Aloft

Drunk on wine and blue cheese,

Cigarettes rain down hill,

On these sheets full of sleaze,

Sloshing, and I standstill.

Skin you of your being,

So I may also be free,

With your new eyes seeing,

Losing the need to flee.

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Lost

The fairground, finding myself in mirrors,

Perplexed and dazed by the lurid colours,

Of green and red and blue plastic rivers,

Hardly a place of magical wonders.

Step and sink into a cavernous tear,

As a clocked man, in black, with joy looks on.

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Warrior

A warrior, stained to the flesh and core,

As the dead float calmly down the river.

This soldier with everything to deplore.

With only the weapon of words to roar,

Tarnished true sword cast down by this giver,

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Bottled

Red blindfold and green sparks,

Fast jazz and dancing free,

Soft wine and wilted parks,

Yet another draftee.

Capture me, my muses,

Bottle my fates for joy.

In ecstasy and abuses,

Forbidden whipping boy.

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Lucidity

The wind changed, and rocks floated to the sky,

Lucidity of the waking hours.

Blackened with absinthe and old thoughts dry,

In ivory shell, bathing in putrid flowers.

The joy of stale forgotten memories,

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Revolution

One dangerous idea and fickle time,

With autonomy and leisure for all,

From intricately and sound woven rhyme,

As the congeries desert the town hall.

A man stands with vital rebirth,

Wages silent war on a chimera,

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