Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Lucid Dream

If I could find but one moment in time

To see with open eyes

This rising tide

Floding conscious mind

Deep wells where she wails

Well wishes of wishing wells

Coin thrown down wellness

Wear those wellington’s

Ground swelling bursting bridges

She sits with sorrow

Falling in focused thought

Tapping feet I hear repeat

Metronome to throwing stones

The winning hare of raising bones

No hat of feathered cap

To sit upside on ones head

But with hand sown invitations

Do we sit for tea in afternoon spread

Riddles to fiddle others to perplex

Best dressed gets the best death threat

To wellness of ourself

We toast to never boast our best

About death that comes to becomes us

In lost thinking of drinking

For sale be this old male

Discounts for the Viscount

With that less than average dismount

Should’ve just stayed in bed with that head

On such days that play

One must go without lust or her bust

Such a fools request

To spoil madness at my own request

Swing by the Motel to get well

Illuminate that frontage sign

Vacancy for the displaced mind

To obtain obscenities so obscure

Be these remedies ever assured

No insurance required if you should inquire

Just put down your crayon

Rest those drawn on legs

In lament of Margerets forgotten lamingtons

May you see everyday in your yesterday

Leave your sanity at the doormans request

Curious kitties in grinning striped vests

So be this day your second best friend

No true enemy needs such sympathy

Severe what ties you to bondage beds

Severance package in servitude of life's tyranny

Would much rather a father

To tell me how much to sell me

In place of a well placed thank you

For time be better spent

Being anywhere else but nowhere

Retired minds to be served a summons

To appear before a disordered court

For failing to report your own death

For such claims that to be wise

Would be an early demise

After cracking the second bottle of wine

If free thought were bought

Precious time would be so precocious

Annoyed there be no real McCoy

Be the allowance for youth asking allowances

Of tomorrows money borrowed today

I do say with absurd word

Just who likes a talking parrot anyway

Be I just a fool

Eating a raw carrot

Staring at all you Sharon's

Dreaming of believing

All be just a dream instead

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Pirate & Pariah

Spinning hands on a wheel

Tired journey seeking

Truth to be mournful seals

No end to be revealed

Within our nomad minds

Where is the finish line?

