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CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-90688037712788893682023-03-21T03:49:00.002-07:002023-03-21T03:49:50.367-07:00<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">A BATTLE RAGES</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Within walls of my mind</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">as words bounce, flounce</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">and dance wildly.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">To create a verse, perhaps terse</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">It is my choice to voice</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Whether prettily nice or not</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">For sharp shards of thunder rain</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">to fall, sting nastily on hatless head</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Soft, sweet droplets of a summer shower</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">to freshen and soften sun baked clay</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">and so soothe my tempest strewn brain.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">© MRL 21/03/23</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-62388378710545330872023-03-13T03:06:00.000-07:002023-03-13T03:06:02.840-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">A VISITOR</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Came silently in the night</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">To slide between me and my wife</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Speaking in a continuous rhythm</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Like rattling leaves in a breeze</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">A language unknown.</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Like an attractive foreign song</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Will penetrate ones’ heart-brain</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">As sweet scents of leaves</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">dissipate in a summers breeze</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">To a mystic realm of everness !</p>
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<p style="background-color: #ebe9bf; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">© MRL February 2023</p>
<p style="background-color: #ebe9bf; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-81014039053185863192023-02-06T03:36:00.001-08:002023-02-06T03:36:15.242-08:00<p> <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">I am changing my diet.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From meat to grain</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">both fed by sunshine</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Similar yet different</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">a connotation under stood.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Swift silent stiletto </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">sheared a friendship.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When first line misunderstood</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The portcullis is fixed down</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and I am without… alas, alas.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Gone now into emptiness</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">words and phrases shared.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For what was their worth</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">those well meaning words.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now that all is destroyed.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am changing my diet…</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yet again !</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">©MRL Feb2023</p>A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-5062901552465920052021-08-08T10:21:00.005-07:002021-08-08T10:21:47.061-07:00<p style="text-align: center;">THE AWAKENING</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">In early morn at 3 a.m. before a day is born</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Clear thoughts transmit clarity - minds mystical magic</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">As deep understanding rides tranquil waves alive.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Pure Love exists entire empathy, compassion, selfless - ness</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Dead: controlling ego, gone singular anger, anxiety, greed.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Birthed: universal love lives</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Floating free are we who have lost the inhibited me.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">© MRL August 2021</span> </p>A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-55365703137213298922021-01-10T02:32:00.002-08:002021-01-10T02:32:35.900-08:00In the Forest<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">In the forest;</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">squirrels scamper </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">arboreal acrobats aloft,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">above drifting docile deer.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">A foresters’ handsaw </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">recreates </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Jay birds’ call.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Homeward bound </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">boots</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> break bronze </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">brittle </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">beech leaf,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">next years mulch.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">© MRL</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">09-01-21</p>A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-8780844486699732002020-08-17T04:01:00.001-07:002020-08-17T04:01:08.580-07:00I stared enthralled<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Recently while I was drinking coffee outside of the Russell Gallery at New Quay, Co. Clare I had a lucid experience of a strange happening on the far shore of <span style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Aughinish, between sea caves in the cliff and the ruins of a derelict farm house close to the pebbled beach.</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Being so moved I decided to write a poem about my experiences.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I Stared enthralled</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I stared enthralled</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">as miller’s grit- shards</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">shimmered streamed</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">clothed a rivers air</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My mind ran free seeing</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Figures of every age converse</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">convivially move as before.</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Silent souls, opaque beings</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">on death’s opposite shore.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">©MRL August 2020</span> </p>A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-28752886615088260392018-09-23T10:14:00.001-07:002018-09-23T10:14:54.019-07:00PURPLE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Above long purple velvet boots</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Stride shapely legs determined</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">To walk a unique path</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From shoulder swings a purple bag</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Contents can be guessed or not</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Somethings are better left alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">On her head perhaps a purple hat</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Her gloved hand may one day hold</span></div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-81227275031349712892018-08-18T14:23:00.001-07:002018-08-18T20:33:02.594-07:00TASTY SUMMER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">consumed fruity dished depths</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that clung to chin quickly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a greedily gobbled dessert</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And now my belly hurts.</span></div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-34914583228957694182018-02-22T05:27:00.001-08:002018-02-24T02:29:32.223-08:00Conformity never a fault of mine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was all so long ago those other lives of mine</div>
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I was a son to parents that I did not understand</div>
