They nailed him to a fxxxing  cross

To fxxxing die in pain and blood

Starved and thirsty dirt and piss

So we can live a life of bliss

For the peace of man 

To stop the wars 

The message is 

Love they neighbour 

Respect for life 

To stop all strife 

2000 years down line 

We still commit the fxxxing crime 

Incapable of love 

The devil wins 

He Laps up greedi...

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Look through the glass 

The other side , a thin membrane away

 I can see but not hear 

What if I break it to reach  out to the silent world beyond

Push  my hand through 

Will it be freedom

Or blood soaked shards that rain down

Shredding the flesh and mind

Scattering mortal remains 

On a cold floor

Perhaps I can hold your hand 

Together we can leap

With your prot...

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The perfumed rose of summer is now distant

The barricades of winter have fallen

Revealing crystal fields

Still in the morning sun

Alert the doe breathes clouds 

That mix in the mist

Sabre Rooks pick on the bones of earth at it falls asleep 

Soundly keeping its council until spring.

Panic prevails for safe winter havens 

Some will not wake from their slumber 

succumbed...

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Heartbeat 

1000 years a stone is laid 

Sweet soul

Calm my heart

Stop me racing 

Cloak me with your serenity 

Hold my madness for me for a little while longer 

Breathe your mist on me

Let the droplets wash me clean

I can here the rivers course through my veins 

Racing as waterfalls to the sea.

I need the blood to run deep and calm 

Deep pools, serene

Reflectin...

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Heartbeat 

1000 years a stone is laid 

Sweet soul

Calm my heart

Stop me racing 

Cloak me with your serenity 

Hold my madness for me for a little while longer 

Breathe your mist on me

Let the droplets wash me clean

I can here the rivers course through my veins 

Racing as waterfalls to the sea.

I need the blood to run deep and calm 

Deep pools, serene

Reflectin...

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Where has the night gone

Swallowed by sodium neon, led

We cannot see beyond

Boyhood dreams gone by the flick of million switches

Stand me in a field of dark

Hello Milky Way

Where have you been

Your beauty a slash in the heavens

Quietly rising and setting 

Measuring the days

Gazed at in wonder 

Through child eyes

Hanging in cosmos by invisible strings

A misty ...

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Myth and  mystery born of ignorance born of fear

When nature was in charge

Leading us by the hand

Guiding us through the seasons

Over rhythmic  Aeons

Warnings of her power 

Passed down in folklore 

Stories of the elders 

Keepers of the past

Keepers of the apocalypse 

Holders of the four horsemen

Now let loose amongst us

Oracles cast aside 

Forgotten, disregar...

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Take me to the fields where the honeysuckle grows

Where evening birdsong echoes round the breathless meadow,still in its majesty 

The sweet scent envelops my soul cloaking the hollow 

As dusk lays its hand gently on my shoulder

Walks with me as a fading friend

Reassuring before morphing into night

Leaving a ghostly mist as a shadow

A gift of cool

To fill my lungs with  calm...

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May

Offers up her bounty of buttercup’s 

Translucent  in the evening sun

champagne froth of cow parsley 

all bursting like a young girl

With the heat and flush of youth.

Full of life and promise 

Hungry for touch and passion 

Old man barley, his green beard yet to turn to gold and  mash to fuel the hearts of men in the winter to come

Larks on the wing, spots in the sky

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Many things they come in threes 

Triangles ,tripods 

The three degrees.

Three Wise men they bring the presents

But there’s only two in a brace of pheasants 

Aliens you’ll often find , have 3 legs unlike mankind

A milking stool is very stable 

On its 3 legs , with milkmaid Mabel

Buses they always come in threes

You wait for one with aching knees

Then round the corner a...

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The thin zone is barley seen

Lurking between the sea and the sky , 

A slice of mist 

Blink and it’s gone 

It hides between the sun and the moon

A sliver of the cosmos 

Infinite in its depth 

Drawing the eye 

Playing with the dawn 

Appearing somewhere and nowhere 

Always out of reach

Ahead of the game 

Leading a dance amongst the stars 

The thin zone 

Betwe...

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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

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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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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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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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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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  

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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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 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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O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie

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I’m a pup pup pup 

Full of fun fun fun

I’ll bite your in the hand hand hand

And on the bum bum bum

I’ll dig  a hole hole hole

And have a roll roll roll

I’ll jump for joy joy joy

And kill my toy toy toy

I’ll chase my tail tail tail

To no avail vail vail

And I’ll woof woof woof 

At all the stuff stuff stuff

I’ll run around round round 

And I’ll b...

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Something stirs

Waking from the endless night.

