Long Bligh Poems

“Collection Kaki and school bag, collection Kaki and school bag”
These are the words echoing from the woman hustling on the street side. Mindless people passing by glancing at her and listening to her afternoon cry.

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The shadow in the night is smiling with me
The shadow in the moonlight is dancing with me
The shadow in the sunlight is praying with me
And here I am waiting for you to come and unite...

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I am still here waiting
Waiting for something to happen
I am still here waiting
Waiting for you to come
Christmas has come and gone
And here I am still waiting on the wet lawn
Daybreak stares desperately in my eyes
As...

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Oh what sorrows have begat thee?
Oh what pain has come upon thee?
Drooping head hanging low
And the billows are moving to and fro
Unkempt hair flying high in the sky
And anxious whiskers are standing by 
Your shadows...

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I have been standing here on the corner 
Waiting, waiting for you to come
I have been standing on the corner
Waiting, waiting to hear your song
I have been observing the apparatus of nature
And the will that...

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You are the reason why I am here because I have so much to share. You are the reason why I am here, and you act as if you don’t care.

What kind of person are...

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For one full year I have been thrown in the lion`s den
And the lion has been running  and jumping
And pulling savagely at my leg
The philistines also surround me 
with a hidden weapon dancing beneath...

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I wrestle with the demons of the night 
who have forced me to put up a terrible fight
I wrestle with the demons of the day
who wants to lead my spirit astray
And when the evening is...

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Assorted shades are walking down the street and it is not fashion week, the mongrels are walking around the town selling bake goods and delicate cookies to the people they meet, then they  put...

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An eye for an eye, this is what he hears
An eye for an eye, this is the penalty that he bears
There was no way he could escape it even though
He denies it the murderer’s voice...

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After being amply lathered
     from head to toe, aye
ya eye ya eye ya eye, and without fail
     (gluteus maximus unloads a dump,

     as...

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Captain Bligh was his name,
he ruled his ship with an iron cane.
The Bounty was the ship,
sailing to Tahiti, via Cape Horn was the trip.
At Cape Horn, after tacking back and forth,
eastward, was set the course.
It...

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 This is the story of Albert Bligh,
who painted a boathouse upon the sky.
Albert was as bored, as bored could be;
he’d grown up in a house high in a tree.

Albert had a bigger dream, you...

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An Ode to Nelly Bligh

The leaves are falling all around,
They softly float to the ground.
This is a real strange affair,
Now that fall and winter are in the air.

Gone are the flowers seen in the spring,
They...

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Time has everything
  You only have something
    From time life initiates
      And you integrates

Time awards great
  It offers love, not hate
    When...

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SAILOR   MOON     


Sailor  moon  is rising proud
‘Neath  her sky  of  stars and cloud
A silvery moonlit  trail  she sends
To help us find the...

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if and when i die

if i die
never ask yourself why
i had to die
because i'd have died
so wipe all your tears dry
and move on for another try
for pain is all within for a bligh
and if i...

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Nathan played pro-rugby for the Glasgow Warriors, 
Until he was seventeen when he had a motorbike crash, 
Which broke thirty bones in has body, medical superiors,
Said he may die, but he battled and is paralysed...

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I look outside and the day is grey
There’s no sun on which burns we blame
The bright light, clouds betray
Every day is such as the same
I’m but a lion with no mane

Not but this, the days...

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