By Stanley Collymore
Rape, enforced incest, endangerment to the mother’s health
or life, or an early diagnosed horrendous foetal deformity
or recognized hereditary or other incurable disease
being carried by that foetus whose quality of life
would be seriously impaired or virtually
none, are all plausible reasons, if an
imposed or even an intended
conception occurs, to
logically and ethically
have an abortion.
But to simply or else lazily use it as a deferred
mechanism for contraception and callously
do so in an age and society replete with
a full range of highly effective ways
to freely obviate all possibility of
having unwanted pregnancies.
Or even worse having women and likely
mothers, of all people, either naively,
asininely or even willingly yielding
to the demands of men: be they
husbands or partners who
hubristically or else for
so-called cultural reasons
don’t want daughters
but have a twisted preference for sons;
is nothing less than the insensitive
and cold-blooded perpetration of
gratuitous and unpardonable
murder in my opinion!
© Stanley V. Collymore
22 February 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
You’re principally a foetus without a soul or any
moral claims on the rest of us; no voting rights
that are knowingly being infringed - in short,
you’re dispensable in every way and rightly
so. So why should anyone bother about
you, or care in the least whether you
live or die? Unless, that is, they
have a conscience, which
forces them to see your
callous murder as the
mindless butchery
that it really is.
© Stanley V. Collymore
18 January 1998.
By Stanley Collymore
All I keep hearing from you is what you expect of
me: a litany of your wishes, requirements and
even your fantasies gathered together and
neatly parcelled up in what effectively
is your personal shopping list of
selfish demands relating to me.
How could you conceivably have thought
that such egoistical behaviour would
remotely impress, let alone ever
persuade me to fall in love
with a compulsive control
freak and out and out
self-centred gold
digger like
YOU ?
© Stanley V. Collymore
30 January 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
Gott weiss, dass es nicht das leichteste Ding in der
Welt heutzutage ist fuer man echte Menschen sich
zu begegnen geschweige denn viele von ihnen
immer kennenzulernen, so es ist besonders
lohnend wann die Gelegenheit ergibt
sich so zu tun. Dies ist bestimmt die
Situation mit euch, fuer ohne Zweifel
ihr seid zwei der netten Personen
das jemand kennenlernen hoffen
konnte; und glaub mir die
Welt im allgemeinen
dringend viel mehr
von euch!
© Stanley V. Collymore
27 Januar 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
Blacks comprise just 13% of the US’s population but make up an
Aggregate of 75% of those incarcerated in its jails and 90% of
The grand total of those on Death Row. High School proms
As everyone but you it seems knows are in the 21st
Century in several states of the USA still strictly
Segregated, as evidently many Caucasian
Moms and dads, and their likeminded
Offspring too, obviously appear
To like things that way.
And long after slavery was officially outlawed and the white
Pastime of lynching Blacks supposedly practised no more,
A 60 year old white supremacist and company executive
With AGC, Joe Hundley only this month while on an
Internal, Delta flight from Idaho felt absolutely
At liberty to deliver along with racist abuse
A pugilistic punch to a 19 month old
Crying, non-white baby.
But that’s not all as I’m sure everyone who isn’t totally brain
Dead is well aware; and that includes Blacks too if they
Would simply stop hiding behind that convenient
Memory of theirs or the house nigger mask that
Unhappily so many of them proudly and
Sycophantically wear! Even though
Regrettably they’re not alone in
Adopting this ludicrous stance, since crime in the
US isn’t seen by those who comment on it as
The accumulative sickness of a brutal and
Largely immature society, but rather as
A matter of Racial Demography.
Worst yet is the Japanese-American community that collectively
Was interned throughout World War 2; something which the
Powers that be in the USA would never have considered
Let alone ever do to the German American one of 33
Million souls. This despite the latter’s unabashed
Affinity with Das Vaterland accompanied by
Strong Nazi sentiments that the civilized
World quite rightly abhorred. Even so,
German-Americans didn’t give a damn;
Their only concern being - and were it not for the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour would surely have
Succeeded in their endeavour - to impede US involvement
In what they expediently and dishonestly saw as Europe’s war.
None of this though stopped America when it belatedly entered the war
From spitefully setting off in typical uncultured revenge two thermo-nuclear
Blasts in a row: both of them in Japan, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively,
Not Berlin or anywhere for that matter in Fascist Italy! Yet here we have in
The 21st Century two utterly moronic, female Xenophobes – ignorant
Perhaps of history and predictably so, spouting off about their
Country’s nationalism and pathetically being rather proud
About it too. And who are they? Why Americans of course:
One Black the other Japanese! Which aptly endorses what I’ve always
Known and concurred with! That realistically, there’s no possible
Way of accounting for what’s essentially extravagant stupidity?
