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7-Up: Together

May I - do I dare to ask? -
leave my toothbrush at your house?
It wouldn't take up much room.
I know it would look so good
there in the glass, next to yours.
I think they'd hold hands and kiss
in the dark, while the world slept.

M. Peacock 14225

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7-Up

BRAND NEW DAY

Can you imagine the heat of a star?
The eyes that meet across a crowded bar?
What you hope will happen to who you are?

The journey of a heart in seconds flat
can take you unbidden from where you're at
and expose you to some strange habitat

where you feel reborn, breath swept clean away,
where long lost emotions come forth to play,
where you're in love. What a beautiful day!

M. Peaco...

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SONNET: IN WANT OF STRONG LEADERSHIP

We sour, in the throes of some disaster
of our own demoralised unmaking,
abjectly pining for lord and master,
with crown, throne and sceptre for the taking

if they would but lead us to salvation
and make us strong again. We want the myth,
we crave security for our nation,
the ruthless rule of law they'd hold us with;

we'd sell our freedom cheaply for the chance
to pretend that our wor...

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Sonnet

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