james watkin

Nothing in my beat, irretrievable
That takes to treks, as something
Exiled of its own volition
Ever dispirits, within
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A life is not lived once
But many times over
In the memory.
Perusal of which read
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Time, void of use, a wasteland
Is how we see you now.
Stretched out, monotonous. Gladder
Passed through having to plough!
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Lifted from the book of Miracles
Set beside, what's blushed awake
For those wood out of snow images
A coherent picture make
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That gaze, once turned
Smiles upon me forever.
Those eyes, once burned
As the stars never go out.
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Rain's eloquent sorrow, unheard when
Youth's surge was proceeding
More impressionably wrung out of
A subsequent heeding!
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Walk me through these feelings.
These your private grounds
hurtful-stepping, moaned through.
Engulfed darkly too.
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Reinforcing that sense upon him
For a new world has just broke
Man at peace with man, and himself
Unto this shows clearly woke:
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Addressing their easy to sway hearts'
Vulnerable fearing
Wind warned: 'from out tree's blown distress
At your heels, harmless
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Throwing up near distance
Of neighbourhood, the limit
For the degree of our
Dislike of it!
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Earth shakes; only is it
A disaster called
When that for town, hushed, is
Stood back from, appalled.
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All that's sought after in a Day's face
Relieves, in its brightening
Unpleasantness of this:
What for sullen darks, to hide behind
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Soaking up the sights, the smells
A drizzly Autumn day
Stepping through. Unheard thereafter
For myself, to answer:
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We glowed with a life.
Unspoiled by which love
Those fireballs of kissing's
With shy shrieking, dodged.
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Of this great swelling, Love's rarefied
Feeling nature o'ermasters
Does self lose its everyday bearings;
In focusing on others.
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World-peace, and the age-long fight
Decisive to win it
No hearts for God fought and won as
O'ercome of His spirit.
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Sullen-inclined, ere these shades
Do gain on us
And a day of high spirits
Is descending
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Sun flickered; no more demonstrably
Blown of one silk thread o'er
The whole of his wing'ed motion
Cocoon-spun did as shudder.
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This, life? For a heart, besides
Of no joy-pulse beats!
You're not its child-lover. Nor
Who swoons for love's heats!
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