hope was high
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Hope was High
By Billy McBride
Copyright 2014 by William McBride
This is a new collection of 81 poems of Billy McBride
and his credited mses!
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2!The fond home
Where friendship dwelt
#nd where patience dwelt
Was the wor" of the light itself!
Then life mo$ed in
#nd with prod words
+f grief or ,oy
-ife was pierced!
The way of light
Wandered away long
To its own fa$orite home!
The earth was so ama&ed
That natre fainted
#nd peace trimphed!
) Bertha with Billy McBride
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.!
Many o/erings were gi$enTo control man
'n his glory for greatness
To "now the secret
Messages of the ni$erse!
The powerfl sn
ising or resting
pread ample
assion across the heights
(ranting a golden
Threshold to the day!
't did not $eil itself!
Towering down
+n its corse it went forth!
) (rochy with Billy McBride
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4!
(old was on the grond!
# bold waterChosen by the sea
Twisted its tip
3ic"ly to the grond!
The words of all
Were minded in iet!
This was the time when life was bra$er5
When obedience was stronger5
#nd when we ga$e or hearts
To engage or wills!
't was pleasing to stand
Where e$erybody was safe
+n that grond nder the wa$es!
) *onna with Billy McBride
6!
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The state had some land!
'n the dst it grew
(olden and high'ts belo$ed wealth
That stood on the plain!
*eep in the grass
Wandering in the dar"
+f the high plain
'n fear of his foe
Was a mighty man
Who throgh the night to the dawn
afely went home!
His strength of will
Was great and bold!
) *onna with Billy McBride
7!
# friendly stream
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il$er and white
Had a $igoros ow!
# load of wealthWas gained sccessflly5
'n the ship was a ransom
9or the royal dame5
# lo$ely daghter!
The heights mo$ed
9ll of bree&es
olling %ercely5
9ierce and lod5
Which with e$en more lod speed
*id cry within the gloom!
) *onna with Billy McBride
:!
;o clods
Were in their friendly home!
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Hope was high
When the earth retrned
'n the solfl day!'ts cities were restored5
laced again nder the hea$ens!
't had been silent here
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+f the great clods
(littering o$er the %elds
'n the early horsWhen the mist came gently!
Then spread the golden
Contry far away
Where horses followed!
#n ample sheltering
tood on the grond
Where the steeds were placed
To pass the dar"ness!
) =laine with Billy McBride
>!
There was a dar" oor
Beneath the realm
+f the higher forms
That stood and rled abo$e!
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This was a %eld of dar"ness5
# $ision in the dst!
+r realm of order+n the earth was fond abo$e!
Walls of stone
Were bilt in proportion
9or spaces for homes
To be greatly dec"ed!
#ll this was done before
The sol once again trned
'nto the body of a montain!
) ?afah with Billy McBride
10!
;ight collected itself
'nside its hea$enly throne!
The beach swept ot!
'ts remaining path
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#d$anced lodly
With impetos words!
The clods went their ways5Holding their masses
Higher into hea$en!
9lashing in the dar"
+f an endless %eld
Was the ama&ing light
+f a di$ine contryman
Who roared li"e the beach!
) +ra with Billy McBride
11!
The grey past
'n the memories of boo"s
9elt more free!
#ncient pleasres
*ro$e away the wrongs!
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Merry sonds
+f deep lo$e
Came to life!weet rain showers
Tmbled in the s"y!
-ight whitened
#fter the clods were no more!
Then wild winds
tirred restlessly!
) ?afah with Billy McBride
12!
Beaty declined
To gleam her smile
When she trned modest!
# better world
*reaming dmb
Crossed into the day again
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eemed to pase for life!
*ays drooped
#nd deepened with their loads!The green forest
9rnished with lea$es
tirred in the wind
That left it wild!
) Thri"bot with Billy McBride
14!
# sltry light
Mar"ed the s"y arond
'n boisteros ,oy!
Wild owers
(rew in the yard!
