By Stanley Collymore
Recognition by your peers, workmates, friends or even family
members can be and very often is a favourable fillip to one’s
self-confidence, personal empowerment or, significantly,
the fulfillment of much cherished career ambitions.
Acknowledgement however of one’s capabilities
and the explicit gratitude for them by those
who freely and selflessly annunciate
them is correspondingly an even
greater achievement.
And you Debbie have not only impeccably realized them
all, thanks to your consummate skill, professionalism
and unblemished sense of duty at all times, but also
and most importantly as well have achieved
this through your caring and empathetic
nature, itself juxtaposed with a
matured, composed and
compassionate
humanity!
© Stanley V. Collymore
30 May 2013.
Footnote: Debbie Iveson is a Scheme Manager with Crawley Borough Council’s Housing Management in West Sussex.
By Stanley Collymore
Please don’t ask me to sleep with you
well aware as you evidently are that
deep inside I’d very much like to;
for at this precise moment
in my life an intimate
relationship with
anyone is the very
last thing on
earth that I
want to
have!
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
I think long and hard about your
opinions, but to be truthful
with you I would never
conscionably act on
any of them!
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
In our rather belated, obssessive
and self-serving preoccupation
with human rights, when,
I wonder, will we also
hear talk of human
responsibilty?
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
All right! I accept that
you’re gay –but it’s
a queer situation
to be in!
© Stanley V. Collymore
8 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
You’re the graffiti in my life –
garish, unsightly and
bloody hard to
get rid of!
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
The test of true friendship isn’t how much satisfaction or
profit one can derive from a relationship in the shortest
possible time and convince one’s self that all
is well, but rather how patient one can be
when divers problems beset that
relationship, threaten and even
traduce personal reputations -
sometimes beyond repair;
and yet, the loyalty and enduring bonds that
that first moment of respect inspired stay
constant and implacably sincere –
never doubting the wisdom of
it all and, crucially,
always there.
© Stanley V. Collymore
15 November 2006.
By Stanley Collymore
Education is unquestionably the
salvation of all enlightened
countries – appalling
curricula, however,
can be and invariably
are the curse and
ruin of them!
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Your friendship means the world to me and will remain
unalterably as solid as any friendship could possibly
be, unless of course unwittingly or deliberately
you get yourself into any difficulty that’s
likely to prove uncomfortable
or embarrassing for me;
in which case I reserve the right to unilaterally
change my mind, then either flow with the
tide of those who condemn and despise
you or simply sit uneasily on the
fence of time, waiting for an
outcome before deciding
which way I should
jump, as any self-respecting,
fair-weather friend will do.
© Stanley V. Collymore
25th March 1998.
By Stanley Collymore
Please, don’t get too carried away with
your good fortune at having fucked
me, for I was at a loose end then
and candidly couldn’t think
of anything better to
do with my
time!
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Have you any idea what love really is
or is it just a handy tool for you to
devilishly work your way into
the unsuspecting lives of
others, which you then
premeditatedly and
most callously
set out to
destroy?
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Pussies are the same the world over;
stroke them lovingly, feed them
when they’re hungry and
everything will be
just purr-fect!
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Your words are so much hot
air, and I was thinking
could you possibly
cool it for a
moment?
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Because I don’t have a clue as
to what I’m talking about is
no reason at all not why I
shouldn’t be allowed
to give an expert
opinion on
what I’m
saying!
© Stanley V. Collymore
7 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
I don’t want a fight with you,
so I’m doing the civilised
thing and dumping you
out of my life –
forever!
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Do you have any perception of what the
truth is really about or, for that matter,
even care? Or does your obsessive
fascination with all things
prurient comprise your
one and only true
interest in life?
Therefore, whether or not the story
you’re after actually fits the bill
you always seek to make it
so; and the reason why is
very clear, as every
intelligent observer knows.
For the bigger your daily
circulation is the more
adverts you can sell;
so integrity and
fairness can
all go to
hell!
