The perfumed rose of summer is now distant

The barricades of winter have fallen

Revealing crystal fields

Still in the morning sun

Alert the doe breathes clouds 

That mix in the mist

Sabre Rooks pick on the bones of earth at it falls asleep 

Soundly keeping its council until spring.

Panic prevails for safe winter havens 

Some will not wake from their slumber 

succumbed...

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Heartbeat 

1000 years a stone is laid 

Sweet soul

Calm my heart

Stop me racing 

Cloak me with your serenity 

Hold my madness for me for a little while longer 

Breathe your mist on me

Let the droplets wash me clean

I can here the rivers course through my veins 

Racing as waterfalls to the sea.

I need the blood to run deep and calm 

Deep pools, serene

Reflectin...

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Heartbeat 

1000 years a stone is laid 

Sweet soul

Calm my heart

Stop me racing 

Cloak me with your serenity 

Hold my madness for me for a little while longer 

Breathe your mist on me

Let the droplets wash me clean

I can here the rivers course through my veins 

Racing as waterfalls to the sea.

I need the blood to run deep and calm 

Deep pools, serene

Reflectin...

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Where has the night gone

Swallowed by sodium neon, led

We cannot see beyond

Boyhood dreams gone by the flick of million switches

Stand me in a field of dark

Hello Milky Way

Where have you been

Your beauty a slash in the heavens

Quietly rising and setting 

Measuring the days

Gazed at in wonder 

Through child eyes

Hanging in cosmos by invisible strings

A misty ...

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Myth and  mystery born of ignorance born of fear

When nature was in charge

Leading us by the hand

Guiding us through the seasons

Over rhythmic  Aeons

Warnings of her power 

Passed down in folklore 

Stories of the elders 

Keepers of the past

Keepers of the apocalypse 

Holders of the four horsemen

Now let loose amongst us

Oracles cast aside 

Forgotten, disregar...

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Take me to the fields where the honeysuckle grows

Where evening birdsong echoes round the breathless meadow,still in its majesty 

The sweet scent envelops my soul cloaking the hollow 

As dusk lays its hand gently on my shoulder

Walks with me as a fading friend

Reassuring before morphing into night

Leaving a ghostly mist as a shadow

A gift of cool

To fill my lungs with  calm...

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May

Offers up her bounty of buttercup’s 

Translucent  in the evening sun

champagne froth of cow parsley 

all bursting like a young girl

With the heat and flush of youth.

Full of life and promise 

Hungry for touch and passion 

Old man barley, his green beard yet to turn to gold and  mash to fuel the hearts of men in the winter to come

Larks on the wing, spots in the sky

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Many things they come in threes 

Triangles ,tripods 

The three degrees.

Three Wise men they bring the presents

But there’s only two in a brace of pheasants 

Aliens you’ll often find , have 3 legs unlike mankind

A milking stool is very stable 

On its 3 legs , with milkmaid Mabel

Buses they always come in threes

You wait for one with aching knees

Then round the corner a...

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The thin zone is barley seen

Lurking between the sea and the sky , 

A slice of mist 

Blink and it’s gone 

It hides between the sun and the moon

A sliver of the cosmos 

Infinite in its depth 

Drawing the eye 

Playing with the dawn 

Appearing somewhere and nowhere 

Always out of reach

Ahead of the game 

Leading a dance amongst the stars 

The thin zone 

Betwe...

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I’m only an animal

What do I know  ?

I sit and gaze at receding snow

I wonder why,  10 years past

I stood at this spot in icy blast

Mysteriously it’s disappeared 

So it’s father North I’ll go I fear

I’m lost now in a barren land 

Devoid of life the grounds just sand

My coat is still a snowy white

I stick out like a shining light

I look back south

With dimming ey...

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Bang

Its here

Bursting on the day

Asleep for Winter

Bang bang bang

Starbursts of blossom

Exploding in the hedges

Pure white 

The bushes breathing out 

After holding their breath

We’re here again

A joyous dance of snowdrops 

Speckled with Ammonites 

Smiling up at the sun

You’re all welcome

Drink in colour

Dance in the light

Buds like coiled springs...

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Lost, all is lost

No reversal 

Hurtle towards oblivion 

Fire,, 

Produces dust

Hanging in a final curtain of the play

We are in the last act 

Sterile grains of mankind 

Lying in  stillness and solitude

Blown only by the wind 

Silence , only silence

The cackle of mankind gone

As did go the roar of the dinosaur

Both vaporised 

Leaving only sighs 

Leaving o...

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I love my socks

They keep my feet

Nice and cozy in the sleet

They live between my foot and shoe

And  do what socks all like to do

Some people keep them on in bed

To stop the chilblains going red

Some fold them up nice and neat 

And put them on the cozy heat

Ready  for the morning run 

In the rain or in the sun.

Through the puddles and ...

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Lost, all is lost

No reversal 

Hurtle towards oblivion 

Fire,, 

Produces dust

Hanging in a final curtain of the play

We are in the last act 

Sterile grains of mankind 

Lying in  stillness and solitude

Blown only by the wind 

Silence , only silence

The cackle of mankind gone

As did go the roar of the dinosaur

Both vaporised 

Leaving only sighs 

Leaving o...

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Hypersonic.Star Trek

Supersonic .Concorde

Cruise. Tom

Ballistic .Parents

Inter continental. Travel

All cool 

Until superseded by missile

That’s the change

Raining death 

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Lions  

As life goes on the ice gets thinner

Easily fractured, translucent 

The wise tread carefully 

Looking down at the reflection in the mirror

Through the looking glass into the deep

Peering at the memories swirling below 

Unreachable , unchangeable

Thinner and thinner

Towards joinery’s end 

With luck

The boatman will arrive in time 

Before we are plung...

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I long for peace I long for love

I long for your touch as if from above

Your deep deep eyes 

That mesmerise

That draw me in to your castle keep

That comfort me in night time sleep

You teach me ways of ancient strays

Journeyed for a million miles

Across the bridge of souls

Give to me up your hands to hold  

In return here’s my  heart to mould 

I’m like a l...

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Here he comes again

Drifting down the road towards me

Swirling mist of impenetrable black

I know what’s to come

Envelopment

Close my eyes

Shut it out

Wait for him to pass

Please don’t linger on my soul

Don’t let your cold fingers 

Slip down my throat 

And pull my heart from me,

Let me be

I have no interest in you 

And you no interest in me.

I breathe in...

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