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Writing by Samuel Pye

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  • Ethic

    Ethic
    Follow my voice, 
    follow me home, 
    cover me with candles to keep you warm, 
    dance like you are your favourite joke,
    work like money was never invented, 
    like you never knew what it was to be poor, 
    or how terrible it was to be rich, 
    dare, if you dare, to live with what you share, 
    carry those who fall behind,  
    it makes it easy to push them over the edge, 
    cynical only in private with the warmth of foul feet,
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  • Functional skills

    Functional skills
    The appetite subsides,
    stress disapates,
    breathing easier,
    glad of the rest,
    accepting fragility,
    belonging,
    a place for indifference,
    among the distress of passion,




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  • Vacant

    Vacant
    Devouring good-deeds,
    sentiment,
    void from context of application,
    black eyes,
    with less soul,
    than I could control,
    hypnotised,
    enchanted,
    the conduit,

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  • Scales

    Scales
    I'll meet you at the crossroads of money and time,
    floating away in an ocean of space,
    a ticket,
    a receipt,
    a keepsake,
    buried in the sand,
    we count their grains,
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  • Contrast

    Contrast
    The church, 
    big stone blocks wall the pavement,
    a quiet companion to the bustle of the ever changing street,
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  • Mediator

    Mediator
    On Null Island, 
there was no rejection, 
just requests,
no seasons greetings,
no long days,
no entrapment,
no unhealthy ways,
sensibility and cultural calm,
jolly sailors,
safe from harm,
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  • Thought

    Thought
    Denial of division, 
    provision,
    I turn to stone,
    a day without rock bottom,
    the crunch of fresh soft snow,
    in mountains formed long ago,
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  • Comfort

    Comfort
    I held the reins firm, 
as thunder rumbled through the mountain surround,
my horse reared with trepidation, 
echoing my thoughts and sentiments, 
with her reassuring might I pressed on,
with the bitter cold I felt the warmth of my jacket and balaclava,
one with my warm bloody beast,

  • Understanding

    Understanding
    With this,
I gave it everything,
with you,
I gave it all,
with this,
current technology,
energy transfer,
fresh vigour,
humble valour,
sea salt kisses,
sun kissed lush meadows,
soft deciduous,
prickly evergreen,
wisdom from the mountains,
compassion from sea,
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  • Weevils

    Weevils
    Ascertain,
figures of strength,
companion,
the voyage,
vessel,
recourse,
stood before her bows,
crashing waves crush my doubts,
swell,
defining course,
reverberations of a pacifist,
weevils in the biscuits,
soldier and sailor, 
share another damp cigarette,
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