Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Thin Red Lies

Mother please accept these folded greens

No more will I bare scars of Charlie trees

Burning fields in hell where I lose myself

Broken toy soldiers left on the shelf

 

Each day shall I wake inside my endless void

My loathing demon

Self abusing what isn't destroyed

For if this day is to be my final day

What in life reviewed, could one truly say?

 

Joining with death to stand at the edge

Halfway to alive we make one final pledge

Old bones not yet cold to step down from the ledge

For the fallen we rise in servitude of a friend

 

What is normality if not civilian casualty

The mirror reveals our nemesis to conquest

My own contrarian to common sense

Dearly departed better half still fighting in that trench

 

Still do I feel the fear within every lonely beer

Those bombing runs and the city siren I still hear

Old words never die held true to our decree

Once more unto the breach my dear friend misery

 

No soldier lost to finding their best

Waking up in wrapped sheets of hospital beds

The Reaper ever stalking in the gallows of death

Golden wings once soared flying angels above our head

Lottery to no fortune of life be numbers so tragic

Salute to Goose as he returns with his Maverick

 

Pageantry upon stage of their youth we stole

Hanging medals to chests like Olympians winning gold

Pin up posters placed to cover those bullet holes

Held to us the prisoners of all these lost souls

 

Days within years not be lost in vain

Judge us guilty sentencing poor Andy Dufresne

Twenty years the agony throwing him away

Arms open wide to our sky

His purgatory of chains be freed in falling rain

 

Words sworn to justice upon bibles never read

Life brings us to our knees as all be given is bled

Finding his smile at the end with his old Red

 

But for a single petal we do return to this falling sky

Gift of dreams for loved ones we left behind

Those souls of brave we gave to the crown

Tears that stream no rowing sailor down

Poor soldiers sent from their home towns

Their spirit in families still line those streets

Waiting upon time no returning boy be seen

We honour their sacrifice they have already paid

The life of Sons our Mothers gave away

Screaming to give back our loved ones we gave to the fray

May eternity echo the names on our memorial display

 

We stand with Andy and those families

Their lost voices to walls that cry with no sound

By their side we hold them so they never fall down

 

Upon the horizon we stand to gaze of red skies

See the burning fields in our farthest sight

To our chest do we keep all we love so tight

The warrior to be my brothers keeper

Admire with pride our uniformed sisters

The fighting ladies of the Lioness

Our beating heart as they put away that Sunday dress

Show the broken man he always had the warriors best

 

With polished boots and our pressed dress suits

May their voices echo through our finest rifle salute

Honour the word we gave upon their soul be kept

Journey home holding hours as hands to the wet cement

If it be my life then so shall it be with my friend

Nights lost to wonder like young boys in backyard tents

Sunday mass we gather holding mothers that wept

Hope guide us to see our heart waiting on that front step

Instead the widow left to hold this letter they never sent

By her side we stand to make sure she will be our best

 

Dark days in black parades to see no fallen son go by

Let go our balloons to make rainbows in the sky

May love give them flight to this our saddest goodbye

 

Still this very day do soldiers remain

On no field of dreams so far away

Under dawn of first light we will show no shame

We come to remember our fallen brave

 

Thinking of those brothers we couldn't save

Their life to the bottle as we throw them away

As moments fade, shall we colour in the grey

Too long have their pictures slowly begun to fade

Have we sold their homes to see the politician paid

Return our flags that we fold upon graves

Be they banners we fly to walk through their towns

Each step upon the bricks they have laid down

 

This petal we gave so shall it remain on their grave

Through the rain may it shine for our finest brave

No enemy but my own grief shall I have from this day

Return the fathers to home where they should always stay

So their sacrifice be never given in vain

Our rifles surrended to never be remade

 

The mind concealed to war as fog starts to lift

Just these poor children hiding under kitchen sinks

Never to be killed with love they hold to each

As dear Mother lay to the side with her cold feet

 

Do not fear these painted tears on our faces

I am the hand of light reaching from dark places

We hear you in song holding your family in prayer

A brave warrior you be with the weight of war to bare

 

The casualty of wars discarded toys

No name to this chess piece upon the board of Troy

Earn this life to honour of your Mothers sacrifice

To be in remembrance of that time served

Be never borrowed but with love we return

Honoured in memory we sound out the battalions horn

Standing together by lighted candles at dawn

Bow our head so they may hold them high

Never leaving our post

We see their souls still marching by

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Michael Fraser Michael Fraser