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A pupil for teachers to lead me by the nose</div>
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To policeman who stopped to interrogate my moves</div>
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They’re now all gone, the authoritarians to their graves</div>
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While I in my preciousness am still alive, always a rebel !</div>
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Independent thought is my means to find another way</div>
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Look at old problems turn them on their head</div>
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Every scene looks better when turned up side down</div>
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Life is a spiral they say, except that I jumped its lines</div>
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My indomitable spirit threw away their rule book</div>
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For conformity has never been a fault of mine.</div>
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I am and shall remain on the outer edges of the lines</div>
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Escaping by forms that go beyond expectations</div>
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Living the life of freedom, committed to eccentricity</div>
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Challenging political nonsense, lifting lids peering</div>
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Beyond the stale and stalled to seek an alternative</div>
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Prance ostentatious ? Yes that it may be but mine!</div>
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I seek not followers, for lead I shall not</div>
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Other than to encourage you to find freedom</div>
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To think and inwardly deliberate on how to abscond</div>
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Those chains of command, rules and obdurate laws.</div>
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For I drank before my birth from a cup that screamed</div>
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Loudly of Liberty!</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-42354895584991777292017-12-28T05:41:00.002-08:002017-12-28T05:41:05.928-08:00COLD TURKEY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">COLD TURKEY</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with double-edged Puritan intent</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Flexing sharp scythes to sweep</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">southern slopes on Shannon drowned pastures</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The twenty-fifth of the twelfth month</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Gone now and far away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As dead as slaughtered birds</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">A cold turkey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As watery light falls</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While fumes flow lazily</span></span></div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-6664657123541435962017-06-23T00:36:00.000-07:002017-06-23T00:36:16.352-07:00LOVE SHAPES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-4783214519182437382017-06-20T03:02:00.002-07:002017-06-20T03:02:48.145-07:00GRENFILL TOWER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Patently corrupt all human law</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cared nothing for Safety</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">other than a rich salary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or a knighthood, perhaps ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was avoidable you know </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">those tides of hot dense smoke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">flamed a flow of terrible anguish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ceasing as cindered corpses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or as unrecognisable dust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All of those deaths unnecessary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Survivors at your feet mrs may</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">only wanted words of remorse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">care, respect and tenderness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Your burden. Tory truth prevented</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Killed immediate contact silenced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">your poisonous tongue. dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We know now what was hidden…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Decision to avoid action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Take a risk, Save a few pound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2009 to 2017 was it worthwhile mrs may ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not your life gone up in smoke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and none of them your relations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Grenfill Tower deaths.</span></div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-47402721379663333252017-02-09T07:45:00.001-08:002017-02-09T07:45:21.521-08:00BLACK CROW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-72616331618251775982016-12-06T05:16:00.002-08:002016-12-22T23:06:54.550-08:00Poetry Indeed !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have long been tormented by poetry, </div>
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tortured by lines calling me from their depths, </div>
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in early hours before dawn. </div>
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When even my house was asleep. </div>
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To rise and sit at a wooden desk with pen in front of paper </div>
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and write all alliteration that comes to mind.</div>
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Fec ! </div>
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It is enough to drive drinkers mad, </div>
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such prattle, poetry indeed.</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-46672459475891557782016-11-11T10:16:00.000-08:002016-11-11T10:43:18.020-08:00LEONARD COHEN - Forgive me ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I stand swaying in dead air</div>
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crying a bucketful of dry tears</div>
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as deep as the Ocean</div>
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Hearing music so soft, so silent.</div>
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For a man who reached his end.</div>
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Did his soul touch yours ?</div>
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Were you there at his concerts</div>
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or like me stone deaf busy ?</div>
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I stand in silence now</div>
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Begging forgiveness with dry tears</div>
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for staying away so long.</div>
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Hearing only Hallelujah </div>
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recognising a single rhythm</div>
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That filled a hundred songs</div>
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Leonard Cohen </div>
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please forgive me ?</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-16031402732071537282016-10-29T06:49:00.003-07:002016-10-29T06:53:40.024-07:00MISTRESS WIND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mistress wind kisses</div>
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sweet deciduous trees</div>
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her lips sap savouring</div>
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sucks caresses</div>
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every leaf dry</div>
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To paint</div>
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Pale yellow</div>
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Red Gold - Bronze</div>
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to dissolve</div>
