I wrote this piece - inspired by Andrew Fusek Peters words.

Trading Bullets for Lives in Acts of Freedoms

Have you ever held a rifle with a full magazine?

Have you ever felt the weight of just one round

In the hand;- your hands?

Have you ever listened after a fire-fight –

Where null and avoidance is returned in hate?

A claiming of valiant crus...

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Daily States of Pain

I never thought for a moment of my future,

Never knew how much I would suffer,

I go through life trying so hard

But disability always gets the better,

Always stops me in my tracks from progressing.

I was keen for life, keen to explore

Different places that as a kid I only dreamed,

But my tours of the Persian Gulf

Have ce...

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Some drum and bass with poetry. 

Words and Music by Mike Robinson

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Dib dab wootie,

O hooty noo, o hooty noo,

Clib clab flootie,

O wootie noo, o wootie noo.

I thank you!

Have a fantastic christmas everybody. and all the best for new year!

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Where the Solo’s Play Together

My heart has played a melancholy tune,

It’s deep, mesmerising existing on prolonged

Internal phrases of sorrow,

No time kept by metronome,

     It moves slowly,

The centre no more or less louder

Than beginning but the end,

The end of all tomorrows

Softly diminishes in volume,

Fading out, fading out.

...

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One Fine Gentleman!

I am not there yet,

Not by far a glance to carry me through,

Will I make it there I wonder;

As icons pass away too late for I to give gratitude,

     Such elderly are taken for granted

As we pass them by on streets now bitter

With frustrations and anger,

And they seem more lost than

Our youthful onlookers who only wonder

Wh...

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Something a tad different for you. Music arranged by me, so is the poetry. Have a great weekend y'all.

Much love,

Mike x

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                              Esoteric Understandings

The given norm is to be a rock star -

A rock fan - a rock hardened man

As guitars take centre stage

Over the beat of traditional a drum,

    And we’re all playing in the air

Sharing something said to be so deep

Yet,

Electronica paves the way

For new forms of expression,

A deejay...

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Hypnosis

Can he really justify a plot

So thick with insincerity

It makes the onlookers

Toes curl and my own heart bleed,

Does he think it’s just to

Dabble with time as if

The casualties aren’t worth

A penny for their tortured thoughts?

     Does he think it’s funny?

Perhaps they’ll consider suicide again

Just to fuck his clock up

As fu...

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                    Butter

I have been beaten,

Beaten up too much

So much that I am punch-drunk,

I ain’t so much - a wordsmith

Ain’t so much a technician

On the renditions of a song

Still,

I know within the bounds

I have left of me

The utterance of magic

That bereft of me

There’s still an ember

Still a decent thinking

Tha...

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                            Zombie!

Don’t make me to be the killer Lord,

Don’t make me the one spreading wildfire

Through the innocents,

Don’t make me the killer Lord.

Christmas lights and tinsel

Upon a tree with sudden death;

Shedding needles sharp upon

The carpet of a blood soaked floor

And it’s nothing more than murder;

Nothing ...

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                       Planet of the Hates

     Too many deviants

Are out to exploit your children,

And as these children grow they become

The new casualties

The new ‘us’

     Yet within each of us

Is the child that was

Never allowed to grow

And we know,

We know at first hand

What it is to be so,

So, despairing of our

Finest years,

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                            The Poppy

     They fixed their gaze and shook

Each other’s hands in friendship,

Some – tight lipped smiled

While others cried,

     Each wore drops of blood

While a nation - new contests

The colour it should be

     And I for one,

Clenched tight my jaw

Against a backlash of resentment,

     They ser...

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                                Playing the Role Never Once Requested

I could express a friendly face,

Submit my conscience and my talent

To the role I have been given

And gather it with gusto

Like a player upon a personal

Quest for Oscar,

I could sit amiably

With all that’s thrown in

Haste while hate pervades

All around,

     And be...

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                                     The Shortest Time Alive

     Everybody tall, is saying ‘take care!’

Bidding each and all a farewell,

Yet mine and many children

Say a hopeful greeting –

Their smile one of innocence,

Not puzzled or disturbed

In any way,

They want to know the

Names of trees – the different

Flowers and the animals

B...

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I told you,

I warned you,

I gave the bearings of my soul,

Now it’s come to pass,

Everyone is caught within

The reckonings of the gods,

Not one is safe,

Not one soul who stays

Complicit in corruption,

Maybe now,

You’ll recognise the loss.

