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safe, sweet, happy journeys

by Peter Wyeth

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1.
Outside – the hedgerow flickers in the breeze; buses go by and school children shout to one another as they walk home. Inside, the house is quiet. I close my eyes and start to sing.
2.
Spring 03:26
I’m waiting for spring, waiting for birds to sing again Waiting for leaves To burst from buds green, Cling to the trees and Whisper the breeze Morning star to guide me from the night into the day A burst of orange sky, a gift We all begin again Bees, humming new time Blossom held tightly to the rimes Of winter now done A new season spun On hedgerow song sung The Joy all to come Born upon a tide, a swell A wind that calls your name A flower blooms And sooner soon We all begin again Ridge and furrow, nest and burrow Set and warren, wing and bosom Hive and hollow, lark and swallow Stream and river Here under perfect English skies All is sudden and full of life And all things deep inside can feel The quickening of time And begin again
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Oh, the starless city beats and hums to cars, to lights, to bass and drums and all the things that it becomes when night time falls upon The glass, the steel, the concrete tower blocks, the slated spires, the broken clocks. The city that cannot be stopped - it just marches on. All things change in time but does the city ever tire? Oh, the city skyline, cranes and all and buildings wide and new and tall and shadows, crisp, that dull then fall as night time comes upon The starless city streets and begs for us to fill the lanes, the shops, the pubs and be the things it needs because the city marches on All things change in time but does the city ever tire? Because it needs things like us, like as money, like as blood. All things change in time but does the city ever tire?
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Time 03:46
Time You own everything Yield to no one, Time I’m cast, thrown, flung along Lines omnipotent, Time That there were ways to cheat the days But , Time, you own me too Time, Time enough. Behind me and forever on, Time I have found a way inside Point to point the lines of Time Words and dreams My memories Are the tiny threads that I cling to
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Signatures of shining light, Diamond speckled in the night, Are galaxies all doomed to die They named you Gods and numbers Still And still you hang, all wondrous ‘til This blackbird spoken morning broken And hide yourselves behind the light of day And yet to constantly hover above The hills, trees, fields and the roads And everyone Each crystal point and moonlit edge Is lines and time and course and there A single breath of doubt fills the air And all across the sky besides The paths of planes and satellites Lie scattered stars and worlds Vast and wide And hide themselves behind the light of day And yet to constantly hover above The hills, trees, fields and the roads And everyone of us Alone
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Pennypusher 00:56

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released May 5, 2009

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