| A collection of poetry contributed by people | | | | Whisper- |
| who believe in our idea to end poverty | | | | |
| forever. This idea can be found on | | | | In, out, the soft tide of warm air |
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| Please note that the views expressed by these | | | | I feel the strength of hope and lies |
| poets do not necessarily represent the views | | | | |
| of the 'Four Walls for Freedom Campaign'. We | | | | Inside my mouth as the word dies |
| support free speech and have thus not edited | | | | |
| any of them. | | | | The heart, the soul, it needs a scriptwriter |
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| You may redistribute this collection of poems | | | | In agony I wonder if I can be a fighter |
| as long as you do not change or edit it | | | | |
| (including the introduction). Feel free to | | | | Two people sit together and tell nothing to |
| tell people about our idea to end poverty or | | | | each other |
| come up with your own idea that works even | | | | |
| better. | | | | Yet these nothings are short aspirations, of |
| | | | what they could be together |
| Here's our idea to end poverty in short: | | | | |
| | | | The hills, the trees, the lines of clouds, |
| 0.5% tax on foreign exchange transactions | | | | the heather |
| worldwide, raising over £1 trillion per | | | | |
| year. | | | | The world is perfect, the sun, the holy |
| | | | weather |
| Employ most of the poor people in developing | | | | |
| countries with this money to build houses and | | | | Can I muse or amuse and not lose |
| related infrastructure for themselves. | | | | |
| These houses would be given free to the poor. | | | | Is this poem a great big ruse |
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| The stimulus of the £1 trillion per year | | | | Whose poem is this, whose |
| to developing countries kick starts their | | | | |
| economies and makes the price of houses start | | | | Can you really choose |
| to rise. | | | | |
| | | | The meanings that come from sentences |
| As the house price goes up, the poor become | | | | |
| rich. | | | | Are like a jail with walls as tenses |
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| There are numerous processes that would go | | | | Envelope yourself, cover your senses |
| into effect and quite a bit of theoretical | | | | |
| reasoning why this would work. Find out more | | | | In a war on tremours of the soul, you sitting |
| and join us on our website, | | | | in the trenches. |
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| Poetry Collection | | | | Politicspolitics is theatreas all the worlds |
| | | | a playbut war is politics by other meansas |
| Untitled | | | | Clausewitz would sayso what is the theatre of |
| | | | war? |
| In summer you force yourselves | | | | |
| | | | WAR and peacethe world was born of peaceit's |
| Upon us. All about a wild | | | | creator rested after the effort of making |
| | | | itbut now all that has ceasedand the earth |
| Haze of leaning lust and | | | | has gone to shitbombs rail overhead and |
| | | | underneaththe suicide killer, the USA |
| Afrodisiae. Pollen smudged bark | | | | daisycutter comes down from the planeis this |
| | | | the answer?verse becomes teaseand i would |
| And pungent air, soft little | | | | prefer curry with peasfor the terse verse is |
| | | | in reverseand bin laden's messages ring |
| Tendrils and ravishing hair; | | | | overhead like cluster bombskilling has become |
| | | | normaland the creator would be cryingon his |
| An old master's palette upon | | | | cross, on his crescent, in the Buddha poseand |
| | | | sit alone and be all a sighingfor with war we |
| Which I idly do stare. The gnarled roots | | | | only losebut there is a glimmer of hopefor |
| | | | war must always endit just depends when. |
| They thrive, their branches | | | | |
| | | | Plathos |
| Cleave cleansed air whilst | | | | |
| | | | The kitchen bladewill snicker snack |
| I just sit here watching | | | | |
| | | | My puny wrist |
| From someones old chair. | | | | |
| | | | A moments sharp pain |
| A wanton cornucopia of | | | | |
| | | | Will end |
| Sublime delights | | | | |
| | | | In eternal bliss. |
| I know I feel yer | | | | |
| | | | These are the thoughts |
| And I'll miss these long nights | | | | |
| | | | These are the feelings |
| Your sound is your scent | | | | |
| | | | That hiss hiss hiss. |
| Your touch won't relent | | | | |
| | | | The little jellies |
| Your vision for one person | | | | |
| | | | Will slide and slip |
| Only is meant. | | | | |
| | | | Down down down |
| Divorcei walked into an empty housea void of | | | | |
| a room, a place of marriage doomfor immortal | | | | My rabid throat |
| love here had been dousedthe thread of | | | | |
| conversation from a broken loomon the table | | | | And a few gargled swills |
| was a picture brass frame housedof a happy | | | | |
| bride, a poignant groomtheir faces did not | | | | Will end all ills. |
| foretell the breakdown rousedof divorce found | | | | |
| ever too soonon the bedroom dresser lay a | | | | These are the cravings |
| broken wedding dressand dead flowers wilted | | | | |
| in a vase of oily cessthe place was a jilted | | | | These are the ravings |
| messand all there was lessher name was | | | | |
| Tessthat's all | | | | That kill kill kill. |