© Stanley V. Collymore
3 April 1998.
By Stanley Collymore
Come! Let me breathe again
the fresh air of optimism,
which you’ve blown
into my life!
© Stanley V. Collymore
31 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
I’m a born again
virgin. I have a
refurbished
fanny!
© Stanley V. Collymore
28 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
The truth is as alien
to you as every
other decent
thing in
life is!
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Personal hygiene is as
alien to some people
as good manners
obviously are!
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Some say that sex is over rated,
while others swear there isn’t
enough of it about – I say:
just get on with what
you’re doing and
cut the bloody
talking out!
© Stanley V. Collymore
30 July 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
Are you seriously suggesting
you want your vibrator
to move in with us
when we’re
married?
© Stanley V. Collymore
6 January 2002.
By Stanley Collymore
You’re like a wild fire in bed -
raging, incandescently hot
and completely out
of control. I
like that!
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
I want so much to be a central
part of your life –that’s
why I try so hard
to get inside
of you!
© Stanley V. Collymore
15 August 2001.
By Stanley Collymore
How stupid can you be? In a hotel where smoking guests
are overwhelmingly catered for and 99% of the entire
hotel is given over to them, you deliberately come
into the small non-smoking area, sit down, see
no ashtrays around, which to any sensible person
ought to have been a dead give away, get up,
go into the smoking area, fetch
an ashtray from there and then return
immediately to the non-smoking area to foul the
air there; as well as inconvenience and more
importantly put at risk the lives of each
non-smoker present, including that
of my own with your damned
obnoxious habit! How
bloody stupid and arrogant
can one get? And did you expect
too that I would simply sit there,
passively allow this to happen
and do nothing to prevent it?
For if you did then, as
you were found out,
you were badly
mistaken!
© Stanley V. Collymore
3 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
It’s neither necessary nor important that during my
vacation at this hotel that you, or any other female
guest for that matter who’re staying here, sleep
with me. It’s not why I’m here, what I expect
or actually want and, importantly, I shan’t
feel as though I’ve missed out on the
experience of a lifetime if this
supposedly pleasurable
occurrence weren’t
to happen.
But please, don’t turn my indifference to this
confused state of affairs into a weapon
against me and use it to deliberately
and disingenuously give the false
impression that the situation
which you and I find ourselves
together in is other than what it really is.
That in reality I’m just the same as all
the other sexual predators, of both
sexes, who you personally
know here and readily empathize with but with
one crucial difference: namely, that my intentions
are the same though my methods are wilfully
more sophisticated to mask this fact. Sorry;
but you couldn’t be more wrong about
that, as the perceived interest by me
in either you or the other slappers
here like yourself is from my
perspective unquestionably
and quite decisively
totally imaginary!
© Stanley V. Collymore
4 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I’ll not put up with any situation in which you
think you can treat me as an afterthought:
someone who you evidently and
condescendingly opt to spend your time
with only when there’s no one else around
or available that you’d much prefer to
be with. For your information I
too have a life of my own
and intend to keep it
that way; so do me a huge
favour, stay away from
me and permanently
leave me alone!
© Stanley V. Collymore
28 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
It beats the hell out of me really why you ever
bother to come home at all, for when you
do you obviously have no time for me
just as you keep saying that the
kids get on your nerves and
never afford you any
peace of mind or
tranquillity.
What’s more, when you’re actually here all
you ever do is loaf around on the settee,
stuff your face with burgers and chips,
smoke like a demented chimney
while additionally guzzling
down umpteen cans of
beer repeatedly.
Which evidently begs the obvious question:
“What on earth ever possessed you to get
involved in matrimony in the first
place and, more importantly,
with someone like me?”
For realistically we’ve nothing positive
going on between us, no suitable life
together or any kind of meaningful
social intercourse really worth
speaking about; that’s why
I want out and shall, of
course, be filing for
a quick divorce!
