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63 · Mar 27
My storm
Mark Bell Mar 27
Yesterday is gone
Etched in my heart
Yesterday was yesterday
It was a beautiful start.
Our eyes met across
A crowded room,
We connected like the
Weaver and the loom.
My heart was pounding
Downstairs went warm
I’d had met my perfect storm.
Five years later my
Storm was no more,
She broke my heart
And all of the doors.
She took the whirlwinds
And blew away.
I just hope she comes back
One stormy day.
63 · Feb 18
Fallen leaves
Mark Bell Feb 18
Travelling the path
Of dying embers
Memories faded
Diluted and gone
No more
grasp on life
withering
Away and done.
There’s only me
From my family tree
Leaves are sadly
Departed
Still I travel down
This path well
Not to
downhearted.
Still I keep on
Breathing
Taking in the air
I know when it’s
Time to go
When I reach the
Bottom of the stairs.
63 · Jan 1
Unaware
Mark Bell Jan 1
As I stroll
These city roads
Watching people
With heavy loads.
They don’t
say hello
Seem never
to smile,
Just a pedestrian
In another mile.
Red light
Green light
Unaware
These city
Streets
They seem
So bare.
63 · Jan 20
Me and my platoon
Mark Bell Jan 20
In My army days
We came across
A castle
Me and my platoon
We’re a bunch
Of arseholes.
Across the drawbridge
Into the keep
We’ve been fighting
Not slept for weeks.
Problem was we
We’re not alone
We had come across
A ghostly home.
Our host
he was
a Friendly
ghost,
Watered and we
We’re duly fed,
None of us realised
We were all
****** dead.
We the platoon
Of skeletons
No skin on our bones
Returning from the war zone
To our ghostly home.
63 · Feb 3
Cathy
Mark Bell Feb 3
High on happy Mondays
Tuesday morning coming down
Wednesday Thursday flying
Im just Cathy’s clown
Friday rocking
she’s still gentle
on my mind.
Saturday Sunday girl
To whom Im never blind.
63 · Feb 8
The cat
Mark Bell Feb 8
I need care
From the cold
Night air,
They are
In there
Freezing
Out here
It’s not fair
Their not playing
By the rules
This to me
is ******
Cruel.
Mummy’s Lovely
We had a spat
I got angry and
Pooed on the mat
What could I do
Being me the cat.
I don’t hold grudges
Don’t you see
Staying in the cold
Night air ain’t
For me,
I got mrs owl
She lives in a boat
I can’t get in to get
My hat and coat
Door opens up mums
Got some food
Feeling better
Changed my mood
I’ll lie down have a Kip
When there out I’ll
Have another ****.
63 · Jan 27
Gone to the moon
Mark Bell Jan 27
Three amigo’s
Knife
Fork
And spoon
Travelled to space
In a big  red balloon.
Huddled together
Wasn’t much room,
For the three amigo’s
Knife
Fork
and spoon.

Up into space
In that big red balloon
The three amigo’s
Knife fork and spoon
We’re  not the first
to walk on the moon.

This was
a moment
A spacial gate,
See
The first steps
on the moon
We’re done
by a
Big soup dish
And a
dinner plate.
63 · Dec 2024
Converse
Mark Bell Dec 2024
While sitting on
A white washed wall
Longtime I would sit
A squirrel came up
To me and asked me
For a cup of tea.
Hello mr squirrel
You seem very nice
I have no tea but
I have coffee
Would that be suffice.
We conversed the
Squirrel and I
Talked about anything
Time just flew by.
Mister squirrel
please don’t
Leave
I like you very much
Im out of here said
The squirrel
I can  see your really
nuts.
63 · Feb 7
The lone wolf
Mark Bell Feb 7
Nature screams at me
Wild as the wolf
Trees having
Panic attacks
Nature screams at me

Earth wind and fire
Nature screams at me
Streams and rivers boil
Blood flows through
purple meadows
Nature screams at me.