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| Untitled | | | | The bridge is near |
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| Does a butterfly | | | | The bridge is far |
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| Recall imago | | | | What is in between |
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| And pupae | | | | Lefty still unseen? |
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| Just like yesterday? | | | | The cliff is high |
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| A frog fantasiseflippantly about | | | | The trough is low |
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| Old spawn and it's | | | | Where am I? |
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| First murky dawn? | | | | I do not know |
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| A dog pine | | | | Now where I'll be |
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| The dull bark | | | | When I choose to go. |
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| Of a log it pissed | | | | Just drawing you |
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| Upon yesterday? | | | | Just drawing you |
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| A swan it's shell | | | | Brought you soaring |
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| Long dissolved | | | | Back so strikingly |
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| And disseminated | | | | To my starving memory |
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| Down the river? | | | | Reciting and recycling |
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| I doubt it but | | | | In lines linked times |
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| I wonder because | | | | Refined and defined |
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| The blackbird sings | | | | A little of you here and there |
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| The same song | | | | Lips open..lips closed |
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| Dusk after dusk | | | | An eybrow...a nose |
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| From fermenting husk | | | | Lashes and lashes |
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| To dissolving rust. | | | | Dots and dashes |
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| World Views | | | | Hair parting |
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| World Views and language games | | | | Falling, and meeting |
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| They made a society go up in flames | | | | Those eyes flashing |
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| The tragedy of warring nations | | | | Flinging feelings |
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| A worrying and troubling destination | | | | An expression |
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| Like a pop song they had no weight | | | | An obsession |
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| Like an astronaut atop the moon | | | | Craving those eyes |
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| They came with bombs and hate | | | | So crazy really |
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| And bring our lives to an end soon | | | | In all seriousness |
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| But what is the reason for a culture going to | | | | So ridiculous |
| war | | | | |
| | | | No need for all that. |
| Is it the hurt, the anger that makes them | | | | |
| sore | | | | What we had. |
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| Is the idea of them and us a truth to be told | | | | What we had was difficult. |
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| Or is it that our lives have for oil been | | | | Trying to explore each other, |
| sold | | | | |
| | | | Trying to guess, and second guess, |
| The vagaries and superfluous lies of the | | | | |
| politician | | | | One another's needs. |
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| Are matched by fundamentalism and | | | | To short a time to get under the skin, |
| superstition | | | | |
| | | | Still trying to impress each other, |
| Yet there is no hope without a lasting | | | | |
| solution | | | | Even now, on the phone, |
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| There is no silver bullet or salving lotion | | | | Seven thousand miles away. |
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| Football | | | | The banality of relations is astonishing, |
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| The football craze begins to stir | | | | Maneourves in the dark, |
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| The players dodge and turn to be a lure | | | | Breaking cover, hiding again. |
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| We must win in this world war 2006 | | | | Trying to conjure the other. |
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| All our troubles it will fix | | | | Why does it always have to be this way? |
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| Football, football, football, football | | | | Is fear of rejection so intense? |
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| They come short and tall | | | | What is it about the fear of loss, |