The bonds of the earth
trggled for days
'n fragrant solitde
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To crowd o$er e$ery blan"!
igid winds
ased freentlyTo wonder anew
#t the delightfl s"y
*ring those fresh years!
) #rielle with Billy McBride
16!
The eager blossoms
+n the grond of the $alley
Were happy on the earth!
The pleasres of the day
ecred a way
To retrn to the landscapes!
#rond the dreamy homes
Were sperior places5
pots on the world
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Beyond the wild for s to li$e!
The green gronds
Were lo$ed by men5The blossoms and birds too
#bo$e the refreshing grass!
) +ra +ra Tiferetot with Billy McBride
17!
'n a pleasant place
itting in the snshine
#t leisre on the grass
Were gentle birds!
'n the early day
imple birds
ng from time to time
'n cheerfl moods!
The distant montains
ested beyond the ri$er!
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*ay grew
-arge into the scene5
#nd in the lonely s"yWas ,st one clod!
) @abbalah with Billy McBride
1:!
The wa$es danced5
#rched5 and crashed
Washing the land!
' wished ' was good enogh
To be a friend to others!
9riends were created
By men and women
-i"e owers trning to frit!
*ear me5 it was lo$e
#nd wisdom ' attained!
9riends are the lAries
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+f a social "ind
9ar deeper
Than the whole day!) ?afah with Billy McBride
18!
The lonely hills
Were co$ered with bramble!
We ttered or lo$e
9or the own sol of natre!
-o$e was more than thoght
9or the sweet sn5
# ni$erse of thoght
=aled that lo$e!
(od in the ni$erse
+$erloo"ed man!
*elicate natre
With her sbtle rhythm
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emained on the montain!
) +ra +ra Tiferetot with Billy McBride
20!
# clti$ated thin"er
wayed the nmbers!
He desired to mltiply
By means of intelligence
The prophesies of (od!
'n the street his words
ossessed the men
+f the contry and its systems!
With a power o$er all
Women and men
He claimed some things
The sin"ing day
#nd the birds on the tree were his5
Howe$er5 his agreeable wisdom
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Became ors!
) hay with Billy McBride
21!
Wandering people
=ncontered liberty
Wor"ing their way
Throgh the bright world5
#fter which these heroes "new
+nly order and trth!
The snow was fresh
#fter the scant frost5
With its fro&en drops5
Came li"e a weary stranger!
The ying wind
;imbly ran away
+$er the waters of the sea
+n its ,oyfl $oyage!
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) ?afah with Billy McBride
22!
=ach eternity
(a$e growth
9or than"fl thoght
'n the mind of man!
# certain consciosness
tirred in the sol
Ma"ing mo$e
#ll things in time!
rofond poetry
9iAed5 li"e frit5
yllables in the sol!
+ceans of otherness
Were left for s to lo$e
'n order to compose
# commnication!
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) -ibby with Billy McBride
2.!
The $oices of the sea
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) hay with Billy McBride
24!
laying in the night
With the falling stars
Was a friendly man
Whom none feared!
=ither from hea$en he came5
#nd hope was in his $oice5
+r from the %elds he came5
9rom the gronds of some meadow5
Bt all "new how strong
His lo$e for them contined!
When he showed his face
+ne dreamy day
#ll became iet and glad5
Their pride ew away!
) Honey with Billy McBride
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26!
pea"ing was the power that we had5
#nd all of or defenses had become oral ones!
Bt for more order we rebelled
#gainst natre with or words themsel$es5
#nd the world itself was conicted!
+ne of s opposed
This dar" disintegration
# mystic %Aed it!
Wandering o$er the grond5
r$i$ing for a long while5
This fatherer of the light
Became liberated from himself!
He ths recogni&ed that his $ery own anAieties
Were eAposed becase of his own langage!
) =laine with Billy McBride
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27!
The money was for yor thoghts
#nd was carried into yor presence!
?o retrned it grandly
Becase yo recogni&ed the horror
'n my ambi$alent mind
9or the present cost
With which or reality wor"ed!
