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New Beginnings

The eve of beginnings, of new hope and belief

As the January  month awakens from sleep

Creeping her way the new year unfolds

With optimistic magic for what she will hold

The pen has fresh ink, the paper is white

As the author creates a new passionate write.

From January forward

To December the end

Poets all gather to share, love and befriend.

So with winter breaking and Spring waiting to start

I blow out the cobwebs and open my heart.

Anticipating, the words ebb and flow

From what secrets I'm keeping and the secrets I'll show

Gathered together we write with desire

About  the sun and the moonlight, the rain and the fire

To the last line we celebrate as a new verse is born

Whilst the muses still whisper from dusk till dawn.

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The Wooden Cross

Moses began with blood on wood, the lamb to slaughter went,
Not until the birth of Christ, the significant intent.
Upon the cross with hands held high, the nails biting through his wrists,
Yet never once upon the cross my Saviour did resist.
Unto the maiden at the foot, his body laid and bare,
His mother Mary held him close and offered up her prayer.
And so today I ask you all, what price would you pay,
For such a man to take the cross in such a loving way?
The sins of the world he took within, and so harsh his heart did break,
And I know that mankind is not so false, that this life taken, was a mistake.
So look upon your wrists and feet, upon your side and back,
No scars will ever upon you show, for he took them with every lash.
Whipped and torn his flesh did tear, his blood flowing upon the ground,
And through this torment that he bore, he never made a sound.
What right has man to use his name in cursing and in vain,
The Lamb who took our sins away, Blessed be his name!

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All I Ask of You

I seek the immortality that breathes within you, the forbidden language spoken only by the
Ancient ones!

I seek the essence that pours from your lips, that liquid awash from passions kiss!

I damn my own soul in payment for the caress of your own, I cast aside morality and
virtue, to Just once touch your fire, to dance in the flame that is you!

Torture holds no fear to me, torment an ally that allows me to finally feel something,
denied in This mortal realm!

My tears are not the water of weakness, they flow from the rivers of belief, I embrace the
salt in My wounds!

If love hurts, Jealousy burns and possession repels then feed me, I do not belong to the
land of the pure!

I know the truth and it was born of pain, give to me your vengeance, that I may finally
arise from The ashes!

Supplicant I kneel before you, set free this wind that my fire may grow!

This is all I ask of you!

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Wonderful World

Sunrise breaks over the east so innocently as did the birth of creation
The Dawn rising to reclaim her throne from the night time's reign
Serenly, magestically, displaying her light as blinding as white linen
The chorus of the morning singing her praises, the return of the Queen

Fields dance in her warmth, their colors hightening from her touch
As the shadows run from view, a new vision of the day is born
Birds take to flight across the clouds of frosted blue and white
The world stirs, all is well

Sadly her reign is short lived
As sunset breaks over the east so innocently as did the first death
The dusk casting her blanket of darkness, the throne now set for the return of the King
Owls twitter as they awaken from their sleep
Nocturnal world answering the call of the Moon

And so the pattern continues
Life progresses
The Monarchy of the skies
Supreme in their own time and realms

One of silver one of gold
The treasure's of nature
For all to behold

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Until Then

Call me to the edge my dear

As I abandon all my fears

Wipe the last of lonely tears

My last day on earth draws ever near

Upon the sand my message clear

I lived my life in second gear

Wait for me until you hear

The ringing bells of next new year.

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Love Me Naked

Will you love me naked? Reveal yourself to me?

The secret desire's that arouse your senses and terrify your conscience.

There is nothing that  you can not tell me, like water I will wash over the stones and
reeds that have become part of the stream, flowing recklessly through your soul.

Let me be the water bearer, collecting the dreams and passion from the river of the man
that is you.

Nakedness, so pure, so untamed, so beautiful.

Pour me your truth, and I shall drink, my truth offered in return

I stand before you holding out a glass in my hand

Will you love me naked?

I ask this, as I begin to show myself to you.

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Light To Dark (Diamante Antonym)

Light

flourescent, incandsecent

Glowing, burning, illuminating

Guides like a star, Shooting through the sky

Reaching, longing, ending

Shadows, blackness

Dark

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Burke and Hare

Under dark protection of the night the gruesome two-some take to flight,

To exhume the grave of the recent buried, in a wheel barrow the bodies ferried,

Body snatchers creep at night, the open coffin brings delight,

Strip bare the corpse of wealth adorned, delivering the body before the dawn,

One with a shovel the other an axe, with powerful blows the coffin cracks,

The lid split open the crypt undone, access gained to the disrespectful ones,

Cold as ice the body lay, undisturbed until this day,

Burke reached in to rob the dead, as Hare watched on, his greed be fed,

"Help me Hare this one is stuck", his feet were sinking in the muck,

But Hare looked on his face turned grey, as Burke was being pulled away,

The ground beneath began to crumble, as Burke and Hare began to stumble,

The grip of  fear had them tightly bound, as the corpse took hold of both their Hands,

Burke screamed "For God's sake help this is no joke", and that was when the Spirit spoke,

"Burke and Hare your fate is sealed, by the hand of death from which you steal,

Tonight The body snatchers me, as I ferry your souls on deaths black sea,

I take your life's to pay your debt,

Too long you taunt and tease the dead",

The ground opened up and fire shot through, the screams of torment echoed Through,

As Burke and Hare could not break free, from the depths of hell they could not flee,

Falling deeper underground, their bodies never to be found,

Yet listen close by graves at night,and you will hear their screams of fright,

A warning as they burn in hell, never desecrate a corpses shell.

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The Toy Maker

The toy maker sat all alone in his shop
A hammer and chisel, on the wood he would chop
Moulding and shaving
The wood taking shape
Until to his surprise formed a recognisable face
He stopped and he stared
There was no mistake
It was her
He was silent
His voice desperate to speak
But the sound and the movement of his mouth
Failed to meet
In the moonlight by window
He held her up high
His eyes could not contain
Tears burst from inside
Who was this lady?
I am sure you would like to know
She was his mother
Lost many years ago
In times of aloneness
When sadness embarks
The hands often make secret deals with the heart
Sometimes on paper, sometimes out of clay
Expressions appear
When we don't know what to say
For this Toy maker his sorrow was being alone
Until tonight, out of wood as his mother came home.

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Frogs and Dogs - (Tongue Twister Poetry)

Four fearsome frogs fought fourty dogs for fun in foggy weather

the fourty dogs and fearsome frogs alarmed poor fred the farmer

If fourty dogs fought four fearsome frogs in fog on fred's old farm

the fourty frogs and four fearsome dogs could go sleep after in the barn.