a
raw
frost
bites and
winds
rattle my
branches, but
out here is where
I am at home. Yet men
cut me from
my roots, heave
me on trucks away
to the walled prisons
they live in. And there
garla
nded,
in ga
udy f
-inery, they sacri-
fice me to a god
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winds wail while
wandering wide wallowing
watery wastes, whisk worried
wrinkles wound with whipping
wings which whittle wedges,
whirl, whorl, wrestle
wantonly; which worst
will wake wild weltering
wrath wearing wrenched wrack,
whose whomping writhing wallop
whacks whales, whams wee walruses,
wrecks warships with wuthering weight,
whops worn wharves whose whole works wobble;
wave walls wheeling, whooshing, whanging, whelming,
wrap weeping white webs which wither when woven, wash weary away
"; sha03= "
THE SONG
THE BURNING SONG
THE DEMON VULTURES
THE HAZY TENTS THE RAW
HORIZONS THE DRUGGED SANDS THE SCREAMIN G
THUNDER THE RATTLING BONES THE DUSTY MOUTHS
THE INFINITE EYES THE DREAM POWER THE CIRCLING
SKY THE TREACHEROUS BIRDS THE SHIFTING TOWNS THE
SNARLING GUNS THE BURNING STORM THE VAST RIVER THE
CLAY DANCERS THE BLACK MASKS THE RICH SANDS THE HAZY
DEMON THE SCREAMING SKIES THE VULTURES MOUTHS THE RAW
EYES THE THUNDEROUS SONG THE SHIFTING TRACKS THE VAST
CIRCLE THE RATTLING BIRDS THE DUSTY TENTS THE GUNS SNARL
THE STEAMING HORIZON THE BONE FOREST THE BURNING TOWNS THE
SAND FLOWERS THE TREACHEROUS INFINITE THE BLACK TRACKED THE
DANCERS SCREAM THE MASKED GUNS THE THUNDERS MOUTH THE FOREST
TOWN THE CLAY HUTS THE STORMS POWER THE DRUGGED RIVER THE
SHIFTING SONGS THE SKYS EYE THE RATTLING DREAM THE SNARLING DUST THE
SANDS DEMONS THE BURNING BIRDS THE CIRCLING HAZE THE RAW BONES THE
RICH TENTS THE SCREAMING FLOWER THE STEAMING CLAY THE BLACK SAND
THE MASKED DANCE THE TREACHEROUS HORIZON THE STORMS TRACK
THE RIVER THUNDER THE SHIFTY VULTURES THE
FORESTS POWER THE RAW SKY THE SCREAMING
EYES THE DREAM SONGS THE DRUGGED HUTS
THE HAZY TOWNS THE BURNT CIRCLE THE
GUNS MOUTH THE SNARLING BONES THE
INFINITE BIRDS THE DUSTY FLOWERS
THE STORMS MASK THE THUNDERING
DEMONS THE TENT DANCERS THE
RICH CLAY THE SHIFTED POWER
THE SANDY RIVER THE BURNING
TREACHERY THE RATTLING TRACK
THE BLACK STEAM THE POWERFULL
DREAM THE FLOWERING SONG THE
DRUGGED SCREAM THE DANCING EYE THE
HORIZONTAL HUT THE MOUTHLESS SNARLS
THE TRACKLESS SKY THE RAW FOREST
THE TENT TOWN THE HAZY RIVER
THE INFINITE SHIFT THE BIRD
STORM THE TREACHEROUS DEMON
THE BURNING DRUG THE GUN
DANCE THE SINGING
BONE THE MASKED
RICH THE BLACK
CIRCLING THE
VAST DREAM
SINGING
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SKIES FOR
WALLS & VAST
LAND AS CELL FLOOR
A HARD COLD NATION SENT
A HUGE CITY OF ITS VICTIMS
TO EXORCISE SOME CRUELTY FROM
ITS CONSCIENCE,AND LEFT THEM IN
THAT SMALL PART THAT MOST APPEARED
LIKE HOME: TO BECOME MORE THAN EXILES
LESS THAN EXPLORERS,DROWNED IN MEMORIES
OF WATER WHILST ALL THE ISLANDS ENORMOUS
HEART CRIES FOR THE DESERT POWERS,DREAM
TIME,STRONG KINDNESS,A KANGEROO SKILL,
THE ABORIGINAL MAGIC,A SURVIVORS
WONDER TO TEACH SENSE
FORGOT BY THOSE
THAT EXILED &
T
THE R O
M N E
EW
ZEA
L?