#lthogh a dar" woe
Was accepted as or past5
The ftre wold be wonderfl still
Becase we ha$e eAcellent pride
That or compleA strggle
With all dominate stances
Will be lost in laghter!
) =laine with Billy McBride
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2:!cience had determined
To order the forms!
# dangeros error
Was that mo$ement itself was created
By the bloc"ed imagination
#nd its own emptiest meanings!
#ll things became all things
Becase a freshness was lost!
The self too s/ered
9rom too many aggressi$e sggestions
#nd its glory was dri$en ot!
Therefore5 it was proper that for many years
# satisfying ni%cation
Bro"e away from the spirit!
) =laine with Billy McBride
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28!
The normal wordsWe spo"e were errors5
o or desperate langage
e)de%ned more images5
#nd trned more diDclt for s
The more we ordered each and e$ery sb,ect!
Thoght itself was scorned
While we wor"ed against it!
This $ery crisis had started again
#nd a nerosis manifested!
Bt people were sa$ed
9rom total discontinity
When they %gred ot how to present
Themsel$es again to the pecliar dangers arond!
) era"h with Billy McBride
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2>!
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Happy years
9looded the isse
That the state itself had been forgotten#nd the best commander
Was ,st an empty shadow!
Hmans had changed
#nd did not belie$e anymore
'n msic or metaphysics!
weet peace
#nd ne$er)ending intelligence
9reed all people!
-ead into the light
The best of them transcended
Beyond the day in freedom!
) =laine with Billy McBride
.2!
The dominant person was always
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9rom a great peace
'n order to ha$e more freedom
9or the self!The state rewarded
# prince with a lo$e
That endred in the world!
We were cleless as to how
The trimphant prince
Wold coner the climate
That had drowned
o many with wordplay!
Bt or edcation
Had always been indestrctible!
erfect lo$e
Was bond to become better
Than any obsession with damnation!
) @elly with Billy McBride
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't seemed an eternal delay
To "now abot hea$en5
#nd of that wilderness of owersWhere thirst by taste
Was srprisingly fl%lled5
Where all ntriments of the spirit
Cold be en,oyed happily5
Where all things of (od
Were to be lo$ed and lo$ed!
Bt it was in a di$ine neighborhood
Where paradise wold be fond again
't was a holy eternity
+f shining gests
Who were stationed arond me as that hea$en!
) =laine with Billy McBride
.7!
There were stars in the clods
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#nd sddenly the chariots
(ided the charge!
The words of e$ery yoth+n the montain tops
Became as $ain as the dst
When the Mothers brst forth
*escending in their ships
With so mch passion5
age5 and fry
Becase a monarch had retired
'nto the whirls of smo"e!
in was scattered5
#s their li$es5 into the wind!
) Thri"bot with Billy McBride
.:!
*istant brothers pointed to the pathways!
They were great friends and ,dged to ha$e $irte
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Which their father placed deep in them to "eep!
=ach brother had a heart of steel! eople
+f power were bra$er since trth was bright!# bright hea$en fell pon the heroes!
The power of hea$en repaired in air!
# thnder spo"e5 and swelled to coner all
Hearts! =artha"es made a war pon changed
minds5
#nd angry words from the clods did eAtend!
The sons battled places in the hea$ens
Whose liid world o/ended the prodest!
=normos radiances5 the spiritEs storm
*id come all thic" deepening high oEer the %eld!
) Bertha with Billy McBride
.8!
The green smmer was ne$er as sacred
When the storms of natre and happiness
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Came! #ll langage was "nown and destiny!
=$ery word5 e$en the old rde ones5
*windled in shade! The beatifl owersWere better than good boo"s! The contry tastes
+$erwhelmed e$ery name5 and better strength
+f free msic played by women arond
hined! # pitifl face prepared leisre!
Blac" bees to the grass came! Horly rain
Moistened the road! =$ery neighborhoodEs song
Was life and lo$e5 and welcome strawberries
+n the footpaths were sweet! The day made way
9or the cheerfl shepherds and whistling boys!
) Bertha with Billy McBride
.>!
