Old broken Southerly

 

It all started at the beginning

As most things do and did all time ever

Starting as they ever will and doing long never day

Doing long never day before the big night

Before the big sea shimmered green

walls of water, roaring, dancing

Long blow ripping the jagged edges of the shore

Old broken Southerly kissing fish tails a plenty

Rolling white h...

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Then where are you, if not here

 

Then where are you, if not here

My Love

In the everywhere of my heart

The start and ending of each day

Were the day ever to have but two kisses

Then let them be mine

My love

One, light upon my waking

Taking that sweetness into my morning

The last into my sleep

My Love

So that I might dream deep into your eyes

Then where ar...

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Forgotten in the Attic

 

Old clothes in the attic

Yesterday’s peacock feathers

Indigo, blue and red

Faded profusion in the darkness

High In the loft that’s above our bed

Long gone twills and corduroy

Neatly folded in their creases

Neatly folded where they lay

All in pretty layers of their day

 

Brown brogues in the attic

Tinsel and baubles on the tree

Indi...

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They can’t Hear the Music Anymore

 

Take me back to the start again

Into the light to where words blind me

Right back into the heart again

Into the streets that run ragged

A jagged reality where no one smiles

Drinking in the world they listen silently

Volume lights blinking on maximum

Android ‘Throb Box’ wires dangle

Into the tangle that was once a thought

Eyes wid...

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It was the music that he had heard first followed by all the angry madness, the garish badness, a badness in which she delighted. She was all dressed up nines and tens, her eyes flashing green over her overly played garish makeup that had frightened her youth away. The tinny tinkle of her rings and things, singing and pinging their market stall magic into the damp dirty air as they cut sharps and ...

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Grow Tired Dreaming

 

I’m so tired of listening

long gone

sad songs baby boo

Tear stain rain city

Isn’t it a pity that

sleeping my life

I reap what I sow

Grow tired dreaming

Stars in my eyes

Prise open the day

play that song again

 

Over and over

 

Over and over

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One summer Morning

 

Came them the young boys in their thousands

One summer morning just like this

Reaching out for a mother’s kiss

The sturdy arm of a father

Came then the bullets and splintering shell

Mud and blood and ripping wire

Into smoke black and buggered hell

 

They’re still there in the fields beneath the flowers

In their thousands where they fell

In ...

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Mouth melting eyes brightening

Blue lightening lost in a star spun moment

Milk white shoulders

Longing and wronging

 Breathing kisses across alabaster warm folding

Night hidden beneath a winter tree

Mars and moon

Red to silver exchanging glances

Lust for love weaving a dream deceiving

Scheming into nowhere stealing one from another

Beggars and thieves

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Beatle mop tops when all you need is love

Rolling Stones not satisfied would ever fade away

In fields of wild strawberry forever hallelujahs ring

In the midnight hour how sweet it was to be loved

Oh yes indeed how sweet it was

 

LSD purple hearts two a Penny lane

Flower power we made love not war

 

When fat Elvis was the king

 

Fashion passion Ray

Really got me ...

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Not a word has been spoken

Within that always moment

Eyes meeting eyes

The moist upon her lip

His smile like morning

Forever passes one to the other

Roaring, splashing, noise and colour

Weaving an electric tapestry

That will bind them both forever

As they part

Returning to the darkness

Never looking back

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Will it ever snow for us again?

My lovely,

My pretty one with tousled hair and skin like milk

Fall upon fall

Spiralling feathers of ice silent as prayer

As arm in arm upon the weaving river path

We laugh toward the sleeping light of home

White over white

Indigo midnight, a thousand stars and moons

Far below winter kisses you

Light, stinging your frozen cheek

Snow u...

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I love her name
It gently alights upon my pillow
Brushing my cheek
Soft as not to awaken me
I love her name
It dreams through my night
Taking flight before the morning
Fancy like a sweet refrain
Warm it lights the summer
Time over time
Her fragrance upon my lip
No song was ever sung as sweetly
Nor did it sound so lovely

I love her name
I love her name

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Tell to me of true love stirring
Heart cold upon a somewhere stone
Beside the river fast and flowing
Beside the rivers rushes bending
Comes there firefly and sunbeam
Owl and vixen homeward fleeting
Feather and fur that smell of night
Homeward
Into the early nearly light

In the misting hint of sunlight
Hidden beneath a somewhere stone
So close to true loves calling
Near the river fast...

