Quill_etude

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Just to explain ..
This account was set up to escape the constant ravages of certain trolls who frequent this site
At the time only myself and a few dear friends found refuge here , a different room , a place of calm perhaps and of grateful silence.
My old account ran for well over three thousand days , now gone forever .. only memories remain and of course friendships that grew dear to me upon the way.

The road goes ever on.

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As we watched the tragedy unfold
we even did as we were told
and continued to be bought and sold.
It was the greatest show on earth,
but then it was all over.
So we drove our racing cars,
we ate our last few jars of caviar ;
Then somewhere out there in the stars
a keen-eyed look-out
spied a flickering light,
then when they found our shadows
grouped around our tv sets
they followed every lead
and repeated every test.
After checking out all the data in their lists
the alien anthropologists
admitting that they were still perplexed,
after eliminating every other reason
for our sad demise …
They logged the only explanation left
that this species has amused itself to death:
No tears to cry;
No feelings left:

This species has amused itself to death.

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Now as the light is fading fast
and all chances slip away
a time will come to pass …
as we become addicted to a perfumed poison
and then betrayed by its aftertaste ..
Oh we shall lose all wonder and find nothing in return,
for many are the substitutes but they're powerless on their own …

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Here we are in a fabulous place
what will you dream here ,
we are standing in this fabulous place
what will you play here …
I know you love the high life, you love to leap around
you love to beat your chest and make your sound
but not here man - this is sacred ground …..

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Generate me simply .. this candle is burning so low for me,
If you come to this strange place .. we will talk over old times : like we never cried:
work out my rhyme .. guess me the time .. lay by me you're mine ..
Your persian eyes sparkle .. your lips, ruby blue .. never speak a sound.
Lead me away .. come inside see my mind in kaleidoscope hue :
Pale angel face, your eye-shadow and glitter is out of sight .
No courtesan could begin to decipher your beam of light …..

for someone who holds my heart :

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In the remote Garo hills by Dipu Marak : we found footprints in the snow.
We found your footprints in the snow, so we brushed them all away...
from the sherpas of the Annapurna to the Rinpoche of Qinghai.
But the shepherds from mount Kailash to Himachal Pradesh they found footprints in the snow.
We know now where you are …

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Being born is going blind ..
and bowing down a thousand times ,
To all echoes, strung , .. on pure temptation.
Sorrow and solitude ;
these are the precious things
and the only words that are worth remembering …..

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A legacy so far removed,
one day will be improved.
eternal rights we left behind,
we were the better kind.
two the same, set free too,
I always looked to you,
We fought for good, stood side by side,
our friendship never died.
on stranger waves, the lows and highs,
our vision touched the sky,
Immortalists with points to prove,
I put my trust in you.
A house somewhere on foreign soil,
where ageing lovers call,
is this your goal, your final needs,
where dogs and vultures eat,
committed still I turn to go.
I put my trust in you….

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