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Josh Mitchell was born Crumpsall, Manchester, December 1996. He started writing aged eleven.
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How much I miss you
Depict desire with words, talk about that person without mentioning their name and just make us feel what you're feeling, no matter where we're at or what our situation is, make it universal.
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Sonnet 1

It feels strange now to think of you, like a poem

or a frightened song towards a thin spring

where I was sad with some sad synonym

beside the toughest bastard, my Adios King.

Paradise when will I look you in the eye again?

Paradise come wrap your arms around me.

Paradise that’s why I’m alone but I can’t complain.

That’s why I’m alone with pale thought as stain.

But there’s this feeling somewhat shackled inside me,

which reaches up to move my mind, with a touch

of control, to start writing, be free,

to write, looking right back, to only write too much.

Such is me, a lousy student, who turned

round misery into something he learned.

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Challenge of the Week LXXV
"All is fair in love and war." Write about love, or war, or both. Fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, all's fair...
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Bird (that blue in your eyes)

Little ballads, trembling,

To sing. Your disguise,

Both beautiful and kind,

That blue in your eyes.

Ceiling like a greenhouse,

The sun’s in the sky.

But I can’t help but look,

At that blue in your eyes.

You’re open-shouldered, out

For a smoke. As I

Recycled old cans,

Jus’ watchin’ your hair,

By the window-glass doors.

You gave your verse and I

Gave mine. Delicate,

Past words of suff’ring,

Sad-faced but fine.

Soft voices, softer still,

You waved to me goodbye,

Do you remember those fogged street-lights?

How that blue swarmed in her eyes?

When loud moonlight pushed down,

Like the rubble of the sky,

I had to find my own way back.

Won’t you tell me I’m better than Jack?

I don’t know how to say it,

Don’t know if it’s wise,

I want to write when I’m near you,

Near that blue in your eyes.

Busy days, quiet days,

Tables one through three.

Will our story be done,

When I graduate?

Me’n my lacklustre words,

Don’t know if we’re bi,

This the last time I’ll write,

’Bout that blue in your eyes.