Music and words by Mike Robinson

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Utility of War;  360 Degrees of Conflict

Bold is man,

Staking claims to life

He can never understand,

When he’s done,

The curtains will draw back,

Reveal - chastisement of

Offences the senses

Only had the fleeting hint

To recognise.

Older still the fables –

He’ll never teach,

For the preach,

Is never taken

Seriously for,

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......................another request for those that missed it the first time around! Best wishes, mike x.

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Have had a request to put this one up again, so here it is. Best wishes, Mike x

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                         Romero Plays for Keeps

A moment of truth and I know,

These words fail expression

Of the torture I’ve become,

And it’s Tears for Fears

Asking where did the boy

That I once knew - go?

     My tears for fears,

Tears that are sublimely

Wiped for fear of acting

Out a role,

A role that knows

All innocence has gone.

...

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                                                Sahara April

     This little girl be no strange little girl,

She is a baby,

No stranger,

No strange inclinations

Born of colour – no prejudicial ideas

Taught from strange folk

With strange little minds for;

     She knows not the resentment of

A callous World.

     This little girl be no s...

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                                       Feeling and Reason

     I’m not a great investor in Higgs Bosen,

I know the particle exists – but then,

Why should it not for,

I am at least an investor in God!

A particle is all it is,

Just a particle,

But when you wonder at

All creation like a painted

Picture by genius an artist;

Each particle is ...

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                                                Beyond All Illusion

1.

     I’m losing friends

Friends that once walked the same

Pace as I,

Walked the same path –

Banged out the same sand

From worn - down boots.

     I’m losing friends

Who once stood against

Bombs and bullets,

     But they’re dying slow

Deaths and sudden,

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Background music can be found on Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol ii. Biggupz and Big Respect.

                                     Destination Unknown

     We look to the stars at night,

And acknowledging we are only

Prisoners here on Earth;

We’re looking for inspiration

From the ‘Heavens’ –

But sadly,

Turn away our open gaze

And we’...

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Riley is a little boy with a brain tumour. He is said to be terminally ill and his parents are hoping to take him away on a holiday of a lifetime. If you can spare a couple of quid, I have posted a link where you can donate to the fund that will hopefully see them in Disneyland Paris. Best wishes, Mike.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smileyrileyfund.co.uk%2F&h=3AQHJVUUiAQF...

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                              Three Days

Things – places people come to be,

Happenings everywhere telling tales,

We’re never stopping to admire though –

Each; caught sadly unawares -

The vastness of life - everywhere you

Cast open eyes yet,

     All, took for granted –

The fastness of living never slowing

     And, we’re always asking for a

Sh...

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                                    Excuse Me!

     Excuse me but,

Do I know you I mean,

Do I really know who you are?

Can I find you?

Can I really find you –

Can I find out who,

     You really be?

     Do you know me?

Do you really – no I mean

     Really,

Know who I am?

Are we together?

Are we in unison as human and,

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                                                  Sacrifice

     There is a theory going around that,

I am wimp!

It emanates from a certain quarter

Who engage thoughts of battle’dom

And trouble causing,

To them I say;

Are you here for forgiveness,

Or to fight??

To step within ‘my’ shoes

Takes more than courage as a Man;

External voices and...

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Cause and Effect – Action, Reaction

It’s no use stopping to admire

The Swan, when it is caught within a net

Left by an unfeeling fisherman,

It is no use ‘blaming’ the fisherman too,

     It is thrashing its wings and

Calling out and still you’re unsure,

And you’re tutting,

Cussing away but there’s no reaction.

Stalling for time you kno...

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                   A Heywood Fallen Hero

He wore his combat jacket daily,

Proud to have served but

He was ruptured,

He would talk sometimes

About his service,

And claim his ‘James Bond Moment’

And we all understood,

But never gave him time.

His intelligence far

Surpassed the humble

Background from which he hailed,

And we all understood...

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                                      It’s Begun

                Schizophrenics are said to believe

All of ‘this’ is wrong,

They use just a little bit more of mass

But it’s not difficult to

Understand where they’re coming from,

Take a look around,

Is this existence how you would

Have written life?

The spite

Moves back and forth,

Back...

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                                                            Train Tracks                        

Does his reach exceed his grasp?

Or her grasp exceed her reach?

Are the meams presented daily –

Stopping Each, their choice?

     Should it matter?

            Choices!

                        Like restrictions of marbles

Placed bluntly, ...