The sun takes a swim
In the ocean
The wolf howls
At the moon
Nature screams at me
Death will come
To me soon.
63 · Apr 26
The bench
Mark Bell Apr 26
The bench of forgetfulness
Resides in the park
People sit reminiscing
In the light and the dark.
Thirty five years it
Needs a lick of new paint
This bench has heard
the stories some are so quaint .
Proposals of marriage
Heartache and pain
Stories of bravery
And some that  are inane.
A name appeared one day
Someone had died
The bench of forgetfulness
Looked like it could cry.
People would sit and
Forget all there woes,
This bench would listen
As the warm wind blows.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
There was once a schicklgruber
What is it in a name
In the last century
He played a deadly game.
People believed in him
They made a costly mistake
He took them down
a path of death.
They took their  slice of cake.
He was once an orator
With hatred in his voice
The world came down
Upon him
He  had no ****** choice.
Suppression oppression
You can’t keep people down
Learn from history humans
Extinction we will drown
Mark Bell Jan 27
Gary Sprake
Stopped the goals
And did make
loads of mistakes.
Paul Reaney
Paul madely
We’re clever
full backs
Centre half was a
Tall Player ,a genius
called
Jack.
Norman Hunter
Would bite your leg
While Billy Bremner
Was a midfielder
To remember.
General Giles
Sniffer Clarke
Deadly duo
A pair of sharks
**** Jones
Eddie gray
Boy these footballers
they could play.
Peter Lorimer
Could tie you
in knots a great player
With a thunderbolt shot.
63 · Jan 8
Partners in crime
Mark Bell Jan 8
Basil,
Rosemary
And good
Girl
Thyme,
Good *******
Partners in crime
Supermarket
Products
They would steal,
Anything they
could get their
Hands on to
Make a  hot meal.
Lasagne is their
Favourite
They liked it
Nice and hot
Then having a chuckle
All three of
Them laid on top.
63 · Jan 24
Challenge
Mark Bell Jan 24
A man and his dog
Came into the pub
for
A Pint
of beer
And a bit
of grub.
After his meal
gave his mouth a wipe
Told the locals that
His dog wasn’t the
Obedient type.
If anyone here
Can make my dog
To adhere
you
win 50 pounds
and
A keg of beer.
The challenge
a cost you a pound
And a pint of beer
All the locals tried
The dog would
not adhere,
Saturday night
A man came in
Looking gaunt
Rather thin
Took up the challenge
With voice so soft
Picked up the
Unsuspecting dog
Threw it on the fire
And said now get off.
The man won his fifty
And his keg of beer
The dog got away
with just
a burnt ear
Man getting drunk
giving it large,
Lucky the dog
named lucky
Dropped the cruelty charge.
63 · Jun 27
Finding ones roots
Mark Bell Jun 27
I was born
Under a wandering star
Didn’t have any money
To buy a car.
Bedraggled suit
Holes in my boots
Had no job
Had no roots.
I was born
Under a wandering star
I didn’t need money
To wander far.
Still had good looks
Lots of charm
Did my best
To do no harm,
Hey ** I met a witch
Lovely woman
Walked around naked
Not wearing a stitch
Was rather weird
Oddly at first
I stopped wandering
And drank my thirst.
63 · Feb 18
The band
Mark Bell Feb 18
Me and my mates
We formed a band
Wrote some songs
And toured the land.
Songs were so so
The music was loud
Night by night
We got bigger crowds.
Went to far out places
Blew our  audiences away
We got tighter day by day.
Song after song
it did not stop
Even said no to
Top of the pops.
On TV having to mime
Always had been a
Musical crime.
Old grey whistle test
Wanted us on the show
So me and my mates
Gave it a go.
On that Saturday
We did arrive
To play our songs
On stage live
Bob Harris remembers
That day
when we
Blew the
BBC away.
Ups and downs
We took on the chin
Because we were - - -   - - - - - - -.
63 · Feb 5
Goodnight out
Mark Bell Feb 5
On the titanic
When it sunk
I was in middle class
Sleeping in
a cold bunk.
People screaming
But could not
Hear a thing
The music played
On with  that woman
Who couldn’t sing,
In my room sat
My ghost upon a shelf
Being scared full of dread
I had been hallucinating
I’d been drinking
and wet the bed.
62 · Feb 17
Sacrifice
Mark Bell Feb 17
What’s
going on
I am
all alone
I can’t
have a
Conscience
Im a
mechanical
Drone
Somehow I don’t
Want to hurt
So I
turned myself
Of and I
died in the dirt
62 · Mar 2
My protector
Mark Bell Mar 2
My halo woman
Full of charm
Protects me safely
From all the
Worlds harm.
Elegant stylish
Immense respect,
My halo woman
She will protect.
I love this woman
Whom I adore
She rides my train
I know,
Thats for sure.
Her heart is golden
Pure as snow
My halo woman
Is my life’s flow.
62 · Dec 2024
Happy new year to all
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Everyone in
poetry land
That have
Read my
Doggerel
Rhymes
Wish you all
A happy new year
Enjoy this winter time.
62 · Dec 2024
Life
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Motherless child
Will reap no harvest
The saddest thing
On earth
A motherless child
Will reap no harvest
Life is
about giving
Birth.
62 · Jan 23
Heart
Mark Bell Jan 23
Hearts sometimes
Become dying suns
Life draining
No warming fun.

