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Chris Williams
SHE HEARD IT ON THE RADIO Dominique Spearey
                                  I'm just a rabbit in the headlights                                   Oh the treachery of memory                                   But God he was so handsome                                   The smell of sweat enticing                                   She was a rabbit in the headlights                                   But.. ..he... really.... was .. quite... grubby                                   Oh the treachery of memory                                   I'm not a rabbit in the headlights KOLONN SANS HWATH Mick Paynter                                         War dha dowl, O'Toole,           Na Nev, na Ifarn, po Purjyans ragos, nyns yw.           Ottena, omma....
                                        Pinta korev, wosa dha Soedh yn Sowsnek:
Another Sacred Heart
by Mick Paynter                                         The plan was, O’Toole,           Nor Heaven, nor Hell, or Purgatory, for you, there’s not.           See there, it’s here.....
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A PRAYER
Previously in Orbis                                   O Lord of our Days,                                   Please keep us from the clutches                                   Let us creep softly into fat-arsed middle age                                   And when the time comes                                   But not just yet.
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                                  rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights of your love.
                                  It gushed up good and proper
                                  Yet - when all was said and done
                                  He was nothing but a rotter.
                                  His body poured in leather
                                  His winklepickers flashing
                                  His reputation as a raver.
                                  As she climbed upon his bike
                                  Her hormones starting racing
                                  As they rode off in the night.
                                  A rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights of his love.
                                  His nails chewed to the quick
                                  And looking back in hindsight
                                  She just loved him for his prick.
                                  Often leading us astray
                                  Confusing glow of headlights
                                  With the cold clear light of day.
                                  A rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights of your love.
rag an Artydh Skows Brian O'Toole
                                        o, ty dh'omdewlel
                                        gans el, splann es howl.
                                        Hag war dowl an el
                                        genes dh'omdewlel
                                        heb drog bys merwel.
          Ytho, lymner, lemmyn, y lymnis lymnans, yth yw.....
                                        gans an Arloedh, hag y golonn ev
                                        war y vron y sev, a'th hesya'n arwoedh.
For the Scouse Artist Brian O’Toole
                                        for you to wrestle,
                                        with an angel bright as sun.
                                        And the angel’s plan
                                        with you harmlessly
                                        to wrestle’til death.
          So, painter, now, a picture I did paint, it is.....
                                        with the Good Lord, while his heart itself
                                        stands up on his breast, signifies your jest.
Also on the web site of the Poetry Society
Raymond Humphreys
                                  save us from the standard-setters;
                                  the hush-voiced counsellors;
                                  the inspectors; the auditors;
                                  the therapists and the charterers;
                                  the petition-makers;
                                  the ethical advisers.
                                  of all doctors, lawyers and accountants.
                                  Spare us the priests and law-makers:
                                  (anyone in a long black gown).
                                  Close our ears to the lying politicians.
                                  without the child within withering away.
                                  And when our minds become fuddled with years,
                                  or drink, or straitened thoughts,
                                  keep a few crystals of truth
                                  alive in some bright corner.
                                  Let not madness, nor yet cold sanity
                                  overtake us.
                                  to switch off the light,
                                  Do it quickly.
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