Present Arms

…………da da da da da da da da

Da da da da da da da da,

     You’re making like a train

With you and your friends,

Every first step slammed in

To take your mind off the pounding

In your chest, and the pain,

And it’s train tracks

All the way to barracks,

     Where the Men sleep

Before another day of fatigues,

And the tr...

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                                                     Every Grain of Sand

          I’m accused of being grandiose,

Accused of being preachy

And I am to certain degrees;

A qualification I add from

     Years and years of

     Heartache and tears,

And I guess if life had been kinder,

Warm to accepting the

Positives rather than negatives;

I...

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Never Shall We Forget

You can sew seed,

You can furrow soil and watch

The fruits of all you believe come true,

You can plant acorns and see

(if you could go forward in time),

See the tallest of trees and

What you sew today, you will reap tomorrow.

I am stepping back,

Stepping back to admire but

Inside the enquiry determines only

...

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The track in the background is from the artist Brian Lustmord.

The Place of True Worth

We are here,

Men, women, children!

We share this world with creatures

Of wonder, foliage trees flowers

Mountains seas rivers jungles and deserts,

We share this world whether You,

Like it or not – yet,

We are beset by all manner of

Ailments, plagued b...

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Sing It In

Let’s write a little warmth!

It’s cold outside and I hasten to add,

It’s been a little cold inside too,

Let’s write a little warmth

And think of the songs that spoke

Not of peoples division;

But togetherness and freedom.

‘Imagine’ Mister Lennon said,

Imagine all the people

And I am, I am thinking of times ahead

When ...

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Their Abhorrence of Love

A sub-saharan heat quickens the oil,

And it’s only time, just time frivolous with lives

That live running along roads of shame,

But, the shame should not manifest itself,

Nor should it be carried like clocks to hasten a stop!

Young have nowhere - running

Like prey before a cull,

And the null is the life that could have b...

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After what has been a disturbing year for me, which is reflected in my poetry, i have composed a simple piece for you. It is not meant to be complicated or depressing, just a simple wish for the coming weeks.

This Seasons Wish

The winter is here,

Hail sleet, snow and ice

Descend in cold fronts,

But out of the depths that

Shadows of doubt have left

I...

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Found by a Malevolent Wind

They found me

Dangling from rope,

They found me sitting asleep

In baths of blood,

They found me a bitter and

Abrasive man, prickly

With contempt for all

They had done,

They found my words

Incredibly short from

Stunted years of growth,

They found me ill

And unavailable for comment.

They fou...

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On Being Judged

A hundred cries of delight

Echo from red brick walls

As they tussle for a football,

And the girls are skipping in time

To melodies and singing rhymes,

Watched keenly by the dinner ladies

And playground monitors;

Just how will life blossom,

What scenes will introduce

Their hearts to the world outside?

     They’r...

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On Misunderstanding Each Soul

So why do you lower your head?

Where and what is the danger in truth?

Perhaps within yourself you have a quarrel

That goes unsaid,

A deep meaningful request

Just to be understood but,

Dancing along to others conventions

Is not freedom,

It is not what you are compelled to do

But you do it anyway!

Ho...

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The Hill

I don’t like you,

I don’t like you and fuck you, (they say)!

And it’s difficult for me to understand,

To really comprehend their hate!

And I guess, somebody has

To be the butt of their derision,

To be the focal point of all they mistake.

You don’t get merit marks for knowing too much

But now, I am dumbed down,

And know not...

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Slush

So long summer,

So long the solar pulses

That skipped time and let

The foe, or friend upon us,

So long the winter comes

By Earths elliptic curve

But somewhere out there,

Is the sun shining in-side,

So long the summer prepares

Winter blues for silent slumber,

So long, so narrow!

Winter besets everything

Gloomily, p...

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In Keswick I Walked Tall

I walked the streets of Heywood

In my paper-round years,

I walked and walked, mimicked the dogs

That snarled at the letter box,

But none of it was my choice.

My Siddal Moor Schooling was

An escape from Sutherland

Where the boys and the girls from

The council estate,

Snarled at their world of a

One by one clic...

