December 2011
19 posts
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Time & Space
Like modern day Highlander I travel through
Time and space
I throw myself at your feet
I wear your colors in the
battlefield
I am a Viking warrior on the roaring sea
Struggling to get home to thee, love
And am I a Roman Centurion charging
Through Gallia to bring you honour and riches
My love
I am also the fisherman on the Northern Sea,
Fighting the winds of defeat, traveling
The...
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More or less Mandatory
Like sad remnants of our recent past
The letters and little notes lay spread
Out on the table.
‘So, do we keep it or?’
Her voice was like a little bee, buzzing
Around a flower
There were no flowers here, though,
Just three years worth of written
Communication
The coffee seemed more or less
Mandatory
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I was there
her face had that fragile, almost transparent
Lustre
Some said it was probably due to something
Missing
I didn’t listen though
I knew it was because she was a fairie
She could fly, you know
All it took was to look into her eyes, and feel her
hand on ones heart
I know this for a fact
Because I was there
When she left earth
Forever
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Eternal bliss
‘The secret of eternal bliss,’ she whispered,
‘is letting go of stuff, opening up, and
regular, nutritious meals.’
We just looked at the sign-post, kicked
the empty can between us and
laughed.
Deep down inside, though, we suspected
she was right, and that scared the hell
out of us…
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Moments (For Ophelia)
The walk of nothingness flew like the thunder of
Yesterday’s rain
-Come, come, she said
Come walk in my footsteps
Hold on to this moment
It is dear and
May never come back
We held on, it was beautiful, shone like the sun
And sprinkled the world with
Laughter
Her shadow lit the morning sky with warmth and
I loved her smile
Like a fountain of why not, reflected against the
Chill...
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Truth From Love
Over and across distant dunes of sand we sail
-Head over heels in love with love
Imagine the two of us there, and I shall build for
Us a castle endless free
There we have our luxurious dinner-parties and
Renovate old books from the 12th century
You write your music, I add words to a thought
Of desperation though harmless it be
Tangled up emotives running like burning love
Flooding...
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Nobody Home
Believing things might change just didn’t help
But anyway we settled for less than ultimate joy
- We held on to passion’s reward even though
The pain was there, so pleasure too, and possibly
A light somewhere down the line, in that cheap
Motel with bugs and roaches singing all through
The night.
I don’t know if the fact that we never had what it
Took to really live, just...
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The Lethe
Across the Styx, searching madly for her heart
I fall bleeding on the banks of the Lethe,
Hopefully remembering not to forget
Who guides my soul
Who rules my heart
The questions three I have answered
Truthfully now;
-Yes, her name it be Ophelia
-Yes, her beauty is beyond grasp of mind
-Yes, I have fought gods and men alike,
I have scaled the steps to the sky for sure,
I have...
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Ophelia and the Moon
Playing with the moon she stood
Listening to the moaning earth below
‘Come, come, let me know what ails ye’
Songs sung in no particular order
Rhymes swung at the wild and darkest
Night
‘Hush now, hush, it’ll soon be light again’
And the earth fell asleep, assured that
Everything was fine
The night then went to wherever old nights
Go, and Ophelia to wherever...
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Anvil of Reason
Waiting under a tree somewhere I stand
Holding on
To something just as past as yesterday
And still beating
The heart of this act, it throws itself at life
Like an anvil of reason
-A hurricane at a sword wheeled by
Insanity
Drops fall one, two, three, thud, thud, thud
The vanity
Branches keep my face dry, my feet in a
Puddle, though
The sound of the pram with a broken wheel
Brings...
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The Snail
Disappearing in the shadow of a doubt
She was no more
The earth didn’t tremble, crumble,
Or shake
But a little snail in a neat and tidy garden
Somewhere in the Midlands
Moved a few grains of dust and a
Broken memory
Just the slightest, faintest idea of a yesterday
To the west
Then came the rain
The little snail realized it
And, well, I don’t know about you,
But I believe...
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Dreaming Ophelia
Town to town, through the dark of a
Wintery afternoon, I ride, see
Glimpse of a contour, a sketch, rough
Draft
Of a feeling or memory’s play but so real
(A mirror shine reflection dance madly, I feel)
Outlining impression, more reason than
Rhyme
Eyes making dance, joyful probe, single
Line
I see her there, she’s almost you, only almost, I fear
A mere dream, yet so true,...
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A Grain of Sand
I am a grain of sand,
Dust in the wind
No more than a fading light
Before the night silences
All
I am a gust of a dying breeze
A disappearing trace of
What was
My world turns away from my
Senses
Its backside is all there is
A fading note
A horn turned silent
A memory forgotten
I am a grain of sand
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She Smiled
Hot winter snow hitting my head like a lorry load worth of mud
Waterpipes screaming their song to a muse, hungry for
Inspiration there
Scratching ugly finger nails across a silver lake of old age and
Young hearts in transport ever wild and thirsty for kicks, a high
Of emotion
Dirty old man by the alley shouting for venus de milo, dying
From want and too much of nothingness, drunk from...
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Chimes of Freedom
These songs are special and dear to me
They are songs of the wind
Chimes of freedom
My face can feel each note
Being sung
Each harmony lifted
From bottomless boredom
From painful distress
Flowing like water
Flying like dreams
Telling tales of peace
And loss of want
These are chimes of freedom
These are the songs I love
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Sorry, as it were...
Sending my regrets, in this little box
It is a fine cardboardbox
One I made myself
No, I did not make the pieces of cardboard used to produce said box
I did, however, cut the sides and
Put them together using
Tape
The regrets, for which the box
Was made during
Several hours worth of agony
Are written on the inside of the
Cardboardbox
It seemed appropriate at the
Time
Now I think of...
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Face to Face with Love
Blinded by this morning sun -Or was it something else Someone cutting corners Slidin’ sideways From the far
Into my mind
Repercussion
Back again
Within limits of-
Sacred borders Scaling heights
Deep within These bonds of hearts
-Togetherness
Facing love I touch it softly, lest it Turn and walk away Finally seized the light It was no sun no star no fire Seeing there...
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