and my new plane art too! drawn while drunk in abbey pub before my open mic

 

DON’T MOCK FATE

 

When you think you have it all and you smile knowing you’re the king of your own little world, an empire of your own making made by you. You do something that separates you from this life of your own making and what you have – a house with a mortgage paid for by your job in the City, engaged to be m...

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CAUGHT UP IN A FARIYTALE

 

My dreams haunt me as does the music, drunk I dance to the mesmerising tales told by the songs of 25 years ago, as real now as back then. The heady rush of the moment takes me and lifts me up ever so high until my primeval fear snatches my euphoria away like committing an armed robbery on a child for his sweets. Cold war nightmare returns with a dozen vengeances as I d...

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SHE HAS THE ANSWERS

 

It troubled her how it had come to this. She knew each detail, each action, each thought, but it still troubled her.

As she fell to her knees, her woollen skirt became sodden with freshly fallen snow. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she wept for her lost love, gone forever from this strife torn world. Soon she would do the ultimate sin and follow him.

Collapsing to the ...

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SPINNING THRU THE YEARS

 

“I don’t see the reason why every angel should fly.”

Now so many years later the song sounds the same

but look at how we have aged.

Now we aren’t so young and the years spin

before us like seeds upon a pond.

Old Father Time laughs at us as we grow old

but I only wish I could turn back time

and be young again forever. I shed

so many tears over my youth,

...

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TOUCH THE SKY WITH BURNING FIRE

 

Enemy birds of combat fly to their destiny,

they’re made by factories in Russia and elsewhere.

Their high escort provides their aerial

protection against enemy planes.

With such professional care the aerial hawk

checks his missiles; suddenly his wingman

is a burning shower of sparks – gone.

Nine miles above an aerial chariot launches

his missile, no...

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based on my mad dreams from last night after having too much beer and watching the stunning nick cage film Knowing too. this came to me and drunkenly i did it in my phone and then wrote it out. i cant ever tell the gal coz she wont wanna know. i believe we'll be together in another life. but i want her now but she not want me. such is life.

 

 

ECHO CLASS

What strange dreams I have. Of HM, of ...

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BUSSIN’ CRAZY

 

After a terrible sleepless night to end all others

the highly pissed-off bus driver reports for duty.

His day starts bad as he runs a red light and just misses a car.

He short-changes his passengers and mutters

in annoyance as he drives along.

Fate is a cunt today as his bus swerves past a pensioner

half in the road. He doesn’t care – in no way at all as he grinds

his...

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ACTIONS

I have to live with other people’s actions –

I carry them and their actions around in my head.

Their story is my story as I get drawn in and I ask myself,

why does it all happen? Why do I carry

other people’s stories inside my head,

if other men have such tales in their heads of other people.

My incentive is to keep going in life, take each day

as I find it and to do my best ...

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THEY WERE   They were boys going over the top to die in their tens of thousands in the mud of the Somme. Nazi youth best in the world bar none, proved wrong over wide steppes of Mother Russia. Hurricane pilots fighting Japan over Ceylon, Burma, Imphal, lost pilots barely 21 made men in lonely cockpits. Red Chinese boys laid bare bone bloody against Yankee lines, human wave failur...

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ROOM HOUSE TELLY WINE

 

Time stands still in a front room in early ’95.

The telly is on but the sound is off,

All About Eve plays on the stereo,

soft vocal tones and powerful guitar.

The clock says a time but that doesn’t matter

as here it is timeless.

Bev drinks a glass of wine

while I have the rest of the bottle

and a full bottle of Thunderbirds.

I will be pissed for over a d...

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MAN = WOMAN

 

There is someone for somebody

no matter what you look like

or what turns you on.

That person could be your next-door neighbour

or they could be 10,000 miles away.

They could have lived 500 years ago and be no more.

How do you find the one for you?

It’s completely up to you how you do it

but if you do you will know.

It will hit you like a bomb

and then it’s love f...

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THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

 

Lovely spring evening spent in Manchester with my new sweetheart. A few drinks in pubs once full of a blitzed population. On the same streets my dad saw ablaze by Nazi bombs, his son courts his new gal. A kiss is stolen on streets once burning end to end. How many guys and gals didn’t make it? Father’s legacy passed onto his son. A city in flames Xmas time 1940 a si...

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NO8 CHINESE PROSPERITY title by gaz my backing guitarist

 

On holiday in Taiwan enjoying a break on the west coast, fine five star hotel, great scenery, nice beach and pretty gals. Two weeks of bliss at a new holiday destination. Little was I aware that Red China was about to plan her invasion to unite her renegade province by force. Recent jet air combats left an uneasy peace with Taiwan the vi...

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based on my time living down south 2005-8

SOUTHERN SONG

 

I’m one of the boys; I’m one of them who lives in my southern English town of Witches’ Elbow.

We just love it in our quaint little town by the sea, we chill out on the beach on the long summer nights, drinking warm beer and making love on the sand dunes knowing these moments will last forever.

I’m originally from the north and moved t...

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YOUTH TRAGEDY

 

Many millions strong, an army in the making

of powerful emotions and thoughts.

What is my generation to think of this?

Young in my own eyes, two generations under me

are rising above me right now.

Some make it, some don’t, some are good and do it right,

some are bad and do dark deeds.

They better do it right as soon they’ll be running

this damn country, coming into ...

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lol in two text sizes, stupid!!:) anyhow Patrol Torpedo boats were used in world war 2 to harass and sink larger Japanese merchant vessels. a quite untold story.

 

SO FAR FROM HOME

 

Under a curving shimmering blue fish bowl of the sky the small Patrol Torpedo boat cruises over the gentle summer swells in the distant Pacific under summer skies torn apart by brutal bitter total war. Small PT bo...

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MIND FRIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT

 

I’d been out to the pub on my own I came back early, it was one of those nights. I walked up the main road a little drunk. It was then I heard a car, it sped away so very fast – getaway? Briefly I saw it, gone. Seconds later I heard two bangs, fireworks? No pretty sky light display, screams! I heard screams of, “Help! Help! My husband’s been shot!” my drunkenness sho...

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