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Upon the ground.</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-64937433181245238312016-10-29T06:14:00.000-07:002016-10-29T06:14:19.957-07:00CLOSURE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">management said The Yard is closing with effect - immediately</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw in a dark corner a senior foreman weep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">heard another knee deep amid wood shavings cry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It went against the grain this……for my father said</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Big men don’t cry”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I shouted at his grave the Sea and said</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watching waves of tears flow once - unknown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fears of a future wrecked, washed up - beached.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">scattered stocks held craft part built</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Idle debris of design and trade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For a century of industry has ceased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While grown men weep.</span></div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-78568674913891223462016-10-11T09:16:00.000-07:002016-10-11T09:16:54.880-07:00ONE BEING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Between blue and green </div>
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I sleep dream</div>
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glide givingly</div>
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float freely </div>
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voluntarily</div>
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to slide silkily supple</div>
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as a breath of air</div>
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to She a gilded golden</div>
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sunset singing softly</div>
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her hymn - my twin.</div>
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We one being.</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-42949166536289147762016-10-03T10:57:00.001-07:002016-10-03T10:58:10.398-07:00BOUNDARIES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A blossom of old faces stare silently on old walls</div>
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none drawn by a human hand just nature in relief.</div>
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Some on raw ancient weather washed stone,</div>
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others rendered on a lime sand mortar mixed.</div>
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Women wearing hats not now seen and hairstyles unique</div>
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while men bucolic bellicose frown and stare down.</div>
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Others too stay hidden unbidden creatures</div>
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seemingly fossilised in servitude to ancient gods.</div>
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They are infused amid green leaves to shrunken brown</div>
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in hedgerows around wild wooded forests lurking</div>
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Barely discernible, threatening my eyes to espy </div>
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their existence these the old dead and yet alive!</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-26785814165423359242016-07-13T03:41:00.000-07:002016-07-13T03:41:07.804-07:00OFF HAND THOUGHTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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See you, I don't want to get accustomed to the seasons, </div>
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nor do I want to be complacent with this living and being alive. </div>
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You see, I have seen the ghost-people who have done that </div>
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they are locked onto this planet, trapped almost for ever</div>
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Or at least until some kahuna or druid cuts their bonds.</div>
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So I sit here with 73 years of cold toes in July waiting.. </div>
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For my flight to the great non-consciousness. </div>
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Join me and we could form a non club, If you like ?</div>
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© MRL July 2016</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-88837036770773692192016-06-13T10:14:00.005-07:002016-06-17T00:42:41.225-07:00ORLANDO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I wrote this on hearing about Orlando and today after hearing of the brutal murder of the Jo Cox MP.</div>
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Then this applies to all who grieve wherever they live and whoever they are.</div>
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Be brave my friend/s</div>
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Let your tears fall</div>
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Mingle with mine</div>
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To gather in a pool</div>
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Of lingering emptiness</div>
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For we are just people</div>
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Of different shades.</div>
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Who feel the pain….</div>
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© MRL 13-6-2016</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-34911498067754991022016-05-17T07:29:00.000-07:002016-05-17T08:47:35.800-07:00A BATHIC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was a labourer of Bath</div>
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who got so drunk he propounded</div>
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he’d rather sleep on the hearth</div>
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For with stairs he was confounded </div>
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All night he’d go up two down two </div>
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till his little legs were tired </div>
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So would he turn fall </div>
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in a heap and go to sleep</div>
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By</div>
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a dying fire</div>
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he did</div>
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expire.</div>
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©MRL May ’16</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-91023271581698807132016-04-27T01:09:00.002-07:002016-04-27T01:27:41.131-07:00On Discomfort and Pain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Any artist worth their salt would paint a different scene.</div>
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A poet would work his muse to sensibly soothe. </div>
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A composer create a musical charm. </div>
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A songster with vocal harmonics would bring comfort.</div>
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“Oh where are these masters of the arts ?”</div>
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A Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522879751591980617.post-72348848573082175162016-02-17T09:17:00.000-08:002016-02-17T09:17:44.252-08:00for Thea-Valerie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Come sit with me and let our minds drift</div>
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across a surface of polished water glass</div>
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Look deep beneath to see what arrives</div>
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Perhaps a memory of times past, </div>
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An old yearning sweetly perfumed</div>
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As fresh as ever scintillates excites.</div>
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I sense your hand on my arm </div>
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Warm and gentle your touch</div>
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As we walked a harbour side</div>
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It grieved me then knowing</div>
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That your dying was soon to be</div>
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On a date unknown to us both.</div>
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Today as I sit alone and not alone</div>
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I hear ripples of laughter,</div>
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her voice in deep bluesy songs</div>
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That echo from a hidden shore to mine</div>
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She is only half a whisper away </div>
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so very very close yet I cannot see…..</div>
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© MRL 17-02- 2016</div>
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