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Saturday, 11 June 2016

High Peak Road

It is the top of my world
With light cast from the heavens
It is as if the breath
Of all the girls I’ve ever known

It is the field for stock, and harvest
With stone walls for the ravens
It is as if for the death
Of all the failings I’ve ever shown

The Jug and Chase
With cars that pass
At fifty miles an hour

The leaning grass
With dew so fast
It holds in the showers

It is the top of my world
With time for the lonely
It is as if all of the hopes
For one of those girls on my own

It is the meadow for dreaming
Daydreams of the one, and only
It is as if the ropes break
From all the ties I’ve ever known


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Friday, 10 June 2016

Café, Bench, And Farmer

Dark, and light
And many fields of cows
Black, and white
And many far away horizons

Hill, and dale
And many stone built walls
Cakes, and ale
And many bicycles on the byway

I now have the time to stand and stare

Psalm, and prayer
And many wondering hows
Quarry, and slayer
And many what he relied on

Cottage, and farm
And many of natures calls
Wrist, and forearm
And ample time to look sideways


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Thursday, 9 June 2016

Teacher

In that search
For heart, and mind, and soul
I had within me
Some certainty
Some doubt
Some confusion

I settled on
The heart being where the seed of the poetry arises
The mind being where I rummage to find a context
The soul being where lies what I choose to leave behind

In this conclusion
Of heart, and mind, and soul
I have been given
The will for absolute life
The will for absolute love
The will for absolute inspiration


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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Song Of Visualisations

Between the mind, and the body
And whatever feeds the soul
Therein lies the story
Of all that’s rock and roll

From the dry winds of the mountains
To the wild, and crashing, seas
From the three girls in the fountains
To the reckless, on their knees

And as we go on singing
In this plain, and lonely, voice
For the wishes we are bringing
While we claim to have a choice

From the soft sands on the seashore
To the dust bowls of the South
From the freedom of the free score
To the soft kiss on your mouth

And as we go on winning
In the East, and in the West
For the smiles they all are grinning
In this, the feast of all that’s best

From the violin concerto
To the throb of drum, and bass
From the lark to the lothario
To the fear of losing face

And as we go on beginning
Each way to start again
For the ideas we are singing
Are to lead us all from pain

From the blues of the delta
To the ballads of the North
From the times of helter-skelter
To the rhythm of the fourth

And as we turn to lingering
On thoughts to burn our breast
Those pages we’re slowly fingering
To fill the heart within our chest

From the physical mentality
To the spirituality of the path
From the journeys of reality
To the sacred place we laugh


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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Pass Over

You gave me a freshly plucked conker
I bought you fake crystals

Your gift is full of life
It will grow old gracefully
The kernel will dry out
The skin will wrinkle

My present, although
Indestructible, is an imitation, yet
It will shed the light of rainbows
Into all the shadowy corners

Together our purchases
With our findings, will help
That we find ourselves, will keep
Our souls safe, to become nourished


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