© Stanley V. Collymore
21 February 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
You would like for us to get married, you say. What an
uncanny and utterly preposterous idea! And by the
way, what brought that crazy notion on? As it
couldn’t be anything I’ve said to you or
encouragingly have done; for you
know me well enough to fully
concede that I always deal
with realities not flights
of delusional fantasy.
Besides, what’s in it for me? For evidently you’ve no class,
social status, no background to speak of or any pedigree
that’s worth tuppance to me; and speaking of money
you’ve none to shout about as without a doubt you’re the
very epitome of reckless impecuniosity: a spendthrift who
embarrassingly relies quite heavily on me to always
bale you out financially. Furthermore, you’ve
nothing in this earthly life that credibly or even
remotely would make me consider you to
be an asset societally let alone seriously
tempt me to ever become your wife.
And when it comes to crucial matters of cultural enlightenment like
for instance basic education, yours isn’t the kind of situation I could
flatteringly or even boastfully casually bring up in polite conversation,
or without total mortification to me or fear of the consternation and
likely alienation that it would bring from those who I favourably
regard as friends or hobnob with in high society ever disclose
to them the full extent of this unorthodox relationship that
clandestinely but sensibly exists between you and me.
But undeniably you have your uses as we both well know;
for among the sheets you’re an indomitable livewire
and veritable dynamo. A fearless tiger on the prowl;
a man inexorably and completely possessed and
whose consummate zest cheek by jowl
easily unlocks, ravishingly stokes,
tormentently sustains and gratifyingly
sates the carnal passion in me, driving
me on amidst the indulgent atmosphere
of my unbridled lechery to
indescribable heights of
stratospheric ecstasy; as audaciously, dexterously
knowledgeably, quite diligently and with aplomb you
plunge yourself endlessly deeper and indomitably
into the swirling waters of my feminine dam.
Where spiritedly from within their aqueous embrace
and my impassioned ardour afire with an agonizingly and
wholly uncontrollable, pent-up lust; you oh so delightfully in
ferocious forays release apace the contents therein in a frenzied,
maddening and unstoppable rush! A customary, interminably
lascivious onslaught that deranges and quite literally
defencelessly tears me apart; and with my whole body
convulsively vibrating like a well-hammered drum it’s easy to
discern even in the midst of the enervating haze of my pleasurable
exploitation, which I most willingly and wholeheartedly support,
to amusingly appreciate and fully understand why in France
this thoroughly surreal and near death experience that you
habitually, efficiently and pitilessly provoke in me
attracts the apposite sobriquet of la petite mort.
But sex on its own however appealing or satisfying it
might be, and your delivery of it is undeniably the
best I’ll readily agree, just isn’t enough, I must
truthfully confess, to induce someone
like me, regardless of how disposed
I am to you sexually, to wantonly
divest myself of all commonsense,
social propriety or worst still my sanity
by gratuitously getting hitched to what basically is
a nobody; who furthermore, and let’s openly face facts,
is acceleratedly going nowhere fast, and we both know that!
And were I to foolishly yield to what you’re entreatingly demanding
of me know for certain that it would undeniably put me in the most
compromising of positions, creating an intolerable situation that
in itself would be suffocatingly wrong and also categorically
make me the laughing stock of everyone. So while I’m most happy to
have you as my bit on the side and uncomplainingly at anytime that you
wish provide you with those mouth-watering rides that deliver such
euphoric bliss to me, let’s be practical about this and stick firmly
with sex which is infinitely more appropriate for you and me,
and permanently forget all idealistic thoughts of matrimony.
© Stanley V. Collymore
21 February 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
Wahre Liebe ist viel mehr als die Faehigkeit
beruhigende Woerter wie „ich liebe Dich“ zu
sagen; hat die Eigenschaft und den Mut die
schadeten Gefuehle und den verletzten
Stolz, die wir gelegentlich hegen
wegen der Verunglimpfungen – real
oder imaginaer – dass wir wahrnehmen
wir erlitten haben ueberzusteigen. Fuer
wahre Liebe ist grosser und viel mehr als
alle dieser Dinge zusammenfassen
und, bedeutend, weiss wie und
wann zu verzeihen.
© Stanley V. Collymore
2 February 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
My weaknesses are nullified by
your strengths - yours by my
full understanding and the
greatest appreciation for
what I joyously know
you’re lovingly and
brilliantly doing!