Hearts sometimes
Become black holes
Life draining
Yes freezing cold.

Hearts sometimes
Are hit with poison dart
Life draining ripped
Torn apart.

Hearts sometimes
Collect all your fears
So you can live life
For many years.
62 · Jan 30
Life’s a drone
Mark Bell Jan 30
Mornings come
Mornings go
Nights thinking
Nights slow
Mornings hurt
Mornings blue
Nights empty
Since I lost you.
Mornings our now
Just mornings
Nights are
Just a drone
The thoughts of you
Now I sleep alone.
Weeks turn to months
Months turn to years
Lost so lost amongst all
My lonely fears.
So as the stars dim
Slowly for you above
I will always miss you
My sweet love.
62 · Jan 2
Just the three of us
Mark Bell Jan 2
Morning has broken
Door is a jar
I got no legs
I can’t go far
Waiting for
My wife
Anne Marie
A wonderful
woman
She cares
For  me.
The three of us
We like to share
Me ,Marie and
My wheel chair.
61 · Dec 2024
Blind love
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Lies and hate
Flow through
Your gate
You are cursed
Embedded with lust
Between me and you
There is no trust
Everyday it
Carries pain
Why do I have
To play your game.
The poison that runs
Inside your veins
Still like drinking
Toxic rain,
Im still dancing
To your tune
Can you come home
I’ll see you soon

