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Mark Bell Apr 2017
A punishment was handed out today
For the crime of slander I have to say
My pen had kicked up an awful stink
So the judges sentenced Me to life without ink
My pen had written,stories wildly untrue
sold to the newspapers who hadn't a clue
My poor old pen retired,no more stories to tell
A typewriter wouldn't be profitable from a prison cell
Mark Bell Mar 26
You are the explosion
Inside my dreams
A kaleidoscope of
Colours blues
Yellows and greens.
The picture you paint
For the love
from me
Cannot be shown
Don’t you see.
You can’t put
Love inside a frame
Your only in my dreams
Which is quite a shame.
Lovers in dreams
That’s where we shall stay
A kaleidoscope of Colours
For a rainy day.
Mark Bell Apr 2017
I am a discarded metal tin
Rolling down the road
My substance has deserted me
my passport my barcode
All that's left is my outer shell
My metal overcoat
Soaked up all lifes miseries
Just to stay afloat
A kindly breeze helps me on my way
A kick from a friendly foot
Travelling on life's highway
Trying to be understood
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Shoes are soulless
Void of pace
My time nearly up
In this human race.
For many a year
I’ve
Been hiding
behind a
fruitless face,
Can’t keep up
There’s no
more chase,
My next stop
the cemetery
and
this
will
Be
My final
resting
Place.
Mark Bell Jan 2
Drifting of
I cannot sleep
500 and counting
Woolly sheep
Got up
paced about
Half a bottle
of whisky
Maybe a
good shout.
Not so good
i drunk
The bottle
Plans next day
I had
to scuttle,
Hungover and wasted
Don’t like
the light
Let’s do
it again
When i can’t sleep
Tonight.
Mark Bell Apr 2017
This terrorfying story should never had been told
Sentencing all readers to death,if it we're to unfold.
Millions of years nobody had read these ghastly words
The disastrous effect was to scream out so absurd
Then someone did open it,who had the courage to read
He did not live long this storyteller would surely bleed.
Orators and scribes word by word they all bled
Holding back the horror from their dark bloodstained heads
Millions had died,first paragraph to horrific to tell
Was this the book to the gateway to bleeding hell
Bodies upon bodies all piling up,as page by page was read
This devilish book of intrigue it was what thee author said
To read this book was suicide,still they came to take a glance
One by one they came to die while lucifer sang and danced.
So what was the title of this book which contained all life's sickly gore.
You shall never ever know it because it lies beyond your door.
Mark Bell Mar 20
Last brick left
When once a wall
Falling down
When once stood tall
A tiled hat
Windows as eyes
Proud as punch
As people passed by,
My family have gone
All turned to dust,
Im the last brick standing
Now die I must.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Floccinaucinihilipilification
It’s  a long word spreading
Cruelly throughout our nation.
Prices high, feeling cold
So much hate,  Im getting old
I  will now confess
It’s gone all a mess
I got this feeling of
Worth full ness.
Mark Bell Sep 2017
Getting past your sell by date
Hinges creaking,
can't open the gate.
That's life.
Can't remember what you've  just done
Cup a tea lately,
not taste of fun.
That's life.
Sitting in gods waiting room
Accepting age with impending doom
That's life.
Sitting in your comfy chair
Feeling more dead than alive
Ooh dear you silly old ***
You've just reached 95.
That's a life.
no more aged isms
No more blood
in the heart
That's it my sweeties
I'm just about to ****.
That's life.
The end.
Mark Bell Nov 2024
Deaf
Dumb
And
Blind
All I
Have is
Touch
Please please
Cuddle me
I don’t need
Much.
I have
A heart
It lies
Within
So please
Caress
My tender
Skin.
I have
A nose
And I can
Smell so
You can kiss
My lips
As well .
I cannot see
The stars above
Given time
We shall
Make love.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Will you love
Me today
Will you love
Me tomorrow
Will you love
Me In happiness
Will you love
Me in sorrow.
Will you love
Me in morning
Will you love
Me at night
Will you love
Me now
It feels just
Right
Mark Bell Jun 2020
My sweet love now gone
20 years,maybe more
Still wishing that one day
She will walk through the open door.
Alas I know, it shall never will be
See I shot her through the head
when I was 23.

The lack of chemicals in my brain
My heart will never cry
She will dance inside my eyes
Until the day I die

It was my fault she had no life
I took all the heartless blame
The ****** and the dopamine
Thought it was a sweet little game.

