10,000 Poems

By Mike Bell

This is my daily writing ritual. It started on the 5th of November 2015. It is a 30-plus year experiment to see if writing a poem a day, my ongoing commitment, can contribute to maintaining mental ski... more

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10,000 Poems episodes:

May 25, 2020 A Taste Of Honey
A Taste of Honey
https://mikebellpoems.com/a-taste-of-honey/
Dear Steven Patrick Morrissey –
mononymously known by your burly surname
I fell in love with you in nineteen eighty-four –
or maybe slightly before – when you sang a lullaby –
Yes – it was just for me – played on an ache-laden
Scouse-spun John Peel Session
You were Alan Bennett – on a sweat-rinsed riser –
taking straight boys with your stirring words
A glimpse of your chest was enough to doubt
girls’ shapely tits had enough to give up
Then you spoke out from your tooth-whitened America
whilst making those Mexican boys doubt
How you turned me off with your racist complaints
My Dear Steven – you no longer interest me
...more
1min
May 25, 2020 A Taste Of Honey
A Taste of Honey
https://mikebellpoems.com/a-taste-of-honey/
Dear Steven Patrick Morrissey –
mononymously known by your burly surname
I fell in love with you in nineteen eighty-four –
or maybe slightly before – when you sang a lullaby –
Yes – it was just for me – played on an ache-laden
Scouse-spun John Peel Session
You were Alan Bennett – on a sweat-rinsed riser –
taking straight boys with your stirring words
A glimpse of your chest was enough to doubt
girls’ shapely tits had enough to give up
Then you spoke out from your tooth-whitened America
whilst making those Mexican boys doubt
How you turned me off with your racist complaints
My Dear Steven – you no longer interest me
...more
1min
May 25, 2020 Pleasure Demolished
Pleasure Demolished
They'll solicit obliteration of
our old theatre [not heeding
complaints from preservers
& old-way-fixers with books
referencing how long those
stall & circle dream pits sat
in our gist]/ Homer was not
one for such revery/ I lost a
phone in Paris - among 200
tipped-up seats - it rang as I
searched - unusual acoustic
tricks did me/ Acts spooled
on my Walkman - fast fwd &
that mechanicalness [we no
longer degust]/ Our mobiles
rewind our playlist of screw-
ups & messages from those
whom we kicked back - that
ruinate of old performances
with no awards [or encores]/
Bingo halls serve less balls -
those so-monotone tenants
of unwanted playhouses are
on a list - to be ever-emptied
with a similar blow by C-19's
twistings [best played online]
PHOTO:Image by Bob Williams from Pixabay
...more
2min
May 25, 2020 Pleasure Demolished
Pleasure Demolished
They'll solicit obliteration of
our old theatre [not heeding
complaints from preservers
& old-way-fixers with books
referencing how long those
stall & circle dream pits sat
in our gist]/ Homer was not
one for such revery/ I lost a
phone in Paris - among 200
tipped-up seats - it rang as I
searched - unusual acoustic
tricks did me/ Acts spooled
on my Walkman - fast fwd &
that mechanicalness [we no
longer degust]/ Our mobiles
rewind our playlist of screw-
ups & messages from those
whom we kicked back - that
ruinate of old performances
with no awards [or encores]/
Bingo halls serve less balls -
those so-monotone tenants
of unwanted playhouses are
on a list - to be ever-emptied
with a similar blow by C-19's
twistings [best played online]
PHOTO:Image by Bob Williams from Pixabay
...more
2min
May 25, 2020 News At One
News at One
Time will not be adjusted [to suit
your needs] - that's my assumed
forecast of less-assured futures
Histories - that slip of shadowed
kisses & us [such burden of love
is brief - emptied skies less rare]
My cadaver has a fixed contract
in ink [& yours too] - parchments
are furled close - like a clingfilm
stretch on & as gripped/ Oxygen
will be kept fresh [for three days]
& then my watch will turn to rust
[in your rivulet my timepiece rots
to orange - do not drink it up]/ Sit
at your gloss of pool & prod fast -
to ferrugo my cogs & pendulums
'neath running spring waters - so
