Juvenilia

By sonic_tonic

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On the Road

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 29 Sep 2004

The rebel broke the window The beatnik stole the key Beneath the moon's soft city glow The ignition set souls free Tearing down the highway Gliding...
Travel
Story
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And I know if I do say "Black"

By sonic_tonic on Thu, 04 Dec 2008

And I know if I do say "Black" It is eternal so Each yesterday evolves tomorrow Into a bleaker, weaker sorrow It is infernal woe These silences are thunder-hearted I cannot raise my lids
Autobiography
Poem
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And the excellent North

By sonic_tonic on Fri, 05 Dec 2008

And the excellent North Is a path for your wind Seems to sigh for your view Streaks your bacon fry sky Like a fugitive gasp Through your hungering wings Deliver the scratch
Spiritual
Poem
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And was pleased...

By sonic_tonic on Thu, 21 Aug 2008

Every second is A second Of value Every moment Someone's dream comes true Every minute is A minute Of fascination Every moment Someone's world seems bright Every hour is An hour
Spiritual
Poem
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Bluer and Darker and Deeper is

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 03 Dec 2008

Bluer and darker and deeper is The oft' sadly sung of "wine dark sea" Than any cowardly, callous flow Cleansing a crown of its dignity The hawk paddles mighty wings through air
Travel
Poem
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Snow

By sonic_tonic on Mon, 16 Jun 2008

Written in the back of my Geography Book.
Humour
Poem
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Tarmac River Banks

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 09 Jul 2008

When promised a giant crisp I thought it would be as big as the playground I didn't like tomatoes, even then But Worcester Sauce hadn't been invented A thousand years ago
Autobiography
Poem
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What if ...?

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 09 Jul 2008

What if Dreams are real And life sub-consciousness ? May it appeal And then reveal The Rainbow prism The colour prison But if Dreams ARE real And life sub-consciousness We must kneel
Opinion
Poem
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The Forgotten Continent

By sonic_tonic on Sun, 17 Aug 2008

The hallowed hollowing has not occured I think you have plugged the holes And patched the wounds You placed the seaside on my thumb And opened the gate
Autobiography
Poem
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On Butterfly Summer

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 03 Sep 2008

On Butterfly Summer An angel did fall Stinging the tulips And melting the dawns Erasing from men's minds The will to remember Belauding the darkness And praising the night
Spiritual
Poem
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The Stinging Gift

By sonic_tonic on Mon, 29 Sep 2008

15 November 1993 (19:41:58) The Stinging Gift ----------------- Wings from shoulders Angled Are sprouting Arms for arms That threw to shatter Strength Of wooden Earthenware
Miscellaneous
Poem
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The Stinging Gift (PART II)

By sonic_tonic on Mon, 29 Sep 2008

18 November 1993 (11:09:09) The Stinging Gift ----------------- (PART II) ---------- With the wind against my wanderings And the sun a murky messenger A daybreak scattered logical
Spiritual
Poem
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Like a Fury at the Dervish Hall

By sonic_tonic on Mon, 10 Nov 2008

Like a fury at the Dervish Hall The hillside's fiery Torch Did from an ashen-visaged dome Scorch Ice to quosh for a sinuous and darker curl And then fell Revitalising
Autobiography
Poem
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The Oak Lane Inn (Part Two)

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 26 Nov 2008

No one at home when I tapped at the window He's deaf in the parlour but I didn't know then How he was framed by the shutters, the rafters, the blinds Fallen by flowers within the Oak Lane Inn
Other Fiction
Poem
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Now we breath the Hyacinths' sweeter air...

By sonic_tonic on Thu, 27 Nov 2008

Now we breathe the Hyacinths' sweeter air Framed by arches and not rivalry We have only a dream of the Paradise Garden That held to heart its House of Hell Needled me with a knowledge
Autobiography
Poem
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For Your Heart

By sonic_tonic on Fri, 28 Nov 2008

We begged an apple wind Of a barren overseer And pressed closely Cool to cool To writhe beneath Invicta The Devil's birds are walkers Stalkers of the green And when he entered into
Autobiography
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Heated by a lone icy stone

By sonic_tonic on Sun, 30 Nov 2008

Heated by a lone icy stone That set itself before as rock I took as my immortal throne The crystal in our dear Lord's clock And though the frost was savage cold
Spiritual
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One Moment in Time

By sonic_tonic on Mon, 01 Dec 2008

One moment in time we'll be plucking This consciousness from the strained air To feel twixt our fast palms an echo Pulsating and earthing lost years You whistle when you should be sucking
Autobiography
Poem
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In Vacations

By sonic_tonic on Wed, 03 Dec 2008

My frightening hair My scarey rabbit My lightning dream My bag of acorns My holey doughnut My crescent moon My amber party My pleasant doom My stick like a snake My Abraham Link-Coin
Autobiography
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Just a Word...

By sonic_tonic on Thu, 04 Dec 2008

Just a word Two Or a few Nothing further from intellect and emotion and HOWL They'll break your heart Shat-shattered, empty Little feeling Like the day in September
Spiritual
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Nightly Tempest's Spirit Wind

By sonic_tonic on Thu, 11 Dec 2008

The corpse in the copse grows more beautiful every day Shows you're dutiful GRACE IN NATURE Leaf Underneath and it grows lighter glows brighter
Autobiography
Poem
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Yet these waves crashing their drear tempest 'pon the land

By sonic_tonic on Sat, 13 Dec 2008

Yet these waves crashing their drear tempest 'pon the land Are overcoming darkly, dashed anxieties Battering the bleakness to sediment and sand Scattering the beacons of drowned priorities
Spiritual
Poem
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Papa, Won't Ya Gimme a Lift ?

By sonic_tonic on Tue, 30 Dec 2008

They saw Jesus in a call-box, groanin' Didn't know who it was He was phonin' Magdalene was prescient 'bout her stonin' Said it was the FLYER who was moanin'
Spiritual
Poem
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Poppy Sings : "Lord, I'm numb,"

By sonic_tonic on Mon, 05 Jan 2009

Poppy sings for Olwen 'cause she begs her to Busk the husk of dusk 'til Dawn Opium O-O paean She's the heroin(e) Of the laud in 'em 11 November 1995
Other Non-fiction
Poem
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Wel I know now...

By sonic_tonic on Fri, 23 Jan 2009

Well I know now Where the frost-web window went How the bankrupt solstice spent What the widowed winter leant And as the Night devours The seeds of soiled flowers
Miscellaneous
Poem
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