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Tremors

Underneath the pain In a Country by your side Underneath the suffering That so many sleep to hide Underneath the tremors There’s no Mother for a child Underneath the rubble Is what’s left of broken smiles Underneath the bridge Is a man without a home Underneath the moonlight There’s a child who cries alone Underneath [...]

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What it’s like to be rejected

Ready to start a brand new year she makes her way to school, with hopes that on the popularity list she’d be with the cool. She finds her class and walks inside to wish she’d never came. The way they talked and things they wore made her feel ashamed. She looked don at her tattered [...]

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RIDES NOT TAKEN

(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully, Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales? If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully, Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales? (2)If you’d stood up to your father, when [...]

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NIGHTFALL IN MEDLOW BATH

(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]

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My Oculist was a Carpenter

I’m now sworn against hypocrisy, which lets me poke and prod All the minor faults of Christians, while I miss the love of God. I defend my rights to swindle you, as long as I can pick One cathedral in a hundred, where the dead have caught the quick. So I shun the men, who [...]

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