Magnus III - Xanadu

My dearest of Fathers

That who be Doctor you in a phone booth

Our Clark Kent that reverse çengineered the tent

Memory lapse of that smaller then usual underwear

Perfection to time period hair o f Hyperion Debonare

1980’s Mercedes Enterprise class bearded memoirs

Selling Skywalker as first order to fired reporters

Yes to your suprise it is I, “that” daughter

Your favourite right wing news live on a camcorder

Screaming for my ice creamery sanctuary

It’s life with love, our emotional support dairy

Father's old enemy of stained haberdashery

On overnight shipment of mispelled Italian upholstery

Smile of me with those missing teeth lollies

Melt thy heart of no needed sorry

How one must save the world from her shelling mortar

Time be so precious of Fathers to Daughters

Shining sun of my eyes be the most convincing at store

With her golden hair soaring in Summers dawn

Never need to drive far in our sky view car

To this shore we hear the singing from afar

Listen with our elven ears for the calling star

Dancing we are always singing with a sitar

Our ocean melody be this singing sea chorus

Ride the underwater sea horses

Composed to caress her water orchestras

His universal response to no cost she be

On flybuy flights to rehearsal tours

Our post grunge supernova cosmic girl

Reflecting life on her starfield tiara

Take breath of all who witness

This beauty treble clef on debutant ball

Shimmering Isles seen lost crystal palace

Extended night of darkened mind maps befell us

Rising peaks of compositional chasms on tidal balance

How once it sat with view upon horizons door

Whales of wells to call forth

Echoes of fallen Dolphins Murman lore

Pickup those shells sleeping on sea floor

So many years have they held their call

People who stand upon edge of the world

Free to be honey to a hummingbird

Dancing with tassels around our thoughts

Princess Melody of hailing sea

Speak of me in emotions of empathy

Deep in her abyssal sea we sing

Rise to reversed skies the sunken keep

Carefully to delicacy of ancient ear

Gliding ribbons of wings in talons dream

Tell me of secrets that keep us apart

Little Miss rising star from Kryptonian Mars

Happiest of feet dancing to beat

Edges of worlds where our two lights meet

My very own little GT Eleanor

Shelby shells to tell of our spell

Falling amulet ever blue of lost moon

Archway to platforms of trains leaving so soon

Shall we see dear child through rebirth of gates

Hiding lines to find time in our ladies necklace

Cry oh beautiful Isla of ascending shore

Warm my heart in winters storm

Love we wrote on scrolled up notes

Tattered sails shone beards upon sunken boats

Find our Sailors Salem in Sanctum Sanctuary

Lost ghosts we float in bottles of Mobys sea

White lotus by your face to show thy ladies grace

Mend the broken shells

Sitting by your favourite place

Seek the water so shall it call to thee

Hear the tales of ten timbers top we left for you

Sea breeze to toning bells in your Mel shells

Build once more your calling heart by seashore

These Shelby shells of our gateway door

Your blessed ear to hear such love from our core

Sung in memorandum the old drum up North

In passing of moments dared to set free

Whirlpool of dreams release from me

If only time be losing count in our mind

Life be complete writing chapters of my lifeline

Greatest gift I bestowe upon thee

A Father’s smile in all she be

My Princess of our loving sea

Your mother my love to time eternally

Always I keep so precious in memory

That dress as it arrests me so radiantly

My final smile found on those lips of honey

Afternoon tea be company for novel mysteries

Sun chair by sea air take breath of me

Perfume thy fragrance of gardens enchanting

My love in views I define heaven

Need not of one thing

Your wings I keep in this ring

Tango with this fool my glowing Queen Bee

We glide upon time in dreams as one team

Twirl as toes curl across stars with that hair, my love in golden stream

Lost in skies of thought to your passing comet

I stand with arms wide to shine as you fly through my life

Her blue comet, my Northern lights that heart as a kite

The stars read of Mother and Wife

Raindrops of honey my love falls upon me

Whispers of love do bless my ear as we dance

Footprints always as two never washed away in sand

Forever i keep the fondest treasure

Everyday I fall in love with your romance

So soon to join my comet blue

Just us two as those lips be my life renewed

To have this dance will be my pleasure

Happy in my surrender to forever

Rest of days eternal in arms of milk and honey

Daughter to Mother’s comet

May it always shine to never depart for our love to be seen on it

My treasured heart

Presenting…….My Marvel Star

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Magnus II - Her Golden Hair

Vagrant mind of losing thoughts

Repeated synthesis played of Crimea chords

Swinging pendulum holds all we forgot

The doomsday clock if all we love be stopped 

Counting back within memories to see

Dear Time, why do you abandon me?