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| To the field of play that represents a | | | | That drives people to such extremes. |
| world's events | | | | |
| | | | There has to be another way. |
| To the leaders this submission is heaven sent | | | | |
| | | | To revel in another's affection, |
| There is no scene of greater love | | | | |
| | | | Building a story together, |
| No romantic film that can bind men as one | | | | |
| | | | Rather than playing an opponents alone. |
| Than a primate fight that takes one's sight | | | | |
| | | | If she 'wins' this game then fair enough, |
| And elevates those who are not bright | | | | |
| | | | She is more beautiful and intelligent than |
| Lines written upon Brixton Hill | | | | me, |
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| Are empty, | | | | To not conform to anyone else's bequest, |
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| Without sound | | | | And just enjoy creation, that's my goal. |
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| Effects. | | | | Given up on these power games. |
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| So as | | | | I was being murdered anyway. |
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| I write. | | | | To live a life where to give, |
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| I listen | | | | Is appreciated, by both parties. |
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| To the swirl | | | | These are the qualities I want to explore. |
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| Of sirens | | | | In myself and another. |
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| And blue flashes | | | | She Said |
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| That ignite | | | | She said |
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| The streets below | | | | 'You have so much angst, it's really |
| | | | unattractive.' |
| Where hooded | | | | |
| | | | She's right, |
| Shadows lope | | | | |
| | | | Angst is really crap. |
| And shape shift | | | | |
| | | | It makes a person look weak, |
| Along littered pavements | | | | |
| | | | Scared. |
| Heckled by whores | | | | |
| | | | Maybe, |
| Who loiter provocatively | | | | |
| | | | A couple of photo's of her, |
| In patent leather | | | | |
| | | | Our on my computer at work, |
| Their bruised flesh | | | | |
| | | | Looking at them brings on this strong fuzzy |
| Exposed at the height | | | | glow, |
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| Of winter. | | | | Where's the angst come in? |
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| I like it | | | | The love for this woman, |
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| Up here | | | | Which wells up in my stomach, |
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| In my box; | | | | Burning through my body, |
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| My window's Eye; | | | | Leaving me ravished, |
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| A pinhole camera | | | | Blushing at the nakedness, |
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| That catches all | | | | Of the desire. |
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| That goes by | | | | Why then angst? |
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| Like an insomniac's | | | | Conquer the fear, |
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| Nightmare. | | | | What then? |
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| Certain Songs Ring Bells | | | | New fear? |
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| Certain songs ring bells | | | | What is the fear saying? |
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| "We are together" | | | | Is it just a highly developed sense? |
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| Disperse lingering hells | | | | Absorbing shock |
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| "All people unite" | | | | Before |
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| Bring water up from dry wells | | | | During |
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| "Let love grow" | | | | After |
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| This song a story tells | | | | She finds it unattractive. |
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| "Stay together........." | | | | Am I offended? |
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| For we are forever | | | | No. |
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| Ignorant of time | | | | Angst is Crap |
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| A moment never | | | | There was a time, |
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| Wasted for | | | | When presentation of perfection, |
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| What is yours | | | | Or at least an interpretation |
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| Is mine | | | | There of. |
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| And together we shine, shine, shine. | | | | Mattered |
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| "We are together" | | | | She talks about her ex boyfriends. |
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| Hopefully forever | | | | Should have said something before, |
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| "All people unite" | | | | But didn't know how, |
