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CRANE FLIES

 

CRANE FLIES

 

You are my crane fly who flutters

on gossamer thin crystal wings,

turning to face the sun as you go through the air.

Now I see your beauty as strong and as delicate,

now that you are my girl.

We enjoy life at our own steady pace

doing our own little bit having a laugh.

I see you smile, your face lightens

in the midday sun as you look i...

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GIRL

 

GIRL

 

I know a girl who is such a babe.

She walks down the street looking really cool,

not caring who looks at her ample curves.

You can’t have her coz she is mine

but I don’t mind you looking

but please don’t touch.

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SCOTLAND

SCOTLAND

Scotland, beautiful land, land of the sky, clouds
hugging your mountains, mist in the glens.
Deep black lochs full of mystery and monsters,
age-old secrets for very few to find.
Everyone can see the beauty of this land,
next to England but a million miles away.
Once we were enemies but now friends,
a country with so many moods and colours,
the sky, timeless in her ...

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LANDSCAPE OF TEARS

 

LANDSCAPE OF TEARS

 

I sense that you are near me,

close enough to touch, right now.

In my mind.

No one else can see you next to me

but I do. As we are now,

we once were in reality

at some time in our history.

Your spirit never leaves me

and your ghost forever haunts me,

your love is my saviour intertwining

me in your spiders web of hearsay.

...

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Two Destinies, Two Hearts, Two Souls

 

Two lonely destinies have met at sunset,

Smiled timidly at each other,

Trying the pain of loneliness to smother.

 

They were still so naïve to believe:

Their meeting was not an accidental.

May be one of them was just mental!?

 

Two lonely souls didn’t want the doles.

Eye to eye gazed sadly.

They needed love madly.

 

The world around was sile...

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Nine Eleven - Version 2

 

As I re-read this piece I felt it warranted some tidying up, so here is version 2
 
Nine Eleven 
 
No words of mine or others can change what went before
We can but stand in silence and remember them once more
Though years roll by without restraint and some images fade
The sights we saw upon that day are indelibly engraved
 
So hear a plea around the wo...

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