My safari journey with shorts a size too small

Mascara waterfalls in touring African dawn 

Paint me no sun ever better, as I write daily letters

To all who read my white lotus decree

Draining love, is her art on that Pocahontas centrepiece 

Seeking her inner dream of getting dropped off by wolf creek 

Creature features with silver streakers

A Bullet straight to my hearts locked keep

Schedules we book with pencils

Deadlines of timelines 

Lined up noses to be swept off our feet

Every week we think she is all that she can be

Then does she catwalk with pen and lamington 

Staring into my heaven while melting me

Micro managed my well rehearsed first firing Miss Savage

Left it on a post-it note reading sorry dear diary

I am on another diet of crying

Performance so undeveloped

It was almost as if I was back in the toilet dying

I got lost to watch this space

 it just seems like the biggest waste 

Time keeper to keeping time ever present

That shine of her half moon crescent 

She peers with precision upon this pirate crew

Glaring eyes one sees this glasses Magoo 

Find me strength to remind myself

Your Santa Kris Kringle workshop elf

Gift to give a cheers in your ear

Still it be in my little truck 

So nicely wrapped in no given fucks

Take this journal of Miss bridal recital

Burn them to ashes with those daring Cruella lashes

Be they lessons learned to be unearned in family urns

Put them on Fathers well read fireplace mantle 

Left over local rapscallion sandal vandals

Don’t take me back to where I always sat

My aching misery by the beach on a bench seat

Diary so dear to my years thus lived 

Trying to pull away the clouds for stars I couldn't quite reach

Give back rainy days under the stairs with her Paddington bear

Half cupboard filled with cuddle lions 

No courage we categorise in labelled lying

Peering goggles with giggles her stylised spying

Pantry snacks for her quiet late night retreat

Sneaking toes on those thumping feet of feats

Her majesty's service does await for our next double O spy

No Money or Penny for this MI6 milkshake not stirred with a bow tie

Scratching turns to rapping at maiden chambers 

Every night be it no quote to quothing raven

Curiously strange this being I have yet labelled human believing

Just Sunday mornings of lonely stories

How fond it be to live anywhere 

But in every entry of memory

Of when dad left and took everything but me

Just hope that my best front step is still there

When I need to stare

Upon the poor be poorly folded folders 

Holding dead roses of insincere proposals 

This Rapunzel with stairwell hair should take no such care

Eating pizza to Romeo Leo my teenage mutant hero

How I hate my misery room of regret in a box of éclairs 

Mirrors so tall I stare through myself if life be ever so unfair

Growing mildew melancholy signed on windowed apologies

Elixirs from mixers timed to pass 101 toxicology

My colour takes rest in a clouded backdrop

One brush with ink that may never stop

How I would give back all this of my luck 

Winding back the clock to half past drunk

Each new year to bring new fears 

Lonely nights to warm sprite

Looking for my idols to complain about finals

No duet to second verse as she sings

Handing back what was never kept 

To this stolen engagement ring

Eating afternoon cereal reading serial killer novelties

The most excited I be when heard of a new Twilight series

Her vampire dream be Roman Esquires the third encounter arriving

Wild stallions to Daryl singing about riding 

Diving through broken dreams and flyscreens 

This vampire to come rescue thee

Pale as brides vale does he sing and regale to me

His whatever Queen

Waiting list on applying future grooms

Second room receptacle for sit down interviews

In too many phones of phantom phantasm tones

Inspire me to fire me with uninterest in loans

A kiss with fangs of fandango

Half Wolf and man of verbal tango

Take me from this magic of pulling rabbits

From sorting hats sung in doorway crescendo

Confucius be confusedly confused

Disagreeable quarrels of quandary

Should the floating Jack door fit one more

Then to hell with unbuttered popcorn

Sounds in the family home still echo

The little footsteps of emotions left

Be they days of early April

Hear that happy birthday by cakes on her table

Presents of all present her love to life squad

One gift missed to grow wings that all forgot

Rhetorical rhetoric of Carpathian Casper

Tropic of Capricorn or Tropical Cancer

That blasted grandfather of uncloaking clocks

Still does my nose twinkle everytime it mocks

Painting raindrops on her perfection claws

No star dust from ceiling stars even with that roaring tiger snore

She looks with despair at the empty pillow

Whispers of love she still does hear you

Where thunder buddies snuggle her whiskers

Holding love so tight but never does the heart keep

All those dreams she hugs to sleep

Her own clip on Klingon Cosmic Avenger 

Playing tennis with that Slazenger 

Side-lines with magazines of Time be her manager

No man be so void of logic to return her service

A discourteous Pete Sampras to go down with love

Pistol Princess fastest drawing of deuces at dawn

The White Tiger, our pride of the North

Her claws will take no applause

Roar oh Mighty Gaia Maiden 

Louder than all the titans that stood before 

The 9 moons under which she be born

Detected deductions from her seductive Artois Moriarty

Her diamond smile of Aurora Borealis

Light of her eyes held in lightning skies

Never surrender she be our battle cry

Find us to save us under these Northern Lights

Fires of her heart that line our shoreline

Her Joan of Arc war craft 

Screams to free the slaves of chains

Tiger Lilly of lotus symphony

Sing to me that ever sweet hum

Her music be our beach fires war drum

Through snow she glows in her Cashmere

Take a knee for one kiss upon me this falling tear

First in line to wage war with that bursting heart

Halls summon us to service of her calling star

Keeper of charms to lost magic of arts

Steal of me this sorrow frozen to my frown

For this day she returns to wear the fallen crown

Her very own army of the undying Vikings

Queen we’ve always believed

Always seen in every lost boys dream

The lighted star to see us home from afar

We give life to be lifted with her breeze

Take us my love to our endless sea

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Magnus I - Ice Cream Edition

