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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.

Gifted people are inherently lazy

Perspective has that effect.

If they accomplish anything it will be through the

Valiant labour  of others  who have just enough talent

to grasp the vision And  just  enough  sense and forbearing

to appreciate the  Wack A Mole Bitch Slap  of flagrant impertinence.


Derek Earl Houghton



 
 
 

Not wanting to know should not be conflated with not knowing.

There is  no salvation from not wanting to know.

Wings for those who do.


Derek Earl Houghton

 
 
 

It was a mystery.


How he died.


Nurses  clustered around his body,


A neurosurgeon in a white lab coat


hovered over him, like a dove.


After some discussion  and a number of tests,


it was determined the cause of death


was solitude.


The self imposed type of solitude


A solitude for which there is  no cure.


Derek Earl Houghton


 
 
 
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