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Pure Art - No Fucking AI here

 

Fuck AI


I handwrite everything. Always have. Even now. 

In an era where many, including myself, disbeleive what they see and read (and hear), how do creators convince others what they're presenting is genuine?

We can't. It doesn't help when some authors are admitting to using AI. That ruins the entire industry. There has to be some sort of strict regulations put in place. 

I show you this photo so that you may see for yourself and hope that's enough.


Our Blank Pages


This was the first poem in a new diary style book. It merely came into being, simply by being the first thing to be written in that book.


You can see the date. My poetry output has been considerably slower as that book is not yet full, though I have started on a new book. And sometimes have used bits of paper if somewhere other than at home. It's been a pretty difficult time during '24/'25. I came close to throwing it all away. Things are better this year. Still a ways to go. 








Our blank pages

 

Time for a new book

A new chapter

The pages blank

Hidden from glory

Pain and disappointment.

 

Elation too

And that sweet, warm joy.

 

Devoid of all

Until tomorrow comes

And we face the day

And our fate

Whatever it chooses to deliver.

 

 

5.20pm

7.7.22

 

First page in a new poetry book.


Know that I would never cheat to create art. What's the point? I've been writing and creating my whole life, sometimes slower than others, but have never stopped. There's no point in doing so now. That's just not me. Real emotions, realistic characters and situations in my books. That's what I aim for. 




Do you doubt much of what you see now? 





Do you sometimes feel like this? I'm sorry.





Damaged, not yet dust

 

You know that feeling

You get sometimes

That melancholic wave

More like a surge

Coming up from your gut

It’s been sitting there for days                          

Weeks really

Bubbling away

Doing its thing in the background

And you know you’re not

Doing so well

But you’ve been doing your best

To pretend it’s not there

Even though it never really leaves you.

 

Then one hour

It arrives

And suddenly

It’s all there is

It’s completely taken over

One little thing

Just pushed you down

And you’re now so tired

No

Exhausted

Completely deflated

Not only do you

Have nothing to give

You can barely function

Even for yourself.

 

You feel cut off

Alone

Somehow persecuted

And you’re abruptly crying

And all that weight

You’ve been carrying

For so long

Crushes you

And you’re sobbing now

Thinking the very worst

Of everything

Unable to move

Unable to face any of it

Anymore.

 

It has control

Not you

You’re a prisoner to it

It feels like death

Like it’s a logical option.


If you’ve had that

I’m sorry my friend

We just want someone

To take it all away

To hold us

And promise

That things will improve.

 

You’re so desperate

For any other kind

Of existence

You’ll damn well

Do anything.

 

It passes

It always does

At least for a while

As empty as you feel

You’re more relaxed now

Expelled that build up

Though the existential flatness

Remains

Like a curse.

 

It may not go away

Not until things change

Which they will

In time

As everything does.

 

Just know

If you feel that deeply

It’s a reflection

Of the good person you are

And I guarantee

As it is for me too

That it’s not your fault.

 

Sometimes…

We just break a little.                                        

 

 

21.5.26    11.30 pm.

 







Dirty bastard - Cheeky

 

Hey you beautiful human being,

How's life in general? 

This one is a bit cheeky. Pun intended.



Dirty bastard

 

Sleazy fool

Struck her on the ass

Called her

A naughty girl.

 

Fine as lover or friend

Not as manager

Especially given

His trial period

Result yet to be determined

Though odds are certain

His ass is next

On the chopping block.

 

 2015







Times have changed but there was a time, not so long ago... And shit still happens.

What do you think?

Your opinion matters.


Until next time,

Please check out my YouTube channel for many videos, including a lot of new shorts with a whole range of topics!


Website - Books, videos, short films, free downloads

https://anthonyjlangford.wixsite.com/writer


AJL Facebook Author Page


AJL YouTube Channel


Peace

Anthony



From a father to his daughter in the future (written when she was 5).

 

Hey you beautiful human being,

How's life in general? 
(As my grandfather used to say).


I wrote this to my beautiful little girl, when she was little.



Middle age father to future daughter

 

You slept

While I drank

You paraded

While I internalised

You played

I marvelled

And documented

The feature film I never made

Finally content that I didn’t.

(You sure?)

 

We hugged

I forgot all

Bar the unadulterated joy

Unrivalled.