Stealing Christmas with her marmalade bear 

Eboneasor in that toy box Pandora

Her humble Hubble Conservatory for eating lollies

Scope to slide views into pools of swimming dori 

With this soon to be obscene Queen of never ending stories

Blanket castles where her throne remains

Any dare enter her Grendel lair of despair

Pans panic room to noted misery

The diary of her life library

Words captioned to burning picture frames

Remove all hope of me ye’ who abandon me

Awarded best in show. The half dressed to depress

See her hold it together with a martini and cigarette


Easy Sunday morning eyes 

Looking for the luckiest guy or Mike Patton lookalike

Just counting the same old crows 

Home to pull down her frowning cocktail gown


Scratch away posters of Beverley Hills postcodes

Misplaced intent for lost jeans with pressed pills

Cats whisper who be this new shadow whisker

3am tall tales Ms Kitty with lost keys and garlic sauce pity


Dusting the mirror where she sees her roaring Aurora 

Driving Deville’s dressed in your cabaret fantasy

Curiosity catness be the corners eye in her labyrinthine luxury


May her highness invite us to learn politeness 

Her lavish crime to partake in midnight delights

Tasting platters of caviar to caveat her dark matters

Leaving me in gutters like poor Mr Butters

She just throws away her once favoured toys 

Closing down the last lost home for broken boys


Deeds unbecoming of thee our Miss Mayhem Melody

Our Cinderella too clever to have reminders to remember

Losing her silver slipper on those steeple steps

Fate would have chance of choices we make 

Constellations of our most important date


Leaving it all to chasing romances 

Made from partners toasting lost chances 

Future groom, are you still stuck in that misery room 

Lost all that she wrote when that dear diary became broke


Sleepless in strokes of fine dining chimes of midnight

Our teapot genie to grant thee a wish of 3 carols by candlelight

Losing bets in yet again a game of chess

Even through the pity puddles and rain 

She still wears her best on main


Curious to books of magic found in attics

Even fellow fanatics to cousins be ever tragic

Who we find as we walk by with that voice inside

Interior paramedic to pandemics of heartful goodbyes

Hearing poor Charlotte cry for her butterfly 


Eating lunch of coffee just making minutes before midnight 

Untouched wedding cake be on her flower plates 

Where the groom just waits

Runaway bride, just runs inside

Hiding from the mere thought of male suicide


Baking cosmopolitans to give bakers their cosmology apology

Kissing clowns in our black gown with a Cobain bow-tie

Enchanted to be asked of this dance 

Behind midnights masquerade mask


Getting back to a working version of cheeky whiskers grinning

Spreading love to all that be still with shotgun glitter 

Our princess to ponies with stapled horns and her Nightingale crown


Home be where my heart left me

Hiding in her Miss Hubbard cupboard 

Bending spoons to what she calls the home of hidden brooms

Fathers Millennium star in a galaxy so very far

Dusting off his lost smile to photos of his little angel while holding par


How my heart does grow in years that I so well know

Like flowers of her garden 

Where we sing with lost Lady Margaret

His happy place that stays where no delayed planes can travel

That stare to ensnare 

Captivating minds of Providence Peculiars 

Mountain ranges in first class Carpathian carriages


Come to my side dear child

Let that golden hair be our ships sail 

Unfurl your curls in her wailing wind

By night shores we truly see our moon door


High tide be our heart to hear our sea star

Gaze through our mind maze

See the wonder of northern thunder

He came to be our true empathy


Herald of Harold our knighted moon child

Hold him in motions of emotional oceans

New sight through windows of starlight

Bursting colour above our first mother


With our kaleidoscope eye

See my world you left behind

Fathers call to listen but never hear

Daughters cry to account of no tear

Hold to us this promise never called

Collecting seashells trailing in thought

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My Huckleberry Finn

My Brother

Please forgive me

Don’t think I can stand up today

My body so weak with words I cannot say 


Regret, how it becomes the memories we neglect

I miss our conversations be they so far in day

No foolish pride to be my resolute 

When I become the worst excuse 


No friends left to pull away the recluse

Cursing down every cloud we tried to drown

Staring into the lake

Watching eyes close with her princess crown


Help my dear Brother 

I lost myself again this day 

How I miss the love of our Mother 

Her spirit still speaks to me in the thunder 

Do you think she will be proud of me some day 


Always will I try and be your keeper 

With secrets we never need say 

Behind you to wickets in every step 

I lost my favourite glove again today 


Come so far from crashing cars 

Still can I hear her drowning lungs like it was yesterday 

Always shall it be with me, this anchor 

Dragging it down the dark hallway


Hold me dear Brother 

What words we spoke above a grave 

Digging away to bury our better years 

Just to stare with no words to say 


How the terror of Father becomes our fear

His chair of dread holding screams in my nightmares

Come hide with me under the bed with Mothers prayer

Close our eyes and take us back to the town fare


Happier I be in thought of sunny days 

By that river where we fish forever 

With no need of any word to complain 

No home with nice biscuits can we return

When troubled storms be coming our way


Help me dear Brother 

My heart has fallen to pieces again this day

Wore my best smile but she won’t even look my way

My sadness cuts me so deep no more can I hide this pain

Threads holding me together but life keeps throwing me away

When did the cradle become this grave

Your moments dear to this uncle I forgot to save

Wish for years reversed to see her first smile

I stand the accused so you may never be on trial 


Give back my smile life stole from me

Smashing mirrors of what I dreamed to be

Wipe away the deceiver to see a lost believer

Shadows in darkness now becoming clearer


Save me dear Brother 

These sad thoughts wont leave me alone

No more can I sleep with all that screaming

Always to bare scars of that broken phone


Her glass jar of broken hearts be full of tears

Why doesn't she give me back these lost years

With torment as ink we finger paint our sleeves

No butterfly in caged misery to set free

I keep cutting it away

Why won't it ever leave me


Thinking of friends we lost in yesteryear

Their names engraved on walls of our fear

Would they return so brave to show me no shame

Holding me as I scream for Father to go away


Find me dearest Brother 

When I drag myself into the rain 

Hammers that beat my fist to chest 

Come see the lightning run through my veins


No minutes held to watches of stolen time

Ever I be lost in this concept of feeling fine

Be the best of me with all those smarts

Spread those arms like the plane we couldn’t start


Reminders to find your lost birthday text

Thinking of days we could never pretend

Adding to ashes of memories we called a friend

Losing all we love to addictions of death


My one true brother 

Never did I want sorrow to be of any bother 

Love will never leave me as I sit by our Mother

In front position to your battle no matter how far

Always be you, my only true brave heart

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I Wolf V3.1

Howl to me ancient being

Let us roam this splendour together

Moon be our source of light at attention

Second Sun in paralysed suspension

 

