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EMMA MC D
The Wonder of nature
We lock ourselves away inside buildings
Not wanting to hear the blackbird sing.
We take comfort in the sounds
Of car alarms, music, shouting and banging.
We keep our minds distracted
Not wanting to hear the cricket call.
We cover the grass with concrete
Trees and hedges make way for brick walls.
She watches as natural resources disappear
And from her eye falls a single tear.
SUNSETS
The pale sun rises,
weak watery anguish
happiness intermingles
mixed with colours that blend.
Confuse and blind . The twist
of life remains bound Dappled
with blue, flanked by green ...
and haunted by brown.
Forgotten times remembered
in photographs, faces from
the past blur into the present
Switching from black to blue
and back to grey, the sunsets
on another day
THE ORCHARD no2( song/poem)
In little bars & small cafe's I sit
to sort out what is real & what isn’t
Two hours to give it all & hit that high
Two hours to give it all & hit that high
& 22 that’s left to occupy.
I do remember you, you touched my soul.
I do remember you, you touched my soul.
To fill me with a love to make me whole.
Love’s the only gift what will remain
Love’s the only gift what will remain
endeavours of the mind are all in vain.
It’s a long, long way from here to yonder
whatever makes it so I often wonder.
I recall an orchard in another time
I recall an orchard in another time
the world was young & everything was fine.
I struggle to return to that orchard
& I wonder was it ever there at all
Returning like a child to the orchard
to celebrate a time before the fall……
In moving trains I go within a world
In moving trains I go within a world
that does’nt even know.
Life is a process not just some event,
Life is a process not just some event,
the planet is’nt ours it’s only lent.
These days I’m sold on hanging onto now
These days I’m sold on hanging onto now
and questions need less answers when you bow
Sometime I do ask, why and thats a truth
Sometime I do ask, why and thats a truth
and long for the orchards of lost
youth.
youth.
The Prince (Poem)
For Will Oldham
I saw you in the gravel
Grinding dust
Your sweat a testimony
To a beauty made of rust
You lost yourself and lost me
As your demons danced
A broken melody.
With each word you meant
To turn me back into myself
You were torn from the wilderness
Wild eyed and wicked but tinder
With a heart of glass
And a voice of silver
You left me splintered
and hallow like I had just sold my soul.
and hallow like I had just sold my soul.
Heaven and a star (Song lyrics)
For Mark Linkus (Lead singer of Sparklehorse .)
Down by the river
See the sparkle
See the shine
Lost and found
Lost forever
In the twinkle of an eye
Did you lose your mind?
Looking for a new sky
Did you hope to find a new high?
Up on your rocking horse
You were ambient
You were one of a kind
But now the rivers run it course
Your light is spent
Now you’ve left it all behind
Did you lose your mind
Looking for a new sky
Did you hope to find a new high?
You said you got so sad my friend
Did the sadness get you in the end?
Leave you helpless
Leave you hopeless
When you broke your heart
You broke mine too
You broke mine too
Now there’s a heaven
And a star for you
GLENN WILSON
Precipice
I stand on an outcrop,
the vain labour of barren ideas
vented upon a sculptor’s block.
I cannot chisel for I cannot see
the visage in my mind, the face
of my quarry is yet to reveal itself.
I must chip at the epiphany that sits
on my shoulder, till I can turn around,
catch it in a stare, then soar on the words,
catch the vents rising from the earth
to the heavens. I retrieve a meteor fragment
from close to the sun, palming it carefully
in my hands, till I land and hold it aloft
as a jewel, I climb back up to my precipice
and wait to catch the next zephyr.
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