20 years more to serve
I know I'll never be free
Caged and broken from ones birth
a human lost that's me.
Mark Bell Feb 2018
Recorded my life on a postage stamp
I used a five inch brush
Once cycled up Mount Everest
Who cares
The Sherpa didn't know
How to change a wheel
So I retired and lived in Kent.
Frankly my dear I don't give a ****
David Bowie to the laughing gnome
Sit there on your uneaten mushroom
And i weave you a song on the loom
Album me up I'm just a lost sticker
Lights going twenty watts
I don't like cricket I love it
Head lock holiday
Mark Bell Jan 20
They call  me 24 watts
Just a little dim.
They like a bit of banter
My proper name is
Bill.
I Have a sister
She likes to eat cake
Her name is
Victoria Sponge
And is skinny as
A shovel.
My brother Jack
Lived in a box
When you took
The lid off
He stayed
where he was.
We all had the
same mother
But had different dads
Mum just liked a change
We’re happy about this.
Mark Bell Jan 2
Mary and William
Husband and wife
William cometh
Mary accepts
Is making love
Just poetry ***.
***** and ****
Loved poetry ***
**** would give
***** would accept
Funny thing the
Mating game
Some would say
It’s just all
in the name.
Mark Bell Jan 5
I wish I was
A penguin
So I could
Endure
This
cold.
My pet
Penguin
Loves it
But me
Im
To old.
Im in front of
Of the fire
Room still
Like deep freeze
Me pet polar bear
Curled up
Looking well
At ease.
I have a white rabbit
But he’s not
Really real
He don’t careless,
The cold he
cannot feel.
Cupboards are bare
Refugees die
War and hatred
Make children cry.
Playgrounds are closed
Books are not read
Eyes of the children are
Full of dread.
Schools become hospitals
Propaganda will rule
People hate people
The child becomes fuel.
The flame of hatred
Is still alight today
It’s always been
This stupid way.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Tempted to see
What’s in the tin
The label doesn’t
Lie
If you open up
This can
Inside will make
You cry.

Best left
Upon the
Shelf
Temptation
Is not the
Key
Find some
Other can
Please don’t
Bother me.

Label on this tin
Will surely
make you weep
I’ll Come and haunt
You in your
Beauty sleep.

Throw your opener
Far away
Edible  I am not,
Temptation will
Make you pay.
Listen thanks a lot
Mark Bell Jan 25
Lying on the floor
Naked wearing
Only a pork pie hat,
The first thing
I thought you can
do better than that.
Hour glass figure
Hair in rollers
With your style
My lovely
You should be
Wearing a bowler.

What came next
You guessed it
I didn’t have ***
And do all that
I was hungry
And ate the hat.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Icicles dancing
In my fire
Lost one’s zest
Lost all desire
I’ll cry no
More.

Heartbeat
Without
No love
All the stars
Have gone
Above
I’ll cry
No more.

My eyes
Became lies
Not seeing
Right
Days shone
But saw no
Light
I’ll cry no more.

My bed is cold
No one to hold
Down the river
Im getting old
I’ll cry no more.

I’m thinking
As I walk
To the pearly gates
I’ll cry no more.
Mark Bell Jan 19
Monday was lovely
Tuesday was fine
Wednesday was beautiful
Thursday so kind
Friday is such a nymph
Saturday was blessed
Sunday came round
I needed a rest.
Mark Bell Nov 2024
I wish I had
A talented quill
To bring words
To being.
I wish I had
A talented brush
To paint what I
Was seeing.
I wish I had
A creative mind
So you can see
My dreams
I just need someone
To believe in me.
Mark Bell Feb 17
Sweet city girl
A diamond
loving pearl
Happiness in
Abundance
She puts me
In a whirl.
Eyes are like
Emeralds
A ruby for
A heart
She’s always a pleasure
A platinum treasure
Never ever cold
A wonderful
*** of gold
My sweet city girl
I did what I did
Because last time
You over charged
Me by £200 quid.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Climb the highest
Mountain
Swam seven seas,
Surfed volcanic lava
Endured deep freeze.
Cycled million miles
To see you smile
Trawled outer space
To set eyes on your face.
I would do anything
For love so stop your
Complaining
I can’t come over
It’s ******* raining.
Mark Bell Jan 16
Jack the stripper
Liked to ****
While
In the ****
With his women
He didn’t grapple
Just slit there throats
In sunny Whitechapel.
Jack looked good
in his birthday suit
Liked them young
Liked them cute
Killing naked
Was his way a
Serial killer at night
A stripper by day.
Mark Bell May 15
Good old violent Jane
You can’t accuse of
Being plain,
She has no understanding
She might be a bit insane.