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| Today and tonight | | | | Wanted to be strong, |
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| "Let love grow" | | | | Wanted to ask her, |
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| So that we'll | | | | If it's always like this at the start. |
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| "Stay together". | | | | Laying the groundwork for the end. |
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| For we are forever, forever | | | | Paul |
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| Aware of what | | | | Martyn |
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| Is yours and | | | | Feels like her attention, |
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| What is mine | | | | Likes to wander off of me, |
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| Whilst constantly ignoring | | | | Like we are never alone. |
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| The give way sign | | | | Great sex |
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| Yet somehow together | | | | Bad sex |
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| We shine, shine, shine. | | | | Dirty sex |
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| Lust | | | | What about our sex? |
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| Lust, it is loves neighbour,but it does not | | | | What would you like to do? |
| covet its neighbor's goods. | | | | |
| | | | With you? |
| Lust, it is an unrelenting tidein and out, a | | | | |
| man's labour. | | | | To you? |
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| As birds do come and go | | | | Can we talk about that? |
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| Flying then roosting | | | | If not, why not? |
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| As the sun begins its journey and ends, so | | | | I'd just like her to show me, |
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| Lust is never sated with a feasting. | | | | To waltz in the realms of ecstasy |
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| The moon yawns high above, as below, | | | | Not lead this elaborate dance |
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| In the boat of the lovers it does row, | | | | Of |
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| Yet comes lust like ivy, enveloping slow- | | | | 20 |
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| And intertwined they fail to each other know. | | | | 30 |
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| Carrion clawing vulture, is lust to the | | | | 40 |
| Christian | | | | |
| | | | Questions, |
| Yet others in the East, see lust as a hopeful | | | | |
| bastion | | | | Feels like your best times were in the past. |
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| War is created by lust - | | | | With men you loved for years |
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| In this surely we can trust. | | | | I can't compete with their attention, |
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| Whilst drowning I become a fish | | | | After but a few months. |
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| Eyes open- | | | | If angst is crap, then I have, |
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| External, | | | | Unfortunately, |
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| Physical, | | | | A crap side of me. |
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| Reality shapes.... | | | | It's there, |
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| Emotion. | | | | Human, |
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| Eyes closed- | | | | Work with it, |
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| Inverted; | | | | May not ever go away, |
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| A disguise | | | | But it will never consume |
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| As emotion | | | | The beauty you see. |
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| Shapes a reality.... | | | | Which is the point |
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| Somewhere else, | | | | Yet with her, more is the word, |
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| But not | | | | More than a fantasy, |
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| Elsewhere. | | | | More than an intellectual game. |
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| Alone but | | | | If she so completely hates this, |
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| Not tearing | | | | She should walk away, |
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| Out my hair.... | | | | Under tiredness |
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| As subtle shades | | | | Stress |
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| Replace | | | | Duress |
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| Slick shadows.... | | | | I crack |
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| Shed the straight jacket | | | | Mood nose-dives |
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| And leap free. | | | | Light sucked out of my soul. |
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| Whilst drowning | | | | Will go through many evenings |
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| I become fish... | | | | If she walks, |
