Poems

It seems like a thousand years

September 13, 2010

It seems for a thousand years I have been watching the apples Ripen on my apple tree Perhaps far into the unknown There will be people like me Who this minute are looking at the same tree and thinking Just what is it about apples ripening And this thousand years of mine Why is everything [...]

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Discovering a bird’s nest I ask myself

February 14, 2010

Discovering a bird’s nest I ask myself What war is it that we are talking of Do we mean the war yesterday or the war today Perhaps it’s the war of the inevitable The war of tomorrow the war that’s bound to come The war of a small country standing against the print on the [...]

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Take your time no matter what you do don’t talk

February 5, 2010

Take your time no matter what you do don’t talk to the inspectors If you have to level yourself out by imagining You have in your thoughts a gun to your head and its going to go off Then level yourself out no way do you have the courage to do this The inspectors know [...]

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In the heart of the house it was said of sunlight

February 5, 2010

In the heart of the house it was said of sunlight That in all instances it recognised suffering As something said but never witnessed The imagined last thought the lethal injection The unreality in the next moment you will cease to be Without the heart of the house and sunlight Without strength it’s too much [...]

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I think when we have gathered the iron of his life

February 5, 2010

I think when we have gathered the iron of his life We will see that Gun Weasel the man was indeed a ruthless terrorist It must have been when darkness fell that Gun Weasel shaped his life No congregation just the occasion of a childhood never out of the pit The grass would blow in [...]

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Everything points to it the solution

February 5, 2010

Everything points to it the solution It’s the last bridge standing and we have to cross it Behind and in front a nation is on the move Not that it’s a simple matter moving from one place to another The movement of a nation en masse is a class act There are in it variations [...]

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It’s hard to believe what a ten times murderer says

February 5, 2010

It’s hard to believe what a ten times murderer says at the best of times But when he says let’s have a war without casualties or firing a shot When he talks about the war wounded as the happiest of souls Where there is no victory or defeat no dead soldiers coming home It’s to [...]

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Ask yourself in the middle of a bomb raid

February 5, 2010

Ask yourself in the middle of a bomb raid A man walks along with a monkey on his shoulder What do you do in the circumstance Do you trust him enough to follow him and his monkey Do you swear by him to guide you safely through the bombing In this man’s company given a [...]

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Winter the old woman said is this little twig that I am going to break

February 5, 2010

Winter the old woman said is this little twig that I am going to break over my knee For what reason she says being old is the best reason A violent act of course it is but it is done to let the sun come through What an extraordinary thing the sun coming through best [...]

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When I think of human tragedy

February 5, 2010

When I think of human tragedy on a scale So overwhelming that it describes Life insignificant to the event When human cries go up and Life sees itself dead and decaying in the sun Its then that a charity comes to me I can’t help thinking of the garden that survives Birds are there and [...]

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What a reaction the accused condemned to death

February 5, 2010

What a reaction the accused condemned to death And the accusers thinking it a good day’s work What do they do they pass around a box of chocolates In a steamy room chocolate is being licked from sticky fingers In the mouth justice is being devoured Hanging a man is like an exquisite soft centre [...]

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Never should we ask to be remembered by this man

February 5, 2010

Never should we ask to be remembered by this man The man who has taken our light So high up into the mountains Why should we think of him on our behalf That Lamentations touch him Rather he was a rescue worker to bring From a hopeless situation a child out alive I see them [...]

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