Love you
61 · Jan 4
Im losing you
Mark Bell Jan 4
Im losing you
We’re drifting apart
Up and down
On the lovers chart .
I’ll Be
forever blue
If I end up
Losing you.
So please
Please
Enlighten  me
Don’t runaway
And let it be.
Can we hold
On to our love
When the stars
Are falling
From above
I do not know
What to say
I think
Do we have
To call it a day.
61 · Mar 24
In a kiss
Mark Bell Mar 24
When I kiss you
I want to laugh
The feeling you
Give me is like
A silk scarf.
Warm and soft
Tender to touch
The feeling of laughter,
I think
I love you,
Oh so much.
Mark Bell Feb 24
Walking through
happiness
With a frog
on my head
Wearing a tutu
Thats slightly
bright red.
Our home was
A transit
Shaped like a *****
We were great
You should have
Seen us.
Stongingly proud
Stiff upper lip
The frog
In a bikini
And a Elvis quiff.
Then one day froggy
Ran of with a
Beautiful blonde
Got married and lives
In a romantic pond.
Me and my transit
Travelling all alone
Sitting talking to a traffic cone.
61 · Jan 23
Feeling guilty
Mark Bell Jan 23
When I wake up
It’s a different day
Is it a cop out
Within the
games we play.
we ask ourselves
What have I done
Excuses we make
For having fun.
I didn’t wish to vex
I just loved to see
what came
Next.
61 · Jan 29
Fade away
Mark Bell Jan 29
Days aren’t available
Nights Im scraping by
Longing for the moment
To fade away and die
I was a proud man
Stature no to shabby
This whole
dying thing
Makes me
So very
unhappy.
I don’t want
any pity
We must
all see
I just want
to die
With -ucking dignity.
61 · Dec 2024
Cacti friends
Mark Bell Dec 2024
My spiny
Cactus
On my
Window sill
Soaking up
My music
It’s a lovely
Day.
Sun coming
Through
My window
Watch those
Cacti smile
Enjoying the
Music
They’ve been
There awhile.
Bulbous bill
He’s the big
One swaying
On the sill
Spiny spike
The tall one
Never sitting still.
Different shapes
And sizes
Make this motley
Crew,
Listening to the
Music
Soaking up the sun
Family of cacti
Having some
Summer fun.
61 · Jan 29
The laughing gnome
Mark Bell Jan 29
Green Green
grass of home
Out in the garden
Lived a thousand
Gnomes
Everyone I
gave a name
Now let’s play
The naming game,
Million pound jackpot
If you can name them all
Send a text or give
My mate a call.
3 pounds a text
10 pounds a call
See me in
London Town market
I have a stall.
Green Green
Grass of home
Named one
David Bowie
The laughing gnome.
Mark Bell Jan 9
You got me doing
What you want
me to do.
Im inept
Gullible I haven’t
a clue
You got me going up
You got me going down
Im your puppet
A manipulated clown.
Im your umbrella
In the pouring rain
Im caught in your
Insanity I do not complain
I’ve got loads of money
She’s the happiness trap
Im the toilet paper when she
Needs a crap.
I need her
I love her
With true grit
But most of all
I stay with her
Because
She’s
Got *******.
In the end I will
Have the last laugh
I am Drowning  the *****
In an acid bath.
61 · Jan 25
Stuck inside a mobile
Mark Bell Jan 25
Lots of numbers
Lots of speech
Gone to places
Where most
Can’t reach
Pictures in
My memory
Im at the
Bottom of
The sea
Coup up inside
A pocket
Never feeling free.
I know that
You don’t care
Because our secrets
You do share.
In my shell
It’s just all a drone
Being your
mobile phone.
61 · Dec 2024
No news is good news
Mark Bell Dec 2024
What’s on
the news
Today
Everything
Is wonderful
Everything’s
Amazing
I don’t
believe it
Do they
Know what
They are saying.
Newsreaders
High on hope
Me I think
been
Smoking dope.
What’s on
the news
Today
Phone hacking
Car jacking
Bit of Stabbing
Covid jabbing
Immigrants boats
coming ashore
Coverage of ill
fated war.
What’s on
The news
Today
If your like me
Don’t watch
News on TV
60 · Nov 2024
Bit of luck
Mark Bell Nov 2024
Popped out to buy a paper
Returned five days later
Met a woman in the street
Very elegant very sweet
Woman with a lovely smile
In her company stayed awhile
We talked about our lives
How in life we did survive
We drank a lot and got
To no each other it was
Very pleasant now hard
To recover.
The twist is the best bit
I had met my mother
60 · Mar 15
Fruitless
Mark Bell Mar 15
Coming home
From a fruitless war
My minds playing tricks
Every turn
Becomes a shut door,
A battered orange
A battered pear
Seems to me no one cares.
I was bad now they want
Me to be good
No consequences
And misunderstood,
Bad blood running
Through my veins
A fruitless war will
Drive you insane.
Hospital days
Giving me sweet pills
Im still dead in the head
No happiness no thrills.
60 · Apr 2
Madness
Mark Bell Apr 2
Do you hear
Voices in a scream
My imagination
Is my dream
Nothing is nothing
Life isn’t fair
I only have thoughts
I cannot share.
I really don’t
Know what’s wrong with me
Im like a loser lost at sea.
Who really adheres
When you converse
Everything in madness
Its ******* perverse.
60 · Jan 17
Drunk again
Mark Bell Jan 17
Millions of rhymes
Going round
Inside my head
Some about the
Living
Some about the
Dead but
Mostly
from
The
words
I’ve read.
I am tired
Going to draw
The line
This is Guinness
Number nine.
**** I haven’t
Fed the cat
Never mind.
Because Thats
Just that.
60 · Jun 4
Cry for help
Mark Bell Jun 4
Who am I to
Question you
About love and
What you do.
I need to rethink
Shut my mouth
Or this relationship
Will go oh so south.
Jealousy has hit
My tiny brain
It’s there twenty four seven
Driving me insane.
Help me my darling
To silence these thoughts
So our harmony won’t
Get cut short.
60 · Dec 2024
My pen
Mark Bell Dec 2024
It’s me and
My pen
My pen is my
Friend
It kicks up
A stink when
It loses its ink
Other than that
She’s fine.
Time to time
She writes
A good rhyme
Sometimes good
Sometimes bad
Might be happy
Maybe sad.
My pen
My friend
Will not review
For all you writers
Out there i

