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**Rinse And Repeat**

sands of time
trickle unnoticed out
of an hourglass stuck
at half tilt while
a distant sun makes its way
through another
broken morning of skies
crashing down around us
before fading
into the dust of the
#history we learnt to
laugh about because
tomorrow is
just the same
#vss365

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**Candle In The Wind*

Panicked guttering follows
A cold fingered touch of air
Heavy with winter's malice
As shadows turn and #shift
In a flickering dance with
The soft glow of candlelight
A two toned caress of
Deep black and golden flame
So filled with sorrow
That the wind stills
With sympathy
#vss365

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**Nothing But The Hits!**

A new song
Is all we ask for
But it's the same
Tired old words
Every time
We turn on the radio
Yet what do we
Expect when anyone
With anything to say
Is just a cover band
And like fools
We keep
Buying the albums
Because who doesn't
Need another #dose
Of repackaged truths?
#vss365

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**It's Just Logical**

What if my ghost writer were
Lines of code
Housed on some machine
What earnestness of verbiage
Mingled with
What #galore of processed words
I might create
But when innermost thoughts
And creativity
Are confined by the limits of logic
Can we call it art
And is it even
Mine
#vss365

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**Follow The Leader**

What powers
Of persuasion are these
That we feel the need
To move as one
To abandon all thought
For ourselves
In the passionate pursuit
Of a single minded
Obsession
Falling without question
Into line
How #massive
A failing it is
That we follow so blindly
So called leaders
#vss365

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**Memory Made Meaningless**

I understand wanting
To rewrite the #script of history
But it's disorienting to have
Memories tied to places that
Go by a new name these days
Tom Jones is just some singer
And Piet Retief is a stranger
And I couldn't tell you
For the life of me
Who O.R. Tambo is
Either
#vss365

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**A Whispered Mourning

The wind echoes
With the rusting of a
Pistol shot weeping red into
The remains of a memory
Where there lies a secret
Made #deadly by the price
Of beauty
In the dark hollow of a hill
That sits forgotten at the
End of a nameless lane
Beneath a veil of moonspun
Silk & sorrow
#vss365

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**Could We Just Pause?**

We've all had those moments
You know the ones
Where you wish you could
Stop the whole world
Just for a minute
Freeze it right there
And savour it
But time moves on
And she waits for no one
So I guess I'll just be here
Filtering through ambient static
The memories I'll always miss

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**Unkempt**

If you go down that way
You will find at the end of a path
Overgrown and tangled
With the best of intentions
And resolves to change
The abandoned House of Never
Built, they say
From heartfelt promises and
All the things we wouldn't do
Lies we didn't mean to tell
And those we did

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**It's Up To You Now**

We helped raise a glass
ceiling we didn't build over
a kitchen they insisted
we belonged in
We wanted to shatter it
#Crack it at least
Only they wouldn't let us go
so we couldn't reach
But the fight made our
shoulders strong enough
For you to stand on
And break it
finally
#vss3

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**Harp Strung Angels**

We are each palettes of sound
Complex riddles that would take
Lifetimes to unravel
Passions dark & light played on
#Harp cord tensioned heartstrings
So inextricably entwined
That everything we are is lost
In shades of grey
Angel songs of humanity
Glorious & indecipherable
#vss365

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**It's All Good**

Beware the silver tongued devil
With lips that smile and eyes that don't
All smooth talk coated in honey
For what is #persuasion
But an allaying of foolish concerns
A bait and switch
For those sneaking suspicions
About everything
They'd rather we didn't look
So closely at
#vss365

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**Lost Loves**

Too long ago I lost the heart
That could tell where I was going
But surely time will find a way
Back to simple again
#Walk with me hand in hand
To mend what was broken
When I fell out of favour
For want of something more
Lead me past the place
Where love was bound to pain
#vss365

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**Thank The Moon**

Pale faced and impartial
She hangs in an endless sky
Of words whispered
By a thousand generations
Seeking comfort and absolution
In the wash of her silver glow
Yet we owe the winter moon
Nothing in return
But hearts unburdened
By the weight of the world
And our thanks,
At least

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**Be Here With Me**

Can you be #still here
In the place where you are
And not also in the somewhere
That you were before?
Would you hold my place
In the beside unknowing
Tied fast to indecisions
With things we left unfounded?
And will nevermore there
Leave us be in the moments
When we met?
#vss365

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**How The World Became**

How the #tree grew
Leaf by leaf by bloom by fruit
Into the stretch of blue above
All silken petals & green unfurling
Into the sunbaked swollen
With less to crave from lofty sky
The earth made season sweet
Droops down the weighted bough
And comes to rest a world
Handpicked
#vss365

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**I Bled For You

It's killing me I told you
Don't say that you said
I could hear in your voice
How you didn't believe me
As I stood bleeding sorrow
All over your kitchen floor
Eyes #closed to the truth
You wouldn't hear my pain
So I faded away in silence
Wishes already spent
On saving you
#vss365

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**Education Is The Key**

She grasps the lesson
Fingers reverent & hesitating
The awareness so long #denied
Sparking something to life
Within a dusty vault
Left neglected in her mind
Understanding like a flame
Melting chained thoughts
As knowledge the colour of fire
Births the phoenix named
Wisdom
#vss365

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**Slow Destruction**

It didn't happen like they said
More by slow degrees
Disapproving looks and words like
Water against my bedrock soul
Wearing away the unwanted
And by the time I looked again
I was half the person I thought I was
And too broken to rebuild me
I changed for him
And lost myself
#poem

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**The Price Of Regret**

Neither day nor night are remedy
For the mind of a maniac
Chained to the mists of the moon
Bitter with the sorrow of buried sins
And visions of cold despair
Coloured by the vigilance
Of unforgiven things left forgotten
Shame dwindling into deceit
A fevered soul cursed by memory

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**Where There's Smoke**

Smoke unravels strand by strand
Like new ties cut from the past
Where old bonds burn like bridges
Spanning troubled waters
Whose source is far from home
And if that's where #charity begins
Then don't you think that maybe
This time you could possibly
Save yourself
For once
#vss365

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