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2012

Its not been set in stone, ignore the 2012 hype 
world won't end in 2012, what a load of tripe 
it's just rumors, please just have faith again 
in 2013 we will be doing the' same old' Amen 

Having said that make 2012 A great year 
carry on doing the deeds, have no fear 
hope and pray all wars will cease my friend 
Have faith in humanity, peace thoughts send 

Yes 2012 is in with all goo...

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2012the end of the world

A Crescent

A picture I saw on a patch of wall

Dust and dirt hid the edges, the frame faded

The shades of black, setting the tone.

Reminded now of this grim sight

When walking home in the early hours

Lights blazing from bungalows, the never-sleeping

The cul-de-sac stretched and warped

Through shadows on the green.

To stay and keep vigil by the postbox

A solemn red flecked with peeki...

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2012

Bowl Of Earth

Hey, and now bring me that ladder
As I descend into the bland peppermill
All corns black, with shrunken visage
A crystal glass cracks under the wooden crutch

 

She walks in the rain, palms direct a flume
Deluge in saccharine amputees, firelight trivia
Storms opened in the swirl of bourbon
A centurion pointed, the thundercloud advances

 

And as the umbrella detached from the Rolex
...

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2012Cowards

Descent

I see a face at the window

Looking from behind the shroud, stopwatch readied

Senses on edge, pieces

Of a shell

Reformed and moulded, a two-way mirror.

 

It hurts and pains the soul in me

From a glass-house, safe sanctuary

Brightened box

A beacon in this desolate night?

Or a slab of ice I broke, too thin?

 

On the edge of the pond

No light to see fish by

Th...

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2012

Stormshelter Playback

Clouds sweep past the portal
Blue intersects the grey, a swirling square
And the wires turn to rust
All currents without feeling, blackened dull
The crates shifted, piles topple over
A dog barks, rough knife twist inward
Incessant whilst chasing tails, ideals in the rain
Over rooftops the projectile lifts
Over and above, destination unknown
Abandoned by the south tower
The pruning, it fa...

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2012

CBD

Stale and zoned, white, blue, black masked

No faces worth renown here, a thankless task

All dissent expressed in the turn of a key

All reflections blurred in bright glass and steel

Particulars stored in bland files and drawers

And the tweed-clad march through endless doors

Grey sky no novelty, fires on the corners

Paths in the parks burn cold as the night turns

High-rise an...

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2012

Birdbath

The ways of standing and seeing
Into a mirror reflecting sky
Crystalline fractures of the moss-strewn depth
Fold throughout pattern in the sunken shaft.

Thermal power, autumn discharge
The feathers white upon the side
The stone cracked and moved with the storm
That struck seven nights back, with the tide.

A crumbling pedestal
Split looking-glass of auburn sheen
Reflects ...

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2012

Antigenesis

'I am willing to tell you this bitter tale
Though it pains my resolve to do just such
A pale and noble man was I
I thought the word was in my clutch.

 

'But we are foolish, as you should know
As nature's beasts we seek to discover
And fulfil, the many flaws found and shaped
Within the empty meanings of humankind.

 

'I stepped up t...

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2012

Verbdrift

And we shall see

How these words develop

When they wrap around

The tall white spaces

Freeze-dried blocks of crystal matter

 

In cages our letters remain

Casting gloomy glances across the rain

The trees on fire, as are they

Who speak these words that live today

Made and given life

 

Now retracted, punish the crime

No-one allowed to speak their ...

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2012

Breaking Out From the Basement

 

We kept ourselves here

We kept our names to ourselves

No underground features retrieved

A notion to change

Built up and blown down before it hits

The realisation of the ship sinking

 

Ceremonies conducted under searchlight

Beams blind our young eyes

War-rooms full of smoke and mirrors

Story from the salesman:

‘People are the same,

‘All strai...

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2012

Seaward Citadel

Garrison minion

Sharp opinion

The taste of unrequited joy

Bathe in zeppelins' beams, deploy.

 

Signal to the twelfth

Sabotage by stealth

Accrued thick mud under moonglow

Spent - the battalion light show.

 

Do not question what we mean by darkness

The only crime - there's not enough blood

Bodies our spreadsheets lay fixed in view

Museum exhibit...

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2012

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