Tweet The Visitor Did you visit me dark angel did you whisper did you call do you come unbidden does my will do my choices make a difference to anything at all I am not my body I am not my brain and though these may become no more I shall still remain [...]
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Tweet One day of the condor Trust The Wind I offered you the chance to fly the high places where the cool clean air bathes the unstepped unspoilt heights in the purity of life Where love in the ecstasy of weightlessness can breathe the eternity of a timeless present shared You flew trusting me wing [...]
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Tweet 12th of November Too many flags Too many wreaths flying and furled circles and sheaths symbols of power and Babel’s tower Too many widows Too much unsolaced grief Too many pipes Too many drums militant skirl bellicose beat marching in lines laying down mines Too wedded to war To demand that peace [...]
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Tweet Forget Me Not Remembrance Day Etched in unforgiving stone The Glorious Dead implacable stands alone washed in rain and bitter tears blood red poppies do not atone across the bitter years the sadness and the loss As each November nears we mourn our honoured dead with military pomp and easy prayers power [...]
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Tweet Memorial Ground Zero- 26th October 2012 So many many names so many many lives no more Names of every race every faith and every creed make this place this precious space satisfy a sacred need There was a Jesus a Mohammad too the paradox of belief perplexes us faith that sustains [...]
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Tweet BEESTON HILL Here on just climbed Beeston Hill heavy-breathed thoughts are memoried in joy The changeless calm of remembrance and uncluttered peace of mind sings in the urgent Norfolk wind Here is no then or when no next or soon tomorrow tends itself yesterday’s love abides in the cherished memories of childhood dreams [...]
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Tweet BUFFY SAINTE MARIE You shall be Earth He said Rain lover Corn giver home to the roots of trees and men Yes you shall be Earth I love the Earth she said My mother My brother Who sustains me My place, my home But I shall not be Earth You shall be Wind [...]
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Tweet You are One When light departs a sharing day kind shadows fall fears to allay for you are one When light returns in dawn’s new ray hope re-awakes of sharing joy today as you are one Giving is easy, taking hard but love transcends self’s wary guard so they are [...]
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Tweet Houla Thirty-two divides time and time again to a perfect one Yet here there are none all are lost, all gone the maths of massacre just does not add up it only takes away Their deaths dishonour us silent in a guilt wherein lies are built We are all now less deaf to [...]
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Tweet the eyes of time The Lion He is an old lion but he still kills his own food The old lion lies languidly before another parting sun He has watered he has fed Contentedly he stretches to his full still powerful extent He has hunted the guile of age disdaining the extravagance of youthful [...]
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