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Remember the thundering electric generators diesel powered on gleaming brass traction engines?
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silver glows the moon lighting strands of cobwebs
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If I MUST die let me have death by a sudden accident. A poet cannot live by slow starvation of the soul.
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I wandered through the labyrinthe souk,
sunless. no guiding rays penetrated its narrow
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The guns are silenced, melted down
or rusted lying on the ground.
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In Donegal where rainbows grow
and whisky tinted rivers flow.
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End of leave, detraining at Waterloo Station past midnight.
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Merrick and Mirren went blackberry pickin` in places they grow wild,
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sand-devils whirl in midday heat as they have since Queen Nefertiti complained
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Oh wonderous flower that choose to bloom when shadows shorten afternoons.
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Throw that needle out the door crunch that syringe on the floor.
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Blown spray stung, wind lashed.
Mariners favour beards.
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Do you wonder where dead poets go? they don`t just disappear you know.
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End of the rail line, you are on your own.
Get your boots on or use the phone.
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At the going down of the sun when shadows lengthen
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"So you off work today darling, its a shame to waste it in bed."
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The golden road to Samarkand where camels scuffle dusty sand.
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The parson amended our wedding ceremony
by saying
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A quie time for inward reflection
Time winds down.
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I was born in late November at a mining camp in Denver.
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Today I went to the cafe we used to frequent. Everything was the same, except that you were not there.
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If I should die and breathe no more
just bury me under this bar-room floor.
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I wrote a love song in a bottle corked it down real tight,
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I was a cauliflower if you please
nice cream curd and fresh green leaves
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Before she left the carriage door I would fling my cloak upon the floor
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I must not go down through the woods today the woods to the lonely sea.
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In a lifetime of noises, some stand out, unique,
like the whoop, whoop of a destroyer marshalling its fleet.
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All summer long a brazen sun has blazed from an endlessly blue sky.
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Inspired by the sight of a deer emerging from the Firth of Clyde onto the shore of a Scottish Isle.
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