 

I was not perfect

Unlike most

I was all too bristling

With my inconsistencies

My inner burdens

 

Yet the best of me

Went to you

I may ultimately lose

I accept that

As long as you flourish

And even if not

The intent was pure

With enough purpose

To let me rest

Finally.



2015


Things have changed alot, for those older parents who have been through the teenage years. And for all of us who remember our own time, though perhaps not objectively. 


Love to hear your thoughts. I do these for you.






Website - Books, videos, short films, free downloads

https://anthonyjlangford.wixsite.com/writer


AJL Facebook Author Page


AJL YouTube Channel


Straight of Hummus


A very silly, very short video


Until next time,


Peace

Anthony




They want someone to blame (The crowd calls for blood).

 


Music of the Masses


Someone must be to blame. 

Someone must pay the price.

Will it be you?


A video poem by AJ Langford


Watch on YouTube HERE

or below


What are your thoughts? Do you agree?


I'm not sure how many more of these Video Poems I'll make. I make quick disposable videos for TikTok that get so many more views. These are hard to make. People just don't care about art. About quality. They want a quick hit. Seconds worth. 

I have a few 'in the bank' ready to go and many more voiceovers recorded but I'm not sure I'll turn those voiceovers into visuals. I can't upload them to TikTok either. Those voiceovers may never see the light of day. There's dozens. 


AI generated for this post. 
My idea but 'I didn't create it!'

So sick of seeing music videos on YouTube
that doesn't specify it's AI. These 'artists' are delibrately 
trying to mislead people. They're huge egos. Arseholes!


In any regard, there are eight more videos like these complete. Then I may retire them. We shall see. 


Thank you for watching. I do appreciate it, so much. Especially if you've been around for years. I started making Video Poetry in 2011. That's 15 years. Nothing lasts forever. And my work down through the decades has definitely been in 'periods'. The short films. The music videos. The video poems. The poetry. The short stories. The novels. Now it's fucking TikToks haha. Sign O The Times.



Here's one of those shitty disposable videos. Doctor Google. So easy to make. 





Until next time,

Peace

Anthony


For Books, more Videos and Free Downloads, please visit


Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer





Love out of Control - A Valentine's Day Special

 

The unrehearsed Dance of Love

A Valentine's Day Special

Hi,

How are you going? 

If youre not a romantic or beleive in Valentine's Day, this post is still for you. There's a video and a poem. The poem is not what you may think.

Some things can only be experienced for the first time. Even if we've done something similiar before. Even if we've been in prior relationships. New people, new dynamics to navigate. Nothing is ever truly the same twice.

Before the poem however, is this new TikTok I made. 






Watch 

One Thing that makes Life Worthwhile
 



The endless equation

 

Simplicity is our aim

Complexity is the game

That we ultimately navigate

With mixed results

In spite of

The easy entry procedure.

 

Peace and love

Is what we seek

Unravelled

In part

By our own emotional decisions

The perpetrators of our own undoing.

 

Now couple that

With the mis-stepped

Dance of Another

And it’s no mystery

As to why it

So often ends

In the far flung

Field of misery

From those

Initial, basic, wholesome yearnings.

 

 

1.2.24  8.15 pm

 





I'm an old romantic at heart. 
I'd like to think that Love conquers all. 
It's certainly a very strong, primal yearning that cannot be denied.




Happy Valentines Day

Love 
Anthony









All These Things We Leave Behind - Lost Video, Found after 14 years!



The Weight of Passing Things



Hi,

I made this video 14 years ago. I came across the location where I filmed it, which is now vacant. Still. As you can see in the video, the building had already been long abandoned in 2012. 

So I thought of this video, went looking and realised I had never uploaded it. I was making a few videos then, and was the primary carer of my daughter who was only 16 months then. And so it's remained unseen all this time. The poem also, has never been published before.

Now, it's for you.





All These Things We Leave Behind

A Video Poem


Watch on YouTube HERE


What did you think?
Has my style changed at all?

Text below.

Never published until now. 



All these things

9/1/12

 

 

All these things

Whose time has come to pass

Whether they were ready or not

Forever suddenly has an end

Infinity has become finite

The hinges have rusted

Concrete shattered

No one to pick up the pieces

Fragments forgotten

Easier to begin again

Than to reconnect.

 

Yesteryear with pages Torn

Bound by faded mustard covers

The walls are coming down

Exposing interiors

Revealing frailties.

