Pagan Poetry 6 : Thunder

" I have gone to find lightning. Don’t worry about me.”


Ellen Gilchrist "Starcarbon"




There's a storm outside, and the gap between crack and thunder



Crack and thunder, is closing in, is closing in


The rain floods gutters, and makes a great sound on the concrete


On a flat roof, there's a boy leaning against the wall of rain


Aerial held high, calling "come on thunder, come on thunder"






Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul


Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul






It's a monsoon, and the rain lifts lids off cars


Spinning buses like toys, stripping them to chrome


Across the bay, the waves are turning into something else


Picking up fishing boats and spewing them on the shore






The boy is hit, lit up against the sky, like a sign, like a neon sign


And he crumples, drops into the gutter, legs twitching


The flood swells his clothes and delivers him on, delivers him on






Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul


Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul






There's four new colors in the rainbow


An old man's taking polaroids


But all he captures is endless rain, endless rain


He says listen, takes my head and puts my ear to his


And I swear I can hear the sea



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Pagan Poetry 4 : James - Ring the bells

Ring the bells
Ring ring the bells
Wake the town
Everyone is sleeping
Shout at the crowd
Wake them up
This angers deeper than sleep

Got to keep awake to what is happening
I cant see a thing through my ambition,
I no longer feel my God is watching over me
Got to tell the world weve all been dreaming
This is not the end, a new beginning
I no longer feel my God is watching over me

Break break the code
Concentrate
Let the doors swing open
See through all your walls
All your floors
Now youre in deeper than sleep

Got to keep awake to what is happening
I cant see a thing through my ambition,
I no longer feel my God is watching over me
Got to tell the world weve all been dreaming
This is not the end, a new beginning
I no longer feel my God is watching over me

When you let me fall
Grew my own wings
Now Im as tall as the sky
When you let me drown
Grew gills and fins
Now Im as deep as the sea
When you let me die
My spirits free
Theres nothing challenging me




Because rock IS poetry.