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                                                How Many

     I wore a British Soldier’s Uniform,

And adorned all facets of pride defending the crown,

A proud young man of just seventeen when I joined,

Serving in ignorance and innocence a country that

Was my whole World,

Then you clowned all over my heart!

I shared my barracks upon Yorkshires Moors

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For a you tube recital with accompanying video copy n paste the link into your browser and press play when you get there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivscEVpP-I

Best wishes all. Keep posting and stay positive.

xxx

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                                                   At Celine’s Request

          So how does it make you feel?

What moving thoughts are you having -

While transient the clouds forever change

The view,

     I am a transparent man

You can see right through me;

As ‘she,’ sees through all -

As they try discard her gaze -

From upon the world old ...

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                                                Touched

I am amazed at the ignorance of people,

It starts so sublimely – festered in youth

Festered in our young infants from

The moment they are born

And it’s not about God for while

You’re pontificating your procrastinating

To deny yourself the truth,

     It’s about exacting the power

That y...

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I BEEN SPOUTING OFF

SAYING THIS AND SAYING THAT

AND PEOPLE LAUGH,

BUT CANNOT YOU FEEL

THE SENSE OF FOREBODING?

TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU,

Everybody’s crooked. 

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                                                A Man Who Fell To Earth

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          Religion speaks of higher states of grace,

Yet Angels fall despairingly,

All around – Cherubs are put

Through pain,

     Has the Dark Lord risen,

To claim a victory of insanity

While overseeing death?

The Man Who Fell To Earth

     Warned of this but ...

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                                                        Remnants

Are you done for the day

     Slumbering away –

A stay of execution from your mind

As time

Moves swiftly between

Two opposing poles

Upon an ever increasing,

Audible clock?

     Voluminous seconds count

And,

     Is there something

You haven’t done –

Haven’t achi...

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I have had a request to place this piece back. So for Lynn and anyone else, here it is. The original music score is called Harlequins Meditation and it is by a fantastic Dance Music composer called Sven Vath.

Harlequin

I’m not dancing

On the ceiling of conformists

Interpretations of how

They express their freedoms,

But I am dancing!

I am the harlequ...

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                                                            Tightrope

     We seem busy

Looking back and carrying out

Post-mortems upon history,

As many claim victory in the

Passing of The Earth,

     And the globe

Has never seemed so fragile

Whilst moving into a new

Form of expression,

     Have we strength

To map unchartered waters

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Our Children’s Timeline

Time has meaning to everyone,

We may be nestled within our own

Quarter of the globe,

But time is everyone’s meaning

For we don’t know,

Can never grasp the sense

Of how long we each last

Upon this world.

            Time, presents

Depths to write futures and

As humans we hope ascend

The days that history ta...

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With big respect to the Artist Solomon Jabby of which the music comes from. 

American?

“How you feeling blue” Kristian asks

In dulcet tones designed to rock a roller

Into parodies of English – the language

Not his own by example

Of his wit,

            “I’m pretty shit!” replied

His carnage’d mind considering the

Low, the lack of ebb a...

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You know who you are, this is dedicated to you. I like your work by the way.

American?

“How you feeling blue” Kristian asks

In dulcet tones designed to rock a roller

Into parodies of English – the language

Not his own by example

Of his wit,

            “I’m pretty shit!” replied

His carnage’d mind considering the

Low, the lack of ebb a...

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                                                            Abandoned

            We are here,

A slight moment in the history of time

And as much as we preach

We cannot reach you,

Cannot understand the

Suffering that teaches us nothing

But - humiliation.

            Again and again

Forever on our knees

Looking for answers

While each ...

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Fated Bubble of Warmth

We live within the

Auspices of time

Borrowed only

To cajole a pleasant

Place of comfort

From the heckles

And the baiting

And nothing fates

Each life that we

Portray unless

Crossing governors

Of spite we

Persist a melancholy bruise

Defending positions

Of the ego

While shaking hands

With d...

