Nicholas J. Roberts Poems

I thought I'd write a little peace of my mined
I hope
you won't be effendied by it wisdom has a hedge to it like a tooth
like rued words I find
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Farewell, sweet little girl;
Your suffering has ended now,
And in this silent, empty room
The tortured screams of every century ring in my ears:
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I do not weep for strangers -
That terrible pretence of politicians -
But I smell the burnt bodies
Of this, another hecatomb
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Travelling distances long and unknown,
Darkness in front and behind,
All my life has been spent on the rails, on my own;
Darkness is all that I ever find.
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If only, if only things hadn't been so,
If only, somehow, I could change the past,
If only I'd known then the things I now know,
If only the time hadn't gone by so fast,
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Prattle prattle, tittle tattle,
Words that rhythm and rhyme and rattle.
The world revolves around that which is spoken:
Promises made and promises broken.
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More pedestrian than a shopping street,
These boards have been trod by a million feet;
This slippery platform slides away,
Under the hills and far away.
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Capture the King
In the Rhine
Through the valley,
Broken swords gather
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