 

The Edges are frayed

The beautiful now Withered

Prospering weeds

Obscuring the history

Of a world owned by youth

Now decaying and no longer meaningful

Their escapades lost to time

A broken cross on the earth

Before the demise has come to pass.

 

It’s just another symbol

Of the way we treat

Those who do not measure up anymore

The unsubstantial, the declining

And the vulnerable

And while you turn your cheek

To more pristine prospects

Remember

That your turn is coming.



From memory, this was a case of the video being shot first and the poem was written around it. It was all done at the same time, January, 2012.








More Video Poems



How did this make you feel?

Has my work changed over the years?

I would really appreciate your opinion. On any of it! 

Thank you so much for sticking around. I appreciate you!


Peace

Anthony



Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer




Love and Regret - An ongoing story


No introduction needed. It's clear what it represents. 

Not only for where I'm at now, but for others who have been through similiar, contemplating it, or never to experience it. 

I'm an emotional person. Perhaps too sensitive. But I don't shy away from that. 






Love, regret and reality

 

Sitting alone

With my thoughts

Her

On Repeat

Imagined scenarios

(What you might be up to)

And possibilities of Us

Never to be.

 

I am the Composer

Of my own pain Orchestra

Caught in the sound cycle

Unable to down volume.

 

I don’t know how

To switch it off.

 

The most intense relationship

I’ve experienced

It almost killed me

My nervous system collapsed

I didn’t want to live

I couldn’t see a way out.

 

Yet now,

I bypass the damaging behaviours

And think solely

Of your many good traits

And your beauty

And your touch

The love we shared

Knowing

I’ll never hold you again.


It kills me.

 

Actioned by me

Believing,

Rightly

That there was no other option.

 

I gave it my all

And more

It brought me undone

Yet, I miss you

And wish against reality’s

Unflinching harshness

That there

Could have been

Another way.

 

 

4.1.26  11.50 pm





More Poetry


AJL Books






Love Lost, but what's the Cost?

 

An experiment with a traditional rhyming poem

Mixed with the concept of a lyric based song.







Search Part – Love Lost

 

Take your chances

Out there alone

A world of indifference

Chill you to the bone.

 

Grass appears greener

Where the sun always shines

Wait ‘til the night falls

Where the outlook is not sublime.

 

I’m a trick of the light

A mirage deceiving sight

You could bring me home to roost

If you only you could

Discover the truth

No language, no words

A sign language mismatch

Merely a clash of swords

Leaving you spinning

Out there alone

Loud echoes to your cries

Chill you to the bone.

 

You came to find me

I’d given up and gone

‘You don’t know what you’ve got’

You had called as a con.

 

Now it’s you who suffers most

A penniless wanderer

Forever counting the cost.

 

I seek a mere smile

Out there alone

But the years have passed

And worn me to the bone

Worn me out

Unsown.

 

 

 

(Post Valentines Day - 2016)

I wanted to try and write a traditional rhyming poem

Coupled with the concept of a lyric based song

Mixed with my own style of poem.

An experiment, if you will.

Did it work?

 













I woke to a Woke Nightmare


Bigotry is the new Inclusion




Far from new. It's simply dressed in new clothing. Hypocrisy is as old as behaviour itself. 



I Woke Nightmare



I woke to a Woke Nightmare

And I was running through the street

With mini flaming comets and comments zinging past my head

Accusations and demonisations

And I thought, how can this be happening?

I know I’m white and male and straight

But I’ve done so many decent things

I’m a decent person.


And then I realised that so many of my 'dreaded ilk'

Were similarly of my disposition

And always were

And then it clicked that the opposing demographics also

Were of the same ilk,

And that 95% of them were also decent people

And that the 5% of arseholes

That we all suffer through

Were of all colours and genders and everything else

Despite the opposite of which I’d heard so much.


And then I realised that the truth didn’t match

The singular cries of hysteria

And It clicked.


That’s all it was

Hysteria

Based on a sexism and racism I didn’t believe even existed

Until Now.

 

I woke

But the Wokeness continued

Until the finger pointers got their way

As that’s all they wanted

In the first place.

 

A power hungry creed

Using suffering

As currency.

 


April 2021 



Apparently 'isms' have divisional values. It's okay for one. Not okay for another.

Call me old fashioned, or new fashioned. I'm against bigotry, in any form. Simple.



The word hypocrisy entered the English language approximately 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice.



Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer


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