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Domestic Violence

The problem of domestic violence in UK households is a contentious issue. Everyone seems keen to point fingers and lay blame on one another without really addressing the issue. It has been prevalent in UK society for centuries, and is unlikely to go away overnight. Women, have for centuries been placed under the dominance of males, and only during the ear...

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This short, has ben re-edited. Please do not read, if offended by the Author in any way. Above all, it is only one persons opinion on the backside of a one sided system, forgive him if you do not agree, it is in the main a response to the injustive of not being given the rights of a Father. It is okay for me to go to war it would seem, but when you come back a casualty nobody wants to know. 

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The Music from this track is taken from Robot - The Beauty and the Beast by Sven Vath. The track is called Harlequins Meditation for those who would like to purchase it in its entirity. Sven Vath has been one of my saviours over the years with his music. His work is varied and inspiring, and I can only thank him for seeing me through some very tortured times. I am in essence tipping my hat to h...

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                                                Quarantine

            This is not freedom!

It is not the sum – the total of all

I feel inside,

It isn’t my wish, demand or collaborative

Appeal against conviction,

It is the drugging up of sanity

For the profanity that is my home.

It isn’t social housing but a cursing

Of my very own exis...

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Tipping My Hat

If I could I would

I’d write like the wind

Changing horizons

Emblazoned with colours

And tones

And feelings

As autumn

Snatches the latches

Off  locks the mind

Keeps unknown,

Experimenting the resource

Of wealth imaginations unchecked

Like flexing a muscle

A being disowned

Within a life of resistance,

...

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                                                            Fortune of Tears

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            It is so harsh,

Cuts like the thinnest sliver of glass,

Meandering easily straight towards

Where melancholy has been my life-long past;

     An attrition of war with no real place to go even though,

They say wounds are to heal with time,

The scab on ...

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                                         The Closure of a Preachy Poet

          It’s okay to disagree,

It’s okay,

We can all live within the lies of make believe

It’s okay, it’s okay.

Now watch your daughters sell

Sex for money,

And your sons shoot lust for blood,

See the planet close its story,

It’s okay, it’s okay.

Make all the prophe...

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What happens to me, is my mind often cannot get the words down that are thought in my mind. So often I write poetry or texts, and fail to edit them. This is the second posting of this short essay. I have edited it to make better reading and understanding of this malady which is effecting over 9000 soldiers. I hope it is understood clearer now and in future, I shall try to edit the work better s...

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 Conservation

          Atmospheric pressure above the

Marsh-mellow clouds make spectacular wishes

Of the universe – and for a moment,

If we grab the tail and never let go,

We’d have chance upon escape.

     We could snatch it,

Cling on – our dear life and play

Amongst the stars,

We could fly like fantasy

The greats; Capricorn, Virgo, Le...

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                                                 Storm Theory

     It’s about sensing what’s genuine ole Man!

You know I believe in you as the relationship is

So intense,

     But why play the game with me?

     Take the red pill or take the blue pill,

That’s the choice we’re told,

But as little as I was,

The red and blue were thrust upon me

...

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                                                             OPERATION

………………………………..there is no truth in fiction, I thought while dabbling the game ‘Operation.’ I say dabble because I wasn’t really paying attention as I removed the funny bone despite the buzzing sounding from the board. I cared not for the rules of the game as decided to play morse with the buzzer. In went the ...

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                                                 Win Win Win Till Money Kills All

            Yes we have faults,

And I as a guy didn’t need the

Criminal record you gave after war,

So how do we now effect change?

How do we stop what is happening

Around this desperate - a Globe?

            Mum and Dad now

Both have to work – placing

Their to...

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                                                 The British Have Soured

          Have you lost touch old bean?

Or pondering the security to place law

Upon law to reaffirm laws –

Till blue in the face ‘we’ cannot breathe;

     You wrap up a world that is done!

UK angered is laughing stock now –

With microphones in lampposts and

Eavesdropping to...

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 38 Degrees

          Can you, be bought?

     Have you, been bought?

Economics dictate there is no money in the pot,

But are you, being bought?

