Panther glides as night …
Silently ideas pass –
Elude the hunter.
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Grey clouds fill the sky –
Warmth of candles passing –
Thoughts in my mind die.
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Snow melts on Black fur,
Captured now they pur & lick –
Basking in the sun.
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Panther glides as night …
Silently ideas pass –
Elude the hunter.
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Grey clouds fill the sky –
Warmth of candles passing –
Thoughts in my mind die.
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Snow melts on Black fur,
Captured now they pur & lick –
Basking in the sun.
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(Dracula)- drop c#
[Ala Peter Gunn, blues bros..yet heavy metallic]
Your body’s Black
And engine’s Red
A smokin’ stack
Comes from yr head.
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Tyres like hooves –
To scratch the road,
Low slung n heavy –
Bout to explode.
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(Chorus..x2. )000oohaah Dracula!
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Chrome n’ Black
You’re dynamite
Suck down soul
My dreams take flight
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Scream n’ roar
You’ve left yr mark
Like Dracula
In the dark.
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(Chorus..x2. )000oohaah Dracula!
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(Long solos – 1st guitar, then drums – bass steady throughout, maintain verse chorus structure)
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Thund’ring gun
Street lights blur
A carroselle
Visions whir.
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Blood will flow
heads will roll
when Dracula
takes its toll.
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(ENDING to be confirmed on the night!)
(Song starts with spoon tapp’n, jazz forte – to be interrupted when at fever pitch with short rhyming scats something like this)
Red with sun
Holey one
Blacked hum
Checkered tum..(..repeat more rhyming nonsense here if possible.. Then back to finger click’n)
(Chorus,, with brass)
Hey Mr OoODD Sox.. Ain’t nothin’ like reality –
Yes Mr OoODD Sox.. Why don’t cha,
Take a little tip from me!
(Abrupt end and back to the tapp’n as intro to more scatty rhyming:)
Forgotten Lace
Struttin brace
About face
Stinky mace
Building pace
(Repeat Chorus line..all sax n guitar solos here)
There’s one way down;
maany ways to fail,
all these thoughts rush thru your head
like ducks on the multi-lane…
Let go – and as cars streaming,
veins popping –
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blue sky
flat
green
earth
open
panning
blends to
one
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Jerked up and like prayer flags
flapping the captain cries
in muted , still voice
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See ya on the ground !
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a writing space created by Cameron Semmens
for people to come and learn poetry – all poems here by Daniel Atkins
Nb. the times are just when I typed them into facebook for public consumption
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Poem Tao (3 July 2015 at 06:04)
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Like lighting cigarette butts
chinks in a wood paneled wall
the sun – in a golden sphere with shadows scattered
like your tongue stuck to an icy pole poems;
those intense, condensed pallets of joy
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Unicorn (27 June at 00:59)
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breath is ragged now rasping and scraping
like the scrabbling sound of my hooves on the stone path
deep breaths as the bushes lash by madly I drive on… why am I running …
then the smell of the hounds enters my flared nostrils
the clatter of weapons and exultant cries fill the air
… I’m found.
Down with my head – horn pointing to the shadows …
deeper into the tree lined green pounding are my legs
the solid brown earth is met by my pounding
straining, gasping, leaping, dodging…
the hunt fades and the air becomes cool and clear
As panic subsides I’m left with the steam – exhale billows.
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Lazy Raptor (27 June at 00:26 )
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I don’t know so much about you my friend –
hidden away till the dark of night glaring through arched brows
with disdain blending with ease in flight or on perch.
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You strike when least expected
with force when every thing’s settled, everything’s in place
you pounce with coiled energy from soaring loft
shattering the silence like a haunting cry
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Then you’re gone like the master of disguise
why cant you show yourself and stand in the light?
gone – to be seen occasionally tallow eyes
mockingly winking through your hiding place
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I think I’d like to hunt you, own you, control you; yet,
like your cousin, the eagle, you are beyond – older –
and I feel that I should not trespass….
perhaps, after all you are just a sleepy head.
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Extinction (27 June at 00:51)
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Everything is seen through red haze the scent of your prey drives –
you are the state of control.
Your shiny marble eyes are bulging
in your sharp craggy tooth head –
you are the height of fear.
Behind the thick calm of the jungle – bustling smile of the everyday –
you are stomping your destruction –
you are close mindedness.
Soon you know you’ll fall – will it be a long winter of peace and goodwill…?
Your arms swing with cocked claw minute against your
scaly, scared torso.
Soon you will be extinct – the day will come when bright love will destroy
your shadow, till then the thrill of the hunt is the pulse of your heart.
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Masked Ball (21 June at 07:44)
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Flashes of bright costume in wine glasses,
glimpses of hands lifting masks glitter,
flurry of shadows spinning on floor chequered –
peels of laughter ending squeals of delight –
tail brushing the pressing throng.
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Fruit Salad (21 June at 07:20)
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Roughly proportioned, juicy chunks
each holding a cold quenching sliver
each resisting to release its passion ..
sounding a joyful chorus.
Fruit Salad
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One Track (20 June at 02:11)
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……. the other side of the station – fixed, concrete pillared,
uniform and simple this time he’s travelling back after fond goodbye
– eventually the train arrives.
The other side of the station; lined by straight brown rail and steel pin link,
…this time he’s pacing – adjusting tie and collar in the oncoming gust,
…the other side of the station; is dark, heavy construction – rims of steel rivets
… this time he feels light – the echoes of that evenings dinner
…conversation brushed aside by approaching carriage … getting on board –
it’s hard to shake sense of inevitable, magnetic moment.
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One (12 June at 04:49)
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her silver moon face
we meet in-between lessons
life long memory
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Down Wollun (12 June at 04:38)
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Riding away from years of memories towards uncertainty –
I left behind the street I grew up in – most of me was numb,
mind playing over past scenes it was like being inside one of those
snow shakers – dislocation and permanence.
Nothing was there for me now!
A broken guitar lay on the skip that held all we left behind.
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