Thank you
60 · Dec 2024
Broken
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Loneliness is a broken heart
Tears will fall from heaven
Love is like a happiness trap
Stuck between *** and seven
Loneliness is a place of dread
Tears from footsteps
Which you have tread.
Loneliness when blue eyes cry
A broken heart
inside you die.
60 · Dec 2024
Letting people in
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Never closed
Always ajar
Letting people
In its to bizarre
Doors open
just a bit
For
communication
Purposes.
My doors ajar
But i am closed within
With every knock back
I’ll take
on the chin.
All I have is skin
And bone
Oh so sad all alone
Im so dark
I have a flaw
Letting people in
My front door.
Mark Bell Nov 2024
I refuse
To be defused
I am a nuclear
Bomb.
I will do
My duty
Sabre rattle
I shall do it
With aplomb.
If I explode
Tears I cry
Knowing
Everyone will die.
Really want to
Be a friend
Do you see
Please
Don’t make me
An enemy.
I have this thing
For the human kind
So if you don’t
bother  me
we all
Should be fine.

Sweet
60 · Dec 2024
Life of a bee
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Bee is born
Life’s a drone
Working on a
Honeycomb
Bee is born
To make honey
For capitalists
To make money
Sweet
60 · Apr 5
My city
Mark Bell Apr 5
My home city
Is going into decay
Councillors are useless
With nothing to say.
Bungs from builders
Corruption rife
City falling
down a rat hole
It’s losing its life.
Venues for entertainment
Closing there doors
Brothels are opening
Full of ******.
Bus shelters
smelling of ****
People in authority
It’s the poor they bleed,
My home city will
Always be blue
Run by incompetence
And haven’t a clue,
60 · Dec 2024
Forgotten not
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Im eighty two
Have no
Memory of
You

I have a
Blank frame
A crying
Shame

A picture
Of you
Still lives
In my
Heart
60 · Dec 2024
Life of a pig
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Piggy was born
Piggy ate
Piggy shat
Piggy slaughtered
That was that.
59 · Dec 2024
Bad day at the races
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Put 100 pounds
On a horse
You got it
Lost of course
Put 100 pounds
On bang on the bell
Lost on that
It fell as well
Put 100 pounds
On who’s the face
Guess what never
Finished the race.
Put 100 pounds
On number eight
On the off just
Sat in the gate.
400 pounds give it
One more shot
Put 100 pounds down
And lost the lot.
Nothing was going to stop
This losing run
Should have gone to
The brothel and had
Some fun
59 · Dec 2024
My party
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Let in the loons
To listen to the tunes
Let in the upper class
With there silvery spoons
Let in the buffoons
Always a game for a laugh
Let in the plebs
Let in the tarty
Now we are getting there
Ready to party
Let in the reds
Let in the blues
Let in the winners
Even those who lose.
Let in the judges
Let in the police
Let’s get this party
Started
And wish for peace.
Let in the Muslim
Let in the Jew
Let in all religions
It’s the best we can do
Let in the skinny
Let in the obese
No hidden agendas
Let’s live in peace
If we can’t party
And listen to sound
The big top will fall
And so will the clown
Party in full flow
The noise will increase
Let’s all party and be at peace.
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