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The last Animal on Earth

I’m only an animal

What do I know  ?

I sit and gaze at receding snow

I wonder why,  10 years past

I stood at this spot in icy blast

Mysteriously it’s disappeared 

So it’s father North I’ll go I fear

I’m lost now in a barren land 

Devoid of life the grounds just sand

My coat is still a snowy white

I stick out like a shining light

I look back south

With dimming ey...

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Bang

Bang

Its here

Bursting on the day

Asleep for Winter

Bang bang bang

Starbursts of blossom

Exploding in the hedges

Pure white 

The bushes breathing out 

After holding their breath

We’re here again

A joyous dance of snowdrops 

Speckled with Ammonites 

Smiling up at the sun

You’re all welcome

Drink in colour

Dance in the light

Buds like coiled springs...

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Vaped

Lost, all is lost

No reversal 

Hurtle towards oblivion 

Fire,, 

Produces dust

Hanging in a final curtain of the play

We are in the last act 

Sterile grains of mankind 

Lying in  stillness and solitude

Blown only by the wind 

Silence , only silence

The cackle of mankind gone

As did go the roar of the dinosaur

Both vaporised 

Leaving only sighs 

Leaving o...

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Socks

 

I love my socks

They keep my feet

Nice and cozy in the sleet

 

They live between my foot and shoe

And  do what socks all like to do

 

Some people keep them on in bed

To stop the chilblains going red

 

Some fold them up nice and neat 

And put them on the cozy heat

 

Ready  for the morning run 

In the rain or in the sun.

 

Through the puddles and ...

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Going going , gone

Lost, all is lost

No reversal 

Hurtle towards oblivion 

Fire,, 

Produces dust

Hanging in a final curtain of the play

We are in the last act 

Sterile grains of mankind 

Lying in  stillness and solitude

Blown only by the wind 

Silence , only silence

The cackle of mankind gone

As did go the roar of the dinosaur

Both vaporised 

Leaving only sighs 

Leaving o...

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Missile

Hypersonic.Star Trek

Supersonic .Concorde

Cruise. Tom

Ballistic .Parents

Inter continental. Travel

All cool 

Until superseded by missile

That’s the change

Raining death 

 

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Lions

Lions  

 

As life goes on the ice gets thinner

Easily fractured, translucent 

The wise tread carefully 

Looking down at the reflection in the mirror

Through the looking glass into the deep

Peering at the memories swirling below 

Unreachable , unchangeable

Thinner and thinner

Towards joinery’s end 

With luck

The boatman will arrive in time 

Before we are plung...

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Peace

I long for peace I long for love

I long for your touch as if from above

Your deep deep eyes 

That mesmerise

That draw me in to your castle keep

That comfort me in night time sleep

 

You teach me ways of ancient strays

Journeyed for a million miles

Across the bridge of souls

Give to me up your hands to hold  

In return here’s my  heart to mould 

 

I’m like a l...

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Here we go again

Here he comes again

Drifting down the road towards me

Swirling mist of impenetrable black

I know what’s to come

Envelopment

Close my eyes

Shut it out

Wait for him to pass

Please don’t linger on my soul

Don’t let your cold fingers 

Slip down my throat 

And pull my heart from me,

Let me be

I have no interest in you 

And you no interest in me.

I breathe in...

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