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Best Poems Written by Tony Northover

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Generic Oppression Poem

Oppressed by you, your state, your religion
So you think you good, kind and Superior
But I find you  cruel, arrogant and callous
But that is just in my view, what do I know?

You control the language that describes pain
But there is no for me in its grid, or how I feel
My soul is ripped from my body and bound,
On to your machines on which I slave and toil.

You say it has to be this way, no room for doubt
Master and slave, it is only a matter of degrees
But it is my kind that is always tied to the rack
While you sip vintage wine in the lap of luxury.

Everything has its time and its place, yours is over
End is near, for you and everything you hold dear
Everything carries with it the root of its own destruction
And I will rejoice now that your has very nearly come.

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Winter

All things end bitter
Cupid is out of business
Even flowers rot

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Spring

Passing down the hill 
Bluebells have come out early
Prematurely blue

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Arno Vale

Arno Vale
Bristol’s Necropolis
City of the Dead
Where the dead and living
In the daytime co-exist.

The path leads full circle
Around the tomb stones, chapels and trees
Tombstone white and bright in the sun
The trees decorated, woollen colours

Booted families trudge through the trees
Others visit the café and the gift shop
All this life in the garden of the dead
It seems almost pagan, in a Christian way
Reminding us of their marriage

The winter sun shines without warmth
Through the trees, the leaves still on the ground
Solitude without loneliness that is what is here
The dead not buried and forgotten;
But, with nature and the living instead.

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Flow of the Eye

Call this a life

									Sat at a screen

				Of life.    End.

								       Attention span


		Still trying to make sense


								Shortened



	Still on the internet




                 The younger generation wants to be successful.

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The End

Lights exploded in my head
Then I realized that I was dead
I floated for a time above my body
Looking down at the hospital bed

My life was over. I was spent
But now I was hovering here
Where was my tunnel of light?
All of a sudden I was gone

Then I was in this place
Where the sun never goes down
And everyone is polite and,
I float around without a sound

My friends are all here
The ones who went before
Now they greet me with joy
Happy once more

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Trust

It's too quiet

I don't like it

It means: 

Trouble to come.



Leave me be

Leave me alone

I want to take it

To go down alone.



In the silence 

Or the storm

One thing I could never do

Trust another being.

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Release

nothing left to do
nothing left to fear
all is done 
all is clear
Life is run
Wound down
To a single turn

What did I learn?
Don’t try and don’t cry
Its all the same…
In the long run.