Be my insurrection one more year

Born again to vengeful fear

Time held to framing tangents

Doomsayers of earth walking flagrant

 

Let my star be seen from afar

Above all who light candles

Never to be extinguished by vandles

 

Flame of dark light

Be my second sight

In veiled Elysium of night

When all stars have fallen

May nocturnal Moon

Be my true calling

 

Howl in truth to consume

Be my midnight perfume

Silently with no surrender

I caress the Moon so tender

Do I yearn for the cold light

Warm blankets of Miss Remember

 

On highest peak

Shall I traverse and seek

To rise above this mortal bleak

Saddest painting one could see

Is all my Queens who abandon me

 

Throw away this empty brush

Dried blood of painted misery

Spears it through my begotten heart

Draw a line through human history

 

Now it be

Just the Moon & me

In loneliest song sung in mornings

So cold I be from envious stories

Dreaming states frozen in mourning

Adorn me with hope my sky blanket

Wrapped in life as my inner sanctum

 

Moon sky ever in sight

Be my testimony to stay with me

In loving matrimony

Howl in spirit to me

As I write of love to thee

 

My beautiful rubber ducky

Float with me

In a bath made of glass

To stare through life so empty

 

Wash my coat of skin

With better memory

Why can’t love take me with her

How I miss her in beautiful fur

 

I send my last blood soaked kiss

To my moon sky in bliss

Catch it with all you seek

Hold her in deepest sleep

 

Self loathing can be

The saddest act to pretend

That she knows and misses me

More than this air of profanity

 