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                              Ashen Tears of Pain

Some days are great you know,

I can really get up,

Have at the day like I was just

Eighteen,

     Great days are those days

Where the haze and fogginess

Of war has been forgotten,

     But those days

Are few and far between.

Most days I find –

Are as grey as the clouds above,

(not...

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Acceptance is Madness

People say it’s difficult to comment,

Difficult to comprehend and understand –

And I guess it is for most;

Guess that they don’t really know

The harsh reality

When violence meets poverty,

Yet that is what life has been for me

That’s how it’s always been ever

Since my age of memory.

I am bitter,

Bitter to the point

...

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                              Ode to The Fisher King

     I stood amongst them

While they waltzed in pairs,

Shying my eyes from Soldier Friends,

I stood amongst them filled

With pride,

Mister Williams tending

All my quarrelled heart.

I stood amongst them

While the clock never moved

And bruised,

I nurture my nature

Back from its death,

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                                   Contents of War

War, is a strange parody of life,

You live it as a soldier;

Beckoned by power be you brave

Or a coward,

It is much fought over this,

This human debacle that

Never relents,

Never goes away to tired

Quarters of history,

Much fought over by

Pacifist and Politician alike,

     Always a bar...

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                            The Reality of What It Really Is

On looking back,

How did we ever remain so naïve?

Why did we ever believe we would

Change the world?

     We sit today within a society

That when scrutinized up close -

When digging down deep beneath

The aesthetics and false promise

You’ll find; it’s not the society you want -

     Y...

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..............One 2 One, something a little different!

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                              A Declaration of Truth

I don’t know,

     I just don’t know the full experience,

If someone had told me it was theirs,

I wouldn’t have believed,

Wouldn’t have understood

Wouldn’t have wanted to understand!

Seven years at war,

     Central America,

Africa – Middle East and Balkan

     Still,

I would only return...

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                                Saying Earth

     I have never been quiet,

Always shouting a noise, always

Keen to share the injustice of my sentence

For I greatly feel – the prisoner.

     I say an awful lot and yet,

I guess people know although,

     They never reaffirm a stance

Of solidarity, never seem to take

Agreement on my misgivings

An...

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                                                A Yard Away

     Young,

Loud and carnivorous –

Devouring life itself,

     They’d sway and they’d swagger,

Saluting each – the new brave.

     A day for spending the Queens Shilling

Took all away,

The day exchanged

For years of duty.

    Now here in the past

They gaze in old age

...

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                                        The Haunted Future

     A little lighter on the elbow,

I’m restraining the pressure,

Knowing the force of pen on paper

Be too powerful for its intention –

And its intent; holding back

The decay upon humanity,

     The visionaries – our gifted individuals

For bringing better futures have returned

A plea...

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                    Porcelain

There seems to be a lack of

                    Shadows,

A lack of something that gives

Us form and ‘we’ all,

     Move like ghosts,

And it’s substance that is missing,

Not the sun,

Not the sun!

We are all,

     Bogged down

     Clogged down with ideas

But more often someone else’s,

Hers or his b...

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                                                  Flippance is a Goodbye Song

Flippance is a goodbye song,

It comes with the yeah yeah yeah’s,

The no no no’s and,

‘Good luck with that,’ they say!

     What it actually means is;

I don’t care for you, your opinions

And angle on life,

For it’s too sore a point of controversy,

Too much the...

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                                           Beam

     I am thinking of you,

Your sultry ways and promise,

Your honest approach to many

Of all our beings and your compassion

For Earth’s children

And I’m seeing things

Not recognised in past tense;

Causes, torture and

I wish ten thousand of you

For every entity made evil,

     Ten thousand to ...

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                                  We All Could Be Planets

     We all could be planets,

We all could be planets with trees and fields,

Streams and brooks,

Oceans and deserts,

Seas and jungle

With mountains so people,

Can walk with their passion for life

Upon the bluest of skies.

     We could all be a planet,

Filled to the highest ...

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The Phenomena of Life

          Life is a phenomena that deserves more respect!

We take it for granted,

Try and understand its meaning

But the meaning is infinite,

     From the very day we are born

We know not when it will end or

If it ends at all and we battle

Cynics and those taught prejudicial

Hate,

     Understand ‘they’ are n...

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Soldier, Sailor – Air Force, Dad

          Life is like, well, I don’t know it,

It’s something that’s happening to everyone else and,

The walls become unbearable as time slips by,

 As slipping by is not my life,

But other people’s understanding of my existence.

