Charles Robinson

Hello, I am an aspiring poet from North West England. I have won two Koestler Arts awards, including a platinum award (which was won for the poem “Birds Revisited”) and have been published in an anthology from 2023. I have been writing poetry since I was 17, it is a great passion of mine and I hope you will accept these poems for publication. Thank you for this opportunity.

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Afternoons

I’ve always hated afternoons

That smug grimace smudged across the clouds

Relentless limbo between day and night

Poisoning my thoughts

Eroding my emotions

Until time itself becomes a dictator

Appeased by my stagnancy

Annexing my future

As my past comes marching back.

Dominoes

We move, talk, eat freely.

Yet, all these things,

Even the air we breathe

Are contractual.

As if everything in the universe

Leans on another

Like an endless row of dominoes.

The only question being:

Who pushed the first?

Emotions

Emotions leave no breadcrumbs.

They are converted, transformed

Like energy

Into something material

Something tangible

Irreducible

Raised into structure

By the hand that signed their existence.