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It’s starting to rain again
Running down my face again
My smile stolen
Carried far out to sea
A ragged shingle edge
Stinging
A ringing loud and clear
Shells singing in my ear
Wild white horses prancing
Dancing all ways ever
So far away
So long ago
 

                                                             Painting Gus Jonsson

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One day every day
Tinker tailor soldier sailor
Hours all special moments fleeting
Would kiss me as lightly
Dreams passing like clouds
A veil
Amor vincit omnis
Richman poor man
Soft falling snow
All is silent not a word spoken
Sweet stolen breath of time
Beggar man thief
Tempus fugit amor manet
There will be a time forever
One day every day
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In the time it takes to turn a corner
In the going of that moment
The rain
In the time it takes to close your eyes
In the waking dread of darkness
Spiral deepest down and down
Wherein long cold fingers claw
Wherein the night grows ever darker
In the time it takes to turn a corner
In the going of that moment
The rain
In the time it takes to root and tangle
Blood red fruits await the win...

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We Are Missing You

 

We are missing you

The cold still air wonders where you are

A bottle of wine, chilling, waiting

Anticipating your salivations

Nipper ever listening

His white coat glistening

Vigilance rewarded

Afforded to his masters voice

We are missing you

 The quiet bedroom wonders where you are

The fleur of Scotland, spread waiting

Anticipating sw...

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What of you my darling

My dearest one

What of you within the warm shimmer of day

Fey careless heart

God gifted you dark night

For all your errant swirling dreams to sail

Far away across deep forever running seas

Storm and tempest ever

Tossing you upon some far distant shore

To sleep forever and dream amore

What of you my darling

My dearest one

Wit...

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Razor walking, Quick Street talking, really cutting edge

hedge your bets against that a quick, humdrum, cum moment.

The rattle, tattle, big bang, don’t dillydally,

on your way home moment.

 

Now, its eyes down for a full lickty spit,

split right down the middle like my cousin Rosebud

a clickity, dickity girl with yesterday in her hair.

 

Rosebud, who keeps Ec...

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It hurts again in my head again

Wide asleep into the bright blinding light

Sick of the sight again

Of the long cold night again

Pain an always ever

Never warm in my bed again

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                  Anger raged Leaving me ragged and broken high upon another lonely shore Madness afire Cruel words conspire from my open mouth Blazing crazed vile obscenities Washed away in a rain of tears I extinguished love True true love I gave up the fight It’s growing darker now I’m afraid I’m losing the light Vom...

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Wandering dark streets again

Pain and stinging rain again cutting into me like a thief

Bleeding self disgust into my coffee cup

Stirring up emotions brown sugar days a coming

I’m listening to my heart pounding table tops

Sounding out Chuck Berry

You never can tell

But none the less promises of glass lie shattered

Blood splattered and torn into a thousand shards

...

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The expectant buzz abroad in the streets of Bury last Sunday  (Bank Holiday) evening was liken to , for those old enough to remember, a crowd scene from a  ‘Mad Max’ movie.  Shameless and My Gypsy Wedding merging as one as tarts and farts thronged and jostled  through the streets  spilling noisily in and out of every club and bar. Suddenly and thankfully I was off the street  and through the po...

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Lion King in your sheepish sweet meadow sleep

Reap the rough and tumble sure shot

Firing from the hip hop spot music slot

Shooting for the star edges of the farthest flung

Hey ho!

 You are a shag bag wrung out to dry

Try rock and roll and watch Judy lights shining

Tit tattle speak easy jelly talk

Tumble ...

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For all of those trembling on the brink, all wannabe poetry performers, as yet uninitiated and still afraid to stand-up on an open mike night, WOL Middleton night at the Ring of Bells is just up your street.

