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Rain Beats at My Window A Rose Is Still A Rose When Not In Bloom He Who Walks Among Thorns Silence Is Gods Lullaby 2 007 My Mind Is Wrapped In Stillness Deep 3 008 009 010 011 012 Broken Hearts and Broken Dreams Click, Click goes the Keyboard Dark Hills and Dark Nights Foreboding Wisdom Its Said Comes With Age He Shall Be Humbled, Who Is Proud 4 013 014 015 016 017 A Sinners Plea Christmas Eve 2006 The World Is Gripped by Hatred First Ode To Wordsworth I Am Awake As Others Lie Asleep 5 018 019 The Great Mc Gonagall His Hand in the Wound Had Been. 6 020 021 022 023 024 Verses on Big Folk And Little Folk Tore Down By God, Who Was Angered By Man Glass In The Hand Brave Wallace Lies Neath Weeping Skies This Rainy Night Where Is She? 7 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 042 043 044 045 046 047 036 037 038 039 040 041
9 Your Pardon Sir (1st Address to Burns) As I Slouch Upon My Chair Only Be Proud If You Are Humble A World Without Dreamers Cannot Be On Times Passing My Mind I've Cast Let Hate In My Heart Not Be 10 Should You An Idea Hold On Open Hills I Have Walked To Be, Or Not To Be A Bee Of An Angels Grace Are We Worthy? On Suns Setting at the End of The Day I Too Am Human 11 048 049 050 051 To The Recently Deceased Too Many Chocolates Once There Dwelt A Scotsman The Apple of Eden 12 052 053 054 055 056 13 Let There Be Joy Care Not For Your Brother To Grow in Love Is What God Asks Crying Spirit of the Night Adored By All The World Is Dying Be There Peace 14 Too Little Time to See the World Calm Be, Though the World Seems Mad From Another World To Have Again the Days of Youth Crazed Beats Echo Into The Night
I Often Think... If God Is Islamic Dancer Move Across The Stage A Prayer Tonight Let Me Say The Ballad of Old Clonbroney 8
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In Darkness Crept Shadows Dark Stars Twinkling, Unseen, Behind Cloud What I See Before Me Days Gone And To Come The Crying Sky Shall Another Read My Words All Are Dead
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Words of A Writer on the Folly of Fools At The Turning of the Year 2007 As If Pearls, Below Me Lights Are Spread Can I See If I Look in the Distance? Be A Bard Like A Bird A Thought for Israel An Angel Over Me Keeps Watch
17 078 079 080 081 082 Born of Loneliness Are The Arts All Is Lost When Lost Is Hope A Dream Held Close to the Heart An Ear Always Listening for a Prayer Carry On In Love 18 083 084 085 King Billy and The Pope Nothing to Write Upon Today Some Things Never Change 19 086 087 089 090 Let Us As Friends Not Be Silent In A Bog of Brown, A Message From God? Equally Wise and Foolish Are We Begin in Delight and End in Wisdom 20 091 092 093 094 095 096 On Suns Setting at the End of Day I, A Sinner Preach of God From a Tomb He Has Risen Natures Great and Natures Kind Gods Love for All Knows no Bounds Is God One or Three? 21 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 Calm As The Sea Unstirred By Wind Crawl With The Creatures of the Earth In Times of Despair I Ask My God Of the End, We Shall Be Spared I Cant Remember What I Chose to Forget City of Ships of the Seven Seas Open All Windows and Let the Gales Through Smiling We Cannot Always Be
Broken Hearts and Broken Dreams Make Heartache and Great Songs
All the futures finished They've lost those who once to them did belong Broken hearts and broken dreams Create heartache and great songs. And as the music dies away A broken heart slowly heals, One wonders if ever the same A broken heart ever feels? And so we dance along, Look into each others eyes, We think not of the future, For we may end up as the song too... The happiness before the heartache, The smiles before the tears The kisses before the hatred The youth before aged years... Hope and love it seems... Among fantasy belongs... For broken hearts and broken dreams Inspire heartache and great songs...
A Sinners Plea
If an ill thought is bad of the dead Oh God, what a sinner am I Guilty of lust and of greed Damned for eternity when I die. To be damned if I get to enjoy Sins committed: I say, fair enough But to suffer if not having enjoyed Is in my opinion quite tough! Oh, we aspire to be holy, Yes, thoughts so are said to be a good deed, If so, with thoughts so I am holy And so for salvation shall plead...
Verses of Golden daffodils I've read That waved in the varying wind around That showed the beauty of the world That in the sight he found. Such verses of serenity, Of ambience and of peace, That he desired for the world, And of global freedom were to cease... And the champion of the underdog The republican, and of those not free Was to change in the blink of an eye, To champion the system, empire and monarchy. And bonny Wordsworth who with pen Signed his works with name as "Will" Changed to the more formal "William" And wrote his name as such his death until... What caused this change I do not know, To find out is an impossible task, But if to where he is on death I go, The question to him I'll surely ask!