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t
h
e
se
are words
in praise of those
who long ago planted the
orchard and the generations
who trimmed and tidied, swept
and weeded, who helped the white
storm of blossom turn each year
to swollen drops of sweetened
rain which store for winter
the green tang of spring,
red flush of summer in
flesh crisp and cool
as an autumn mist
but this is not
an apple
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"; sha07= "this is the
shape of the
monster's claw
glinting on its
massive paw
which quietly
opened the
bedroom door
and swung up
with one
terrible roar
over the bed
in the moon-
light before
it stabbed
into the
sleeper
to sil-
ence
his
sno
re
!
blood
d
r
i
p
p
e
d
down on the floor
"; sha08= "
I am
the crazy
crater creature,
I creep across the
crater 's cracks
and cr u nch the
crimson crystals
that cringe in
crooked cul-de-sacs.
Once a crumbling spacecraft crashed -
an ancient cosmonaut crawled clear.
Across the crinkled crust I chased her
and chortling with churlish cheer
caught the granny
in a cranny
of the crater
and ate her
"; sha09= "
F F F F F
A L I L O
N A Z A U
T S Z R N
A H E T
S F A
T I I
I R N
C E S
f rie s
foolish
fiddling
fingers!
"; sha10= "
P
EAK
PLACE
PROUDLY
PROVIDING
PRESTIGIOUS
PLUSH PRIVATE
PILED PENTHOUSE
PERFECTLY PLANNED
PANORAMIC POSITION
PART PAYMENT POSSIBLE
PAST PHAROAHS PREFERRED
"; sha11= "
the wind came roar
ing from the sea
it reeled around
respectable trees
it jigged the roof
tiles up and down
and knoc ked old
ladies to the
ground ... but
worst, in its
rough panting
play it dan
ced my clean
pants clean
away
"; sha12= "
an
almost
ridiculously
triangular head
at
the
sha
key
top
ofa
lon
gth
inn
eck
giraffes are made of dirty yel
low plasticene and four s
m t
a i
t c
c k
h s
"; sha13= "
A
LAND HAS NEED
OF LOVE & THE SONGS OF
ITS TRUE CHILDREN & THE
PULSE OF THIS LAND BEATS IN
THE GOLDEN HEART OF THE INDIAN:
BUT WHERE ARE THE SONGS OF THE
INDIANS? SONGS OF STONE & CONDOR,
ALLIGATOR GRUNT & BRIGHT BIRD CRIES?
THEY WERE DROWNED IN THEIR CONQUISTADORES
RIVERS OF BLOOD,OF METAL,OF OIL; BURIED ALIVE
IN MINES OF FOOLS GOLD OR MOUNTAINS OF CONCRETE
HERDED WITH COWS,PIGS & SHEEP: WERE MADE SICK & SO
LEFT DYING OF STRANGE DISEASES & STRANGER RELIGION,
& WHAT IS THERE FOR THE HEIRS OF THEIR SILENCERS,
METAL-HEARTED MEN WHO CARRIED THEIR FAVOURITE
BLOODBATHS FROM THE CHARNEL HOUSE OF EUROPE,
WHO SACRIFICED THE NEW WORLD TO THE OLD?
THEY FEAR NO MORE THE HOLY INQUISITION
NOW EVERY COUNTRY HAS ITS UNHOLY ONE,
THE LANDS ARE RUN BY ARMIES STILL
& POLITICIANS RICHER THAN DUKES
STILL SHIP THEIR WEALTH ABROAD
& PEOPLE STAY POOR AS BEFORE.
THE BIRDS CRY STILL ACHES
AT DUSK UPON VAST RIVERS
SPRAWLING IN RIPE EARTH
& IN THE HUGE MYSTERIES
CALLED MOUNTAINS SUCH
SMALL HUMAN SECRETS
AS CITIES GET LOST,
FORGET TO EXIST.
THERE IS ENERGY,
JOY,FAITH IN AN
EARTH STILL
NEW, DIS
COVERING
ITSELF..
BUT WHO
CAN HEAR
THE OLD
SONGS
OF THE
INDIANS
?
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