jerry hughes Poems

It was stifling in bed yet you
lay with a sheet undulating
with your breath, like a sail
in a gentle breeze.
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By decree we stole their birthright.
Little heathens in our christian eyes.
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Now all I can encompass is
within the width of my hands.
I miss the colours of the seasons
and the force of nature's will.
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In the name of the Father,
Crusaders sallied forth
raping and murdering.
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I used to pass it on my way to school,
an eerie place with a tumbled-down fence
and gates that groaned on windy days.
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We of the human race do solemnly swear,
we will not perish by nuclear holocaust or
any other wrath.
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If you didn't spend time in the bush
during the middle of the last century,
you wouldn't understand the significance
of the 'outside dunny.'
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'For Alison'

I know you well much loved,
through the peaks and valleys
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She rode the stallion bareback,
pressed against his spine.
They galloped free together,
it simply blew her mind.
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'When lo! An angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not a hand upon that lad,
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.'
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