They played for nothing more5 and scrambled
thoght
't was a strange smmer5 when with "nowledge
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That was trned on with hope5 they wandered bare!
The ancient trees that were fond were wonders!
They tra$eled deep where sirrels bolted bold!Har$ests of frit fell on the lea$es arond5
#nd the day peeped li"e prple owers
Which bloomed abot the %eld! The peace was fll
+f a happy harmony and hopefl solitde!
# song of lo$e was sng nder the sn!
The clods came swift creeping abot the s"y5
#nd raindrops fell while fragments of thnder
Crashed and trembled being swept with the wind
That wrin"led the places and the scene of the sn!
) -ibby with Billy McBride
40!
;ight was a mystery5 it mo$ed eApectingly5
Bt seemed dar"er5 its shadow seemed ntre!
The dar"ness stood and was a dominance!
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#ll or ,oys and sorrows loosened from earth5
#nd a dead end came in the shadowEs form!
?et this single power ser$ed or consel!'t redeemed or achie$ements5 or histories5
#nd or yong sense! Tradition was needed
To estion thoght and to nderstand change!
We retrned as image and meant to be
Trth! The dar"ness %lled p that needed part!
Wor" was good then the teaching was artistic!
We strggled for more sense and fresh presence5
#nd "new or paradoA with little lo$e!
) =laine with Billy McBride
41!
Many a month was acti$e with e/ort!
#nother awareness for a new FmoreF
9or poor people5 a poplar idea5
tarted in most! The poor of the pblic5
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To deal with rates now became symbolic!
=Aecti$es were pnished5 bt retained wor"!
The decisions mattered that pnished ban"s!'n$estigators changed e$ery ban"Es %rm5
#nd ManhattanEs problems were reported!
9ar from the ban"s5 prosectors agreed
To plead themsel$es gilty in the late day!
eglators were international5
#nd deferred ban"s from disclosing all deals!
) hnoonah with Billy McBride
4.!
mo"ing in the e$ening mari,ana5
The stdents were taAed and got a bill!
# doctor demanded to taA them all
9or the mari,ana they were smo"ing!
Medical registries monitored men
Who were sed to become high! # few high ones
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#ttac"s of otes came to Iersalem5
#nd the
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Holding the gests
To the dayEs door!
Mild winds*allying a little
With wandering song
*id regain the hea$ens!
) Honey with Billy McBride
4:!
+$er the top of the land
Jalted hea$en
Where winds threw
#way the clods of the day!
*irecting down5
-ight was eApressed
'nto the obscre dar"ness
9or all lo$ely owers and all else!
That powerfl light5
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That had begn so far away
#nd was called into the world
#s good a creation as it5po"e new words5
9resh as spring!
't said that a time
9or more happiness
hall stay here for the while!
) Thri"bot with Billy McBride
48!
'nation "ept p5
=$ery word5 read!
# new dissent
9or s"y for grond5
Which bsinesses opposed5
Had released s from the trees!
The sccessfl corporation
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trengthened both or breaths
#nd in$estorsE money!
Hea$en was born'n a bad time5
#nd dar" lea$es
(rew with #merica
;ow immortal!
Bertha with Billy McBride
4>!
The days bro"e p
#fter the leaders won!
Moments dropped o/
#nd military oDcials
r$eyed the hedges
Where winter seemed
To share her frit!
Trc"s and roc"ets
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Crowed ot the pleasantries!
Jegetables became organi&ed!
The nearest homes+pened in low)pro%le
#fter being bilt by men
Who trampled pon the grass!
) hay with Billy McBride
60!
Millions on their telephones
Were charmed by the atmn
'ts golden owers5
Hea$ily ad$ertised5
(rew pon the landscape5
9illing with it more contribtion!
The splendid s"y
pent itself o$er the contry5
Where hndreds of grops
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+f storms then roared!
That atmn it was strange
't became the party who donated(reen5 more green
To elect a commission
To steal or sols!
) *onna with Billy McBride
61!
There were borders to natre5
?et5 the climate contined
To %ll ot or eApectations!
Cities of plants
eemed pecliar5
While global ecosystems
*id little to comfort s!
