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BardPharts

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Writing Poetry. Drinking Red Wine. Turfgame Rank 50. Pro European. Born 316ppm

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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 5h
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Borders
Borders
Frontiers drawn by man 
divide not people 
centred on one clan,
lines, great upheaval.
You sit back and judge, 
spreads through time with trade.
laws won’t make it budge,
language’s not afraid. 
It’s never the best, 
these old Iines betray
feudal lords bequest, 
old orders decay.
The people beg, please 
end fighting for land,
free ourselves of these
old lines drawn in sand.
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1 May 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Canicule
*Canicule
With the fine warmth of summer days, 
risen sun beats us with her rays,
then comes fatigue from warmer nights. 
Long moist hours in bed before dawn, 
raised hell has come for us, condemned. 
Wears us to a thin brittle end, 
makes us wish we’d never been born. 
Absent relief as the dawn lights 
becomes a fearsome deadly blaze, 
relentless, not a fleeting phase. 
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5 August 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'irrepressible' is a polite way of saying ‘annoying bastard’
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #DarkHole
Dark Hole 
Please remember that you have no control,
you’re simply a victim of circumstance. 
You try to create life from this dark hole.
Admit! you never really stood a chance. 
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25 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks like Leonard is taking a selfie😉
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wide angle photograph of Strasbourg cathedral
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love Strasbourg cathedral.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like how the red stain emphasises the message. 😳
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #DangerDanger
Danger Danger
We hear our globe is warming,
rain’s now gone out of fashion. 
While shallow lives adorning,
our homes destroyed with passion. 
Is there nothing we can do?
We never heed dire warnings
to stop all oil extractions.
Soon, we’ll awake these mornings, 
to global food rations!
Is there nothing we can do?
This precious carbon storing,
Atlantic current action, 
glaciers we’re mourning, 
magnificent attraction.
Is there nothing we can do?
These problems they’re ignoring,
conflict’s just a distraction, 
to which people are dawning, 
with our leaders inaction. 
Is there nothing we can do?
@BardPharts
23 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Then America elected a ‘reality’ president. Twice.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Drunk
Drunk
This place I go to, 
each night as I wait,
clockwork change of state,
always brought on through: 
Different flavours, 
of different types, 
different savours, 
of different stripes. 
Don’t keep a tally,
swim deep in my psyche, 
like riding a bike, 
drift away happy. 
@BardPharts
26 May 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #BestTimes
*Best Times 
How can we our best days measure? 
As we pass each long day in poor comfort, 
given a certain freedom for leisure 
or following some kind of outdoor sport. 
Those days of our youth, of summers misspent,
do without thinking, ignore consequence,
brought so little, but juvenile torment, 
in the end, makes but little normal sense. 
Later, our mid-years find uneasy peace,
with life swirling within our work stained soul.
Our busy life affords such small release, 
over which we have little control. 
We then remember in our final days, 
that all those precious times can still amaze.
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24 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Only then will we start on the cans of beans. 🥳
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did you chase Neo through pointless dimensions?
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When I was younger. My nan used to save the comic section of the Scottish Post (I forget exactly) so that I could read it. So of course I always thought they spoke with a Scottish accent. Until now. 😳
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s just gone up🙄
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You forgot Coffee at £309 pa closes the gap🤭
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👍
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did you do Hardraw? Costner’s shower😳
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aysgarth?
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank goodness someone is saying it out loud.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You’re gonna need a bigger TV 😳
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Alone
Alone 
Sometimes I imagine being lost at sea,
drifting across endless miles of water, 
listening to wind and waves, at last free, 
from worldly cares and my mind’s disorder. 
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27 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Air
Air 
Invisible, brushes past, 
like winter soup thick and warm, 
rich in nitrogen and vast.
Spreading around our blue globe, 
magnificent fluid robe,
now it wears dirt thin, worn out. 
We stand in the street  and shout 
We are here, we are the swarm!
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29 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God bless America. Or something 🤷🏻‍♂️
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #DigitalLife
*Digital Life 
Look at lives of people unknown 
stretched without end across our screens 
each one in their own way alone, 
but each with the same goals and dreams. 