Think of me in last year

Love until eternity be near

Be the only birthday gift

Knowing your face how I miss

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No Fields to Envy Enemy

If all be true of seasons renewed

I give in all humility

Ventures of vanity end with insanity

Our mad top hats put on backwards

Depravity shall be no chastity this day

Thanks to what gives life lost to graves

Do we dare send our best dressed

To help those protest

To protect their homes

Battle line drawn from suits with shoes

No issue we have of enemies unseen or abused

No bolder be today’s soldier

As they stand shoulder to shoulder

We do what is asked to be the disorderly of order

Ask our forgiveness for what is about to come

We must obey or be thrown away

Demons with High Ranking uniforms

Will see us all come undone

Those who lay on fields

Where honour be their shield

Brothers and sisters to defend what they must

In battle of heart and home

I place this flower on your body

I will whisper to spirits

To keep you for those who miss you

Take you far from mind

Fields of war on any shore

Blood bathory in glorys gore

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Dressups

Years gone I did surmise the cost

No envy of any did I become

Bridges built from fragile sand

Best to slowly crawl before I stand

Lovely days pass on by

In only dream of recent time

Have I felt desire come inside

Fairies brightest colour

Days lost in thoughts covered

Unsettled of mildew

Flew away before they hear you

Gone are they

From present day

My hand up high

Please fall back from the sky

I need my love of life

I wish to see my light shine

Free through beauty of wishes we be

If no love be present

No future I can be

Have me as I can not exist

No desire to reminense

Wings that shall never catch fire

Plucked from our lady luck

If one could find her

Fabled feather to tickle noses

Hiding in hats trying our poses

Misadventures of Miss Remember

I still have those wilted roses

No journey for lonely souls

If I can find my forever

The one who stole

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Butterfly Cages

Awaken from life

Dream time of astral travels

Where does end truly begin

In a world of crystals

Hand I see holding farthest star

Spinning through rings

Labriynth for lost thought of all things

Captivating in poetic rapture

To capture this jewelled butterfly

Hold it to your ancient ear

Hear the world as it cries

Gentle flutter of wings

See the most beautiful eyes that blink

Our Queen to be seen in the dawning mind

Existential pondering of mattered time

Giver of life to breathless lung

For one kiss in rememberance

To defy those who deny

We never forget who she be

No garden do grow without thee

Thanks never in need

Should you find yourself

Happy moments to feed

Lay your head on mothers lap

Hear her sing as we breathe

Energy in synergy of matter

Synchronicity in melody we hum

Trumpets, violin, or war drum

The harp of lost Leanore

Float in breeze under crows feet

In skies above forever more

Curious be to listen dear child

Hear our Mother sing of love

True could it be this gift

For all who we missed

Those who lost themselves

No sight given out from dark cellars

Hold them we will

These fallen unsung

So warm we keep them

So love be unto the reborn

In sanctums between first light of dawn

Tuning forks sound underwater

Bring forth sea creatures

Last journey for sons & daughters

Mother shall not be alone

With all her children

She wants for no throne

Must balance final debts

Death to taxes our requiem at best

She takes upon our emotional carry on

With praise no need given to atone

Keep pain locked in cages

Open doors to dungeons deep

Those who cast witches & mages

Be telling of lost words in translation

Thane of Thorns

Broken swords

Shields be floating down your moat

Push your Prince in his boat

With his lamp of souls

Holding close the secret scrolls

Reverse the iron crown

Through his head shall it push down

Cast upon see your foul curse

Attone to no ear under the clear

Judgement be given

In your persecution of poor beggars

No body to burn or return to tide

Darkest night where no light resides

The tentacles of sea tarantula

Be the payment you stole

