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Liam O'Brien

Watchers

Those stars among the midnight sky
Are watching all, for all can see
The watchers without blinking eye.
They watch for you, they watch for me.

But once a hundred years there is
A man who shames them, so they sleep.
He watches back and blows a kiss
And then for them the watch he'll keep.

He sits upon a mountain tall
And will not blink for then there's none
To watch the humans rise and fall.
An age is through, an age is done.

A solitary life he leads,
His only friends stay up above.
They hear him not when 'Talk! ' he pleads
For then he shames the ones he loves.

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Ophelia

Hades! I pray take me as thy lover!
Violets taken by the shadow of death
Whilst father lays in rosemary cover
Invite Persephone to leave Macbeth.

Shall not all ladies cry for dead and gone?
By faded age, 'tis true, the flowers wilt.
All gifts are poor when given with man's scorn
Despite honey with which the words are gilt.

Not better, yet worse, these words circle 'round,
How should true love be known from another?
Watch for perusal with doublet unbound,
Truer love shall be found on thy brother.

Rue for repentance of sins long forgot,
Pansies for thoughts of those rue covers not.

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Passion

The keys to notes play tunes of loss,
Tunes of longing, tunes of blues.
'Til metal enshrouding the air does trump with
Tunes of longing, tunes of blues.
Wood and string provide a base for
Tunes of longing, tunes of blues.
Encased in brass belong the bones of
Tunes of longing, tunes of blues.
Emblems and traps do kick and swear by
Tunes of longing, tunes of blues.

Until laughter disturbs this sweet eden,
My tortured soul lies bare.
I leave my emotions encapsulated
In sonic vibrations of air.

The tunes of longing and tunes of blues
Are played until the eve
When players no longer respect their tears
And thus, themselves, deceive.

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Grief

The pale white of the moon
Alights over the soft, grey stone.
The sky is bleeding all hues of
Red, yellow and a blazing orange.
My nightly mourning through,
I lay a crimson rose at the cross
Of a woman taken before her time.
Dark shadows follow my heavy heart
As I slowly make my departure
Along stark avenues of floral templars.

'Be vigilant, brave guards' I whisper,
Pulling my hands across their cracked barks.
'Allow none to disturb the sacred place
Where my stilled heart lies.'
It is no longer the scarlet blood
That flows through my inmost being,
Such vibrancy has been lost.
I took a knife and now a mere hole
Disperses gravity throughout me,

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The Salesman

My lords and ladies, knights and squires,
Tonight shall see ye bask in fires
That do not light until the day
Has passed and is gone on its way
Then are heralded by choirs.

These fires seen but unknown are
Far from here, so very far,
So you would know from distant view
What you're seeing, have some clue,
But not when on that star.

A star! My dears, I speak not lies
(Well, I do, my conscience cries)
When I say you'll sit tonight
Upon a star thanks now to flight
That puts us in the skies.

Human flight! We need not wings
To soar among aerial things.

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