=missions from the grond
MiAed with or failre
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To %nd another billion
o we soght ot the meanings
+f or companyEs re$enes instead5
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Then a noise of a bar"ing
Became a problem
#nd so the ancient woodsWere %lmed by the cameras!
) Honey with Billy McBride
6.!
Winds of the storm
an o/ in a race!
;o men!
The tre dobt!
pray!
-i"e slow nations!
o far!
-i"e economies!
=n,oying my owers!
Millions5
-awns!
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+trage!
The yellow and gold
Machines pon the grond!) +ra with Billy McBride
64!
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9tre monopolies
9ar down!
) +ra +ra Tiferetot with Billy McBride
66!
Ist beyond the dreamy land
nshine sprin"led pon the wa$es
'ts feathery light
#s if some gentle mind abo$e did care
#t home in the passing clods
shing the day onward5
9loating bree&es by
'n the iet wind!
Bt a gloomy s"y came
#nd the large trees
lanted on the dreamy land dar"ened!
) *iana with Billy McBride
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67!
Ha$ing now "nowledge
+f poetic strctres5
?o neAt wold need
# sblime $itality for life
To trimph o$er and retrn
To that deepest of ways5
*eep within the ri$er waters
+f a peacefl contry
#nd its own powerfl spaces
Where a large radiance
+f %re storms shined
#nd where heroic friends
Had the strength to hope
9or the $ery own "nowledge
Which yo yorself ha$e now!
) Honey with Billy McBride
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6:!
When the imagination is bloc"ed5
#nd a writer s/ers bewilderment
Becase o$er the deep earth
# dar" storm came5
#fter a calm patience5
# strong light shines
Throgh the mortal clods
#nd into the lod winds
That y across the ocean shores!
#nd once against that initial error
That e$en the freshest of people ma"e
9or the thing they most desire
9or the $alable money5
#nd its awfl power5
The poet is then able to write
That endring poem
That so bloc"ed the imagination!
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) Marion with Billy McBride
68!
The meanings were established once
+f what to ma"e of the compleA earth
#nd of the bold night abo$e
Where dangeros forces
'n the winter wind
Blew the yong lea$es
+$er the wild plain
'nto the thirsty stream
Where the gathering horses came!
They became or brilliant gides
'nto the world of light
Towards e$ery memory of e$ery memory
#s if we were eAploring the sand
+f a ftre time
To establish another meaning!
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) Honey with Billy McBride
6>!
' was en,oying the sn
#nd its possible climaA
Broght into town
To the thosands of shadows
+f the shades of atmn!
The gloomy air
Had gi$en me some sense of the $oid
#nd of some lost hea$en
#nd my own passage into anAiety
'n this modern moment
-ed me to repeat my estion
To the powers of hea$en
+n their own gold and brass
Thrones in the s"y5
#lso en,oying the sn!
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) Honey with Billy McBride
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#bo$e a land of dar"ness
# series of stars
Hng with an eternal force
par"ling in time
With all the compleAities of or time!
' saw a $ision of the shore
With its own lsty sol
'n its lo$ing hands
#nd abo$e that trembling place
Beyond the famos %elds
+f fallen trees
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) *iana with Billy McBride
71!
'n yor words there was both energy
#s well as a direct langage!
Bt5 in yor nsettling $oice5
?or sol was angry
#t all of my sorry sb,ects5
o yo restored to them some good
With all yor wisdom and strength!
# fair woman
With a soft form5
?o showed me that the time was here
9or or lasting peace
9or all here in the magni%cent world
Which was once my contry
Where in the space of that stage
My words wold %nd again some energy!
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) *onna with Billy McBride
72!
The present time went away
+n a ma,or day
When the ideal time that was composed
+$er the bright earth closed
#nd a golden car did throw
'tself o$er the montain to the woods below
Where the waters of the ca$e eApelled
'nto the changing shore5 where ' had dwelled!
