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Bracken claw and broken sneer Abandon hope and enter here Cold as stone and half as brave Spend a lifetime never save Fields of ruin beck and call…
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Strawberry trees and crickets And the pricking of thumbs Cedar and buntings And the clicking of guns Summer air still In the shadow of noon Blood on the…
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How on earth will we smile tomorrow When we can't even cry today Set the controls for the colour of now And swear there's limbo to pay Swinging hammers…
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So I'm Told
Blue above the waking eye Blue the space between the lie Blue for hot and blue for cold Blue means never So I'm told Blue hold back the winter storm…
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Slow Boat to Yesterday
I took a slow boat to yesterday Cut shadows on the bracken shore Danced with the gloaming Stole kisses from forever In the lee of tumbledown walls Felt…
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Some Day
Some day I'll sleep all night Some day I'll have the guts to turn out the light Some day I'll drink enough to make the narrative make sense Some day…
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Iron in the Blood
Iron in the blood Preaching proverbs in the mud With the king of the air Asking what time is now In a world without love In a world with Iron in the…
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Behold the Pale Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a pale horse Out a riding on the plain Forging feral futures Skipping links within the chain Tomorrow is a pale horse Out a riding in the…
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Midnight and the City
Midnight and the city Locked in their sculpted dance Eyes never meeting As they share a solemn trance Midnight and the city Underneath an iron sky…
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Fly
Take your shovel And your pick And fly away home Fly on home Just fly on home Take your bottle And your whip And fly away home Don't come round here No…
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Remains
Three shades up and two shades down Dancing in your dressing gown Tone deaf forever in bitter peace Hunt low and high for sweet release Three stops then…
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Show For Shame
Fortune fame and show for shame And breakthrough tragedies A heartbeat A blackened cry of torment Out into the vacuum you've become So get up Stand up…
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UK based poet, occasional muser on other things, proud owner of a big fat tartan ass
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