They flow free down life’s golden streams 
entering this forbidden zone 
don’t surrender to the machines
it’s time to put away your phone 
@BardPharts
12 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘Unties States’ would be more accurate. 🤔
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Charge council tax at 5% of value till valuations are sorted. Then increase it incrementally to 10%.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just in time for Christmas. Lovely.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Ghost
Ghost 
On those cold moonless nights, 
a time of day I dread,
in the cold pale street lights,
from my safe warm bed.
Lost spirits of the dead,
I dream they’re walking free, 
nay, maybe stalking me. 
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9 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Prague? 🤔
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A load bearing wall wouldn’t have a timber frame. 🤔🙄
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #ecstasy
Ecstasy 
Precious golden ball that I hold
at the end of my finger tips, 
my body, around it I fold,
as she takes it, my heart beat skips.
Our fleeting bodies, each eclipse, 
then we sing as one together, 
perfect harmonies, forever.
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5 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hopefully they never went on holiday to France 😳
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #FellRun
Fell Run
Run up, up again 
through foul wind that cuts, 
knives through my jerkin.
Long cold fingers stroke 
down my back, provoke 
a deep, deep shiver, 
sweat runs a river, 
do I have the guts?
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30 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why do people still buy Teslas and Chinese cars. Don’t they care about what is happening 🤦🏻‍♂️
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #GlobalHeat
Global Heat 
Summer sun sets light to forest, 
and chases human wildlife again.
This bizarre season’s now  warmest, 
raw nature claims back it’s terrain. 
All that remains is foul black stain
of consumed precious possessions.
Confirms global warming campaign, 
hear now pathetic obsessions.
Inpatient, we await the next 
massive volcanic eruption, 
on our wonderful planet, vexed,
resolved to end this corruption. 
It’s time to take stand against these
deniers of reality. 
Reduce by several degrees, 
to protect our locality.
@BardPharts
11 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #LivingThePast
*Living the Past 
I’ve lived my life in reverse, 
slowly learning history,
then myself deeply immerse, 
in every small lived moment.
Not knowing just how potent, 
travelling back for ages,
through these many turned pages, 
unraveling mystery. 
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30 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love the Stearman. Want one.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brilliant 🤩❤️
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Mission
Mission 
In the morning still, 
buried on this hill, 
they knew well the drill, 
menace more than thrill, 
mission to fulfil, 
flying bullets shrill. 
Just be killed or kill,
just more blood to spill.
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9 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #Menin
Menin 
Numbers uncounted, missing,
names chiselled on endless wall.
Unconditional giving 
never denied that first call.
We know by heart all of their 
horrific, tragic stories.
Give up now but a small prayer, 
for many selfless glories.
Hardship, stray bullet and mud,
modern bustle of people. 
Grateful for sacrificed blood 
to stop advancing evil.
Comforted by noise of youth,
will gladden souls with their truth.
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25 June 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I see that after they put their boat in the water they wanted a cuppa. So pulled the plug marked scupper 🤷🏻‍♂️
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also, 1960 is the last year of the ’50s.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You’re going to need at least two sausages. 🤔
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#poetry #poetrycommunity #NodOff
Nod Off
I’m packed, I’m ready,
off to land of nod,
think it’s kind of odd,
this great thought’s heady. 
Dozing feels so cool,
nothing to do now,
my brain won’t allow,
then I start to drool.
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9 March 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It let you down as well.
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is that a double negative 🤔
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #PassingGrief
Passing Grief 
This weight we carry of people we’ve lost,
they tell, it eases with passing of years 
and how we need to pay a heavy cost, 
by not holding back our precious warm tears.
Walk by this river with absent shadow, 
a lonely tear on a bright summer’s day. 
Now our glad heart rests upon their pillow, 
there is nothing further we need to say. 
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23 July 2026
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BardPharts @bardpharts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The people of Stamford Bridge have produced their own tapestry of Hardrada’s struggle, as an imitation of that in Bayeux. It wasn’t open when we were there 🤷🏻‍♂️. Will go back. Sometime.
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