I share this existence though and often

I find within my dreams a request,

A pr...

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Soldier, Sailor – Air Force, Dad

          Life is like, well, I don’t know it,

It’s something that’s happening to everyone else and,

The walls become unbearable as time slips by,

 As slipping by is not my life,

But other people’s understanding of my existence.

I share this existence though and often

I find within my dreams a request,

A pr...

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Relinquishing Pain

     1

     I needed to write something,

I needed to write something quicker than lead

So I did,

It was read and laughed at and scorned

And all grimaced as pain ran through

Every word that was said.

I needed to write something

A scribe would be inspired

To place in tablets of stone,

So I wrote and all said,- ...

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                                               Death Row Town

At four in the morning, he’s shouting,

At four in the morning he’s shouting his odds

Drunken, drunk as half the town

With a couple of pound for some spliff,

As drunk as half the town,

A northern town impoverished

And ill at ease with itself,

And it’s less in his mind -

All he once...

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                                                                A Candidate for Applause

                He couldn’t have really understood,

Couldn’t have misunderstood neither,

Taller than this, smaller than that,

His offerings were granted yes but,

Altruism was not really his nature,

     His passive stare beguiled

And he thought,

Thought that...

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Carnivorous

People in glass houses should not throw stones!

But I find myself thrown,

Thrown like lamb to lion

But that’s how it is,

That’s how it always is when

Suffering the purgatory of born lowest,

Lowest of low.

You start your day with all manners

Of optimism; keen, eager, ready to take

On the all - selfish gods bestow

As...

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                                                                UNICEF

     It’s a day today,

Just like any other day!

     We toil we’re paid

And pay our way

As life ceaselessly moving –

Incessantly badgering

Keeps all in ways of conformity

And there; we hasten a quarrel

That life, is not living

If living is only to work.

    ...

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10 Reasons for Nothing

          My thoughts upon Heaven can be found

Within Space,

     Not here upon buildings

That jailors create,

Each of us prisoner,

Each of us quickened like

The snuffing of candles,

Must worry time for the bribe

In Our lives.

My thoughts upon Heaven

Have no meanings at all;

Not without this experienc...

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                                                For Every Jailed Sorrow

                Hello little Huckster,

Are you begging fate with offerings of me?

Is not the bullpen that is life

Not quite the incarceration you seek?

Are you still skipping back and forth –

The dainty little flower;

Protesting just how frail you are

While secret with your power.

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Questions?

It is not the fault of those whose life begins

In jeopardy,

For how can you pass blame on the powerless?

     We all seek the meaning for the meanderings

We are and we beg understanding,

We want to understand and be understood

But all never find truth till time passes by.

We each in our own way make contributions,

We each fi...

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Not Mad; An Ode To Needful Things

There is a book I know,

A book named Needful Things

By the author Steven King,

And it’s laughable in many ways

How the devil works upon people

Filled with hate,

But the laughing stops short,

Is cut short by realization,

This town be his current take away.

I was just a kid when I arrived

I...

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                                                                Stretching

     I won’t,

I don’t care to join it,

Don’t dare join in -

With false smiles and platitudes.

     I tried,

So tired of trying –

I have given all and then some more,

But the constant of abhorrence’s

Bring me down,

Bring me down,

Bring me down.

     I...

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                                What the Hell Do I have to do to Wake You

There is a psychic war raging all around,

And the abuse is really quite disgusting

As I’m being tortured, haunted by those

Who have the skill,

And I’m only a stones throw

Away from committing acts of kill

And I will,

I will.

I did my time,

What is it that you...

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North By North West?

I may, I may just be madder than you

But they say it helps to get along,

I might – no I have committed crime

From acts of stress but once,

Just once no career criminal here

And believe me, others had in a hand.

I have been the target of sorts from

An entity I cannot understand,

And acts of retaliation are only born

O...

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Cocoon

Tall and small and silhouetted,

Moving through with graceful steps of Elk,

Limping all their broken bodies,

They’re boarding ships made for stars.

A lifetime’s gone and none

For all they achieved have been recognised

As giving,

     While we’re complaining for all the world to see,

Tall and small and silhouetted

The old age ...

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The Abstract of Confusion

What is an artist?

Who is an artist and who is not??

Perhaps we all be artists painting

The canvas, recording speech and words

And music,

     Maybe, the artist is the round

Peg in the square hole,

Or the square peg for the round

Hole and I’m just passing time,

Chasing events that signify only

Disruptive lives of ...

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