She has no empathy
Her feelings have gone awry
Being angry with people
Will always make her cry.

30 odd emotions
Poor Jane gets quite confused
When she go's of on one all
Her friends are all bemused.

They say she’s a character
But her behaviours
Are controlling her
Good old violent Jane says
She can only concur .
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Two birds on a perch
Can you smell fish
Says one.
Two fish in a tank
How do you steer
This thing
It’s  
Just a bit of fun.
Two cannibals
Eating a clown
Does yours
Taste funny
I here you say
Mark Bell Jan 5
Where for out there
Juliet
I am Romeo
Give me a bit
Of slap and tickle
Of to war I go.
In the carnage Juliet
Sometimes I
might
Get some
time
free,
Then I’ll send
You all my love
In sweet
verses
Of poetry.

Heads are splattered
Insanity running rife
If I get out of this
**** hole,
Juliet
will you
Be my
Darling wife.

I am Juliet
Im having a
wonderful life
**** of Romeo
You *******
I’ll never be
your wife.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
My mind is a wash
With many a thought
Bad and good
But can’t be caught
Thoughts sometimes
Like a runaway train
Chemicals bouncing
Around in my brain.
Everything inert
Everything inane
Im trying to play
A thoughtful game
But when your on
That runaway train
Play the game
Or go frigging
Insane.
Catch a falling thought
And put in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Stick ******* in a
Electric socket
And you will pass away.
Just a thought.
Mark Bell Mar 2021
Mothers fathers sons and daughters
These trade wars will end in mindless ..slaughter
History as told us about capital gain
On poor old humanity acid will rain.

The bankers are blinded on pure greed
Amazon and apple just plant the seed
The carrot is dangled. Humans  believe
This is where governments play and deceive.

Snowflakes are on there mobile phones
Make up girls in bedrooms all alone
Trying to live not knowing nature is blood
But in reality we are all lost,  and  misunderstood .

