Nothing good ever lasts...

To be able to remain just still and enjoy beauty without trying to edit it or change it; reveals the world's true beauty. I remember walking quietly once, one very hot spring morning by the railway through the wild orchards in Dogwoods, Knutsford. Resting there on a storm drain-grid, I was just catching my breath when minutes later. I saw a baby rabbit poke its head out of a rabbit hole in the brambles it was 2ft in front of me. It was then he or she was pushed outside by their sisters or brothers.
They rolled around in front me and were toy fighting till the 11.20am Chester train went on by,
The only pity for me was the train was on time, came by so fast… nothing good ever lasts.

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Of All I've Seen Waiting To Be Discovered

A spring of buttercups, when was that now
I saw in green pastures a golden jersey cow
A river meandering swift-lashing and lush
Where blue tit nest on passing, fell hush.

When their shells scattered pieces of sky
Plucked treasured depths in a child's eye
When did I last see a fire poker-toadstool?
Its fiery globule head in a green whirlpool.

Radiant-light brims over a cherry-bark moth
Is he not both moth and tree - life's froth?
Of all I've seen waiting to be discovered
The tench bubbles breaking, I savored.

The nervous vole nosing silence ordinate!
Up-through the willow trees rooted garret.
These and other, things, I've remembered
A boy by the river I once wildly proffered.

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Join me listen to the sitar players theorise…

Join me on your knees on your belly please…
With Gold in her teeth and hunger in her eyes
The devil whispers in the reeds come join me
Join me listen to the sitar players theorise…
The movement's serpentine in willowy skies'.

See the honey locust sunset ascending roots
See how your thighs make shadows ripple
See how the boy's eyes twinkles oval tributes
See how his thoughts remain ever wistful
Join him in shade like a moth ever vernal.

Let him provide "light" poked out of darkness.
Let him watch your wings burn star bright
Let him hear the moon sing her loneliness…
Let the devil be fulfilled quiver like a red termite!
In the baron emptiness a harlot strikes at night.

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River Street Urchins

River street urchins,
The gutters are swelling.
[Waiting…] for the sky—you and I
To reach—the storm drains of joy.
Before we go…
Before we let, go.
We too will rain…

River street urchins,
Before we go…
Before we let, go.
We too will rain…
River street urchins…

Paupers oh so giving, don't you know.
We'll queue in the streets
And pray to be free!
Till we go…
Before we let, go.
We too will rain…

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What would this life be, like?

What would this life be, like?
With-out a little-bit of faith?
If we all feared to live our, life's
Too share what's in our hearts;
would a plane ever get off the ground?
Would a son of man ever make you proud?

What would this life be, like?
If all the stars just hid away…
And all the colors of a rainbow
Just disappeared, tomorrow
If all the grandeur turned to grey
Would you be as psychedelic?
As bright and as angelic;
As they all say:

Heaven rocks
Heaven is a Christmas lantern
In little Italy
Heaven is a collide scope

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I'll love you all this world and back....

I'll love you all this world and back....
Till this feeling never goes away...
till all these stars in the heavens
have collided into star-dust
within your fiery loving eyes.
Oh, you can hook a hole inside my heart:
I will never fight, I will never part—you
I will never kiss and tell, or abuse—you
you can sequin every tear
I've spilled to your precious soul:
Cause I'll just evaporate into nowhere...
Into a vacuum of space, without you
I'll love you all this world and back...
I promise—you!
I promise—you!
Till this feeling never goes away...
I'll go on, loving, loving you!
A year from today...
Ten years from today...
Till eternity is here to stay...

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To err is human ‘songstresses’.

She's a contralto,
With high sustaining, notes
Her voice is a salvo,
O’ the rapture, she emotes
Calling-on spicy, Bacchus...
In “lightness' or 'heaviness'.

She specializes in control.
Like a skylark, circling at
Dawn’s heartstring, cajole!
Her lips; heady, Muscat
Sing, their ritual, madness.
On this poor sap; Dionysus…

He fought with giant, titans
The dramatic is the deepest.
Florid passages filled heaven,
His tears wept there; shrillest.
She was like a priestess
Or better still a princess.

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Foreign exchange students…?

Their all parasites He says.
Fleas on His back and nape
His tridents tail His fiery mane.
They circle around His burning boils
Licking their ashes - anguished dust
They crawl through the labyrinths,
Of His eyes taking subway journeys
To crumbling monolithic churches
Suckling on blood and brimstone
And fire! They call themselves,
Banker's tourist asylum seekers
Stock-exchange material world leaders
They call themselves
Foreign exchange students…?
Liberated economic market equity slaves
They call themselves the avant-garde
But, their all his brothers
His suckling sisters
His riving desires His lust
Flea like rolling around on their bellies

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Your kiss

Your kiss is a rush of oxygen
That always leaves me smitten
Your kiss is a hot air balloon
A helium bubble all-embracing, cocoon
Your kiss is the air and sky
Taking me on midnight trains to Shanghai.

Your kiss is a forest fire
A wave I'm riding in a heavenly gyre
Your kiss is a galactic vortex
In which no other magical sorcery, can hex!
Your kiss is a world removed:
Darling - who cares even if myriads disapproved?

Your kisses are like krill in their minions inhale
And like the sperm whale I discover my holy grail
Your kisses transport me!
Into a fairy tale regale top and tale.
Your kisses transport me!
Like sunshine in morning I'm dissolving…

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In love I'll run too you

When an angel sings
A devil will cry I'm lonely
Without you, without you

You're the crucifix
The nail in hand
That set me free
The blind mans cane
That helps me to see
The love in me, the love in me, the love in me
Oh I want to touch your heart and soul
To feel a love divine
In my mind, in my mind, in my mind

(Chorus) In love I'll run too you
In love I'll be with you
In love, in love, in love…

And he said when you've kissed
The moon, the sun and stars

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