I was last to climb the ladder of a  steep staircase to the cosy room upstairs  at Middleton’s Ring of bells, I was warmly  welcomed by  the words of our  compare  Gemma ,( I’m pregnant...

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Tears of rain streaked across the blinded eyes of the small shops and cafes that lined the narrow High Street, as muted sounds of a Christian Sunday morning could be clearly heard from behind the heavy oak doors of the Kingdom Hall. God’s gentle music rose up upon the squalling wind into the rain only to pitch tinkling and drumming from the roof tiles until splashing down onto the shining pavem...

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He kissed your eyes in sleep talk

Taking your hand he led you to that first morning

Into the light

Into the early pearly light that brightened the furthest edge of day

 

Where he gifted you beauty radiant within you like suns rising

Where he scattered gold and ruby stone in your hair shining

Into the light

 

He painted yo...

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Silhouetted against cold and darkening skies the vast Victorian monolith known as Brooklyn threw open its weathered creaking doors to a small band of foolhardy poets brave enough to enter.

The nervous throng of poets and musical wannabes were invited into what was once the master’s sumptuous bedchambers, sadly long neglected. Forgiving the backdrop of attic trivia and old bikes, one could n...

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When Bibble he would a bounding swim

Boundless glore upon his fizzog

Splashed he breastie ways and overlimb

Swimming swifty like a croc log

Quiet stealth he’d swimmy creep

Both overland and overseas

Until upon toasted stooks he’d leap

Climbed the highest Groolam trees

Came then Krabb and turning Turtle

Came then coughing Doobah birds

Nurbling yams and wee...

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I still dream of the Solent’s bottle green,

of gentle sea splashing against the weed clad legs of the dark jetty.

 

Comes then a steal of wind carrying a kiss of the sea wetting your cheek,

as raucous rusted

ferry chains ring out over the darkening estuary.

 

 Roosted high upon her boatyard perch

a gull watches quietly from beneath downy white wing

as night p...

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He found a diamond

A fire too hot to handle

Burning his fingers

 

Burning his cold toes

Keeping his ear to the ground

Quietly like a mouse

 

Quietly like snowfall

He stole into the brightness

A lightness of touch

 

A lightness a foot

He trod where angels fear to

Stepping into hell

 

Stepping out lightly

Into a future long past

...

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Chase, rattle rings and things, Charlie chasing lady.

Moon pools sparkle beneath her thick black lashes

brushing away the lazy dampness of later midnight.

 

Yellow bright lights piss quick, dippy dancing a crazy

to faraway Manchester.

 

Blue note bozos tattooed black wait in tattered corners,

graffiti floozy Queens peddle push all ways.

Sirens table talk swee...

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Kiss she dabble touch lady

Lately lady gentle cool linger smile

Warm in her deep dream eyes

 Brown as comfort

Drinking in my every all

Deep into her sigh upon perfumed sigh

Comes then sleep pillow kissed prayer

Comes then every longest forever never night

Wide asleep wretched until the bright of morn

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Somewhere underfoot beneath her contemptuous gaze

Grinding and crushing

Blood rushing to her head

Misting bloody red

Wine and roses lay scattered

Dreams and schemes splattered

Left then right spinning into the vicious plight awaiting

Cold, colder yet as cruellest roaring sea

Light her slender form struck out at me

Red pretty toenails sharp as razors pledge th...

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Lay Lay

 

 

Rings and stings and things that jingle

Fly me chromium plated to the start

Wet and warm beneath tangerine streets

Head and shoulders above the rest

 

Lay Lay

 

 

Trickling and tickling and things that glow

Burnt out gas blue...

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Through the small scullery window above the gleaming Belfast china sink, I could see clear across the River Medina on Saturday mornings.

'A sure sign of fair weather', my mother would say.

She was always right; it never rained on Saturday mornings.

Instead of rain, my father, who was separated from my mother, would visit us, straight off the night shift ostensibly to give my mother ...