Mass migration the whole world is a disease
Global climate we need a good freeze
Viruses thrive when humanity is weak
I think the framework of humanity is starting to creak.
Mark Bell Jan 9
I went
From the
Nadir to the
Zenith my dear
I walked and walked
I didn’t stop then all of a
Sudden I had reached the top
My reward was this fantastic view
Top of my empire where the sky is blue
When looking out smiling without a care a
Thought ran through my head what is life with a stair.
Mark Bell May 2017
I am blind but I can see
I carry my imagination around with me
If you receive but cannot give
Life is halved in which you live
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.
Mark Bell Sep 2018
Wave of euphoria
Swept across my brain
Why was I happy?
When I'm going insane.
They feed me pills
For my mental ills
Yippeeee,!
Solitary confinement
Stuck,nowhere to go
the light bulb is dimming
Now that is a blow.
The Dolphins blow kisses
As the sparrows drink wine
Then darkness creeps forward
It's just a matter of time.
Mark Bell Apr 18
Riding this horse
Through glens
And dales
being chased
By demons and
Witches that wail.
Being closed down
At very high speed
Now Im thinking
I shouldn’t have
Smoked that ****.
The horse then
Turned into a unicorn,
In my right hand
Appeared a brass horn
I put to my lips and blasted
Out a tune
What was I hearing 99
Red balloons
Still this tune upon
This day
Kept those demons
and witches away.
Mark Bell Jan 6
Kids are playing up
I’ve tasered them
And put them in cuffs.
When they
come round
I’ve got a pit
in the ground.
If they don’t calm
Down
For heavens sake
I will fill the pit
With deadly snakes,
If they behave
Feed them I might
Then after they can
Play with dynamite..
My children I know
Can be a bit of a pain
They told me once
They thought
I was insane.
They love me really
So don’t call the cops
If my wife finds out
I’ve written this crap
She will blow her
****** top.
Mark Bell Apr 2017
Drunk driver killed me the car
My Engine faded away
I cannot enjoy the traffic
No more can I come out to play.
No more can I enjoy the speed,
A fool sat behind my wheel
Now I'm just a piece of scrap
It's not the proper way to feel.
Mark Bell Jun 23
I crave some kindness
From whoever I meet
My emotions and feelings
Are damaged and weak.
Mental health shattered
Every thought is bleak,
I crave kindness
in people
the ones
I meet.
This fruit cake
Has ingredients
Some have gone amiss,
I don’t tick boxes
I don’t deserve this.
Mark Bell Feb 18
I can’t get you
Out of my mind
When I needed,
You were so kind.
Act of kindness
Done with style
In my mind this
Will stay awhile
Beautiful thoughts
You are so kind
I just can’t get
You out of my mind.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Kissed the sun
Kissed the moon
Kissed the morning
Kissed the night
Kissing you seems
So right
You say the lyrics
In a tuneful way
Loving to be
With you
Everyday.
Sunshine mind
Oh so kind
Always thoughtful
Never blind.
Loving you
Is such a pleasure a
*** of gold
A worldly treasure.
Mark Bell Feb 9
Fallen for the ghost
Of Typhoid Mary
A Lovely cook
Quite contrary
A mobile chef
Carried the disease
Killing her employers
With such pleasing ease.
They never knew
What she could do
Putting typhoid
In their stew
They never taught her
Typhoid was passed
Into food and water
She didn’t not really care
As she will appear next
Week on
Gordon Ramseys
Kitchen nightmares.
Mark Bell Nov 2024
I wandered lonely
As a perfect loon
With my bake bean tin
And my silvery spoon
Kings and queens
Would bow to me
I’m the happy enemy
Singing all dancing
Such a happy chap
I’m a nuclear bomb
In a bowler hat
This ****** loon
Once kissed the sun
Jumped over the moon
Just having some fun
My bake bean tin
And my silvery spoon
in tow
Explosion of laughter
In the horror show
I’m just the jester
A perfect disguise
When the bake bean tin
Explodes
The laughter dies
Mark Bell Feb 22
This proud train had
Fallen of the track,
Of to the scrap yard
No turning back,
Last trip in to town
Past the cathedral
With steeple
Then committed suicide
Buy throwing itself
In front of a cue of people.
Mark Bell May 5
In the train of death
No one is alive
If they travel with breath
They shall not survive.
Only one station
Thats the stop
they call hell
Nobody returns
That’s just as well
How did we get
To ride this train
A parasite called
the devil had infected
Your brain.
Mark Bell Feb 21
It was a
coldish night
When through
  the darkness
Came just a
flickering of light
A ghostly apparition
Started to appear
We went ****** cold
Frozen with fear.
It looked like it
Was out to have
Its ghoulish fun.
Bottom lip sank
We all turned
Which way and
Began to run.
I ran in hid
under
The bed
The other kids
Scarpered in panic
Nothing else was said.
It was my mum
Having some fun
With a  white
Bloodied sheet
Dressed as a skeleton.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Albatross and the polar bear
Wearing pyjamas
They didn’t care.
The owl and the ***** cat
Pair of gay lovers
Never no problem
They loved each other
Hyenas and the red neck
Giraffe
Best of pals created some
Laughs.
Pride of lions drinking
At the dog and duck
Cleaner was miffed
Had to clean up the muck.
Peter the
Panda  playing darts
With his pal the gnu
Threw three darts
Hit one hundred
and eighty two.
Human and the human
No need to fight
See all these animals
Get on alright
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.
Mark Bell Dec 2024
Cheese grater to use
On your harden skin
Your padlocked up
Please let me in.
I went with a
Playlist
With a different
Song
I do admit it was
Oh so wrong.
I know you to
sometimes
Play away
Turning my
Blue skies
To tinted grey.
So what’s your problem
Wear a different shirt
All we’ve done
is cause
A lot of hurt.
Mark Bell May 23
Good days
Bad days
The line is thin
Emotions have dried
There eating
You within.

Let me back in
I’ve done
nothing wrong
Let me back in
It’s where I belong.

I’ll sit on the floor
Outside your door
A week
A month
Even a year
Your worth
The fight
I love you
My dear.

Why you are like this
I do not know
Your sunshine is there
Please let it glow.
Let me back in
I’ve done
nothing wrong
Let me back in
It’s where I belong.
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.
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