#nd while the glittering seas raged
With an eAcess of langage engaged
'5 at the end of my poem had bond
't to the grond or p to a hea$enly mond5
Till the distant places ' hoped to gain5
' did5 after closing p my map in $ain!
) Bertha with Billy McBride
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7.!
+n some peacefl land we mst sr$i$e
#nd retrn shortly ali$e
9rom or new start and with some sign
That or lo$e and wisdom were di$ine!
+r alliance with all life shall glow
# great conest of or woe
The nie rhetoric which mst last
#nd ways of combining with the past5
imple trths that we compose
The mar$elos "nowledge that always grows
Helps the person whom we contact train5
epaying the sol with some life again!
To the wealthy town pon its grond
-et peace5 to the open place5 srrond!
) @elly with Billy McBride
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The golden dst was pri&ed5
Within the bro"en earth it lied5
Till again with natre and art it stood
9resh and green there in the wood
o rising from the dst did ' remain
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76!9rom the rins and dst in $ain
The sond of a $oice was plain!
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We heard another ocean toil#gainst or distant contryEs soil!
#nd on the dar" grond5 mch the light5
# mo$ing monment5 made it bright
Bt gracefl day mst always sweep
+n ,orney past the oceanEs deep!
'n highest way that same di$ine
Too" care to order my own line
hold more beatifl phantoms bestow
ch gifts with lo$e for things below5
=al friends perhaps might care5
With freedomEs safety5 to prepare
#nother friendEs ftre and prse
The splendor of more time and $iew!
) Thri"bot with Billy McBride
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The morning passed serene5
The delicios day was at its end5
+$er green land to bend5The pleasant place and scene5
ince dar" earth made profond
Where spreading trees with lea$es were crowned!
#nd strange gardens all arond
-et smmer owers there srrond!
9riend of natre care
9or the pomp with yor playfl friend
-i"e the happy light descend
To be freed from the clods of the air!
-et yor hope and ,oy of enterprise
#lso drop from the beatifl s"ies!
) hay with Billy McBride
7>!
'n or hors of light to $iew
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Was a rich pri&e in the day
To which old hmanity mst pray!
9or a bonty of lo$e in the springWith a matchless charm for their "ing5
We too" their lessons and got or %ll
+f or days in the city and among the hill
Where a thosand conests for the crown
Cased a pri$ate war in or town!
Then with a eet of light that brned5
# sleepless infant here retrned!
) @abbalah with Billy McBride
:.!
The tre form of a manEs own woes
#t a doomed hor had arose
ince he became friends with a ghost to bring
The conseence of his crime to the "ing
'n his sad life before he was dead
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#s the sacred s"y made bright his head!
#nd while the wretched cold was a pest5
The wanderer was mrdered by reest+f the een of the empire whose decree
Made a twilight for him on the %elds as he
Was ic"ly loading his mle)dri$en cart5
?et protection from death cold not depart
#nd this breathless messenger of the "ing
To celestial life then too" his wing!
) (rochy with Billy McBride
:4!
What can ' se ' mst implore
9rom a $olme of poetry ' adoreK
The day itself bilds to increase
=Aperience to write another poem in peace!
What new eAperience is this howe$er $ain5
Which a boo" will compensate for againK
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What new $ocablary %ts best my ear
With how ' feel and what ' hearK
' thrst the words ot with intentGBabylon came after ;oahEs ood was sent!
#fter (reen Crtained iano made its end5
While omission5 grammar and metateAis eAtend
#fter perfect timing of ha"espeareEs cast5
May Homer as the new law tragically last!
) @abbalah with Billy McBride
:6!
The healing poems had gi$en command
To ma"e myself a bdget ' cold nderstand5
#nd ha$e notes for my phone calls e$ery day5
#nd to mo$e my bicycle ot of the way!
While crrent e$ents endred5
*omestic life secred
The best words chosen by my sight5
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=$en to lo$e all people in the light5
ince the meaning had stayed the same all along
Thogh all the forms changed places in that throng!' sed the news and its broadcast
9or new reading schedles when sometime had
passed5
Mapped for a new time in my thoght
9or some lyrical lines to be wroght!
