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Requiem

Under the moon's silver glow,
I could forget everything and live in this moment forever,
tugs on the heartstring like a beautiful voice in song,
words are the dreams the heart makes,
all now of the dream I have is a requiem.

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Mynydd Du

Mynydd Du

 

muddy tears from the past

sliding down the cheeks

of those who remember them

 

the thunder obliterated a generation

that would benefit from the industry

of their fathers

 

who prayed it all would last

while bosses planned

to take away their livelihood and history

 

they piled the slurry

into an unreliable black mountain

towering over ever...

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Tumbledown

On Tumbledown, no doubting of our love,

No bishopric’s accusing finger points,

Proclaiming: ‘Gays can’t die for God above,

Or marry Harry, Jessica or George’!

No holy men in dresses and big hats,

Will stem this bloody flow, or hold my hand,

Or sing my soul aloft; no music wafts

Along the breeze from England’s pleasant land.

Are you still there, Jim? God, it’s blo...

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