© Stanley V. Collymore
6 May 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
Courtesy and unbounded respect for others
come naturally to some individuals although
regrettably not so I must say to the overwhelming
majority of people nowadays, as is most unhappily the
case. And as for altruism this particular nomenclature
is like wise a notable characteristic that sadly too
one must honestly express the obvious point of
view that these purblind jobsworths would
and invariably do find it quite impossible to
recognize, logically acknowledge as the
laudable concept which it undoubtedly
is, let alone be able to personally
or in any way even remotely
empathize with anything
directly associated
with it.
But even the most seemingly barren,
speciously empty or acutely forbidding of
human deserts with their fiercely hostile
terrain of incompetence and
mediocrity are nevertheless known,
if one is sufficiently accomplished
at spotting the telltale signs amidst this
evident desolation they calculatedly
harness and sponsor, to reveal
of their own a flourishing
oasis of excellence
and consummate
productivity.
And you Katie Marl with an impressive and astute
combination of shrewdness, skilled discernment,
composed discourse and unassailable commonsense
concomitantly and unassumingly overlaid with
a perceptive insight and comprehensive
understanding of the needs of others,
are in every sense: professionally
as well as individually, a
singular asset to your
employer and a
blessed gift to
humanity.
© Stanley V. Collymore
6 May 2013.
Footnote:
Katie Marl is an employee of MoneySupermarket.com.
By Stanley Collymore
It’s only a week since I first met you, and although it
wasn’t the most auspicious moment in my life I must
nevertheless confess that given the circumstances
under which I did so you’ve none the less made
a lasting impression on me which has steadily
grown into something a lot more significant
than what even in my wildest dreams I
could have imagined let alone hoped
for would be the case; and so I’m
deeply grateful for that, because
I know that despite that most
dreadful of beginnings for
the two of us I’ve still
managed, in spite of
myself, to fall quite
inexcusably and
hopelessly in
love with
you.
© Stanley V. Collymore
18 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
Love isn’t a commodity that can be bought, sold
or bargained for, and were that to happen it
would immediately cease to be love and
instead become something that’s wholly
irreconcilable, at odds with and
completely dissimilar in every
way from the generally
accepted notion
of what love is
all about.
I rather prefer the authentic version of love
myself, which I wholeheartedly support
and thoroughly recommend; and
therefore don’t have any
desire let alone any intention
whatsoever of ever being
a willing party to
anything else.
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
You came wholly unexpectedly into my life doing so
with the force of a major hurricane that thoroughly
dislocated the highly disciplined and well
ordered world I’d scrupulously planned, built,
nurtured and had subsequently surrounded
myself with, creating in the process
huge panic and a sense of deep
consternation within me; because
my much valued independence
was now for the first time
ever genuinely
threatened.
A situation made all the more alarming for me
because the ensuing conflict that was engendered,
and of which you were undoubtedly the solitary
catalyst, had become one of very powerful forces
intrepidly striving to gain the ascendency over the
other in the ultimate decision as to whether or
not you were allowed to stay in my life or
else be forcibly driven out completely
from the arena of my private
domain. It’s a dilemma which
there’s no easy solution for
until I know precisely
where I stand
with you!
© Stanley V. Collymore
17 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
I want nothing else from you other than your love and
respect without which there can be no relationship
worthy of being called meaningful let alone
one that could ever survive between us;
even so, I shall never demand these
qualities from you, but were they to
be forthcoming then that positive
outcome has to, I believe
from your perspective, be
the genuine result of a
willing nature and
a voluntary act
on your
part.
© Stanley V. Collymore
1 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I am you and you are me; together we
are us: proud, independent and with
a strong and enduring love that
has no restrictive borders
imposed upon us; and
frankly I like that
very much!
© Stanley V. Collymore
5 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I took my dreams and carefully wrapped
them up in cotton wool very much afraid to
expose them to the harsh realities of life. But
by doing so, while I doubtlessly protected
them and me from every semblance of
adverse scrutiny that I perceived then
might be in the offing, the virtual
world I’d effectively created
around me as a consequence
was anything but real, or
even conducive to the
betterment of my
life generally.