The sleep

Ready to journey on the black oceans 

Dog sleep 

Peaceful , gentle , warm and lazy

Drifting in dreamland 

On seas of cloud

Oblivious to the world

But now it awakes 

Half closed eyes 

Observing the gloom

Ready to break free

From the ashes

Where it was cast

Time ago

Where it was supposed to stay

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There are portals in the world 

Black holes 

Entrances and exits , to alien worlds 

Some in the mind some in the flesh

Where souls pass 

Doors unseen to be stumbled through ,

Mystical whirlpools that suck in

the unwary.

Some so powerful and huge they radiate to touch all of mankind.

The closer they are the more their power

Bending time, space and minds.

Blurri...

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The fourth dimension

Is it there ?

Perhaps a thin veil 

Between now and then 

a ghostly world

Running in tandem

I wonder

Can I break through

Is it listening?

Is it penetrating my mind

Is it guiding my thought

Will it reach out for me 

Or do I break through

The other side

A dream world 

Observing reality 

Or is it reality 

Observing the dream.

W...

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Cream winter moon

The ghost of the barn owl

Skipping over hedges

Gaze together 

Arm slipped on your waist

Comfortably warm,

Your silhouette catching my breath

Inviting a kiss

Gentle as summers day

Scented as an alpine meadow 

Doe eyes, calm and still

Draw the heart

Pull it from the mine

Bring it to your sunlight 

Press it to your soul

Translucent breath...

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Slip into the river

Through the silver door

The sun is setting 

God like fingers of light

Filter through blood clouds 

Playing the keyboard of fields 

Raising the earths chorus 

As all prepare for sleep 

Monochrome moon lays its hands on the shadows

Cooling the air 

Suspension of reality 

This is the world of Things

Skulking in the blackest pits 

Stealing awa...

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At 7 there’re monsters beneath the bed

At 70 the monsters are now within my head

Banished at 12, melted away, sent to sleep

Their cries no longer heard in the blackness of the cradle

Gone into the ether as ghosts at dawn

But slowly with stealth as I slept

They creep up from their prison 

Piece by piece, step by step

Slithering like serpents into my mind

Gripping my ...

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There’s a shell in side that hides it all

And a shell outside that stops the fall

The little gap between them both

Is where I live with little hope

Which is thickest I don’t know

Which one will melt away like snow

Which has the  crack I need

For me to say at last I’m freed

Shelter, is what I have 

From the hail  above from the current below

I live in numbnes...

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Alone you stand waiting

I’ll give you shelter

From the helter skelter

Turmoil visits you

Over load 

Confusion 

Claustrophobia 

Take my hand

Just for a second

Stay in my orbit for a while

Within my cup of gravity 

Let me share your sensuality 

Spread before me your fragility

I’ll give you shelter

Let me look into your dark eyes 

Let me smooth you ink hai...

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Insanity

A very thin line

Cosmic meltdown

To the stars

To float among the dust in space

Oblivion is where it all ends

A billion years from now

History will be nothing

The future meaningless

No one to chart the night and day

No hate , no love

No, no love

Insanity allows not for love.

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Time marks time

Time is lost

Time is spent 

Time is saved

Time is in the mind 

It never stops

Racing ahead like a tortoise

Slowing to the pace of a hare

The slow time of youthful Summers

The lightning time of old Winters

Time is of the making and breaking of man

Born of his  need for control 

To hold in his hand 

It slips through fingers as the sands 

5,4,...

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WAR 

HUH

YEAH

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

ABSOLUTELY

NOTHING 

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Sweet angels have me in their arms

Lift me up to ocean skies

Sailing through seas of clouds

Set me down on islands of pearls

Warm sun bathes my soul

Wraps me in a shawl of cosmic dust

Lets me breathe the sultry air of freedom

Dreams of dusk and dawn

Slipping in between worlds

Is there a door? 

Is it an entrance or an exit?

A feather embrace to vista beyon...

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Happy days I’m by the sea

My four legged friends and me

Splashing in and out the surf

more exciting than boring turf 

Who cares if it rains or shine

This sandy beach is now all mine

Buckets and spades they’ve all gone home

Leaving us playing all alone

Thundering waves with walls of foam

Come on throw another stone

It’s here somewhere in the sand

I thought...

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The girl in the orange dress

Awaits some one for sweet caress

Gentle eyes flick round the scene

Her breath is still, her eyes serene

Beneath the dress belies her calm.,

Her beating heart pounds as if alarmed

Anticipate a lovers trust

Overcome with pent up lust

Two strangers, yet., not strange at all

Whose lives brush by to each they call

Both need a hand and...

