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Derek Earl Houghton Poems
Welcome my blog. The intention is to publish every piece of writing that I have churned out for the past 10 years. Some pieces have a story behind the story, some lyrical poems have become songs. We have hundreds of poems, stories, songs, lyrics, and life musings. Subscribe and every Monday receive a story to start off your week. Art is created by Amina & AI.
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The Greater Good
A truce, generally speaking, serves the greater good. Unfortunately the greater good is more often than not like a woman choosing...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jul 3, 20251 min read
Dare I Must
It is hard to imagine a world without me, however, imagine it , I must. Derek Earl Houghton
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 26, 20251 min read
Stillness
There is a stillness in the halls of higher learning. There are a million men of action for every great thinker and one fool for every...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 19, 20251 min read
Life In Disturbia
ye for trendy people (Fiddy Cent ever think maybe someone else like to write a song like "Where's All My Bitches At") Hes been working...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 19, 20252 min read
Ambition
Ignorance isn’t bliss, but its a good start. Derek Earl Houghton
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 5, 20251 min read
Front Row Ticket
People are inherently petty. They may talk a big game but in their heads They're noticing nostril hair, chicken neck, floppy arm fat, dog...
Derek Earl Houghton
Oct 6, 20241 min read
Hogweed
A Flower In The Desert Is More Precious than a lush Valley filled the Hogweed and Thistles. Derek Earl Houghton
Derek Earl Houghton
Sep 22, 20241 min read
Leaving Love
It is our task to leave love, like a three year old child running ahead of a watchful Mother. The child turns, gleefully laughing to see...
Derek Earl Houghton
Sep 15, 20241 min read
The Poet
A poet is a writer whose sentences do not go to the edge of the page Because he fears his words will fall haplessly off the edge into the...
Derek Earl Houghton
Sep 8, 20241 min read
Idea is a wild horse
An Idea is a wild horse. It is both powerful and fragile. It is beautiful and its smooth muscles ripple like silk satin in the sun. It...
Derek Earl Houghton
Sep 1, 20241 min read
Antidote
Inspiration is the best antidote for depression. Derek Earl Houghton
Derek Earl Houghton
Aug 25, 20241 min read
Insomnia T.O.
Insomnia!! Humping me like a crack whore tonight. Not even a gentle kiss. Sleep, my true lover is in the kitchen making late night French...
Derek Earl Houghton
Aug 11, 20241 min read
Gun Camera
A gun camera is an interesting piece of military equipment. Its purpose is to take portraits of strategic targets and then to destroy...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jul 21, 20241 min read
Woo Woo
If you wish to raise your vibration forget all the Woo Woo. Do something nice. Then sit back and wait to get fitted for your snappy new...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jul 14, 20241 min read
Missing His Stop
Sometimes nothing happens. He dozes off in the streetcar And misses his stop. Now getting off the streetcar He finds himself in a...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 23, 20241 min read
Death Of A Haberdasher
He felt compelled to overdress. It hadn’t happened yet. Perhaps it was recollection. Perhaps it was anticipation. Regardless. He wanted...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 18, 20241 min read
A Wilderness of Selfies
Fifty years from now there will be virtual dust bins filled with trillions of photos of no particular interest to anyone And tens of...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 10, 20241 min read
Rumours of War
Choosing a friend is rather like choosing a battle.There will be wars and rumours of wars, but common interests, the plundering of other...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 8, 20241 min read
The Prison and The Ward
The individual in a locked psychiatric ward bears some similarity to the individual on death row. On the one hand one has madness...
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 8, 20241 min read
Two percent Monkey
“Monkey See Monkey Do.” A vivid depiction of the Current tide of moral turpitude. Derek Earl Houghton
Derek Earl Houghton
Jun 8, 20241 min read
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