Moments

Far too often we say... this or that is mine
Eyes on moments we value too cheaply

A word or sentence released to relieve
Severs or chills and moments fall, wasting

A dream or ambition gives power and pride
Lives surge brightly into the promising sky

And monuments and towers are raised
Division is underplayed, and wounds open

A child’s need, youth’s flight, age’s wry regret
Bleed away moment by moment unnoticed

A kiss in haste, and tender words unspoken
Leaves on the Sycamore turn slowly to red

‘til a voice mumbles horror down the phone
and moments too real crowd suddenly in..

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The Big Throw

I knew a thrower once
A burly mind that knew flight

His life hemmed in by nowhere streets
and a double helix legacy that left him
enslaved by break-out opportunities:

the silence that fell as he stepped
into a pedestalled circle
into foreshortened distance and time
where impossibles faltered

I could taste it when he said
“I really believed I could throw it
clean out of the park and over the rooftops”
I followed a crystallised vision
Into his limitless sky
a thousand times further than gravity granted
and he went on believing.
I saw it in stone archways

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Bounded By Wings

Love is a dancing of very small things
Or river of madness without release -
A handful of moments bounded by wings

That carry us; an exquisite disease
We greedily suffer its blissful ache
Or river of madness without release

It's a serenade and the vows we break
In the heart of the storm, the pit of loss
We greedily suffer its blissful ache

And borne by love there's no gulf we can't cross
All that it brings seems especially true
In the heart of the storm, the pit of loss

An answering call that's suddenly through
Under our radar and under our skin
All that it brings seems especially true

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Ode Tae Colin Leslie Dean, Australia's Leading Erotic Poet Allegedly

Weel, colin man, ye’ve done us proud
Ye’ve plestered a’ the wa’s an’ a’
Ye’ve sprung fae in a b’low yer shroud
An’ flashed us wi yer whang an’ a’
An’ mushrooms rare ye didnae spare
Until oor very een were sare
Wi kittlin’ skits this day

But feminists aroon the globe
Are writhing wi their wrath an’ a
An’ probably there’ll be a probe
Wi’ bile an’ much anathema
Yer rhymes are ripe fer getting sockt
Yer tool’s in line fer getting’ dockt
In whittlin’ fits this day

An’ aye it seems there come the day
Whun structured rhymers, scribes an’ a’
Must realise it’s time tae slay
Some ither fiends some ither whar

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Song-The Final Spark

By Mountain Ash and roses wild
Recalling all we’ve been
Let’s cast our eyes o’er views so wide
And think on what’s unseen

And by the stealthy Luce so dark
Let’s quietly sit and wait
To catch that final flashing spark
As sun and river break

(chorus)
Now take my hand and let us walk
Towards the falling sun
Unveil our hearts and let us talk
Of rapids still to run

And on the sands where rivers meet
Let’s gaze through twilight’s glow
At sea trout surging clear and free
So briefly from the flow

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song - And Broken Dreams

Two lovers slowly dancing
There was stardust in the air
Falling on the perfect romance
On their innocence and flair
Blue velvet long black hair

And you and I were waltzing
But it must have been a dream
There were legends in the making
Drifting through that gentle scene
As cool as seventeen

The double doors swung open
And we spilled into the world
In between the smoke and mirrors
Where forgetting soon begun
Our rainbow in the dust

Four lovers slowly drifting

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Kisses and Quarks

Galaxies fly blindly within us:
vast turning fields of all that we are,
the wild need of the crying child, and ice,
flames, and thought faster than light.

Knee-deep in wonder in the stream,
we parse its every swirl, down to atoms,
the language of the universe, that platform
for the tumult of emotion we paint it from,

to shape out of it some kind of kinship
a sense of everything called home: sunset,
the lives of leaves, sun-scarred skin, flight
and the maths of music, colour and decay,

the towers and powers we fabricate.
It hangs around us like a canvass,
painting the artist in us, pinning on us
limitations we propel ourselves beyond,

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The Sea

That smoth’rin’ grindin’ brew that lashes stane,
That kisses stane, that hurls and smashes stane
Beguiles us whiles beside the slidin’ tide
Whar millions sook her bounty
As if entitled tae the ride

That sweetly swishin’ wine that cayries life
That tends tae still, that neutralises, strife
Begets oor cow’rin’ awe by tow’rin’ swell
Wud kill us wi’ her beauty
Wud snuff us wi’ hurtlin’ hell

That witchin’, trancin’ sang that tempts us in
That builds vast ships and cleanses suff’rin’ sin
It drags us snagged intae fell funn’lin’ rips
That race bitchin’ through her bulk
Burstin’ whiles on placid lips

That mindless warrin’ and sparrin’ wi’ earth
Her mirrorin’ the sun and massive berth

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Girl At The Window

The many men who want you now
Who crave your hand and crave your mouth
Who fear the confidence you've found
Kneel down before you on the ground

The men who humbly worship you
Were once so nonchalant, so cool
With one eye on the fields in bloom
And all the birds,
out in the bush

But now they're breaking stones and bone
When they're not waiting home alone
With one hand on the silent phone
Imagining the perfect clone

And it would look the way you did
When we were riders on the ridge
Of all the things this life still hid

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Song - The blood and the Bloom

The dark green leaves twist in the wind
And bloody berries dance December
Flights of geese bank round the moon
And stars that blinded us remember

The tide has turned, the time has come
To carry back the beauty
For all that love bequeathed us once
Was never ours for losing

(chorus)
Or would you have us waging war
Upon the ground that raised us?
Or by the night sky o’er this loch
Renounce the flames that saved us

In this haven time grows stale
The far sky threatens who knows what
Will we dither by the gateway
Knowing all roads lead to loss?

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