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In London zoo a lion escaped
They forgot to lock his cage
It disappeared into the night
Hungry, filled with rage

Poor old Brian had lost his job
His life had hit the skids
His wife moved in with his mate
She also took his kids

He hit the bottle pretty hard
He started to get ill
His grandma died, he got the call
Turns out she had a will

She had millions in the bank
And she left it all to Brian
But on his way to cash the cheque
He was eaten by a lion.....
"When I am with you I could never lose my sense of direction.
My hands are my compass and they are telling me you are my
Home".
 Jan 2015 Daniel Thorne
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Quill
 Jan 2015 Daniel Thorne
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•      
be     
-hold    
    my  sole    
     prized instru-
       ment of choice•
         let it bear the wei-
           ght of my unspoken
           voice•in the dead of
             the silent night•i'll let
               loose my heart so it co-
                uld take flight•consoli-
                  dating all that i think•
                   and...converting them
                     into the blackest ink•
                       only then freely......it
                          would spill•down
                                   the stem and
                                         to the nib
                                            of my
                                               fea
                                                the
         ­                                        red
                                                  qui
       ­                                               ll
               ­                                         •
 Jan 2015 Daniel Thorne
rook
And time, like trees, forbade to die
until that single drop of sunbeam in the sky
itself will fade,
and memories elude, like those
who once saw colors fair and bright
and now only darkness knows
those thoughts they never saved.

and time, like trees, grows only once and still
though man may try to fix and heal the damage done with age
Time, like trees, never will.
and neither once destroyed can truly be regained; time, like trees, outdone by age.
 Jan 2015 Daniel Thorne
Jessica
The mad hatter tips his hat
to the teller of ticking time -
the caterpillar catches tunes and
turns them into rhyme.
The daisies dally, the tulips tarry and
the roses only rise in the morn.
The trees they sing in haunting hollows
in moonlight full adorned.
The barn owl "hoos", the coyote calls,
the wolf howls by a silk thread stream -
and fireflies dance in clouds on the ground -
in my slumber, in my dreams

— The End —