Of Succubus and Demons,

my dreams are filled with fiery hollows.

A grey figure lifts its gown

serpentine the foetus writhes,

my throat of blood floods to drown,

though I'm consumed; the child survives...

Followed by a beast that leads

nocturne sun devours the soul,

subconscious in my waking needs

the seventh circle takes me whole...

Deeper, Deeper ...

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See the crows with bloody beaks

that pluck the tongues

through which truth speaks

See the men with bloody tongues

that strike out truth

were e're it comes

See the scribes with words writ wrong

who care not where

their ink comes from

See the eyes that welcome blight

that fills their soul

yet steals their sight

See all this yet carry on?

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I thought I'd repost some vitriol this morning and let you decide who you wish to send it to.

Sycophantic,

word-pedantic

dictionary whore.

Your literary vacuum

leaves me wanting more.

Your spewing words

thick with rot,

from something ill ingested

tie my patience like a knot,

intestines worm infested.

You’re like a stain of afterbirth

stillbor...

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Step on step toward the crest

across timbered burn and stone,

where tumbling water knows no rest

save in the Loch below,

its rainy surge of silver gleam

frenetic in its fall,

like wealth hid in a black-rock seam

beyond the reach of all.

Yet onward, upward I will climb

against the easy way,

where greater joy than wealth is mine

and fewer men might say...

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No one knows who wasn't there,

at Casement Park.

No one knows who wasn't there,

on Churchill Avenue.

No one knows who wasn't there,

at Milltown Cemetery.

We were young and malleable

We were hammers and sharpened tools,

we were disposable yet valuable

we the puppets of murderous fools.

We heard the pavement split

We heard the double tap,

we knew t...

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On days the Robin doesn't come

I don't know where he goes,

but I can't be the only one

he sings to I suppose...

So in my mind I conjure him

as if to call him near,

that somewhere in my conjuring

his calls to me appear...

though better that his song is sung

so all mankind might share,

with calming notes our days begun

raised up by natures care...

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Where hedgerows twitch with flitting flight

I'll sit and think of you,

the Lapwing and the Common Snipe,

the Dunlin and Curlew...

the lilting peace of song and breeze

migrates my restless mind,

and like the feathered wing with ease

I'll leave this earth behind...

to fly to where you may have flown,

no need of worldly ties,

just as the birds are raised a...

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In the quiet dark it is easier to see and hear.

Satellites reconfigure their trajectories,

in the starlit black of nothingness and eternity

their soulless commands are the new creation.

No millennia terraforming or Darwinian accident,

nothing so beautifully patient from our un-divine architects.

The New Gods sit among their charges, howling with madness.

Soon all wil...

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On this our darkest night,

aurora stains the mountains red,

the impatient blade of morning

bleeds the starlight pale.

No staunch defence

could stem such blackness bled,

nor bar the shaft of golden day,

that all of life should fail.

And once so sure, our hearts entwined

beat the very same,

that spinning in their union

no imposter could unbind.

Yet ...

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Rocks will break the oceans top

and spill great sailors to their graves,

where hulls of ships become mere crop,

becalmed, at rest in coastal caves...

echoes of the timbers split

the wash and swell unseen by men,

blown by winds where lovers sit

whose hearts may never love again.

All men are wrecks upon some shore

their journey's spent, their cargo lost.

...

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In a conference of murderers

who can you trust?

All those knives

all those lies

In an alliance of economies

where do you bank?

No place of residence

no character reference

With your back to the wall

you have only fists, feet and teeth

You fight with no rules

because they made the rules

When you're betrayed and hung out

you h...

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The guts of men writhe like landed eels,

they spill as if they never end.

Brains like cod roe and fat

wrapped in paper, torn apart.

A tooth, an eye and half a scalp.

An ear inside a mouth, its tongue split Scarlet blue.

And now, where metal forged its deadly path

beneath the forests open wound, sunlight feasts with flies.

The living men so nearly d...

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It wasn't the morning that came,

nor the night that slipped from the sky,

but somewhere

between dreams

and my waking,

some other dimension

                                              passed by.

It wasn't an absence or presence,

nor the things with the traces of you,

but somewhere

between light

and moons crescent,

a ghost of you came

         ...

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"I thought I'd write something that offered hope then ripped it away, something more representative of real life"

They laughed at you,

your accent, your hair, your skin...

your knowledge of nothing

that they believed in.

Your best friend, a Jew

then Vikram the Sikh,

the Haggis, the Kosher,

the words you couldn't speak

Your smile now victorious,

wh...

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He takes a sack of crumpled shirts,

a puzzle

and a gun.

He leaves with wigs and mini skirts

and "Chuzzlewit"

for fun.

He's in a Queue at "Waitrose",

transformed,

an amazon,

all selfish hair and Dickens prose,

prior signs

of him, all gone.

The High Street hums with laundries,

wringing out

their blood-stained cash,

all shiny fronts and ta...

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A face as smooth as glass

that time has fallen from,

tracks of tears have passed

the weight of years moved on.

Hands purpura petalled

fold like angels wings,

hair as gentle snowflakes

a midnight clear might bring...

a robin on a window ledge

a flower full in bloom,

the sacred vow of loves long pledge,

a summer gone too soon.

And yet the song ...

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The reign is spitting mad

at the huddled masses yawning,

those maggots of the night

who hatch out in the morning,

it seeks to hold them under

to wash them clean away,

with their plastic bags of plunder

who'd miss them anyway?

They have no real accounts,

no footprint in the data

their sum to naught amounts

they are dead sooner than later.

They...

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In dreams my father is with me.

He lives in his nightmare wide awake.

In dreams my legs buckle.

He falls in his nightmare.

I see him, we cannot speak,

his frail hands outstretched to his child.

His hanging mouth a cave

with all his life inside, forgotten.

Asleep in his bed like amber in linen,

withered by time and ages rot.

So we meet bet...

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It's five o'clock in the morning, it's -5,

my dog pisses as she stares at me.

Her steam, my breath as one

I think she's laughing.

I'm laughing, I'm wearing shorts and a beanie.

What is this,

eccentric englishness?

Stars in silver sulphide pierce a frigid sky

a Supernova vents it's dying throes.

She stands from squat,

the Blackbird sings

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Used to be

I could get all the news I need

on the weather report

When days

were long

and darker times came in short

I could gather all the news I need

on the weather report

Hey, I've got nothing to do today

but cry

and to cry and to cry and to cry

for what's going on

is this the only dying world

our greed's brought.

Most ...

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Behind the songful thicket

where fields tuck in to ancient earth,

the tiny birds sing thanks to birth

trod and turned by boot and plough

much goes unseen by humans now.

Beyond the foamy edge

where breakers roll on timeless sand,

the wilding wind knows no command

stamped, then cleared by men and tides.

whose howls are drowned like griefs lost cries

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