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  	 concepts of reality<br/><br/>on a Salvador Dali theme <br/> <br/>song birds ponder jumping from branch to branch<br/>pigs meander fearlessly with snouts in unknown<br/>ground poughsharing with grunts  as moans <br/>yet never disillusioned<br/> seagulls regroup after tractors have passed <br/>either their Field or the rubbish dump  or street...<br/>separate, but the same action.....<br/>seals sit sadly like ripening raspberry's <br/>magpie thief's giggle in the sunshine <br/>hobbling over the ground<br/>geldings body's wobble  while they canter<br/>across the Field <br/>a sleeping owl in a dead tree,  snoring ,!!!<br/>in the noonday sun<br/>who's celebrating     in intensity like  <br/>clamorous scorchers  hooked on virgin<br/>energies not yet captured <br/>as the rusty idiots    copulate to capitulate <br/>in to dancing fools  or boasting  nymphs that <br/>ponder meekly<br/> <br/>Dundee Dave
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  				&quot;What I am about to say is strictly off the record. On that understanding, I shall give you candidly &quot;
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  	reactions to action<br/><br/>shadows emerge like <br/>burgeoning rabbits its <br/>hoping, enduring<br/>the in different idiotic clock<br/>called life a bragging song bird<br/>abstractly chroting images swagging<br/>impishly like there rambling shadows<br/>following<br/>behind pumpkin cheeks<br/>each fiery exorcised the <br/>hallucinations of there minds<br/>from the haughty seeds of slumber<br/>were barrenly in to the unknown mist<br/>to prowl like lost seamen who want <br/>to free inhuman princess ?<br/>attracted by the humid echoing of <br/>agonising grumbles  that exclam in<br/>vocal fables<br/> <br/>slips, slipping in manic expression of <br/>pompous, eerily harsh. <br/>like refection's passed of malodorous<br/>eruptions of the mob,  mutters following<br/>by cold hatchet stares, obscene remarks..<br/>cutting like knives<br/>the sneering discontent is like an inferno<br/>tugging snipping, disturbing noiselessly<br/>like a group of ducks  bragging on the way <br/>to the pond<br/>like braising hags  frolicking,   tartly<br/>now fears are inward  panorama's<br/>recounting darkness <br/> yet blindly  recovers to start again<br/> <br/> <br/>Dundee Dave<br/>
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  	the season for eternal snow storms<br/>forgotten elks, snoozing  in the <br/>drifted snow while above <br/> the celestrial Resurrection of the stars <br/>long  sinst gone agedly<br/>baby animals, may be humans also.<br/>nestled in there mothers breast<br/> hoping for flaming spring time<br/>were vain birds crawl over trees searching<br/>but the insects bury themselves forcefully<br/>evading the ravenous rants of these creatures<br/>and the sharp unchained melody of winters singing<br/>the snows inconsequential  overcoat of this <br/>lethargic  season  as it seams to blindly<br/>lingers like an in patient adventurer   <br/>yet more like a monumental lifeless  of ice &amp; snow<br/> <br/>a mathematical formula created by <br/>gods artistic   hands   give exultation's to <br/>the treasured few animals-that  thrive in this praying <br/>white exterior, with the odious conspirator<br/>mother-nature devilishly, melodiously,  like <br/>any woman  exhilarating  panic rudely<br/>or polar-bears  that embrace the cold like a <br/>human-being embraces woollen-blankets gleefully<br/>sleeping soft  open  mouthed, passionless images.<br/>cold-hearted like the ethereal frosty evergreens bushes<br/>that laboriously stand to attention  as if ghostlike <br/>haunt, haunt, till the yellow flowers   appear<br/>above the glorious thorns in any summer <br/>were the inspired refection of reproduction<br/>that is corrosive &amp; monstrous in any autumn...<br/>mystifies any discounted gene male or female..<br/>touched like a butterfly's-wing by the bee's<br/>natures inseminaters<br/>when the raging,  ringing geese return<br/>to waddle &amp; feed       knowingly<br/> <br/>Dundee Dave<br/><br/> <br/>
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  				&quot;the season for eternal snow storms<br/>forgotten elks, snoozing  in the <br/>drifted snow while ab&quot;
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  				&quot;Parts of the media have touted the post as the &quot;President of the European Union&quot;.[2] The p&quot;
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  				&quot;Sophists and democracy..+1 <br/>Posted by: &quot;david garden&quot; d_garden2@yahoo.com   d_garden2&quot;
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  	december poetry contest<br/><br/>the downy tide touches the <br/>flesh of the midnight lovers <br/>both bodies needing compassion<br/>by the iceberg white crested shore<br/> <br/>the dancing leaves in the wind<br/>burn with their passion <br/>the sucking, !!!  like that of a <br/>baby's bottle <br/>pressing hard against the sleeping <br/>bones in their flesh<br/>up &amp; down   up &amp; down<br/>like the tide<br/>for even shamed kings do well tonight<br/>under the musical starlight night<br/>  <br/> <br/>on this  spot were the cockelwoman <br/>will stand and work to the sound<br/> of the skylark, curlew, and cormorant <br/>that rage quietly on any dog-day afternoon<br/> <br/>and i lieing  in a passionate embrace<br/>will be forgotten loudly, like the statues..<br/>of the dead-over were the streets lie mildly<br/>now  heartily he goes, flogging <br/>his john-Tomas.  to much ale  for release.!!!<br/>yet more than enough lust.....<br/> <br/>the barnacle bearded  rabbit catcher<br/>disappointed,  goes to sing ageist the cold night<br/>down the wise cobble streets <br/>passed the crow-black memorials to the dead <br/>star-struck forever  in assorted poses<br/>passed the undertake,r he goes with the <br/>downy grey doors  and <br/>the patchwork curtains on the windows that <br/> advertise death to the living ..<br/> <br/>dundee dave<br/><br/><br/>
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  	the praying autumn evening <br/>blowing in coopered pain<br/>off   immorality<br/>and riding the wind <br/>determinedly in despair<br/>chilly winter slowly ascends<br/>as autumn rots with tenacity<br/>a solitary leaf flutters in the wind<br/>the trees groaning gently in <br/>the rustic chilled power<br/>which fearlessly<br/> <br/> a soulful sea flows splendidly<br/>while the blazing sun <br/> rambles in flamed splendour<br/>an emotive action<br/> <br/> that wakens across the horizon<br/>as if screaming with fearful jealously<br/> the wind settles after rasping  with<br/> fearful force with <br/>burnished need it now declines  in<br/>righteousness to a soft breeze<br/> <br/>a raging autumn morning<br/>dreams breathlessly in its <br/>lust full arrogance that accompanies<br/>storms &amp; deep misty swirls <br/> <br/>a spiders web sways in the storm<br/>winsomely,<br/>the ochred colours frowning <br/>in Ecstasy as the sodden earth<br/>and trees blend in a Gothic tapestry<br/>groaning in startled pride &amp; splendour<br/> <br/>Dundee Dave<br/>  <br/><br/>
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