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| Water swills | | | | Being |
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| Around my new | | | | Tired, |
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| Found gills. | | | | Emotional, |
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| Weighed down | | | | Hurt. |
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| By the liquid | | | | Yet while I would walk over hot coals for |
| | | | her, |
| That fills | | | | |
| | | | Take the force of the knocks she gets, |
| My aqualungs | | | | |
| | | | Sympathise |
| I free fall | | | | |
| | | | Empathise |
| Front crawl | | | | |
| | | | Be strong, calm, wise, positive. |
| And merge with | | | | |
| | | | Talk 'till dawn if that's what she needs, |
| The cyclone squall... | | | | |
| | | | (For my soul aches when I see her |
| Fathoming new | | | | distressed,) |
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| Depths of | | | | That's some commitment, |
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| Free forming dna | | | | If she can't live with a little weakness, |
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| That belongs | | | | Perhaps leaving is best. |
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| To a time | | | | One Night Stand |
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| That knows | | | | I woke that morning with her, |
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| No day. | | | | The hazy fascination with her soul, |
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| Gut wrenching hell | | | | Seemed to belong in another realm. |
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| Gut wrenching hell | | | | The carnal actuality of the situation, |
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| Stomach churning | | | | Like a sirocco scorched my mind, |
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| Like a church bell | | | | The hot sand it carried covered our bodies, |
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| Crazily messed brain | | | | Giving a warmth that painfully, yet |
| | | | fundamentally, |
| Ideas jangling | | | | |
| | | | Belonged with the dirt on the ground. |
| Like a possessed bunch of keys | | | | |
| | | | Like a desert flower wilting in the sun, |
| Sick sick senses | | | | |
| | | | Longing for the sensuous rain, |
| Depraved and concave | | | | |
| | | | Wilts and dies on it's own, |
| Prone and prostrate | | | | |
| | | | Leaving little but a sad corpse, |
| All tenses rave and frustrate | | | | |
| | | | As evidence of its desire and hope. |
| Ego marooned and becalmed | | | | |
| | | | And I, as I luxuriate in delicious rain, |
| On the fringe of a mendacious storm | | | | |
| | | | Know that the drought. |
| Your rules have shattered any norm | | | | |
| | | | Is but an hour away. |
| Raw sensation sensuously balmed | | | | |
| | | | I have no need of her, indeed, |
| In your bliss. | | | | |
| | | | Such a thought terrifies my very being, |
| You slowly take over with a hiss hiss hiss. | | | | |
| | | | Yet in these precious minutes of luxury, |
| You said | | | | |
| | | | Touching her eyes with mine, |
| You said, "Have I done something wrong?" | | | | |
| | | | Running my hands across her chest, |
| "No" | | | | |
| | | | Dancing in its purest form, |
| We are just ordinary people | | | | |
| | | | Reaching out across the void existence. |
| In a crazy circumstance | | | | |
| | | | And having the void kiss me back. |
| With a need to circumspect | | | | |
| | | | If that's all she is, |
| No need, as of yet, | | | | |
| | | | A refection of the void, right here right |
| For any mutual respect | | | | now, |
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| Who knows......perchance... | | | | The flower will die, its soul galvanised |
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| One day our lives may meet properly | | | | To rise again in divine precipitation. |
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| And then we may dissect | | | | But the thought that's dying right now, |
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| These petty, negative feelings | | | | Is that I long to Dance with her soul, |
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| And superimpose positive healings; | | | | And have her soul kiss me back. |
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| God willing, | | | | You asked if Philosophers should be |
| | | | politicians |
| No tears; | | | | |
| | | | You asked if Philosophers should be |
| Just lovely, natural, feelings | | | | politicians, |
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| Oh how I suppose and hope so; | | | | I said no, |
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| Just like the flower longs | | | | Gandhi was a lawyer, |
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| To grow and grow | | | | Used the law |
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| Before the hoe | | | | Kicked a corrosive superpower, |
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| Sheers its subterranean seed in two. | | | | Out of his homeland, |
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| Shelley's mirror | | | | Then declined to be its leader. |
