Swings
Swinging on chains of joy, Wind rushing through your hair, Your smile is worth a thousand smiles, And love of loves to share Your perfect skin stays glowing, In the winter’s biting cold, The world is...
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A weight of a hundred elephants, Sits upon my back, And when I want to raise myself, Against the ground I’m flat The post Weight appeared first on One Year Of Poetry.
View ArticleChange
The only constant, On which we can rely, Is change and flex, Until we die Life is but, A spinning wheel, Of how we act, And how we feel Never static, Forever flowing, Always hoping, Never knowing The...
View ArticleA Lonely Field
For years I’ve tried conversing, To tell you how I feel, With just blank eyes staring back, When I just need to heal I understand your hesitation, Your resistance too I see, For why else would you...
View ArticlePaper Thin
Under a paper thin cover, Bright lights shine, Burning through, The backs of our eyes A hidden brightness, A secret love, Stars below, Inky black above Until a time, The page ignites, We’re held...
View ArticleNo Choice
Life is full of choices, To do or not to do, To be or not to be, To see or not to see Here I have before me, Something which breaks the rules, Something which turns things upside down, And makes my...
View ArticleEverlasting
I don’t expect, The world to know, To understand, Or feel or show, How I feel, When I’m with you, All my troubles, Of every hue, Disappear, Evaporate, Vanish into, A nothing state, And your support,...
View ArticleThe Beat
The beat, The ever running beat, It pushes and pulls and moves your feet, To the sound of your beating heart and soul, Never ending, Never cold And I’ll play this song for you, When you’re up and when...
View ArticleDreams
We dreamed a dream between the stars, Beyond our reach and grasp, Tragic beauty and desperate hope, Lost in our souls and hearts A future we knew we wanted, Yet a future we couldn’t grip, Fate’s...
View ArticleThe First Rose
Tiny flower, Ever bright, Spring’s renaissance, In the light Bring a smile, To my torn heart, Warmth and heat, To winter’s dark Beautiful, delicate, Heaven’s gift, There for me, When I need a lift A...
View ArticleBrussels presses plan to bundle eurozone debt
Brussels is pressing for sovereign debt from across the eurozone to be bundled into a new financial instrument and sold to investors as part of a proposal to strengthen the single currency area. A...
View ArticleSumatra: test case for Indonesian governance
Indonesia benefited hugely from the commodity boom of the last decade. But the Southeast Asian nation has had to rethink its model for growth and development since the boom started to unravel about...
View ArticleTranquil US Treasuries mirror becalmed equities
The astonishing tranquility of stock markets has hogged the finance industry’s attention this year. But equities is not the only becalmed asset class. The $14tn US Treasury market is also enjoying a...
View ArticleVenezuela/Goldman: debt dilemma
Investors’ hunger for yield can appear callous when people are genuinely starving. One of the more anomalous trades in emerging market debt originates in Venezuela, the South American nation in the...
View ArticleHow advisers can prove they are giving clients value for money
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started to focus heavily on the concept of value for money, but has not provided much clarity about its definition. In my view, value for money comprises two...
View ArticleWhere should I put my money to get the maximum gains?
I’m a couple of years shy of 30 and on a good salary (£100,000 before tax). I don’t own a property, but don’t pay rent or bills either and so have managed to save a decent amount — currently around...
View ArticleAsean DataView: Commodity downturn casts long shadow on Indonesia
May 30, 2017 by: FT Confidential Research Indonesia’s middle class is still suffering from the collapse of commodity prices that hit emerging economies three years ago, highlighting the fragility of...
View ArticleCan Vanguard topple Hargreaves Lansdown?
US tracker fund giant Vanguard is to enter the UK investment platform market, but can anyone dislodge Hargreaves Lansdown (HRGV) as the dominant leader? Hargreaves Lansdown shareholders clearly have...
View ArticleBT considers closing staff defined benefit pension scheme
BT (BT) is considering closing its defined-benefit (DB) pension scheme for existing staff. BT is preparing to start negotiations with pension trustees about the future funding of the scheme and...
View ArticleBritish Airways owner drags down FTSE on IT chaos
International Airlines Group (ICAG) has fallen to the bottom of the FTSE 100 as the British Airways IT chaos weighs on its parent company. Shares in IAG dropped 2.8% to 597p after a computer system...
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