dave-gledhill
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Empire
The Amazons fractured her skull / while he was busy / introducing himself, with a handshake
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Born to Excel - A Haiku
Work is a prison / filled with white spreadsheet walls / and blank, empty cells
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Legacy
I see your hand waver, now you're faced with a ghost, / not the raw, killer features that were nailed to a post. / Just an old, dying cowboy, trying hard to play host.
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An Education
The pen, they say, is mightier, / but is it keener than a knife? / This brittle blade of insolence,
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Do Not Adjust Your Set
Turn on the TV and switch off your brain, / tune into Jezza as you fade out the shame, / point at his cattle, and laugh at their pain,
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Suit
Well of course, Your Honour, I can explain, / why I urinated on the train. / You see the first toilet appeared to be locked,
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Moondance
I'm troubled by a broken tune, / that can't keep time and loops too soon. / Like Christmas in the heart of June,
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Bound
The eagle searches, circling, senses strum like spider silk. / Sorrow’s scent slides up on a sea breeze. / A solitary slave spits sullenly into the spray.
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Host
A stilted stay, a pregnant pause, / as shadows sharpen midnight claws. / A dimming dome oppressed by night,
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Tides
The coach capsized and spilled its freight, / a glut of rabid reprobates, / who swarm towards a sea of lights
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