The devil levels

Decorating cakes and winning medals

Elephants up the stairs push bike pedals

Crushing dust brushing up the pebbles

Footprints on hot coals as the devil levels

Expecting wakes thirst slaking revellers

Bedevilled brakes Turin meddles dwell

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Dreamy lair

Your essence waved, my wafted air

I’d taken time and crafted, serenity to share

Then the blue sky turned to gold

Your effervescence duly staffed, my dreamy lair

I waited less than wandered, in incandescent prayer

Then the clouds, lined with silver, softly rolled

Your presence presents, a trembling bare

I’d opened, once again, this strange affair

Then the red moon rose, by the setting sun

Your lessons in love, lent in a gentle stare

I’d been carefree, lest care made me beware

Then the sky opened all the way to heaven

Your defence, immense at first, wavered there

I’d shown relentless perseverance, a scattered flare

Then you said take my hand our thighs to fondle

We wandered amongst the wonder stuff

We wondered, how we would share

Then the night turned, scared, into a dull grey day

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Yes, that glitterati literati stuff

Lavender swing and Russian vine

Boy it spreads like swine

That Prussian wine

Garden gate and summer fete

Boy isn’t England great

At that washing plate

Shower and brush, I’m coming up lush

Oh that teenage crush

Rash it up, listen for thong and thrush

Library books and surfers touch

Yes, that glitterati literati stuff

Ledbury’s found, all bound and butch

Jazz and soul and rock and roll

Dwell upon that digital ball

Soak up that frock, astride your cockle stall

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Stir it up

Stir it up

Don’t stir it up

Again

Trip up

Tripped up

Once before

Slip cup

Slip of satin silk

Skip

Strap

Fond shoulder

Trap

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Ken

Then it’s a new life, ken

Stride for, from strife, to strike, to ken

Blow away the smokescreen, ken

A new day, a new persona, do you ken

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Sunk, I’ve fallen out of love

My demented mind descended

Pretended it had been doing good

My times past have been lamented

Cemented dams opened to the flood

All past promises are now rescinded

Crescendo to the sound of going rough

Your likes, dislikes, flights of fancy are contended

They are sent packing, with the candle that I snuff

No more string-less invitations extended

One too many open arms, becalm unfriendly stuff

Happy times stored safe, easily remembered

You have cut me so so deep with your indifference

So deep

I am sunk, and so I have fallen out of love

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Autograph your dicrotic cast

That rook and that fair raven

Over the sea from Milford Haven

Cigarettes stamped ‘A’ by company Craven

Ashberry and yew, and years spent misbehaving

Words untrue, lines that slew, croons that keep on slaving

Crows and crows and thought yo yo’s, leaving and waving

The hour glass tipped and turned to yesterday

The wayward path tripped to Everglade

The Sunshine orchestra is ready for the stage

That rook and that fair raven

Grass and dales, pail with ships that sailed

Rails into the distance on cowpokes trails

Leaves of glass on shattered brass

Diamonds; the impasse from rusty pasts

Lust and laugh, autograph your dicrotic cast

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Shuffle the raffle

Like a sparrows wing you were broken

Whilst I was feasting on Baudelaire

Hustle, harrow among dust bowls, soft words spoken

Never near, once more we, we were keeping clear

Midnight hour, crescent moon, for you the only token

Whilst I immersed in Poe and Mr. Arnold dear

Shuffle, ruffle, audits amongst dawn’s chorus woken

Ever to steer, rudder less throughout the sphere

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The wonder of rebuff dismissed

You want to communicate

That is you want to say something

To cause some reactions

You want to communicate a closing

That is you want to say something

To close words of birth contractions

Now then here is the dilemma

By saying nothing

Do you communicate more than words can ever say

Or

By saying nothing

Do you precursor, and so prevent reaction

If your words are spoken

Can the meaning be more mistaken

Than if the written word was read

If your words are laid on parchment paper

Is spontaneity lost

The wonder of rebuff dismissed

Redirection distressed, pointed out by no one other

Do you have the craft or guile

With words to smile or cry

Or look through sly eyes wily

With style to climb on high

While still saying, swaying, saying nigh

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Don’t get angry, don’t get even

Don’t get angry

Don’t get even

Don’t get down

Try to fly

No

Wait on

Work through anger

Work towards even

Build up from down

Now you’ll fly

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Slight craves

Ah

Clear thought

White waves

Blue sky

Message in a bottle

Hip

Twist top

Slight craves

Addicts lie

Message in a bottle

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