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| Isis wed mercuriousand all was wellthe world | | | | Blair is a Lawyer, |
| became clearas Shelley's mirror would tellthe | | | | |
| love that holds togetherthe atoms of the | | | | Had an Illegal war. |
| bodyis a knotted plotto get the world | | | | |
| readybeyond the ken of mortal manbut within | | | | Didn't give a F**k about the law. |
| the eyes of mortal womanis the spirit that | | | | |
| talksthe anima of Jungit sings a musely song. | | | | He just loves being in charge. |
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| Lust again | | | | If leaders are philosophers, |
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| Lust, Lust Lust, | | | | They'd only wreak the truth, |
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| It's such a bitch, | | | | Twist it, |
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| Damp tortuous nights nights dreaming, | | | | Change it, |
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| About some girl who's actually a witch. | | | | For good and bad. |
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| Lust Lust Lust, | | | | Politics is the art of the possible, |
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| It's all a bit Sh!t | | | | Therein lies the beauty. |
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| Endless mental energy spent, | | | | And the horror. |
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| Result? You look a complete tit. | | | | Hannah |
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| Lust Lust, Lust. | | | | Hannah ran through the fieldof poesy and |
| | | | pretty shieldof light and dome covered |
| Here we go again | | | | landthe world was blues, greens and sandthe |
| | | | creeping desert became a terrorit gave fear |
| One smile, one look, one pair of shapely | | | | and deep horrorfor there was only onefor her |
| legs, | | | | to seethat would take her from |
| | | | thisterritoryand nothing spokeand nothing |
| And you locked in the Bastille of Pain. | | | | brokebut the heart was heavyand a little |
| | | | revvylike a carthat pollutes the |
| Lust Lust Lust | | | | atmospherethe only soul that would find |
| | | | dearwas in IKEAbuying gearfor the house or |
| Lust after the small, | | | | flatwho knows if there was a cator maybe just |
| | | | a hatbut neverthelessthere was too much in |
| Who bloody needs rumpy pumpy, | | | | the cold light of day to say that there was |
| | | | somethinga thing of beautyshe's Hannahwho |
| When you've got Bastard SCRUMPY!!!! | | | | likes to make bannersand art and darting |
| | | | commentsand bannersoh i said that alreadyi |
| Lust again and again | | | | think my name is Freddybut if it doesn't |
| | | | rhymeis it poetryand if it does,is it |
| The problem with Lust, | | | | nonsensebut then we sawit all togetherand |
| | | | there we werea little treasurea little |
| Is that it is Boobs or Bust! | | | | pleasureand some leisure |
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| Nothing will satisfy the quest | | | | Mannah |
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| Like coping a grope of a breast. | | | | Hannah is manna from heaven,she's a bright |
| | | | spark in the dark,a world away, a sheltered |
| Open or wrapped sir? | | | | haven,a joyful release, a humble ark,where |
| | | | all of the world can be saved,a grinding |
| As long as you squeeze her, | | | | mill, a stone lathe,that takes life's |
| | | | problems and turns them into powder,a woman |
| The 'undercover' lover is just as sweet, | | | | with real power. |
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| As the totally un-packaged treat! | | | | Love poemi cannot believe it,i cannot, cannot |
| | | | believethe world is a Plath-like melodyof |
| Dodge that bra, with your wrist | | | | misery and shameyet the light still shinesand |
| | | | the path is openlike a circle's linesinfinite |
| Here comes the surprising twist! | | | | beyond mortal kenas though I were sleepingi |
| | | | breath lightlyand dreams followthis love is |
| It's not getting you and in that's Hard, | | | | true, rightlyand not a hollowempty fading |
| | | | rainbowsomething unsightly |
| It's getting it out again before she has a | | | | |
| mard!!!to Lebanonwill anyone remember | | | | To a girlyour beauty is a lie,because it's |
| youchild strewn across the roadhave you got | | | | too good to be true,from my feelings I could |
| anything to doplay, jump, laugh, go to the | | | | die,because I haven't been given my due. |
| looviolence is justified against | | | | |
| civilianssays bin ladenbut then so does Ehud | | | | I'd love to know you better,because without |
| olmurton civilians is the burden ladenit is | | | | it I am dulled, |
| they who get hurtthe buildings which once | | | | |
| were networks of peoplenow like a desert, | | | | Your emails, voice or letter,my mind would be |
| deserted, a curt reminder of powerthe mosque | | | | mulled. |
| gone, no more the church steeplecan a world | | | | |
| in troubles go any lower. | | | | You are a fine wine, |
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| Whisper | | | | A bouquet of innocence and wonder,perhaps we |
| | | | could dine, sometime, |
| Whisper- | | | | |
| | | | Without you I am like a storm without |
| A breath of love in despair | | | | thunder. |
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