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Before I Live
Cold comforts are your frozen repose,The shield and the maiden’s frozen toes,Tipping in defence of Winter’s throes,Holding power only an Empress knows. Comes a conqueror’s horse and lance,A foolish heart must take its chance,And tempt with fate this mortal’s dance,Upheld in song – is love’s true stance. Here in my lines made to suffer still,Knowing…
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The Nobody Mouse
Come now like the rain,With your cold tin roof acclaim,Into the haunted house,Of the nobody mouse, With the tom cats and the spectres,And an empty room of hecklers.Waiting out this storm of tears,For the halcyon days….. To reclaim your fears. Before we rip ourselves to pieces,Let me hold you still tonightWith my one good eye…
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Ghosts
The blurring hues of yesterday,Dripping serene through my picture,Falling colours of a dream unseen – You wanted to start the lie over,But that tired world has ever been,All the magic from the endless well,Has dried her up like a dizzy spell,These sands of time now must look,Like torn and lost pages of a story –Once…
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Decompression
So goodbye yellow brick road,Five o’clock is coming round,I’m headed for that happier hour,To my lemon tree in your fool’s garden. Cool genies take me for granted,In hot pursuit of another rainbow,You’re not the tomorrow I run to,Just a place today might be found. Did sunlight ever need the rain , The two as one…
A Fantazien Window 