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
You lied to me in order to have me make love to you
when it wasn’t at all necessary for you to do so, as in my
case you must have known that you were pushing at
an open door; such was the intensity of the feelings
which I had for you. Besides, what I wanted for
us was much more than just an ephemeral
or unemotional extravaganza of carnal
expectations and lustful realization.
However, your intentions, effusively
characterized by your unseemly
behaviour, were obviously
intentionally different
in their character
and purpose
from my
own.
© Stanley V. Collymore
14 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
You wouldn’t recognize love let alone be ever
capable of appreciating its laudable overtures if it
were to conspicuously land on your twisted nose; for
love is not a part of your lexicon of words or for
that matter any salient feature of your warped and
licentious lifeforbidden. With you there’s absolutely
nothing that’s vaguely redeeming or noteworthy
where you’re concerned except to say that
you’re a first-rate slapper whose brains
are in her fanny and what minimal
thinking, the only sort you’re
really capable of, which goes
on in your pathetic life
only happens there.
© Stanley V. Collymore
20 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
How can you purposely look me in the face,
openly say and, what’s more, seriously expect
me to believe that crime doesn’t pay, when
clearly you know as well as I do that apart
from perhaps the armaments industry
the legal fraternity is arguably and
consistently the one ongoing
as well as the fastest and
possibly even the only
growth industry
currently in
the UK?
Tsch man!
What an absolute and calumnious misrepresentation
of the facts. And anyway, why on earth would you
want to go out of your way to say something as utterly
preposterous as that to me of all persons, fully aware,
as you apparently are, of the masive accumulative
contributions in terms of revenue and the recurring
prospects of ensuring that, which my criminal
pals and I, despite your seeming attempt to
blacken our name, just like those among
the barrister and QC lot, constantly
make to all that and, of course,
our flourishing criminality?
© Stanley V. Collymore
1 May 2013.
By Stanley Collymore
The two major and arguably the most
important ingredients in a relationship
between two people regardless of
whether it’s a romantic or platonic affair
are mutual respect for each other and trust.
Without them that relationship is analogous
to a car in motion but without it having
either a steering wheel or brakes to
regulate its advance or reversal
and with the inevitable result
in such circumstances of
a catastrophic crash
occurring.
That however is not the least likelihood in
your case as respect for yourself and others
isn’t just complimented with deep love
for those whom you value but is also
self-evident and inspiring too,
creating the ideal partnership
between us that is a joy
to observe and a
pleasure to
have.
© Stanley V. Collymore
20 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
I surely know what my place in life is but it’s
not what others who perceive me as less
than a human being think it ought to be,
nor will their bigoted and ignorant
assumptions of me become reality on my
part. For I’m a highly intelligent person
with a fully functioning brain in my
head who thinks for himself and
then consciously makes his
own decisions in relation
to what’s best for his
individual life.
© Stanley V. Collymore
20 December 2010.
By Stanley Collymore
Since meeting you you’ve literally
put my entire life in a complete
turmoil; the funny thing is
though that with you I
won’t have it any
other way!
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I’ll be perfectly honest with you and say
that I always go to bed around 11 pm at
the latest; but if for some reason or
other that fails to happen I collect
my personal belongings, say
goodnight to the date I’m
with, call a cab, if I’m
not driving myself,
and without any
fuss make my
way home.
© Stanley V. Collymore
9 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I sleep and I dream; but asleep or wide awake
my thoughts are constantly with you, for
that’s the impactful effect that you
obviously have on me; and to be
quite honest with you it’s an
exceptionally beautiful
experience for me to
voluntarily go
through!
© Stanley V. Collymore
5 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I want to paint a massive and quite picturesque rainbow
in the sky not as a warning sign of any inclement
weather to come or the after effects of such,
but simply as a personal expression of
my enduring love for you and a
prominently visible and tangible
sign both to yourself and the
rest of the world of just
how vitally important
you are and will
continue to be
in my life.
