Tag: time
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Here Now
City’s like chewed gum passed around Not one inch of hallowed ground Aged brown, grown out but never outgrown Stone to dent our presence here That we ever, ever we were so now we’re here forever You can’t change what has come before Time is like a charging horse, all froth and midair Place is…
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Completing A Tragic Jigsaw
A conspiracy of banded diamonds Needles threaded, their hum or silence alike spells violence Like things divine, they communicate through subtle signs An eyebrow raised, a shoulder lowered Without a syllable they uttered murder Come not to Cumbria seeking covens It’s below your roof they’ve taken cover The fourth leaf of their clover is removed…
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Suit Yourself
Inside iron armour my frail deranged armature is pale Fastness my flesh can hide where nothing can assail Sculpted by an amateur symmetry’s anathema What they wilt Rabelais’ Thelema their schema. When December first heightens wasted months, a whole year to bewail If you cram it in every day that month, it cannot be chalked…
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Clock
In a half day waylaid by twelve labours Nemean lion maimed, its teeth sabres Acephalic hydra, headshot clean stables.
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Time
Minutes courting hours, men counting time Elaborate astronomical devices Saturnian monoliths, becogged, wrought of black iron and gold They say Time is running out Out of where? Frogs who when submerged in boiling water leap Content to languish in water brought slowly to boil Great fire of time burning us away Slow to start, our…