) *iana with Billy McBride
:7!
' rearranged my room to get appro$ed5
't was enelopeEs Birthday whom we lo$ed!
#ll the boo"s in the library that inspire
Were fore$er there to be read by the %re!+ne can always retrn to oneEs papers one ed5
Bt sometimes ' go the wrong way li"e 'Em dead5
#nd feel as bad as a reslt and as $ain
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#s *r! Iohnson wearing MelancholyEs chain
?et5 eAercise helped happiness when ' mo$ed5
#nd ,st becase ' read those great writers whom alllo$ed
*idnEt mean ' mst pro$e myself to any men
By writing eAactly li"e they did then!
o ' ris"ed ta"ing my art down o/ the wall
Ma"ing the symbolical death camps fall!
) +ra with Billy McBride
::!
' recalled my methods of art and shined
#nd sang with happiness to hman"ind!
My $oice was as health was5 and it did ' command
To read alod what ' felt and yell it to the landThe symbolic readings of the symbols ' cold name
#nd the argments of the athorsE poems that to me
came5
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Whether poetsE concepts were of yong or old5
The poems where my eye directed were made bold!
' ordered all my boo"s to read and so ' readTo "now the reasons why so many things were said!
With enthsiasm the interpretation raised
#ll ' read5 and what ' learned was freshly praised!
' a$oided cant and rant with mch sccess
Being drops in the sea of all ' bless!
) #rielle with Billy McBride
:8!
ha"espeare had a comprehensi$e mind5
;othing in his poems was left behind!
#s important as it was for 'ago to be stopped5
't was as if one eAisite line had popped5
The best one and reason for the poem to name
The moment ' possess by memory a claim5
# new reason for the poem ' read to praise
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The eAperience of mine enacted there these days!
ephrasing all the symbols for all who care5
;ew lyricism came to try and shareBy repeating poems daily from my breast
With hope in another recitation best5
Waiting to recite again the poems ' %nd5
-i"e a food they satisfy my sol and mind!
) =laine with Billy McBride
:>!
The little boo"s ' read from5 ' learned that hor5
Were spposed to gi$e a diDclt "ind of power!
eciting all my poems daily in defense
To remember what ' was procrastinating hence5
' had not prepared to wander down any way5
' appreciated the grammars where they lay5
#nd read $ery slowly straining all that gold
With enogh boo"s for now to be my load!
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This writer bilt p things for me to learn some line5
#nd cared to bild a hope increasing more di$ine!
#nd when ' saw the otdoor lands below the s"ies5' saw it all at once from there with my own eyes!
#nd "nowing anni$ersaries in time ' was mo$ed
To ma"e alarms for Birthdays of the ones ' lo$ed!
) #rielle with Billy McBride
80!
' tal"ed abot art and lines in order to command
'deas to connect to a seenced band!
-et symmetrical balance in the masses stay
#nd for a sense of new hope let me start to pray!
By retrning to an art that is yong or old5
' calmly wait for new ideas to nfold5
9or images in space that wold be displayed5
#nd the shapes of srreal forms to be whimsically
made
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Their interesting angels seem to prop and raise
Me on the $erge of in$enting some more these days5
omething to wor" with5 yet while betwiAtThe handles of a pitcher my shapes were %Aed!
' retrn to the earthEs images and that shrine
To list all the items in the landscapeEs shine!
) Thri"bot with Billy McBride
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' wold li"e right now to gi$e myself a gift )
# new and stronger cardboard cttery lift5
+r some paper mache for some brand new art5
+r some cardboard pieces ' can split apart
9or a balanced %gre to be tried
With the laws of gra$ity5 whate$er ' decide
The weightless bloc"s with some $oids to $iew
The negati$e shape which from within it grew5
#nd negati$e $ases as from a cast5
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#nd then some colored %lls here and there at last!
The polished wooden sclptre to be displayed
To gi$e the people st/ they need from what ' made#fter wor"ing with clay with the hope to %nd
That they might be #ngels or of #ngelsE "ind!
)+ra with Billy McBride
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