Fog of war hangs

Upon the forgotten shore

Be there something more

What lands of new lore

Can be lost until found

Lead us whales with ancient sound

No guiding star

To do us any favour

This tour now an atlas torn

No direction in foul storms

To no regret

Set upon worlds edge

I found my best step

Mutiny off a plank

To failed pledge

What notes has long beard left

Fools gold to tyrant seas

Soon taken by creatures deep

Chanting their elven shanty

Under wailing waves

For no pirate be brave

Should traverse such a foul curse

Broken bones at dwells deep need no nurse

The one who stumbles upon thee

Will shine with heart of all seas

In times paradigm forever

A crystal palace for pleasures malice

Bring your best paddle

For a row boat needs no saddle

Abandon all hope

For the Kraken ever watchful

Those who lost their boat

Take you to Mother it will

Examine this fuss

To know we can trust

This bold sailor

Of Knights favour

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Victorious Pursuits

Feeble man with a finely pressed suit

With a black hand does he point and shoot

Across the seas shall we find new spoils of victory

Go forth young warriors

Be free of life’s mystery

We fight to protect what we must never forget

Be your home the rights you claim

Find death be honour of house and name

Fight with the precision of furious soul

Leave no man stranded on foreign soil

Ensure your weapon be so clean

Your boots have that mirrored sheen

Remember we must be the iron clock

Onward we march, ticking that never stop

The enemy like us has eyes that look

Holding a mirror to be rightfully mistook

Protect what we love

No matter the cost that be lost

No brother be our keeper if the sleep be forever

Take their bodies back to where love shall be buried

Do not mourn the love we keep in their stead

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

City Sleepers

Streets empty of busy feet

Paved pathways to lofty homes

Lights that glow through morning mist

Alone a few of us left do sit

We enjoy the silent moments

They ease mindful thoughts

Of displaced chaos

Lost but not abandoned are we

No family but with purpose

Can we be the non exsistence

Like this city of mystery

Another success to avoid the mess

Hope slings to fate

Of when the dwellers awake

Invisible we must be

The fore ground to never be believed

We the night walking

Dreamers of glory

Never lost but found

Don’t tell our story

No face to erase anyway

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Skyfall

Be you the keeper

Of curious creatures

The validation of night curses

Foul voices reversing

The order of verses

Callous be thy wretched heart

Darker then shades of sunless night

Beckon to me dwellers of deep

Scream those secrets to never keep

Be keys that fall to nevermore

O’ tyrant of forest and skyfall

Astronomers polished lightning

Curse of mothers wolfsbane

Be encumbered upon me

Ceremonial black masquerade

Melodic mayhem in misdeeds

Repeating insanity eager to decree

Our hunting games of years past

Come back at last pass

Wild hunt of night beast

Sound the starting horn

As valhalla calls from the gasp

Fallen Draugr come forth

Father calls us home once more

By sharpened axe and brethren sword

We anwser the horn with almighty roar

Hear us coming in clouded moon

Drums of deep hum

We bekon the bewitched

To stand so tall

Our fated King needs one more

Out from cold heart

We bring the fire light

The burning cascading falls

Of frozen lakes

Where fate does wait for us all

Armies of waking night

Under moon and eye

Do I call thee to fight

Hunters of lions

Wolves of north

Come forth

Fight with me on heathen soil

The one eye of ravens east

Sees us marching with living feet

Guiding the winged moonson

Our draconian spell of moving shadow

Night whisperer hear us now

Your heaven has opened the flooded gates

See us crash through your walls

The northern ice breaks your foul curse

Once more unto earth

Do we traverse this soil

Our gardens of rock and ash

Shall burn with blue fire

Build your spire

Towers tall to hide false priests

We are the moving night of darkest lighf

We are the heathens of ravens from fathers call

Run to your Western sun

We be the true east of dawn

First born to his name

Before humans crawl

Did we walk ever tall

See us join in storming song

Thunder drums that bring the wolf and raven eye

All who oppose the fated shield

Shall fall this night

The lasting midnight before our first light

We take down your false sight

Blind you with new eyes

The purity of true light

We take down what you crowned

Return to day what curse you say

The fallen light returned to sky

Darkest time be before our new horizon

Hear my call from the wild hunt

Valhalla hall emptied of fallen soul

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Sculpting Tomorrow

Stupidity be the separation of logic

Suggestions to severe

Ties with a reasonable mind

Building castles from star dust

Sketching out the fallen man

Walls held by servitude

Under the silent spell

Whispers listen of calling shores

Voices trail into sea shells

Calling to take arms

All those who dwell on fallen swords

Or splintered cells

Blood be the painted sculpture

Thy crimson artist

Throwing no favour to chance

Down from thrones

Waving wands with a golden ring

Exit this mortal shell

Return to night under dark spells

Soul splitting atrocities

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Not Long Now

To dwellers and fortune tellers

Be well and live through bad news

Days that fell on lost hope

Be distant of thought

Resolute be marching feet

Sale of every sensation

Sell the world

A story of boy & girl

That we loved each other

But reflecting neglect

Is yearning to hold again

The month be October

No time to be sober

Trick or treat the mind

The best remedy of enemies

A spiteful spoon for the dish

Should I just enjoy a vacation

Lost on page of dictation

A mental holiday in visual display

To my virtual villa in Spain

But no view can I hold

As others take it and make it fold

For no room to be so see through

Just memory be lost words on a page

Surround myself with no desire

To keep seeing hope catch on fire

For what promises we keep

A man who sold the world be a price too steep

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Kingdoms Lost

Pushing through the piles of ash

Long ago did the fire quell this longing life

The smell ever present of chaos by words of cruelty

Be they false kings of snakes and women

The bronze crowns that sit on the heads of dead men

For no righteous words they speak

Poisoning wells from whence we drink

Watching crying mothers bury their heaven

Throwing charms to a flying dream

Streams of lost souls do we paint the horizons

At dusk do we see our two suns

