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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8 Billion

Who will win ?

Murderous mankind

Super species   

Sweep all before

Leave a wasteland behind

10 Biblical plagues have nothing on us

A billion locusts , a drop in the ocean.

What will stop us?

War, disease, drought, fire , greed , fear ,?

Natures weapons blunt and useless 

Against the tide of filth we call mankind

Scoured and hollowed 

Carcasses of th...

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Lines are our rulers

We stand in line

A ration line, 

Recruitment line,

A defensive line,

A trench line

A line of attack 

Lines full of strangers.

Silently waiting 

For their turn.

School boy lines

I must not cross  the line

I must not cross the line

I must not cross the line 

A line of prisoners 

A line of graves

A line of children

Buying ice cre...

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Rain on my window 

Hissing like black and white interference

Unable to tune in

Searching the dial for a glimmer 

A flick of a picture 

A glimpse in the mirror

A speeding car

A lovers kiss

Peering into another world 

The other world

A world of madness

Brainless humanity 

Busily going nowhere 

Chasing dreams

Or chasing reality

Pursuit of perfection

Or ...

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Yellow and blue

It’s every where

The sun the sky

The sea the sand

The corn swathed land. 

The colours of nature 

The colours of freedom

Pass me the blue

Pass to me the yellow

To hold in our hearts

To make it our pillow

To cloak our babes

To dance in the wind

Like the winter willow.

Hold the colour high 

Though drenched with blood 

Though dr...

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Illusion, is where we all are

An illusory world, with illusory mirrors

Reflecting illusory walls.

Beaches of milk

Seas of coal,

Sky of  fire

Just an illusion

Look through the fog

Peer into the mist

Fleeting shadows inhabit these realms but they’re an illusion

Is the past an illusion ?

Time gone before that was rushed through unseen

Gone in an illusionary blur

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The prison of conformity holds us all

We sit in our cages and shout through the bars

You brought me the key of freedom

Released me from the dark

Finally breaking through

Finally breaking into the horizon

River of the future beneath my feet

Don’t come too close 

Just enough to breathe life into me

Just enough to make me free

Winds of change 

Scoop me up 

Tumbling...

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Mackerel sky stretches it’s skeletal fingers across the void

Eyes , introspect , thinking , looking , questioning 

Sun breaking through thin cloud bringing hope to all

You sit, calculating, on bended knee I cup my hands

Tide washing , waves, raging on the rocks

Your offer is all I need

Rock pools left , trapping their catch 

Your lips part as if to speak.

Cool winds blow th...

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Your shadow holds my bones

Diving into the warm pool of your arms

Feather touch,burns my soul

Emotions spiral me to Sargasso calm 

Crystal waters wash me

With the hands of mermaids

Sirens calling me to the deep

Wrapping me in ghostly silken thread

Holding me down until I drown 

Satiated, by your breath,

Hanging in the air as gasps of gossamer

Paralyse my senses and...

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Lost in the fire

That warms the soul

That cooks the bread

Calling all that see it to gather round

To gaze into its heart as if the answer will be there. 

Somehow written in the embers 

Idly stirred with poker or stick

Dancing fire birds sent to the sky

Crazily reaching for the stars to become one, but burning out fall back to hearth of birth 

Lost in the fire, thoug...

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No Bob to wake me up

No Bob to give a treat 

No Bob to lick my face or rest weary at my feet

No Bob to give a tablet too

Wrapped in pate tight 

No Bob to lie down by my bed

And stroke and say goodnight

No Bob to put a collar on to take on daily walks 

No Bob to trot by my side and listen to my talks 

No Bob to chase the cat or bark at my front door

No Bob to sit ...

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