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Well here we are my friends, an actual book.

only published as I felt it would be nice to leave some sort of permanent record after I've shuffled off. ( not that is on the cards at the moment unless Big G has other plans he hasn't revealed to me yet )

thank you all for your support over the last couple of years ,  non of my family of friends know I write poetry , but hopefully they'll find t...

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The Milky Way

A path to where?

A billion stars at which to stare,

Or a billion eyes that blink at us

From deep deep space and clouds of dust.

A brush stroke in the starlit sky

A misty cloud of wonder why

Observed by all down steps of time

Light years away but somehow mine

It’s fingers stretch into the air

With just a glow in sky so fare

Between the milky ...

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Calling , calling calling

Falling falling falling

Crawling crawling crawling

In the dark calling out

In the dark falling about

In the end crawling , without a doubt

My voice echos through the forest

Dying  before the boundary 

Falling to the floor

Swallowed by the hungry moss

Which way to go?

No star to guide

No wind to blow me

No stream to swi...

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Go away Leave me alone

Leave me to consider my flesh and bone

I just need quiet and I  need rest

I just need to sit in my pants and my vest

Stare out the window , go down the pub

Get pissed as a fart and fall in the mud

Wake up with a head like a train

Take a handful of tabs to ease the pain

Switch off the tele switch off the light

Sit in the dark in middle of ...

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So quiet

Evening breeze washes over me 

Honey scent hangs on me

Infinity rains down on me

Warm air caresses me

Open my eyes , your smile

Washes my tears

Gentle fingers through my hair

Hand takes my cheek

Pull my lips to cherry blossom

I quiver beneath you 

Childlike ,

Hopeless in your arms

Vacuumed against the softness

Consumed in the fire

Satiated by y...

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Where’s the exit 

I can’t find it .

The lights are out and it’s dark

All the signs say entrance 

But to what 

Am I exiting or entering 

Is it goodbye or hello

Is it lost or found

No chink of light 

No door ajar 

I can hear the music

Outside 

Over the hill somewhere

But I can’t hear the words ,

Mumbled and faint 

The dogs are calling 

Join the pack 

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Honeysuckle heavy scent

Cloaks the evening in sheets of sweetened air

As I swim through its orbit

Drawn to the yellow white and pink trumpets 

Suspended on a green tangle of spider webs

The hills draw me, from the valley and gliding river 

A silver snake writhing it’s way chaotically 

Burying its head in the forest below

Sleepy with a haze of wings 

Lush meadow...

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Here’s a door

Shut or open

It shuts me in or let’s me out

A door shuts in your face

Or stands in the way

There are things in doorways

Places , memories, people

Blocking the way

Looming and shifting , ghosts of the past 

Trying to see through to the void beyond 

Courage to keep it shut 

Or courage to open it

To let in the breeze or to keep the comfort of fet...

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Meadows spread before me

Orchid rich

Still in the summer sun

Virgin in their beauty 

Now revered as patches of history 

The common reduced to an ancient diamond 

Nestling, gently sloping, it’s hedges embracing the land with arms of green

Sleeping with its treasure

Waiting for rain,or birds or deer

Slowly breathing with the rhythm of the breeze 

Will this free my soul

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Life is lived in code

Unbreakable jumble of numbers 

Stretching from the past 

Disappearing into future 

Forever looking for the magic line

To unlock the  gate 

A dancing kaleidoscope flicking 

In and out of peripheral vision

A code that is outside my grasp

Impenetrable, below the water

Hidden in the depths

Below the rock, locked

A code that’s lost

Mislaid so...

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Eurovision

Which includes  Australia 

A Pastiche of mainly crap

Sung by earnest singers some are thin and some are fat 

Every one rooting for someone 

 Mainly  of course for their own

Whipping all of us into a frenzy

Of the cultural unknown 

Liverpool , presented the world

A clean arty centre , 

Of playtime, Beatles, Cool Britannia

And now a Ukrainian mentor 

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How Bert became King 

Bert he’d been a pilot

And a brave one at that

Flying spitfires in world war 2 

Swatting Huns like nats

Then one day in sunshine 

The ballon went up again

Bert jumped up and hero like 

Ran to his waiting plane

Chocks away they shouted

As his Merlin roared to life

He waved goodbye to his ground crew

Prayed and thought of his w...

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How Bert became King 

Bert he’d been a pilot

And a brave one at that

Flying spitfires in world war 2 

Swatting Huns like nats

Then one day in sunshine 

The ballon went up again

Bert jumped up and hero like 

Ran to his waiting plane

Chocks away they shouted

As his Merlin roared to life

He waved goodbye to his ground crew

Prayed and thought of his w...

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