Phil Charters

Older men
through wrinkled eyes
peer out
and see nought
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Over the Snowy,
In it’s fullest guise,
The moon in splendour, did arise.
Cast it’s beam to the waters flow,
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Whispering,
Mountains on the breeze,
Over an island,
Across the sea,
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Softly: Softly: morning creeps, o’er a
meadow green;
A pall of mist, the air is crisp;
A sign says ‘Runnymede.’
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see to it, my will
i shall not lie
beneath democracy
fallen;
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Time piece chimes, a new day dawns.
Special to our clan.
Today; we celebrate, the birth of our sweet Nan.
Eighty years; birthday cheers;
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Limed,
In a ditch, a child,
In her death does lie
Hapless, skeletal people
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32.8 years,
Ner'er a thought,
T'would end in tears
At ones desk
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Far far away
Beyond the lights of a city's guile
Fleecing currency from ones soul
To lie, with the setting sun
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Together, he and I,
through sanguine alley ways
of a synergic life
I follow his footsteps, he follows mine
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Employment,
Gone on the ebbing tide
Sucked from the shores that pride a fair go
My means to a leaving gone
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Float, Float,
Dirty old boat
Dirty old trade
People afloat,
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eucalypts,
that once stood the night
sentinels to my sleeping swag
where the fire burned for friends
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In the dark depths of night,
the sirens do wail.
The masts of men rise,
and toward them do sail.
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you; traditional owner,
who;
into the fire blew,
fanning the flames, higher, higher;
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frayed edges
tattered and torn
unmended, to ruin
the garment falls.
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A tear falls
and slowly tracks
inflicted sadness
that dwells upon the face
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Friendship, kindled, in the flickering
flames, fires glowing,
pretense, pretending, all, for the knowing;
in beauty’s sight, in our secret place,
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Celestial wanderings;
ones mind amongst the stars,
to travel free,
to search intrepidly; a single shaft of light
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Fear you not, your life’s demise.
It is but a moment, In tragic guise.
Liken, if you will,
the moments of life's dream;
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