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02 Concentric Rings
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Concentric Rings
Extinguish this line
Don't Feel sad
It's a rough design
Now
Rub out those lines
Try harder next time
To chart this vessel with nervey sails
Out of harms way into the storms eye
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Great prince builds keeps to hold those secrets
But all walls must fall eventually
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And I stumble precariously into the oncoming lights
And I'm torn as a rag-doll and then again I'm dead against it
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Well one cycle ends
And another begins
This time I'm grazing
With some peculiar friends
With rise with the sun instinctively
As it lights up the dawn
On the estuary
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What's so different about this vessel?
All forms born to fall into the sea
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Still I stumble precariously
Into the incoming tide
And I'm torn like a rag-doll
And then again I'm dead against it
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Don't you go fretting about reincarnation
It's only a problem if you deem it so
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Wandering through the yews
Of pastures green
Musing on the scope
Of this gilded scene
A cape of gold holds close
Warms over the day
In Quiet contemplation
I rest within the shade
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Giant raised a foot
Then he stops it down
I lie cold and broken
Within the ground
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Blood pours out of my nose
My perforated lungs
My testicles reduced
To two smashed plumbs
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Giant raised a foot
Stomps it down again
I am naught but compost
Within the glen
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Giant raised a foot without a single second thought
He performs a dance upon my corpse
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(for Michelle Smith)
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If truth stems from innocence lead by fingers pointing the way
Oh what is this stretched out in front of me?
It's empathy
Not just sympathy
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I once was
self adsorbed in consciousness I fret as that world falls away
I watch the old
Shifted it folds
So eloquently
Becomes mere memory
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We instil faith in technologies
Shun what is just and human and brave
I travel solely within
But never without
Some love
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08 Mother Of Pearl
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Mother of pearl dots stepped up to heaven
Upon the dry & dusty shores
Beneath these dying suns
In the wispy nether realm
The quiet anarchy of the cosmos
Ashen ascending grey
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Oceans upon a lunar crust
Conceived in constant chrysalis
The vacant seas ran dry
With distended fingers
Of deltas filled up with fossils
Beauty out of dust
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The Retinal Circus Birmingham, UK
CRAIGUS BARRY:
Onetime prolific singer songwriter turned multi instrumentalist composer. Films scored : Day Of The
Stranger ( Darkside releasing 20), Senseless (Trash Arts 22),
Video shop Tales Of Terror (various 22)
Pocket Film Of Superstitions (23), I Curse This Land (24)
Robot Armadillo (24)
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