© Stanley V. Collymore
25 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Ridiculed and scorned it was you
That gave me the inspiration
To carry on – for in their
Intense hatred of you,
Your foes revealed
Too their innate
Fear of you!
© Stanley V. Collymore
31 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
How does it feel to take the life of
someone else; to coldly bring to a
violent and abrupt end millions
of years of evolution which
resulted in that particular man or
woman: an embodiment of dreams,
hopes, aspirations and ambitions;
all undone in a matter of seconds?
Is it really worth it; to destroy
all that in one mindless and
irreversible act spurred
on by untrammelled
racial hatred?
© Stanley V. Collymore
17 February 1998.
In lasting memory of Joy Gardner, Stephen Lawrence on the 25th anniversary of his murder and all other victims of racial prejudice and institutionalized racist legal systems everywhere.
By Stanley Collymore
I might not say it to you quite as often as
I ought to; and that I know is very remiss
of me. None the less, the abiding love,
total respect and unquestionable devotion
I have for you are still solidy there, except
that they’re immutably now reinforced by
the several years we’ve happily spent
together with the astutely sensible
and throughly splendid decision
we jointly made to become
husband and wife.
© Stanley V. Collymore
31 December 2009.
By Stanley Collymore
Patriotism is a profound love
and abiding respect for
one's own country
and what it genuinely represents –
nationalism however, which is the antithesis
of this and seeks to destroy other peoples
and their countries, is the full awareness
that the land you brag so much
about, neither boasts nor
deserves any such
recognition!
© Stanley V. Collymore
1 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
You were surprisingly in my dream last night
and embarrassingly I must confess caused
me unaccustomedly to behave in the
most immodest and quite unladylike
manner I can ever recall. What ever
possessed and ultimately came
over me I can’t really say that
I fully understand or can
explain at all, as it was
undoubtedly and
singularly the most
breathtaking and
agreeably novel
experience I’ve
ever sustained.
Then hours later after you’d gone,
me thoroughly undone
and my physical
though not my mental energy
totally but oh so gratifyingly
drained, I reflected gravely on what
I’d done, saw no need either for
shame nor remorse and instantly
fought quite hard to fall asleep
once more; blissfully and
longingly hoping that you
would immediately
reappear to thrill,
possess and
replenish me
as before with the most
wantonly ravishing of
your encores!
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 February 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
Is it really possible to love two men
separately and equally, but in
quite different ways;
to be married to one of them
but also love the other deeply -
living with the first, yet zealously
wanting for the other to stay forever
in your life and never depart from you?
You’ve told me persuasively that’s how it is,
and listening to you I must say I believe you -
for I would rather share you evenly than
lose you altogether and, in doing so,
live a life of total misery.
So whatever lack of principles that there are
arising from that assertion, and which others
might see in our actions and thus frown upon
or actually condemn - it’s us not them who
must face and ultimately live with the
full consequences of our deeds; for who
but a wholly sanctimonious hypocrite
or a thoroughly deceitful person
wouldn’t concede, that life is far too brief for
sacrifices which are made for their own
sakes and, therefore, no certain relief
to those who face the ultimate test:
between a life consisting of dull
conformity and strict duty, or
one liberally strewn with
bouquets of happiness?
© Stanley V. Collymore
6th March 1998.
Dedicated to all those who’ve ever been there before and survived it.
BY Stanley Collymore
It wasn’t my intention to fall in love with you or
anyone else come to that, and although it might
sound conceited or even disrespectful to
mention it, it wasn’t at all what I really
had in mind; which was that I was
quite happy with the way that
my life has been and therefore
saw no logical reason for
changing things from the
way they comfortably stood.
But obviously I’d not factored into this
emotional equation the incredible power
of love or the unlikely possibility of
meeting someone like you who’d
successfully, positively and even
significantly influence my
prior and seemingly fixed
opinion on matters of
love and, as it looks,
do so for good!
© Stanley V. Collymore
1 February 2013.
With an immense and intense love for English that has spanned my childhood, school and university education and afterwards featured hugely, and happily still does, as an academic practitioner of English in all its forms and at every conceivable tutorial level over a long and exceedingly rewarding professional teaching career, I regularly use my poems, which over the years have run into their thousands and deal with a diversity of topics but essentially constitute an engaging recreation and labour of love for me, as inspirational or creative incentives in specific areas of my English teaching like creative writing, subject analysis and discussion, or Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
This poem falls squarely into these categories; and with the fever of valentine in the air will, I hope, serve as a catalyst for openly declared as well as covert aficionados of this recurrent love-fest.
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