Take me their in conscious stare

No cover be so blind to eyes that can’t shut

I see with new vision ever clear in the glass mirror

One for each to spy our true crime

Wonder like I never knew before

Come to me as I pull down the sky

Say goodbye and no kiss shall I find

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Crowned Bones

Lost in forgotten text

This mystery of memories

An ancient land on distant shores

Hence forth decreed as an island of treasure

Sand with golden flakes

A tantalizing sight should await

Long ago on lost isles

Found a curiously drawn crown

Jeweled with fickle stones

Worn kings would wear with despair

His pointing hand fallen to sword

Forward thought to lose behind these walls

We build to sell the people lies and tales

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

The Fools Way

No heroes left to hold up candles for

To give thanks for those selfless acts

When did the civility

And good mentality leave us behind

Unwise be the fool to read life

And not live in memories

Built from better yesterdays

No tomorrow will find our sorrow

Never wise to self conclude wisdom

We confront a false front that protects us

Romanticise a life lived by others in fairytale

We lost our way on the easier path to take

Never late to change your way

One step towards a righteous path

If only someone would lead the way

Foolish hope to wait for a wise fool

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Heathen Call

Kingdom of tombs be the prison of fallen kings

Wailing walls where the poor be buried

As skies wrathed with seething eyes

Screaming songs to break the division

Send words scrolled tied to silent ravens

The storm has washed ashore

Babylon has fallen to the sword

Depravity be the annoited crown

With vibarting sound your kingdom come down

What see you raven of one eye

Fly over rising waves and pulling tide

Give word to impending dread or fight

The All-Fathers rainbow in northern lights

Seer of stones that never rolls snake eyes

Our war cry is hammers upon the drum

Now words do we sing

Just the collective thunder we hum

Fires light and line the shore

Forging in mountain the hammer of dawn

Hear us coming from distant land

The fear turns solid ground to quick sand

Our Valkyrie sail is bare but for one star

It glistens with light reflecting from afar

Thunder echoes the voices of Valhalla

Halls where warriors still fly their banner

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

To None I Give Thee

Writing memos to selfless fools

Standing at the edge of worlds in view

Procrastination be mental masturbation

Waiting on introductions that never come

Subtitles for the living deceased

Heart beats in alternate rhythm

Feeling faint to find the gun

Pointed at our growing contusion

Failed to find solid ground

So small amongst a gathering crowd

Motorcades of passing clowns

Let go of our black balloons

Rising as the sky falls down

The deceivers finest

Be it painting smiles on sadness

Tearful goodbyes of shame in fairness

We bury our love in poppy fields

What remains of hope that never grows

Planting seeds for flowers to never sour

Timeless love be lost in memory

Nothing remains of the same

Cover it and throw away our neglect

But no fool would ever forget

Seeing our love wave goodbye

What is left to hold and protect

May it find us the same scarred remains

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

The Home is our Treasure

Those with rich wealth of life

Own watches not to tell the time

But to show value of time well spent

Building a roof we work most of our life

A place to shelter our hearts and protect

No house it be

But a home for me

A place to keep love in a safe place

Reminders that decorate walls

A photo be words we never speak

Hang them on a window

Be they fleeting moments or a crescendo

And be a space to focus our resolve

Should the working day be ever so long

Keep safe and warm all my heart

My allegiance to love

Walls ever strong hold us true

Surround us with soil to grow our fields of joy

The strength of all men

Lies within our chest

Beating and feeding our pride

And with love on our side

Do we swear an oath to protect until the end

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Quothing Raven

Ravenous Ravens of wretched wind

Foul tone in lullabies do you sing

Crooked wings and tales of spring

Only storms seen in greyed out eyes

Do you bring

Tangled webs weaving well wishes

Descend upon me

Tear me apart with poisonous kisses

Carry with you no bedtime stories

Empty dreams and terrors for morning glory

Cold breakfast served as a death sentence

Scornful bird of preying menace

Leave me these cobwebs for time to save us

Spiders and rain drops make your acquaintance

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Tinted Night

Shine through of hope in darkest time

No news today of fallen light

Another day of unecessary sacrifice

A self writing obituary so empty of promise

The first step to exhale this life

To the tormented

We be sincere in this apology

Holding tight your crying angel

We cannot replace what we lost yesterday

May tomorrow bind you in good spirit

Rest well in peace of sombre thought

Each Sunday we wake with no love bought

A concierge requested to carry that baggage

Never surrender the need to remember ones saddest day

Steady the rarely patient mind

You beautiful soul

Arms of worlds unseen

Hold you once more

Peace be upon you righteous child

Scratch at what scabs your thoughtful lust

No journey be safe to step in untrust

Find yourself so you may find us once again

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Life As A Play

If each day were a play

Upon this stage with humorous disdain

No seat vacant for vagrancy of dust and clay

Pull back this old tattered curtain on holiday

Rehearsals held on opening night of the sane

Songs with purpose do we serenade

Backdrop of a dance to romance

Tired shoes should begin to move

Spinning with a string of her ladies violin

Her hand does sway to each note it makes

Life be imitation of art we paint

Our dreams could be the landscape we create

Does art truly capture life in imagination

Create hummingbirds to row boats into the station

The tragic comedy of life at play

Lavish luxuries for some served on silver trays

Others do tend to find a joke will over stay

Hold up our mirror to point fingers at blame

Fear not our Lady of feathers

We shall dance like a Rembrandt would never

No crowd seen or cheer we seek

Just lost souls dancing cheek to cheek

So in this sanctuary for our sanity

Let us waltz to champagne notes of vanity

Be it a silly vacation of mental motivation

Then I decree it treason of good reason

Finally a place for us to breath in freedom

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