fingers like a child grasping for their mother.Some, of stronger heart, raised their hand slowly. Controlling the ascent but always determined. They always sped up the last couple inches though.My hand, by contrast, was forced rigidly into my side,(Albeit grasped in a fist, to resist

00:01:07

#202 Nurture Me

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/09/28

I'm a seed, nuture meSo I can grow to a treeTake my place in forestryAnd start to develop properlyAs I begin grow into my propertyBecause when I wake each day I seeThis place I live and rest my head sleepilyWhile I may never define this place formallyAs the one in which I form my ideas creativelyI have no doubt the influence it has subconsciouslyThat we can only ever be defined from our memoriesWhich can never be created fully independentlyFrom our surroundings and also our inventoryWe must

00:02:28

#201 Lament of the Voter

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/09/21

This is the lament of the voter, let me be boldTo experience this just once, before I am oldI don't want to vote out of fearI don't want to vote out of fearI don't want to have to vote cause I'm scared if I don'tThat I'll be persecuted now and hereI don't want to vote out of fearI have to say that it does seem recentlyOnly a lesser of two evils choice has been given meAnd it may seem feeble but a vote for less evilIs one that fails to inspire meI don't want to vote

00:02:09

#200 Time

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/09/14

Tick Tock Tick TockQuickly clicks the clockMillis Seconds Hours DaysTill our ending waysTime is passing, Never lastingSpeeding fast, forever askingWhat you're doing, Why you're waitingShould be pursuing, not procrastinatingWith every falling grain of sandSpilling onto barren landAs dust turns into rusty crustDo whatever you mustTime is running awayTo your final dayTick Tock Tick TockQuickly clicks the clockMillis Seconds Hours DaysTill our ending waysTime is a resource, of courseOne to

00:02:07

#199 Faff Till Noon

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/09/14

[Verse 1]Back to this street where we began Feeling you could have left something, you know Yeah we're not feeling good Picking up things you shouldn't need It looks like the end of the trip as we know As your bag is unfurled Back to this street where we began Feeling we could have left, we should, we can [Pre-Chorus] Stuck in this place we're caught by gloom Into a room where it's nine and you'll faff 'til noon And we know that we could be and we know that we should And

00:01:14

#198 Content

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/09/07

Are contentment and boredom synonyms?I mean this question only honestlyI'm going to take charge, go out on a limbAnd say the answer is no. Well, mostlyThere's no doubt overlap twixt these casesWhen we no longer have drive or desireSatisfied we have run enough racesWith no need to keep pushing on higherBut I can be content about one thingAllowing me to finish and move onBoredom is absolutely engulfingThe most self destructive phenomenonWithout contentment, I'd never progressWith boredom

00:02:00

#197 Enjoy the Ride

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/08/31

"Ladies and Gentleman. Please be ready.The ride is about to begin.Get ready for the world to move by fastBecause none of you are strapped in"I've heard it said, that life is the journeyThat was the type of mantra that would never concern meBecause we would try to strip it down to the coreLike - well then what on Earth are we travelling for?Well let me tell you, plain and true.That I, quite frankly, have no clue.I've quizzed the navigator, asked the driverI've talked to the

00:01:51

#196 Were I To Give A Talk In Schools

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/08/24

Being an adult is hard.Mostly, because you never get a welcome card.There's never instructions, in pencil or penOn what to do or who to befriend.You know that stupid question adults always want to ask?What do you want to do when you grow up and leave class?Here's a secret to take with you wherever you go.Most of them are asking because they don't know.We all end up in a job, a profession, a career.But most of us have no clue how we ended up here.But if it's fairly stable, and not

00:01:32

#195 A Good Lad

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/08/17

You think you're great mate, acting all aggro?Turning up late and sat to chat in the back row?Slave to no man they've never got your attentionEven though you know you'll just end up in detentionFor ragging on and attacking the kids sat in the frontWho are just trying to learn you colossal cu....Let's take a step back.Write this message to the letterThis kind of attackIs never gonna make things betterThe cycle of profanity, a cycle of aggressionThat's a very classical form of

00:01:27

#194 Kindness

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/08/10

I always have two lungfuls of airTo give away at a moments notice. That if anyone should care I know that I can gift this. I waste so much of every day Spend so much time between living That I will not miss a chance to say A moment is gained by giving. In exchange for my time, of course You must make sure it is returned By spending some seconds of yours So that together, we have learned. Do not feel bad, do not feel regret If you ever just need five minutes of mine Because the time will come, I

00:03:07

#193 A Celesteal Quest

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/08/03

I saw an old man, yelling to a crowdFor his age, he seemed strong and proudHe shivered with energy, full of fightThough his tone throughout was only politeHe told terrific tales, beyond that sanity would ventureYet the gathered held breath to learn the next adventureHe'd fought off Death, lost his Earthly braceAnd began his soliloquy on a sojourn to spaceThough the other stories made him seem off his trolleyThis venture he claimed as his greatest follyYou see - he did not go alone, but in fact

00:00:57

#192 The delicate story of a simple neanderthal fellow

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/07/27

Fire hot. Fire tall. Hot tall fire swallows all. Flickers bright. Flicker long. Bright long flickers dance in song. See it glisten. See it spark. See the way it lights the dark. Growing fast. Growing bright. Growing darkness into light. ... Fire gone. Wood is cold. Cold dark wood is sad to hold... *** https://harryisapoet.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-delicate-story-of-simple.html

00:01:54

#191 Chaos

Harry Is A Poet ·

2024/07/20

The smallest stutterThe smallest change The wings that flutter Cause all that's strange You want to predict? To even estimate? Here's my edict: Leave it to fate. See while all in this universe is indeed indicated by intellectual equations And all attempts to adjudicate on outcomes are actuating amply Mostly, I must make clear the fatal flaws in such fanatic infatuations For chaos, that brilliant beast behaves beautifully but bastardy So let's stop. Here's the scientific view That

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