The Poetry of Paul Farrow
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Twisting and twirling through time
Like paper helicopters fall slowly to earth.
Eternity offers us prophecies
To hold our faith in life.
Concept conscripts
Shackled to a languishing fear
Lying deep in homo sapia
Our home.
Intellectual intercourse
Feeds our hungry souls
Like meat feeds
Canine endocrines.
Adenosine
Tri
Phosphate
Thirsty for power.
Head over heels
As a slinky 'slinks' down stairs.
Navigating life minus compass.
Ra would turn in his sarcophagus
If he had a celestial window frame.
References to saving grace pass us over
Like the angel of death did egypt.
Glycosidic, peptide, disulphide bonds
Hold our sanity
Like a mother holds a child.
Subconscious desires scream
Out for attention.
Harnessing dreams,
Reaching for the stars
Only to find gas can't be grasped.
Pompei is buried like
Antiquity's secrets.
Babylonian fruits fuel curiosity.
Warsaw crumbles
A 'shell' of its former self
Under the grip of a jaded moment.
Guilt burns deep
But our consciences rise like phoenixes.
We're all relatives like einstein.
Scientific enthalpies of atomisation
Become apparent
Analysing down
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons.
Checkmate.
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Verses I - VIII (Revised Version)
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When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
Lets play Russian roulette with nuclear warheads
Wrap up warm for the holocaust
Pollute our minds with dirty thoughts
Pollute our lungs feeding on car exhaust
Lets take our children with us to the grave
Deny the future our seed
Let babies play with razors and knives
Watch the infants bleed
Leave the kids at home while we go out to fight
Ride upon on the white horse and slay heroinesses
All for sex and drugs and alcohol
Kidnap little girls and look up their dresses
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
When the whole wide world is turning
Crucifixes are burning
Pyromaniac Satanist slit throat on barb wire
Take all your bullets and throw in the fire
Psychoanalytical junkie recite Christian verse
Rape Mother Nature leaving scorched Earth
Prejudiced justice depicting other races
Ethnic blood lies upon faces
Let interbred children be branded as slaves
Narcotic addiction freedom they crave
Sell neighbours' soul to evil spirit
Forgetting the scripture they read dirty lyrics
While the whole world is burning
Crucifixes decompose...
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Marianna
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No one suckles on Marianna's breasts
A true mother Teresa
And her little cannibal
Doesn't want to play
She must be gay
A diamond beauty if there ever was
Marianna's crystal ball
She watched you fall
Through closed eyes
And a pink triangle on her heart
Marianna's eyes only looked one way;
Upon sanitary towel between hips
And the lips she wanted to kiss
Kissing not her but asphalt
A final menstruation
Another post-masochist would have lifted up her dress
For the girl she loved with soul and thighs
Who fell from the heavens and then a great height Marianna's love
Spurned over a pavement
This little lost apocalypse
Marianna doesn't want to play
She must be gay
And mother's little cannibal love
Only wanted to eat you
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