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Fear
the thing that I fear is alway quite near but always unclear abhorred but held dear the vaguest of haunting perpetually daunting there’s shadows unseen of something unclean a thing violent and mean hid ‘mongst the green I know that … Continue reading
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Fate
If there is hope it hides itself well appearing instead as a future of Hell. Humanity walks on a road unknown and soon it will reap all that it has sown. So stand you though may for capitalist right; that … Continue reading
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My place by her side
I follow the beating of a heart long dead, the rhythm of its beat echoes in my head. Her Spirit is pure, her Spirit is strong and it’s on her path that I belong. I stray sometimes out into the … Continue reading
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The Flow
I stand by the water watching it swiftly flow as I quietly wonder “Where does my life’s stream go?” When I find the answer to questions I may see I watch its direction changing; another way to be. Then again … Continue reading
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Our Bequest
To our children this is our bequest; this land from which we’ve torn the best. Be grateful for what you now receive; do not look at this mess and grieve For we don’t know the meaning of care and so … Continue reading
Hope?
At times I need to see some hope; some special thing so I can cope. The doom and gloom, life in despair; those ones out there who just don’t care. The beauty that I see decay so some bastard can … Continue reading
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Tears
Loneliness sweeps through this crowded land where hearts are buried in drifting sand. Where teardrops fill oceans of pain and life is lived with nought to gain what can there be but pain and fear the recipe for that single … Continue reading
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On Weirdness
I know the place where I belong is somewhere wild and free; a place where I can simply be that weird bloke who is me. I’ve tried at times to be in this world but I don’t seem to fit … Continue reading
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Questions
When my enemy’s gone whose friend will I be? Will I be lonely the on day I’m set free? When the battle is done just what did we gain? Will it be worth it in the end – all of … Continue reading
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The Unfolding Scolding
So many years we ravaged her; this entity – our Earth and all through time we took and took and never paid its worth. Now finally, she’s rising; her wrath will now unfold. to her we’re just a nuisance that … Continue reading
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Humanity can go to Hell
So many worlds now linger awaiting the licking finger. The doom and death of fire; my land’s a funeral pyre. So many refused to hear the call of Gaia – faint but clear. Now She shakes away her pain caused … Continue reading
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A modern view of a sunburnt country.
The burning field and coppice The smoke and tears and flames Of burning homes and forests Is beating at our brains Grey-white skies in the distance As the smoke blots out the sky I know, but cannot share it, My … Continue reading
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No Need Fore Tears
It came to me through Spirit; ’twas music to my ears. It showed me that the path was strong and soothed away my fears. I knew its words were wise one’s as I’d heard throughout the years; I know now … Continue reading
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Why can’t Labor get some backbone
Why can’t Labor get some backbone Why can’t labor stand alone Why can’t Labor stand up for this land Why can’t they have a platform grand Why can’t we see them at our side Why do they find the need … Continue reading
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Which Path To Take
Each morning as I Greet the Sun and thank him for the day begun I wonder just what will I see; what will this day, my future, be? Each evening as he sets again I pray the world will know … Continue reading
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