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Four strings and rosin,
Resin of old cello fires,
  .  .  .  Fingers in amber.
They were cold and sterile
Maybe that's why they plagued it
As they placed their signatures upon experimentation
and pushed too hard like a workhorse facing retirement

It's a script indeed
The downfall of a generation
Weak minded fiends cycle it out like ***** laundry
Siphoning jet fuel to reach new heights in sacrifice
It's no wonder why none of us can sleep at night

Me I'm just a piece of paper full of ineligible lines
Treated like a germ
With great pain held behind whimpering eyes
So hard to disguise

My pace quickened as I passed
Glossy eyes and desperate breaths
People clawing crying out
I continued forward heart cast out
I miss you
Like the secrets I whispered deeply
Into my pillowcase
Just before the house caught fire
Those evening tales, lost
With the photographs hidden beneath a loose floorboard
Paper and ink curling into nothing
But lightly falling ash
Kissing me softly as I watch from the street
Until the embers cease to glow
And morning light reveals me
-A silent statue of grey
Bala Chandran
Crescent Moon
suspended in our sky
embracing curve with tender hooks
that we may display dreams on
singular light reflecting life
satisfied we meet your gaze
I think you embody your name most fully
I could only see with dreaming eyes a place so vast within
impossible waters to cross, if only to fly to other side
blue water to turn to ice, and full of joy
I could go skating by, twirling to the sky
when all the meadow flowers would fully bloom
and turn to starry showers
of petals raining
in my room
 Jul 2013 Vijayalakshmi Harish
DM
I come home each night,
And inhale and suffocate into the fragrance that is you.
Breathing in the residual, yet powerful and attracting aroma,
Upon the correspondence you sent,
An almost invisible heart,
Scribed in your perfume,
Distorting the paper and rushing to my head,
'She is like this', I say,
An association is established,
And expectations reign,
Catching a wanted and needed breath,
A sorta kiss from far-away,
It exudes a deep rich pungency,
That is alive and not manufactured.
It alivens me with hope,
That awaits your presence,
So I can, at last, breathe you in completely.
So when I get old and I'm being told
That I can no longer roam
Take pity on me, don't leave me be
To sit here at home all alone

Take me to the top of a mountain
And there let me sit all the day
Leave me on top of the mountain
And there I can fade away
-Chorus-
I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way
I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way
I may be a wage slave on Mondays
But I am a free man on Sundays

The Manchester Rambler was written by Ewan MacColl in 1933, and became the official song of the Ramblers Federation. The moorland in the Peak District was out of bounds to the public, and was reserved for the rearing and shooting of grouse.  A mass trespass was organised in 1933 when hundreds of working people expressed their solidarity and demanded the right to roam among the hills in defiance  of the law, which supported the rich land owners and their game keeper lackeys. They won the day eventually.  
Incidentally, Kirsty MacColl the singer who was killed by a speed boat a few years ago was his daughter.
Google the full song lyrics!
we say
we create our experience
so now
take a chance
raise the big dream out of hiding
nourish well with expectant desire
let it grow
transforming
beyond known imagining
what we did not see
was ours all along
We only recognize that which we conceive and believe
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