WONDER
AUTUMN LEAVES
As drops of dew to leaves are lent
They sparkle in the autumn scent
As round these trees like voices calling
Leaves blow slow in silence falling
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I AM CHANGE, I AM LIFE
I am all things, to all men
I am the spring of youth
Hope awaiting help
And the singer in the song
I am the leper leaving life
A cancer cutting clean
And a writer carving thought
I am the draw of the crowd
The madness in the soul
And the child that knows no name
I am a maiden after beauty
A harlot into innocence
And a virgin waiting lovers
I am music teasing silence
Where lovers test their oneness
And a drunk without power
I am the redness in the blood
Of a lady looking lovely
And a woman wearing weals
I am the pressure in the weight
The aching in the brain
And the shadow in the light
I am the good within
And the evil without
Every saint and every sinner
I am every hammock hanging
Every hangman grieving
And everyman, alone
I am all things, to all men
I am change, I am life
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I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND
I fail to understand, oh Lord
Why your world has grown in many places
So blasé and complicated
Like the science of shoes or the enigma of laces
Which seem to get so intricated
I fail to understand, oh Lord
The arrogance that makes men think
They never will destroy this world
Even when it’s on the brink
As all the cars and chimneys spout
And all the ozone oozes out
As ice caps start to melt
And rising heat is felt
I fail to understand, oh Lord
Why in the skies above
I simply cannot love
Or even for a moment, be
The creature that is simply, me
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THE FINAL HARVEST
When you just cannot see, for the tears in your eyes
And all of your friends ignore all of your cries
When you feel that of troubles the burden you bear
Weighs more than it should, much more than your share
Look round you and think, if we all had romance
If we all had equal share and all had equal chance
Our ultimate rewards would all be equal too
And there’d be no point of life for me or for you
Therefore our reward depends, on what luck we get
The way that we use it, and the way that we let
Our little lives slip by, so please do not forget
That if you don’t reap rewards on this earth, my friend
You’ll be well compensated in the harvest at the end
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RAINBOWS END
Where falls this misty rain to show
Long ribboned rays where rainbows glow
Through silken clouds where shadows flow
In golden beams they slowly grow
To light my life with colours free
Leaving signs of peace for me
This memory of Gods love will be
A golden message all should see
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THE PLAYGROUND
Drifting near this winters eve
I faintly hear some children weave
A serenade, a song they sing
That floats upon the wind to bring
A lilting tune that drifts and falls
As gliding round it faintly calls
The fading echo of a name
As memory plays a children’s game
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THE ROSE
Her heart with fragrant beauty shows
The womb her silken hands enclose
But curling fingers edged with gold
Must wither soon as they grow old
And as her petals curl with age
To gently fall like turning page
They will in memory oft’ repeat
To us a scent that lingers sweet
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THE KEY OF THE DOOR
There are many keys to the doorway of fame
Not carved or engraved with any one name
But we all have a few in the gifts we possess
And one of those keys should give us success
But to find the right key is the secret of life
To find peace amidst worry and flurry and strife
For though we grow old and time stands to mock
We may still have the key that will open that lock
For the very thing that may open the door
May be the key that we’ve tried out before
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THE LEAVES IN MY FIRE
That cried as they died in the wind, made the mask of my mind unwind
To fall afresh from off my face, as like the fire my senses roared
So the smoke in spirals soared, in dark defences drifting down
Around the winding winds it wound, the shafts of sunlight that it found
To pierce and penetrate in parts, this rhythm as a rainbow raw
Which waxed and waned within, the sudden shadows that it shifted
In and out the shapes it sifted, and as I watched and wondered
In skies above I did perceive, a plane did on the ether freeze
Itself a sudden space in time, to slice inside the thinning skies
A shinning silver soft surprise, but sliding silent those up there
Could only guess at all this splendour, they were soaked in thoughts elsewhere
Just then I spied a frightened face, attracted by my fire, I feared
A fox that felt, just like me forced, into this hungry city, sensed
To keep on scratching all the more, just meant the greater grew the sore
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REVELATION
Each one of us is born
Quite without care
So beautiful, so perfect
So sinfully aware
But as we grow
The blossom fades
And as we go
We sense the shades
Of distant memory
In the caves
Of religion and belief
But in the murky mists of time
As loving memories we recall
Within the past there lives a sign
Of self awareness as we fall
To where the God within us all
Lies dormant, waiting for our call