All the country’s pride is at stake,

Has it, been bought?

Once ago, The Police never

Entertained the Gun,

Never penalized so badly

The man who claimed a run for freedoms,

Time ago, Bev...

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                                                             Crimson Plains

History,

     Is crimson with tales of battle

Be you friend or foe,

Honours and ridicule,

Courage and cowardice,

     Yet nobody mentions the detail –

All carnage of limbs ripped from a

Warriors soul.

            Studio’s of money

Glorify the dead, make sentient

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                                                 For I Am Woman

          It’s not I be the narcissi

I sometimes see,

It’s not the sultry look

Of woman gazing on in disbelief,

It is not cold,

But worry of - Mother to be.

            I am with child!

My ‘first,’

And my state of being reflected

In this mirror surrounds my every

Thought...

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 Lost Effort

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So many sad and plentiful of nothing

 That matters,

Sad and plentiful, as if stuffing

Children like the rotting carcass of dead animals

Appeases all their needs,

            Too many sad and plentiful

Without knowing the teaching of greed,

Too many lied to in concrete,

Denied every right to be free.

            ...

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Sorry for Leap Frogging here, this is the second draft so I had to remove the old one. Big thank you to Alan Morrison. This is a response to his last entry. Thank - You. x

 Wimborne Road

             I ran along such a road once,

The Wimborne Road the track - a point to point

Racecourse jockeys use to please a crowd,

            The bets, illegal and legal ...

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 2 Mortimer Avenue – Higher Blakely! Man if ghosts exist then you may find a few there, one perhaps being the originator of this rambling text. It was probably the first time I died; thrown on the floor for crying at my chicken pox that were irritated by urine contained in my rubber pants. I used to wet the bed back then with all the abuse I was going through, not so you would notice of course,...

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 Killing Down the Planetarium

1.

Did you really think it was just;

About one’s sexual leanings?

Perhaps maybe a spat with ancient authority –

Maybe a calling for my father to

Raise his solemn head and

Gaze with morbid wonder at the dead

That walk The Earth?

            Did you think a mere entertainer from

A demon or a saviour,

Did y...

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I am not by any stretch of the imagination riding on the backs of the great Mr Glass (or others). I am just a disabled ex soldier who is expressing through the medium of poetry, experiences and thoughts of my disturbed life and mind. Nevertheless, if Phillip Glass wishes me to take this off the site then I will. I am amateur at this and only wish to say I am a big fan of Mister Glass's work, an...

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 Pawn of Insignificance

What has been made is not what I knew,

What’s left is the taste of bitter fruit and

No-one seems to understand the bereavement

Of bright shore of optimism,

            I’m at sea and clouds

Are dark, hide light as sleeping;

The tentacles of doubt drag unconsciously

My torso from the beach.

            Slumber!

Where com...

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 Daubed Clock of an Architect

Shove ‘em’

Shove ‘em’ in the cities for

You don’t give a fekk!

            Let them psychically rape

Each other through cardboard disguised as brick,

Let them steel and rob, kill and hate

For the creation made in spite; the

Claustrophobic environs ‘you’ know,

Humans were never meant to live!

            Let them s...

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Hi folks, some food for thought here. Press the link and take a look what's happening. There is no shame in admitting that you didn't know or understand how dire things have become on this globe. Most of us have never really known the full extent of the figures for years, but, let's hope we can as a collective shout, or write, just that little bit louder, so those in authority will know that we...

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Have you ever thought, if you can see beyond my grandiosity, I am trying to get a message across. I know I ramble and that, but, there is a reason for it. I just hope you all get the message before it's too late. There is something 'EarhAngel' about those who through thier experiences find themselves within the depths of suffering. I know we all suffer to an extent, but I find myself becoming d...

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                         The Skip Let Something In

            Just who did you let in?

When tribes existed peacefully for centuries

Just who did you let in?

            Listen in Mother Earth

And listen in good,

They’re turning hookers of your daughters

And making killers of your sons,

They’re populating concrete

Where once were trees and f...

