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Starlight
04:18
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STARLIGHT
Skimming past horizons
Fading light
One hundred thousand starlings
Take to flight
Into Starlight
Music folding
Falling over me
Like a memory under siege
Watercoloured canvas glowing bright
Fading black Fading night
Into Starlight
There’s a story still to tell
Pours like daybreak over me
And a star can’t cast a shadow
But its luminosity is
Starlight
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Porcelain
04:23
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PORCELAIN
Sunrise on the southern plain
Awoken by the call
Glistening tarmac, heavy rain
Push aside it all
Rubber wheels forever on the friction
Of the hospital floor
And the terror of whatever
Waits behind those automatic doors
Casting doubt through saccharine grins
Where one life ends one more begins
Oh porcelain chipped on quivering lips
A medical apocalypse
Just behind the wall the joyful cries of a brand new life
But this fear just heightens the anticipation
In unflattering light
Oh make sense of it all
How in one moment something changes
Leaves you staring down a gaping hole
Oh how violent the knock
Cos by the springtime all the garden had awoken
But you had not
You had not.
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Womxn
06:59
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WOMXN
Rule of thumb
Under the gun
Silencer
Sit the bar
Raise the bar
Balancer
But Emmeline and Ivy
Not secretly or quietly
But bravely and stalwartly
With both feet dangling
Like Rosalind, Grace Darling
Who's foresight was deafening
Still questioning and referencing
A source so intimidating
Stop questioning
Start Listening
She
Wife and mother
Undercover
Objectify
A tight clenched fist
An arm to twist
Demystify
Like Katherine and Dorothy
Confidently, patriarchy
Still mortified to clarify
A mind more worthy
Like Sonia and Greta
Inspire an armarda
So gallantly, not violently
For inequality.
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Waterloo Sunset
03:54
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The Gashly Crumb Tinies
04:22
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THE GASHLYCRUMB TINIES
Poem by Edward Gorey
A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.
B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
C is for Clara who wasted away.
D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach.
F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.
G is for George smothered under a rug.
H is for Hector done in by a thug.
I is for Ida who drowned in a lake.
J is for James who took lye by mistake.
K is for Kate who was struck with an axe.
L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks.
M is for Maud who was swept out to sea.
N is for Neville who died of ennui.
O is for Olive run through with an awl.
P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl.
Q is for Quentin who sank in a mire.
R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire.
S is for Susan who perished of fits.
T is for Titus who flew into bits.
U is for Una who slipped down a drain.
V is for Victor squashed under a train.
W is for Winnie embedded in ice.
X is for Xerxes devoured by mice.
Y is for Yorick whose head was knocked in.
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin
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Wind Horses
05:51
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WIND HORSES
Reincarnation
Elimination
Ice sculpture for the birds
Human nature undisturbed
Quest for more
From rugged peak
To river's shore
That fatal flaw
Leave behind the ones who trod before
Paint your palette green and blue
One last time observe the view
Trespassing to feel alive
Where only wind horses dare to fly.
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BALLAD OF A DISTRACTED MOTHER
I crawl up from the river
Nod to the kingfisher
Thanks for the weather
Up from the river
To you
I crawl up from the river
I know that I can deliver
Up from the river
To you
I'm face down in the corner
Trying to be discreet
Queen of hide and seek
I'm down in the corner
For you
I'm face down in the corner
Cheap plastic jewels adorn her
Face down in the corner
For you
And I'd fight fire for you
If only you knew how it burned
I crawl up from he river
Spinning sycamore seeds around her
Up from the river
To you
I am under the covers
Ignore the clutter
Unsticking stickers
Under the covers
With you
I am under the covers
Ever present distracted moher
Under the covers
For you
And I'd fight fire for you
If only she knew how it burned
Face to face with her splendour
Complete surrender
Will she ever know just how much I love her
Distracted mother
With you
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