It had gone from your eyes when you saw me

The light that used to adore me

It dimmed to a mist in the forest 

Where a canopy of leaves once fell for us

They fell like colourful snow

As we laughed & danced in its flow

 Wondering if we could stay there forever 

Thinking life was full of this splendour

But, time came & took you away

And the only thing that I could...

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There's a body in the white goods

Somewhere in the backwoods 

Inflated with inflation

It drowned in new taxation 

The hands of power strangle

Poking from every angle

Moulding it weak & small 

A cock without its balls 

Limp in forced compliance 

Devoid of all defiance 

Its decomposition, 

deemed too unstable 

‘Dispose of carefully’ 

it read on t...

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In Gaza a baby got blown to bits

Whilst Trump got some new golfing tips

He waited patiently for a hole in one

And - for Palestinians to be gone

Then, GazVegas baby! he could build!

Well…

as soon as the blood & guts were swilled 

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You said we were a miracle 

Yet here I am so cynical 

Tearing flesh & breaking bones

You said my heart was your home

When all the stars fell from the sky

You never asked the reason why

And here I stand: a mausoleum 

While you're nowhere to be seen

Chimneys burned when we were young

The dust of coal was in our lungs

You said we would escape from here 

Hand...

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The old pitmen dug their last

Almost a hundred years had passed

Eyes blinking at the sun

Their time below now done 

And so began the great decline

No promised roses nor fine wine

Villages slept into decay

Along with hopes of brighter days

Boarded windows, children bored

Food & clothes to ill afford 

Softly, softly, catchee monkey

But the monkey's old & so so h...

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The ethnic cleansing was a beautiful thing

It really was

Those herded into pastures new

Gobbled the green grass gratefully 

Joyous in subservience 

One day, they may be allowed to return 

To play a round of golf

Or sip cocktails on the sands of their forefathers…

In distant lands, a glorious dictator glows

Like the sun

Basking in magnificent megalomania 

Estab...

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From the blues came rock & roll

Music to fill an empty soul

Teens watched movies in their cars

Dean & Brando, immortal stars

They sent men up to the moon!

Whilst Disney conjured magical cartoons

Little ol’ Blighty, seemed so dull

In shadow of America's neon pull

A place to be who you wanted to be

A land of true democracy 

Like a big brother standing tall

To pr...

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I smiled at my Mother, who smiled at my Brother

Who smiled at another, then they, at another

Soon, there were smiles for miles & miles

A sunshine array of varying styles

Some so faint, you could hardly see

Some so big, as big as me!

Some were crooked, some were bent

Some, it seemed, were heaven sent!

Some were full, some were thin

Some, unsure if they were merely a ...

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I woke up today:

Hip Hip Hooray!

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Madman, no plan, fake tan

Own reflection, goes in one direction = small erection

Crackpot, despot, lie-a-lot

Inside trading, liberty taking, democracy baiting 

Commie kissing, wind pissing 

Ethnic cleansing, Nazi defending

Law defying, weird hair flying

Trumped up little

Star Spangled BLAGGER! 

(Well, if a president can rant like a hormonal teenager in public, ...

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If Hope were a song

I'd sing it all day long

I'd sing it through the night

I'd sing it from great heights!

I'd sing it ‘til my skin

Turned old & pale & thin

I'd sing it ‘til the Earth

Rejoiced in its re-birth!

If Hope were a song

I'd sing it all day long

I'd sing ‘til only love

Rained down from up above

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I threw a stick & it came back

A boomerang! It knocked my hat

I picked the stick up off the floor

And threw the bloody thing some more

But every time it came right back 

I said, “C'mon, cut me some slack!”

It hit my chest, it hit my face 

But, still, I threw it in disgrace 

Then, found inscribed upon the thing

The words that made my sane bell ring:

Don't bea...

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I fell into a fever of dreams

Where nothing was as it seems

The world had changed, liberty frail

Captain Ahab v the great white whale

I saw the moon turning red

The autumn leaves crisply dead

Underfoot and underhand

Fill the graves with shifting sands

When Heaven falls, Hell will rise

Through corporate suits, & silken ties

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Gouge my eyes

Flay my skin

Stitch it up with mortal sin

Eat my flesh

Grind my bones

Cover me in crimson tones

No longer are we

The Land of The Free

Put self, 

before sweet Liberty 

Extinguish my torch

Extinguish the light

As we all ‘go gentle 

into that good night’

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#Holocaustmemorial

There was music at Auschwitz, to greet them off the train

Then to the disinfection area

Where, they were never seen again.

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You were standing, coffee steaming 

Misty-eyed in melancholic dreaming 

My heart beating

Your smile, like the breaking of a new dawn 

I stood  forlorn 

My sobriety, a long road of intention

To my ascension 

Our eyes collided, my heart dancing

Entrancing 

My feet had strayed no further than my hometown 

The local clown

Though in my head I'd travelled far & wide...

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Happy New Year to all at WOL! 

I Sailed across a stormy sea

I wonder what became of me?

Perhaps I settled in a far off land

Where palm trees grow through golden sand?

Or, do I still sail the many seas:

A ghost ship wearing the ghost of me?

Or, maybe, Atlantis dragged me to shore

And there I wander in untold awe?

In time, we build this ship ourselves, 

as the wind...

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