And them his finest hour came, Or maybe his greatest composition of shame! When the Tay Bridge collapsed in a gale William Topaz Mc Gonagall was poet from Dundee, who While upon it crossed a train by rail... discovered he could make a rhyme at the grand old age of 52 or so. And to write upon it he was possessed To read his words few were impressed He considered himself second to Shakespeare in Britian, and And his ode to the tragedy of the bridge of the Tay it will be of no surprise that he was of Irish stock to have a Causes smiles to all to this very day.
neck to make a claim such as that considering the quality of the verse he wrote.
Today he is lauded as probably the worst poet in history, and some say he was a fool, more say he was a satirist. His style is like the peasant songs, except not set to music, and presented as pure poetry. His style of delivery left a lot to be desired, and he was mocked frequently when doing readings in his native city and beyond. Whether satirist, fool or genuine and misguided, this poetic anti-hero can be found in all writers, and this poem is written in his style to recount his tale!
Was he a fool... or just a bad poet If he was a fool he seemed not to know it Some say he was clever acted if on a stage, Commanded an audience as he read each page. Though they laughed at him things threw, That he brightened their day that much he knew And how many writers who so serious could be Will be long forgotten when remembered is he? How many poets refuse to use rhyme Mc Gonagall insisted to use it all the time Unfortunately the pattern often fell out of place, For the Romantics cast him from grace, He was but a common man, at least he did try, To be like him, none want to be including I, But still to convention he was never a slave, And to his emotions was never the knave As I this verse write in his appalling style I admire his bravery, smiling all the while, Though great are his foes and his friends are few, To his art in his heart he tried to be true, Those who read his words may mock and may grin But to be a weaver and a poets no sin And as I sit here more poetry to write, May I be pure as heart as he as I scribble tonight!
Of awful verse he was the master, Writing of the Tay Bridge disaster, Stating Shakespeare the best wordsmith be, In Britain to date, and second he, No disrespect to Burns the Bard No desire for a great name to be tarred, He was second best Scottish son, North of the border, Mc Gonagall was number one! On receiving inspiration divine Pen he seized to write a line Continued to write, such verse he penned: Was to cause mirth until his end! His first verse was to the Rev. Gilfillan, an address Which was judged by same to be a poetic mess Wryly the poets efforts the minister did dismiss Stating "Shakespeare wrote nothing like this!" His verse on theatre and street he read, With laughter and derision he was met instead, Of the respect he expected, while reading pompous Clad in Kilt he caused quite a rumpus! He tried once to America to go But on its shores no-one did know Found himself cut loose, culturally cast away His homeward fare a kind stranger did pay Once fifty miles or more he walked To read verse to the queen: but when he talked To the guardsmen at the gate He was turned away in indignant state To be poet laureate he said he wished to seek, To be told that to try he had a cheek, And hed better move while still was free, To go as he pleased all the way home to Dundee.
Its one thing to go to eternal damnation Our hero stood there shaking, Having enjoyed to the full both life and sin, Wondered if he imaged was what he had seen, Twould be a shame to be cast away to the flame When the woman opened the door to the house, Without enough wrong to have beforehand indulged in! Asked where the horses had been? He raced into the house so fast, Slammed behind him the door, Dancers Move Upon the Stage Told how the hearse before him passed, And where it came from before... The Dancer moves upon the stage All eyes on her look down That it went up to Old Clonbroney, Some with joy at her movement After driving through a wall, Others over technicalities frown. But it was not real: twas but a ghost, For the wall was not damaged at all. The crippled walks ungainly down the street And drinking whiskey strong his nerves settled down, Having being crippled as a boy Though still great in him was fear, Some look in disapproving pity Though you may mock and you may frown, None share his mothers pride and joy. You tood shake if the headless horseman did appear... For every step ungainly that allows him progress And in time the husband returned, Is another step in life as his own he stakes, A miller he was by trade, Not pretty to the eye is his step He came to see his wife terrified, But to many ugly even a limp a walk makes... And his neighbour, a man strong, afraid, They told him of the horseman, Let us not pity the cripple, Of the hearse, that the man had no head, Rejoice he walks, as he is glad of the chance, He shrugged his shoulder with a sigh, Enjoy the movements of the dancer on the stage, Declared one of the neighbours dead. See not the faults in her dance!
It was like the banshee, The miller said of the apparition, When these neighbours died, the spectre you'd see, So was local superstition, And so all a prayer they said, For their own and the deceased sake, Its not told the name of who was dead, Or if the miller and his neighbour slept or stayed awake!
Stars Twinkling, Unseen, Behind Cloud For Lords or Kings I dinnae mourn
Stars twinkling, behind cloud, As if they were not there, to my eye, A night dark, as around I walk, To keep myself warm I try... Among the ranks of the lost and the poor, Are burdens great we never see, As the clouds of poverty keep them so Should we do nothing, this will forever be.
All are dead, both great and small men Never to be known or heard of again And all shall rise in turn when The time it comes for man to be judged. Then: see the King in fear shake His turn before the Judge take His case for clemency for to make As to his fate he's nudged Behind him stands the man thats poor Who always of Gods love was sure With prayer, not complaint, he his cross did endure To his Salvation he has trudged!