Paul Warren Poems

Is there still a Free World?
Where people's values are upheld
You can walk the streets by yourself
Knowing you are safe in your health
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The silence of the Outback
Where you can stand near a track
And silence rules the air
The gibber rocks are bare
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If you are a young actor freshly discovered by Hollywood
A full body scan is made to file their image as best as it could
Be used later on when they are not so sexy or photogenic
With the file used and their current face with their younger body
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Australia Day is a holiday on the 26th of January
When Sydney Cove was proclaimed a colony
Although the day has some connotation
Of destroying the original Aboriginal nation
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Darkening blue sky
Wind howls lightning and thunder
Fence hits the ground hard.
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Time was a human invention
Where we wanted to measure work expression
First it was the local gentry tower clock face
Without a minute hand it was an hourly race
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We have services delivered under the auspices
Of the bean counters in their coin counting vices
When does it become more important to us
To let criminals and mental health sufferers out without fuss
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There is an empty chair
And a space in my heart
I still remember your face
The way you smiled at me
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They say the alternative to natural selection
That took the human race into our direction
The first was the jump from one cell creatures
To higher animals that had more involved features
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Do we dance the dance
When looking for romance
What choice turns it to love
Is there intervention from above?
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