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Peter Cullen Jul 2014
One hundred million grains of sand,
each one a part of what was planned.
Measured each before they fell
amongst the seaweed and the shells.
Feeling warm beneath your feet
everything it has to be.
Waiting to return to sea.
Waiting just like you and me.
Peter Cullen Dec 2014
The bold and the good
all under the sun.
All singing as one,
in Wallaby Woods.
The moonlight above,
the mist and the rain.
Some singing for love,
some singing for pain.
Searching for stars,
forgotten to time..
The moonlight above
The rhythm and rhyme.
The bold and the good,
waiting for the sun.
All singing as one,
in Wallaby Woods.
Peter Cullen Aug 2014
Sat here with the clock
and its tickety tock.
There's holes in my heart
and holes in my socks.
The wallpaper peels,
reveals wallpaper from,
two decades before,
when we were still young.
Now aged with the years,
covered over in time.
Lost to the new,
lost to our eyes.
Its beauty, still present,
so I peel back some more.
Listen to records
and lie on the floor.
The ripples of smoke
swirling to the ceiling
kinda portrays
the way that I'm feeling.
Floating around
always lost to it all.
My mood just like wallpaper
can rise and can fall.
Peter Cullen Jul 2014
I want to help humanity
yet I can't even help myself.
A child born to this greedy hell.
A product of this hungry race.
Where to take has been made easy,
without question, without words.
Taught to grab, without thought,
from a dying world.

I want to find humility,
a voice that rings with truth.
A truth that sings in everyone
deep within our roots.
Deep within the eyes that see,
the thoughts that form our words
I want to live where we are free,
in a brand new world.
Peter Cullen May 2015
He said -
"What I've seen,
and where I've been,
against my own sweet will".
The eyes that looked into his soul
the ones he had to ****.
On a lonely battlefield,
so far away from home.
I Watch him drift away again.
Back to those war zones.
Peter Cullen May 2015
Water down the liquor,
the troops are on the road.
Full of expectations,
they think they're going home.

Water down the chatter,
the words that leave the tongue.
Remember, every war that's been,
has sacrificed the young.

Watered down emotions,
as we try to sink or swim.
It's funny how the same old tribes,
prosper, with the same old sins.

Let's water down the slaughter.
The need, the greed, the want of more.
Teach our sons and daughters,
war will always, lead to war.

Water down the liquor,
the troops are on the road.
They're full of expectations,
they think they're going home.
Peter Cullen May 2015
An island, off an island.
Water,
puddles,
mist and rain.
The vast expanding ocean,
the one that carried you away.
Walking from the parlour,
looking out across the fields.
I wonder what your doing now,
I always wonder how you feel.
I know,
we knew,
what's for the best,
yet sorrow never hides.
I often look upon the waves,
upon the changing tides,
I see your face in everything,
your teardrops are the rain.
Remembering that final day,
I live it everyday.
Peter Cullen Aug 2014
Down Waverly Lane,
the mist and the haze,
the fog that descends,
the cold and the rain.

Down Waverly lane,
histories stains,
lurk in the shadows,
dance in the shade.

Down Waverly Lane
the night and the moon
the dreams you can't lose
the guilt you consume.

Down Waverly lane,
histories stains,
lurk in the shadows,
dance in the shade.
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
Whips and pain and daisy chains
are swimming through her mind.
Vanilla mixed with passion fruit
Sweet flavours of all kind.

Trying to grasp a rope of sand
to tie herself to him.
Whips and pain and daisy chains
deep in her mind still swim.

Through currents of emotion
tides and storms of lust and rage.
She searches mind and body
A crazed bird in an open cage.
Peter Cullen May 2015
She whispered in the morning sun,
about the night that went before.
And every word that left her lips
lingered, within all that's pure.
She paused and settled,
with the chorus,
with the dawning of the day,
She whispered softly on the ear,
yet she had so much to say,
Her mind and soul an army,
tempered by the kings of light,
She whispered to a broken troop,
told him there's no need to fight.
The battle, it is over,
like the darkness falls to morn.
She rests upon his shoulder,
Nests upon a love that's born.
Peter Cullen Aug 2014
I heard that Wild Fire Billy died.

Without his coat but not his pride.

I heard that Wild Fire Billy died.



It's said, they found him on the road,

buckshot lead inside his head.

They say, they shot him from behind.

I heard that Wild Fire Billy’s dead
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
When I saw that picture of a man,
in a field, working land,
at first I couldn't recognize his eyes.
But then it dawned and memories spawned,
of all the love he was to leave behind.
Although I never met him,
we never passed the time of day,
I know I would have loved him,
there's somethings words don't need to say.
You see this man gave me something,
maybe unawares to him.
But this man gave my mother life,
love and hope, somewhere to be.
And though in this life paths weren't crossed,
You never left me at a loss.
And for that,
I thank you now,
the black and white man with the plough.
Peter Cullen Apr 2014
Who are my to say whats right
and how dare me to even try.
The blood that trickles from my wound,
is on my sheets,
tears in my eyes.
I try to cast my mind back,
like the trawler casts a hopeful net.
In the search of love and truth,
but all that's left is harsh regrets.
There's sometimes when I wonder:
what if we just never spoke?
I wonder would the love transpire,
I wonder what it would evoke.
See memories have a need for words,
its how we form a view.
But its those words that led us here,
and now I don't have you.
Peter Cullen Feb 2014
Words that burn aren't hard to learn
but leave a nasty blister.
So teach the youth to love themselves
their brothers and their sisters.
It's energy that's going dictate
how the cards will play.
Some lie in bed, they clutch a cross.
Lie waiting for the day.

The meek will then inherit.
All that's broken
all that's left behind.
The remnants of an orchestra
not parallel with natures lines.

A generation left to grasp
the sorry shadow of the past.
I hope they will forgive us, why?
We left them sail without a mast.

Upon sick oceans rising fast.

— The End —