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             As little boys and little girls

Play witches toys for stabbing pain,

The universal host makes better those you

Send insane, and if covenant who power seek

Send little knives of hate,

            Then returned through the mirror

Of the Angels be all the pain you raise!

                                                Michael.

                    ...

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                                                                    Mistrust

I could be really aggressive, ignorant and downright cowardly! It has been known in the past when my spirits have been low to offend others unwittingly. Often out of frustrations for how I am feeling. The majority of time (if not all), I do not mean the unfeeling comments I sometimes splutter, nonetheless I a...

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                          The Hearts Quill

            I can write with a classical slant,

Expressing with the medium of words all descriptions of

Love written so many times before,

But critics would grin,

Readers would hash through painfully,

And I myself would declare this be nothing

More than an antiquated rant,

            Yet, here I am,

Thin...

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Big Thank you to Biosphere of which the music Antennaria accompanies this poem. Big Thanks from an Ex Soldier. x

 The Light of the Sapphire

We can describe the forever incandescence of autumn nights

Where winds make dramatic all imaginations for the need

To live!

            But that, in essence, like the flam of custard

Now cold, only tells of skin war...

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 Escape

Escape is not the haunting that decides

Only ghosts of previous lives roam free upon this Earth,

It is not I beg the conditioning of another form

Of life when a meam presents death upon each fallacy we live,

Although, I wait while chewing toast to be

Presented with another day to waste.

Death could be the escape we dream in worlds

Writte...

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                                                 BRITISH SECRET HISTORY

                        Nineteen seventy-seven,

A competition for kids on housing estates,

Beaten and battered

Singing God Save the Queen –

And lo behold – pain from the sixties crowd,

If flags are not waved for her Majesty’s Reign.

            Beaten and battered and soon to be...

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                                                             There is a Sun Up There!

There is a sun up there! It has been shining today and over the past weekend. I am pleased to see it, as for the past three years there has been little rays of light over the Northern parts of the UK. There is a moon up there too as I write these words, it is at the moment at the halfway point of its...

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                                                             Stripped

            Children are born innocent,

They don’t arrive like pre-recorded tapes –

And their character,

Like light of super-nova shines -

A thousand suns.

            Shine!

Shining telepathically seeking

Security and warmth from a mothers

Love,

Often rewarded such

...

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                         Sitting Safe in Ignorance Was the All That I Expected

            It’s not that I’m not liked,

It’s not my haggard features that once were fair,

What it is I state is collusion in destroying integrity and Truth,

What it is you can’t accept is the life that I have lived,

For it pales your own existence into a nothingness of lies.

...

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 Down the Rabbit Hole

They don’t need so many hospitals in the country,

                                                Do they Lord?

For the sickness isn’t as vicious where

The hills and flora, aspire only the nourishment of life!

            Still,

I can hear the silence of the country folk

While those inside the city,

Scream this living absur...

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                                     Deny the Lie, Only on Your Own Request

            There can be no mitigation for The Earth,

And though I venture not all upon these soils

Court the forms of battle,

Power from abusers – corrupts every bludgeoned heart.

            We have a planet!

It needs a cordon to protect a universe of stars,

And when...

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 This isn’t a poem, just something to ponder for those who consider themselves intellectually charged. There has been for a number of years now, a growing attitude of neo fascism that is beginning to lose control. It exists at a subliminal level, sometimes even without the protagonists knowing what they are saying and doing. We are all complicit in this to a certain extent, as we are now lookin...

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                                     Beneath The Ancients Glare

            The beer from the Legion staggers my gait,

And the lights are all extinguished – passing each

Of them by,

The wife’s sat at home crying disappointment at walls,

As my mind’s still expanding on war,

A crow flying by thirty feet from the ground,

Intrudes this silence of night,

A...

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                                     While You Were Drowning

            A Mediterranean fantasy,

A Pacific coast to coast and Atlantic

Schooled by their majestic actions;

They thrust themselves upwards,

And spin like the free of all

Infinity’s attractions, the reflections

Of the sun dazzling arcs of

Rainbow songs – and nothing,

Can stop their singing a...

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