decrease my minuted remnants -
[watch parts] sink in Jarvis Brook
& fritter more - in no time - at that
confluence with R Medway's rush
off - via printed tidal timetables - &
with a nod to rainclouds - forecast
flood - reports read - News at One
...more
2min
May 25, 2020 News At One
News at One
Time will not be adjusted [to suit
your needs] - that's my assumed
forecast of less-assured futures
Histories - that slip of shadowed
kisses & us [such burden of love
is brief - emptied skies less rare]
My cadaver has a fixed contract
in ink [& yours too] - parchments
are furled close - like a clingfilm
stretch on & as gripped/ Oxygen
will be kept fresh [for three days]
& then my watch will turn to rust
[in your rivulet my timepiece rots
to orange - do not drink it up]/ Sit
at your gloss of pool & prod fast -
to ferrugo my cogs & pendulums
'neath running spring waters - so
decrease my minuted remnants -
[watch parts] sink in Jarvis Brook
& fritter more - in no time - at that
confluence with R Medway's rush
off - via printed tidal timetables - &
with a nod to rainclouds - forecast
flood - reports read - News at One
...more
2min
May 23, 2020 QUADROPHENIA
Quadrophenia
https://mikebellpoems.com/quadrophenia/
Shingle/ Vinegar/ Under-pier
strokes of cock - undesired
[pills were not dropped after
a fuck]/ Complaints by age-
weighted sunbathers - youth
scum/ Sing to me [when you
can] 'bout zoot suits & sharp
creases [being a Mod wasn't
about anything honest]/ Gull
calls & chip wrappers - upper
litter still blows into seafront
trippers [they used to ride on
scooters]/ Old Mods look on
as girls bare too much - hard
times of under-pier I-love are
lost - There should be a sign -
Here is Brighton's least costly
room [a consummated place]
& let every Jimmy there-ever-
was return to savour old spray
[but - I gotta get running now]
...more
1min
May 23, 2020 QUADROPHENIA
Quadrophenia
https://mikebellpoems.com/quadrophenia/
Shingle/ Vinegar/ Under-pier
strokes of cock - undesired
[pills were not dropped after
a fuck]/ Complaints by age-
weighted sunbathers - youth
scum/ Sing to me [when you
can] 'bout zoot suits & sharp
creases [being a Mod wasn't
about anything honest]/ Gull
calls & chip wrappers - upper
litter still blows into seafront
trippers [they used to ride on
scooters]/ Old Mods look on
as girls bare too much - hard
times of under-pier I-love are
lost - There should be a sign -
Here is Brighton's least costly
room [a consummated place]
& let every Jimmy there-ever-
was return to savour old spray
[but - I gotta get running now]
...more
1min
May 23, 2020 Christmas Island
Christmas Island
https://mikebellpoems.com/christmas-island/
Their trams still ran [in
Hiroshima] - among all
of their loss of 1945+/
As if precise modes of
public transport would
[still] rotate in a flawed
country like ours/ Time
has moved for Britain's
schedulers ever since -
since a bomb dropped
on Christmas/ One-nil/
We twitched - us kids/
We saw a darkness [of
life] sat outside a bank
[a shock - of imprecise
truths - of hitokage no
ishihi]/ There are grim
shadows on our maps
of cooled off craters &
green atolls/ As kids it
was a joy to ride trams
in Manchester - delays
forgiven - never forgot
PHOTO:Image by Hitesh Choudhary from Pixabay
...more
1min
May 23, 2020 Christmas Island
Christmas Island
https://mikebellpoems.com/christmas-island/
Their trams still ran [in
Hiroshima] - among all
of their loss of 1945+/
As if precise modes of
public transport would
[still] rotate in a flawed
country like ours/ Time
has moved for Britain's
schedulers ever since -
since a bomb dropped
on Christmas/ One-nil/
We twitched - us kids/
We saw a darkness [of
life] sat outside a bank
[a shock - of imprecise
truths - of hitokage no
ishihi]/ There are grim
shadows on our maps
of cooled off craters &
green atolls/ As kids it
was a joy to ride trams
in Manchester - delays
forgiven - never forgot
PHOTO:Image by Hitesh Choudhary from Pixabay
...more
1min

FAQs about 10,000 Poems:

How many episodes does 10,000 Poems have?

The podcast currently has 62 episodes available.