Shall surrender your begotten soul

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Cosmic Girl

Rising pride in hearts torment

Nemesis be love in new dawn

Find her this errand star

Open new eye to see the fawn

Meet me on celestial paths

Hop, skip and jump to start

Carry to no view

Be it always with you

Brothers purple heart

Hero to hear call

Fear becoming this year

Unto to me in cosmic serenity

Grip so tight my starlight

Falling crystal of fortune

Wellness of mental refractions

Colours of each ribbon we dance within

Twirl like a tilt a whirl

Never lost in women be this girl

Joining stars to find new Mars

Delight in country sight

Of every cosmic tantric reprise

What does Father say exists beyond

When he sings you that old song

Journey to centers unknown

Speak with these mystics without phone

On each passing light

Messages we give to find them in time

They hear as tune

Old melodies we know so true

What happened to your favourite Moon?

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Pre-Mortem

No air do I take in seems just

So heavy a sad heart when you depart

Filled to brim with drowning death

Spilling inside me to see no end

House becomes of this empty home

No dream take me far anymore

Broken walls and lies untold

Drowning these broken souls

Nothing bright to shine against

These crawling beasts do wait

Rotating spindles that can’t hold themselves

Reflection of caressing hand in glass perdition

Left to the absurd

Observing behind masks of rage that burns

Cleaned with dishevelled discord

I lie down already with sword

Lash me with seekers favour

Take my skin for no sin i be within

Let me bleed out the pain

No pride will drip from each vein

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Dear Diary

Once upon life did love sharply write

Crying champagne over each page

See it stain my wilted bouquet

Water poured over the lost sunflower

Mother dearest, how I missed you

Flooding house of fear without you near

Shadow from mirrors be the smallest figure

Another journal disaster cast away this year

Today be the start of yesterday’s night walk

When no hand covers my new eye

Call to me oh lovely groom

Where be you in my misery room?

No pointed memoir have such meaning

Too many full stops to each comma

Sore be the arms that write such hate

Be myself if I dare dream big today

Re-take on life a mistake of strife

Call cut on every scene with view

My groom to be, where be you?

Lost of time it would seem, how new!!

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Cold Hands

If only the lonely had a hand to hold

When shadows crawl through cold

Whisper to me as this dying tree falls

Love me and lift my body to the sea wall

Helping the lost souls of transient zones

Cursing sky with a minding baritone

Take me to peace of resting mind

Outpatients of impatience ever so unkind

Manifest theatrics of dancing mannequins

Refuse treats or sweets of Halloween yet again

Night screaming of no calming love

Final act of madness played the rubber duck in the tub

The never ending story of the snail

Puts us in the coffin without hammer or nail

An encore long after curtain call

An empty graveyard be the cheer for us all

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Lies Magnified

How one denies to imply such poor manners

Broken cogs left to regret for one has no spanners

Fixate on this dictation sees so much become lost

An invitation to Christmas one never got

Stolen notes to hide past mistakes

Pride be the foolish disguise of what we forsake

No story of life to be written with such indecision

A growing tale told be ones who lacks precision

Breaking bread at picnic tables in good stead

Words we choose to believe now covet us in dread

The sleight of might this black hand

Be fools gold to past adventures over sand

Build to skies what is destined to fall

Lies be no solid ground to progress; it will stall

Who steals words for my Wolf Queen

That legs be stairways to days I will never see

Anchors dropped on seekers of gold

Fools we all are no fortune to favour the bold

Treason in trenches where we left our strength

Pull the wings off good people who be heaven sent

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