© Stanley V. Collymore
5 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I do feel alone but in no way lonely; nevertheless the
rhythmic balance of assuredness that has always
characterized my life, which I’m openly proud
of, and have always quietly but resolutely
encouraged has quite surprisingly been
critically assailed by recent events:
not least of them the unforeseen
entrance of you into my life
and in a manner that only
a short while previously
I would have sworn
was practically impossible. Now with forced
circumstances causing you to be away
from me and leaving me here alone
I think of nothing else but you,
because I miss you so much.
Oh the tortuous pangs
of separation!
© Stanley V. Collymore
20 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
You haven’t been honest with me and while from
a Christian if not exactly a moral perspective
I can forgive you for the needless hurt and
unwarranted humiliation that you’ve
occasioned me, I none the less
can’t possibly forget what
you’ve done, so please
don’t ask me to!
© Stanley V. Collymore
13 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
Trouble comes in divers forms and
seeks always to do as much harm
as it possibly can; but this can
be avoided if at all times it’s
given a wide berth and
not allowed to suck
one into its orbit
of influence.
© Stanley V. Collymore
13 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
Idiots as do leopards don’t change their proverbial spots
but that’s the only thing that they have in common
with these enormously graceful and extremely
intelligent creatures whose normal conduct
behaviour, in marked contrast to the
animalistic and feral behaviour
of these pathetic aberrations
of humanity, is, to say
the very least, quite
exemplary and
refined.
© Stanley V. Collymore
22 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
Whether or not there’s actually a God is a moot point
really when it comes to assessing how we conduct
our respective lives: for example the personal
decisions we make, how we perceive or
actually intend for these to impact on
or influence the lives of others
These are choices determined primarily by
one’s moral integrity or the marked lack
of it and has nothing whatsoever to
with skin colour, race, religion,
social background, financial
status or the nationality of
the person involved
let alone their
gender.
You appear, Maria to be well aware of these
discerning subtleties of life; and that augurs
well not only for your individual future
but also that of those who’re fortunate
enough to get to know you and
fully take on board what you so
admirably represent and
conscientiously do.
© Stanley V. Collymore
12 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
When the odds are heavily stacked against
you that’s the best time to show the true
metal of which your character is
made; for regardless of how
long it takes or the many injustices
that have been gratuitously, bigotedly
or even sadistically meted out to
you, trustworthiness, truth and
character will ultimately
prevail in the end.
© Stanley V. Collymore
12 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I know that it’s only a few moments ago since
I last told you that I love you but it seems
already like ages to me; anyway, any
number of times that I say it to
you I also know would be
quite insufficient as far
as I’m concerned.
© Stanley V. Collymore
11 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
Don’t ask me to say or express in any way something
that I don’t feel or want to be a part of however
much that might alleviate the need on your
part to have me do so. For I can only act
in accordance to how my conscience
dictates and, regrettably, this is
not a situation where I can
ignore it and accede to
your wishes; and
furthermore I
don’t really
want to.
© Stanley V. Collymore
24 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
Come to me and leave behind that boring and
utterly soul-destroying existence that for far
too long you’ve ensconced yourself in.
Duty has its rightful place in some
relationships I know, but blind
loyalty none whatsoever. So,
once again, come to me!
Summon up the courage
to abandon a futile past
with no corrective
measures for a
redeeming
future. And in so doing
embrace a new and vibrant life
filled with hope, recognition of your
invaluable worth and the unflagging
encouragement for your obvious
abilities fully harnessed in a
relationship of trust, deep
respect and the genuine
and uninhibited love
that I have for you.
© Stanley V. Collymore
10 January 2011.
By Stanley Collymore
I know now why you empathize so
much with the bicycle; it’s the
same reason that your many
lovers empathize with
you – they’re all
like a good
ride!
© Stanley V. Collymore
11 January 2011.
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