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The velvet dusted sleeve of night

Dark and darker yet to light the moon

Bejewelled silken cuff of ocean

Whets the appetite of dream

 

Vivid beneath all heavens splendour

Vivid beneath satin dancing splashes

 

Soft agin warm earth's mantle

 

Skirts of bright embroidered ruby

Skirts of bright all jet and golden

 

Rose lace billows petticoat dawn...

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Loveliness alights

Kiss

Soft upon trembling lip

Sweetness

Flowers in the rain

 

Deepest red

 

The sun honey darkest amber

Gold sweeps edges of night

Moon clouds stealing starlight

Where under

Lovers

 Dream sleep

Until  morning never comes

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Loveliness did kiss them

Light upon trembling lip

Sweetness

Flowers in the rain

 

Deepest red

 

The sun honey darkest amber

Gold sweeps edges of night

Moon clouds stealing starlight

Where under

Lovers

 Dream sleep

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I recall the rain

Crying into my dreams

No charabanc for me

No trip to the sea

 

Squalling

 

The gusting wind scattered my broken heart

All ways like grains of sand

My bucket and spade

Laid

Hand in hand upon my bedroom floor

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In a time of gone forgotten

 

Black the dark before the first dawn           

Black the delirium and the fury

 

Raged a wind so cold and cruel

 

Beneath the torment in the heavens

Beneath the everlasting storm

 

Came there flame and billowing sulphurs

Came there stench and vile chaos

 

In a time of gone forgotten

 

Wherein putrid groun...

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Wave over wave

 

Stretching to measure time the darkness

Searching salt raw edges of the sea

Yellowing his ragged memories

Dream a once ago that had been kinder

 

Wave over wave

 

Watchers gather upon still waters

Weaving his love and lives to wear

Laying his lonely angel sleeping

Moments ebb and tide waits for no man

 

Wave over wave

...

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Crazy feeling

I’m still alive kicking up a storm

Crash bang bitch talk

Yes oh yes

The sort of talk that I like when I have a mind

Don’t you know?

 

Like you didn’t know

 

Lay me like a blade cold as chrome

Crawdaddy kisses down my spine

They burn like ice

 

Mind and eye filling

Spilling over and over with stingsong

The gone wrong too ...

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Oh how I adore her space

 

With just a trace of grace and favour

Her femininity to savour

 

Oh how I adore her space

 

Her secret nook and cranny

 

Oh how I adore her space

 

 

 

 

Oh how I adore her space

 

With just a trace of lace and French silk

Her blood red nails and her thighs of milk

 

Oh how I adore her space

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My big golden boy

Barking at the stars

 

Mars a million billion light years

As my tears crystal into the cold night air

Bringing me rare moments of love and laughter

Dreaming ever after of my big golden boy

 

My big golden boy

Barking at the stars

 

Trying to catch the clouded moon

A silver balloon within a thousand l...

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Can you hear the nothing to nowhere wind?

 

Measuring a moment

 

Somewhere lost in the far away

The never to come or go again

 

Sunset

Red strokes of night slash bleeding to the edge

 

White sands stinging

 

Crystal kissing

 

Brownest eyes and tumbling hair

 

Pretty toes and yellow shells

 

Measuring a moment

 

Step...

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Beneath the umbrella tree

The where I am tree of who I used to be

Spreads entwined wet bright vine

Ringed by rolling rusting iron seats

 

Dull diesel fume from a single decker green bus

The town hall clock beats out time

Across municipal gardens and abandoned lawnmower

‘The Spurs’ cafe remains open

 

Wednesday aft...

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Oh! How I wish

 Said the plate to the spoon

As side by side they lay

That I could be given freedom

From bearing food

For just for one whole day

 

I carry their cake

Their bread and their tart

And To them it doesn’t matter

That me a little platter

Should have feelings

Of the heart

 

Oh! Hush you now

Sighed the silver spoon

Be...

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Oh!

What a day

What an extraordinary day

I am standing here in the rain

Tears streaming down my face

Drip drip dripping

Dropping from my chin

Soaking my beating breast

Pouring out my heart

To anyone

Who will sing and dance with me

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