A world full of desire
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Tis a world full of desire.
In which thoughts tend to conspire.
Soldiers everlastingly ready to wait.
Destined to face their inevitable fate. Read on…
Category Archives: Poetry
Midnight Train
Whenever I take a seat in the pale,
old dust-chained seat
of the midnight train Read on…
….this is how I die everyday
Like the penetrating touch of cactus,
Leaking my soul constantly,
I urge myself to sleep in harmony,
Yet my eyes disagree. Read on…
….in the silent wind
Swarming up to my spines,
The lusty fingers,
As I walk,
In the silent wind. Read on…
Silver Tears
You say that you have long since
turned off all the lights but one,
the light beneath which
I have kissed you
while pearly dew glittered
all around us, Read on…
I Want to Live in a World
I want to live in a world
where everyone has the right
to await Freedom, Read on…
Three poems by Jeremy Gadd
Symmachus the pagan appealed to the Emperor:
‘We look at the same stars; the sky belongs to all;
the same universe surrounds us.
Does one cannot arrive at so sublime a secret by only one road.’ Read on…
Our Father
Our father who art in revelations,
a crowd of unholy ghosts
suspended over unmarked graves
bouquets of lost souls misplaced
a broken armistice
like empty promises
and some commandments Read on…
Bigger Britches
Fill the clouds with pale red
Sow the sky with soot
Show me the starving dead
Fed by the angry gun. Read on…
This Will Offend
The prejudice lurks, a gestating beast,
hate masquerading as faith, intolerance as belief,
while, righteous tongues mouth prayers,
beseeching Him for tax-relief. Read on…