David Lewis Paget Poems

There’s something a-move in your mind, girl,
Some deepest dark danger to you,
There’s something apace in the cloud and your grace
So intent on bewildering you.
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He's steeped in the shadows of ivy and stone,
And time is the seed that the Wizard has sown,
Has sown for the magick of weaving the night
In a tapestry taken from burning delight.
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The mad churl at the headstone,
The vane’s point, south,
The bright burn, the sad sin
At the carlin’s mouth.
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In the year of the Jade Emperor,
In the time of the people’s pain,
The sun was hot, the people groaned
The sky gave up no rain;
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I rose at this a.m. and caught the phone
Its brittle ring,
I picked it up, I held it to my ear!
The static on the line was like
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We had lain back in the meadow
Looking up to see the stars,
They were clustered all together
We were trying to find ours,
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‘The skies are empty and grey at dawn,
They’re empty and brown at noon,
Where are the birds of Wenzhou, Bei Bei
Deep in the afternoon?
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Romany girl on the silver sand
What would you have me yearning,
To take you into my loving arms
While the world lay waste, and burning
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There were tigers, bears and elephants,
The day that the circus came,
And dwarves and clowns in our tiny town
It never would be the same.
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He took to the skies most every night
Unfurling his wings of black, not white,
Invisible in the night sky when
He hovered above the world of men.
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