From Petrol and Diesel, to Hybrid, to Electric only, plug-in or self charging?

forget it!

I've switched over to good old Shanks's Pony!

A proud discoverer of the fact that, I can, even at my age,

and, in my present condition, can still walk between milestones,

quicker, than a slow moving motorway grid-locked, or roadworks halted car. 

Here I am, with all the time in the...

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Waiting to meet

the newest member of the family for the first time.

Your Mum, stepping off the train

holding our blanketed beautiful you in her arms.

After hugging and kissing you,

we saunter over to the station cafe, but,

before we enter, our attentions are distracted,

by a brightly colourful display of various novelty gifts,

in the window, of a shop next door.

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Clambering 

up a breeze-blown high and lonely  hill

breathlessly racing each other to the top

in their she and him only moments

feeling the there and then of it for what it really was

she there before him!

with eyes closed arms raised in salute to the summer sky

her long blonde hair flailing wildly like golden tendrils

both now laughing into the face of the s...

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What could be described as, 

an ' as seen on tv ' Gaza death mounting show ' 

a continuance, of not so much head to head, more like,

happily given free bullet tickets, to the land of the dead

The one USA arse wiped side succeeding, 

to put as many of the uninvolved innocents

below ground without mercy,

until, the conniving totality of a Gaza land grab life

can be carri...

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Closing time for flowers.

Late working bee's, using their well known, invisible way home

start zig-zagging out of sight.

Sunset is grace.

Cornfields, begin losing their goldenesses, to the darkening.

Silhouetted, against the twilight sky, intermittent quills of smoke,

rise, from a remote cottage chimney, whose glowing windows,

are announcing themselves, to ...

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Again and again

another day comes to torment our hearts

with the same gruesome soul wearying news

the merciless demons lustings

for the blood of the helpless

that continues to stain the headlines

the hope-lost starving innocents

with what little strength they have

wandering weakly towards the likeliness 

of their unforgiveable unforgettable unsurpassable deaths

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His death will stay with her

everywhere she goes

and in every dawn

every sunset

and the intolerable distance

between them 

Each daily memory of his dying

keeps on adding itself to the next

forming a dark web she cannot escape from

she has become the frame

that surrounds the torturous 

indelible masterpiece of his absence. 

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If only to have a Godly hand to wave

and calm the tyrannous blizzard beyond the panes loudly raging

unstopping it seems on its violent course without intent to pause

sounding it could be said like of a pride of angry roaring lions

having too long served cruel man escaped their circus cagings

O! of dread tis to excess in its most hideous form on this battered night

turned sto...

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What did you do in the genocidal ' war ' today Dad?

oh I just shot a few starving people who had walked miles in the hot sun

for a bag of flour 

will I grow up to be like you Dad?

if Lucifer and I have anything to do with it

you DEFINITELY will!

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How golden but all too short in thy term art thou precious youth

yea to think now of thy absence daggers my heart

tis time I curse

he being too keen to be at his work!

become do we servants of lifelong regret

to his unstoppable imposition

nay art each of thy new mornings dewfalls

no longer the representational gems they once were anymore

as in my earlier years

but l...

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The need of a moth for a flame

or a painting for glass and a frame

a foot for a shoe and the other foot too

and a Lion for a tamer to tame

An opponent to fight until eithers knocked out

tickets for a touter to tout

a plane for somewhere to fly meat for a pie

a not guilty verdict when there is doubt.

A key for a lock on a gate an alarm clock so you won't be late

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Slinking through the night darkened garden

Panther-like

the unavoidable theft of Moonlight

in her eyes

she stops momentarily

aware of my presence at the window

looking down statuesque almost

not wanting my eyes

to avoid stealing the Moonlight

such neccessary thievery is for the sake of

brightening and enlightening the darkness

shadowing my mind

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With the feeling of a quickening in the hours

evening seemed to arrive sooner and darker than usual.

Being in the state I was in it wasn't long before I became lost

in troublesome streets

continuing to grieve over your creation of my loneliness.

adding to this all round feeling of woe

the heavy unforgiveable downpour

that even the deepest and most sincere of prayers

co...

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( for my good friend Rose Casserley

 the birth of her first child )

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While his Mother internally carried him 

in the latter stages she oft in pain

he has lain nine months upon the wombs sweet pillow

hopefully a full and worthy life to gain

the coming together of who he was within her is over to become

no longer a ...

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