James Tipp

The News Today

I listened to the news to day there was death in every place
I wondered how we'd sing, of such amazing grace
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When God decided to enter our world
He gave it a lot of thought
He wanted people to know who He was
The problem really was fraught
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A Belated Homage To A Genius.
(Alan Turing)
The world I entered was a shattered world a broken world
Millions dead, millions homeless, millions starving, bleak!
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The name is everything so thought the ancient world
Your naming gave you ambition or gave thanks for your existence
Knowing a name meant power and bought fear because of knowledge
So 'I am' was ambiguous and intimidating all in one announcement
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They have forgotten Lord,
You have slipped from their memory.
Your coming is celebrated with abandonment
Your departure is pushed aside, relegated,
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In the face of a friend I see death
Written large for all who can see the signs.
We who travel with the dying are frail
We have nothing of ourselves to offer,
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The day extinguishes in a blaze of glory
Nature in all her beauty bids farewell to the light
We stand enthralled captured by the magnificance
The transitory reality holds us mesmersied.
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From the beginning to the end
Your vision was unique
You understood completely
Your wisdom unending.
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Today the question why?
Bounced off my mind
Through my heart
Ricochet around the room
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You have gone my little man, my companion
My friend through thick and thin
In rain and shine we explored the quarry
The country lane the hedgerows.
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A life ended before it has begun
In the time it takes to blink,
A millisecond, he was gone,
Not even the echo of his laughter
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Running down the road naked child of war
Back all burnt and blistered
You don’t know what for.
Picture in the paper
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The hills are stark and clear,
The shafts of milky white light
Make the colours almost paint like,
Surreal and yet more real than ever.
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He’s gone moved on whilst we still linger,
We hold him captive as the baby in the manger
He’s easy to handle as the baby; we’re in control.
But when he moves on what then? Things change.
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Unfettered love unchecked by protocol or pride
Speaks its name and calls its tune into the night air
Love unknowable before demands to be heard unclouded
With all its passion and joy and liberation of the soul
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Blakeney to Cley beach

Unfettered horizons of blue sky and multicoloured marsh,
Adorn this Norfolk landscape meandering paths,
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In the quiet of the forest lies a track so straight and clear
It’s an echo of another age that suddenly comes near
In the setting of the sun comes the shadow of a dream
Listen to the ghostly sounds the clanking and the steam
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Bough Lake District

We drank from the bottle marked Bough,
Transported to the land of Alice.
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Christmas stands at the door and knocks
The coming king, small, dependent, sleeps
Visitors from near and far, high and low
Called by the heavenly host and cosmic sign.
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