Poetry and Creative Writing for All

Cameron Steel

My name is Cameron Steel and I'm a student from Glasgow, I have a keen interest in both reading and writing poetry, this however is my first attempt at to getting my work published, I believe that my poems would be an asset to your website.  I have attached a small selection of my work for your consideration.

The Banquet

‘There will be no seat the banquet for you’

With this, his spirit sank and he vowed,
As he always did:
To one day get there…

Earn your daily bread,
Be your families head,
Work, work man! Workmen,
Manufactured time and her trimmings,
Decades dance under hammer fall.

‘There is no seat at the banquet’

Life in vain,
His weary limbs cried,
His soul crashed to sole,
All fell and the nothing.

You mean to say- not today?
But one seat for a life toils
What not enough?
He punched the wind.

Sleep pours over him,
The night mutters to the moon,
The sun laughs,
Blinking, annoyed he gets up.

The letter box coughs,
You have been invited to the banquet,
Come at last,
But what there’s more? Surely what else can it be?
I have toiled my life and bones,
In hope you will eat with me.

Fear not, at the banquet, will we meet,
For you have been invited, though bring your own seat!

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The Last Dance

Dancing dimly beneath darken twilight,
Eye to eye,
Knee to knee,

They fight,
For what?
A last hurrah,
A final shot,
The curtain falls,
That man’s lot.

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Death (A pleasant talk with)

Knock, knock, knock…

Your time has come, follow.
Merry Reaper lead the way,
O’ black-hooded friend,
What say you of the end?

Not a word and nothing more,
Not a word of solace or grace?
Come now, open the door and show your face,

Oh friend we have, but, just met,
Why is it so we must depart?
For every life must start and end
Oh that is why my old, old friend

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Submission Guidelines: Poems of no more than 30 lines in length each will be considered.