I saw the men and women trudging, marching,

Poppies pinned to their coats,

Protests for peace rended by police hordes disheartening,

Who'd still glorify all those, 

Give to such, what is it we suppose,

Keeps us battle locked? Hear the drums starting,

A frenzied beat and a gunshot sound so close.

Is parting from conflict such sweet sorrow

The triumphant regi...

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Born into the notions that defined your family for years,

You keep a diary, the only one with whom you share your doubts,

For you dare not raise your hand to say,

How, so according, the line

Between love and hate seems so fine, 

For it is what would result of that, which you fear

You search all books for the answers for your heart,

But each answer poses another...

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Through the fading of a fantasy,

And the mining of subjects untried but true,

I have struck a vein of light,

For the cold burn of a winter's dawn,

As autumn's nights I had to solemnly salute,

For allowing me this find

A strong diver set against a mosaic moon,

Caught mid-flight, into torrents of silver he sees,

The mountainous clouds applaud,

Aqueous ser...

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The licking lightning wrests the sky from the dark,

Both warring and weeping in its breaking brevity,

Flashing collective notions of a life through the minds of all who look on,

Rumbling with discontent as to how soon it had to leave,

To which the wind shrieks an accord,

Clinging to faces of rocks and people that will not change, 

When more has been said than done

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The waiving web of arguments has been strung up near the door,

Pacifists in fisticuffs amounting only to a bore,

Clumsily, they wrap themselves in cloth only they can see,

For to conform to others, they never could be free,

 And reason escapes all, as to what this is truly for.

Clinging to the clime of an abashed autumn, so absurd,

The dreamers dip in nightmares wr...

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Here's a salute to the hearts heavy with the blood spilled,

Know you've served your country well with the thousands you have killed,

But know as your tongues taste the acrid dust in the air,

For the taste of victory is that of the blood and oil,

And of arms bore; branded in the depths of their users' despair

The profits made through the fight may help in the next few y...

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It's said of a good picture,

That it is worth a thousand words,

But well known laws demand,

That for each and every action,

So is sired an equal, opposing reaction,

And so this like all else,

Has a complete reverse.

But what word is worth,

Quite so many pictures as a whole?

And to shed ambiguity where

Pictures shed their light,

An important word...

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A resolved father leads his family,

Long standing disagreements laid to rest,

For they came together,

And in unison, a thunderous song was sung,

A new era surely had begun,

Each came to embrace that they so before would detest.

A son of merit came upon the scene, 

Through example a collective spirit was bound,

Caught ahead of time,

Working through both ...

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The roses are wilting,

Both petals and thorns droop,

The ugly and the beautiful,

Where neither know what to do

The crowd is in chaos,

Vinegar tears seep from their eyes,

The leaders are trying to do away with

All of their past ties

The priest is looking pale,

His faith so surely marred,

By the lack of answers he sees,

And by his cyanide he...

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The newspapers lay soaked in the corner,

The bus droning down the lane,

Caught between,

But entirely averted, 

To all except its driver's pain

Tangled up in a waking nightmare, finds himself

Whispering only to he and his bus,

The coins dropped,

With each passing sign,

Memories laden with little but rust.

And he goes home, God only knows when,

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The steel blue sky,

Hangs above,

All, all the same,

No favouritism granted,

Can such fairness,

Only come of such coldness,

And is it truly all that is wanted?

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So begins the end...

The end is the grinning cheshire cat,

Disappearing from its seat,

The realm of dreams, through which,

Seeing beyond its window,

The terrifying vistas of light we'll inevitably meet.

The end is on the rotating monopoly boards,

Counter-clockwise, the dice roll heads us for Mayfair,

Hotel established, how much to pay,

The thick g...

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The wind is still,

As the day holds its breath,

Amidst the grey-silver noon,

For naught is now left,

Of the golden season,

That fled only all too soon.

The pitch-cast suits,

Stalk the shadows of the day,

Overcast by their hearts,

But be that as it may,

 A method must be devised,

For the land to have a new, fresh start

With smoke ring h...

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The release of news, not new, for half a year,

Has the U.S. military strangled with fear,

As their abuse is quite so exposed,

And the analyst who confessed to their crimes,

Surely locked away and denied,

Just as many would suppose

To show the helicopter of slaughter,

All a-whirl with sadistic laughter,

As it mows a family down,

For to have the public se...

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The Channel calls and clashes at the shore,

The slippery sea wall yields no reply,

Looking down from the pier above,

The olive green waters fiercely enthrall,

Clasping the horizon at its edge,

Hushing a whisper, still an enigma to us all

Sinking lights fall with the sea into itself,

And then creep up through the froth,

Still shedding little light where any ...

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And so soon the day had come to an end,

The writers and the critics all obsessed by their pens,

For they knew how to wield them, mightier than swords,

But knew that they would be useless unless backed with a cause,

Clashing beneath the amazed pinnacle's foot,

Focuses became so narrow, all eyes were nigh shut,

And the only things wrote about were the stars.

From...

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Twisting and stretching, she came through the fogs of an eve's tale,

Amazingly and amazedly she looked at the surrounding nothingness,

Wan and delicate was her face, under her back,

A pale and fragile picture of beauty, marred by loud movements,

As all looked on awed and amazed,

By the nothing surrounding that she lacked.

Stretching and stringing new chapters to th...

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A grey-purple night,

From the city centre to home,

A long stretch,

Both in distance,

And of imagination,

As closing-in buildings,

Crept out from grey rooted shadows, 

The glare of headlamps,

Juxtaposed they gathered,

Congregating with myriad intents,

The space between them; a snare,

Ensnared and entranced,

As nearer and nearer they came,

Tight...

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The floorboards are creaking,
As the mouse beneath, squeaking, is crawling,
Only to croak,
Removing a plank,
I look into its dull left eye,
I pick it up,
Thinking of only how much it stunk

A body was found in the bath,
It was a mother, used to the laugh and the cry,
But no scornful laugh,
And no terrified cry,
Was ...

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Whether you pick the long or short,

Oft either is more than enough,

Though it may concern you,

Or it may not,

Of climes so interchangable,

The weather appears as variedly,

On the island's unyielding face,

As inneffectually as anything can,

Like whatever torrent of emotions,

Should crash against the heart,

Of what many call the typical Englishman

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Power, as ever, lies with those with so much wealth,

Never caring much for others, only about themselves,

Enough time spent on archaic notions like honour and loyalty,

As the status quo crushes the majority in a sea of apathy,

The lack of conscience where enterprise is free

Now nearly every protest singer is dead or on the fade,

In the face of the notion that seems...

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What makes a hero to the land?

Courage and valour to the end,

But for whom,

The man-gods of government,

Who declare wars with many a pitiless, amoral hand,

Or his own justice, which he seeks to defend?

When the latter is used for the sake of thousands' lives,

Not for the sake of extending an empire, tyrannical and almighty,

A poor excuse,

A forced democ...

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I'm sure I told this to all,

Beneath the grey-silver sky,

I knew what the cost would likely be,

Forsaking all for the path to be free,

But, to this day, I'm not sure why.

The midnight sighing wind swirls,

In the red-gold orichalcum world,

And of all the natural splendours here,

That someone could hold me most dear,

I feel deeply humbled, the least to sa...

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The red sun rises,

The hounds heave and wretch from the sickly rotten stench,

With blood on their breath, they’re in up to their necks,

Nothing more surprises,

Than the silver tongue in the maw of he who was given to being more,

But is now simply a killer above the law.

The mothers weep,

They cry and mourn, their children torn by coalition shots in the morning,

A ventu...

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