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- wake, wake up Susie
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- birth lines .. .
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HONESTLY ~ RE-EDIT 07/11/26
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POLOROID
POLOROID
..
within these four walls
landscapes de confusion
objet d’art une illusion
darkness light wrestle
find harmony in contrast
methods of exposure
i cannot absorb light
colour context of skyline
it is a parody a painted lady
a parallelogram caught
between lines of latitude
and longitudinal perspective
composed without futility
magnified by technology
characterised by economy
the rules of modernity
the subversion of vice
within these four walls
head hands arms breast
the leaves of trees lean
three large grey mountains
four square tower blocks
rising upward to skies of
birds aeroplanes fish
peace marches through
the past of our stained
stored memory boxes
love-ins raves chained
to railings psychedelia
hyde park speeches
the lens film the speech
gelled papers surface
light commands our
acts of war hanging in
a barb wire window
within these four walls
..
©EDENBRAYTODAY27.10.2026
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THE LAST BALLAD OF J.HENRY
THE LAST BALLAD OF J.HENRY
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John Henry was a lucky man
his face was brown his palms were tan
he carried round no creedmor gun
nor ever shot his way to glory
John Henry was not a violent man
he fought his way to freedom town
wrestled with America until his blue
coat bled and thus they sent him home
John Henry wore his dungarees til they
wore through; he were a lowborn novice
who slipped the scheming fires
to celebrate with Jungle Jim and Alice
all night through the moon was ill
when John Henry turned a savage
his blisters and his stripes in truth
announced he never bore no malice
whether he beeth hero or he be villain
so the track groweth cold and soldiers old
will die with naught to feed their fury since
John Henry came yon member of yon jury
he marcheth best who wears his vest
buttoned up and seemly as all good
soldiers wear their britches tied into their
boots in case stolen by the enemy
o John Henry light of foot stand beside me
your people wild as cats must hide in caves
pick up your axe and deliver seismic fury to
set yon captives free n’ enlist all honest braves
in your heroic story
..
©edenbraytoday14.10.2026
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WE HAVE WALLS OF SEPARATION .. .
WE HAVE WALLS OF SEPARATION .. .
.. .
humanoids, humanoids
down the rustic alley
the rusty alley
of grey green coppered slimey darkness
and mother’s intoxication
by their unobtrusive but irregular appearance
humanoids
within the descriptive allusion
their moist thighs
through an archway hungover
tantamount to daylight robbery
so says the local newspaper
before becoming chipped, fried, broken
we don’t see much of this at all anymore
they later found him or her uncertain
a crumpled slew
a devastated human
the serpent sirens caught deeply magenta local feeling
daubed melancholy upon graffitied walls
around this frightened town
they sat once lonely roundly rickety tables
playing with dominoes and each other
thinking of their impact on the whole world
clicking clacking clicking clacking
silently smoking capstan
rolled up in paper by machines
machines with yellowed fingers
machines set to rule the whole world
drinking stout from nameless glasses
clicking clacking clicking clacking
before the little Lowry’s
and the bent over peoples
women workers, hunched shoulders and hair nets
from the munitions factory
who journeyed home beside the walls
built like Churchill’s home erection
dressed warmly in checkered felted weaves
their rampant servant scarves and wetted hair
and the headlights sent to dancing
humanoids were blamed
humanoids
it could not happen before they came
humanoids humanoids
against the walls of your destruction
construction
abduction seduction
humanoids
who built these walls
walls walls walls
between you and me
it must have been humanoids
cliche cliche cliche
who built these walls of separation
..
ÌEDENBRAYTODAY13.10.2026
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wake, wake up Susie
wake, wake up Susie .. .
.. .
Oh the grey grey and the sea sea sky
with its tangerines and sliver peach plums
laid out on the kitchen table
with smudged crayolas and spilt glass milk
stubborn raucous standing awkward
on his jackass, black pole
with his good morning stutter
his bathroom kookaburra gargle
garbage collector breath
another did we put the bin out welcome
to one more paradox of complicated emotion
flee away you makeup cleaning
fluffed up cotton bugbear streamers
laid out like seven nymphs of Pleiades
to drag me into your vortexed empty hole
suffocate within your woolly chestful of deceit
and embroidered vests as in times of old
when we all ran with Artemis
had no issue with the ‘one shot’
killed the dear, earth’s princely animal
his eyes black, cold and still
laid out on the golden heather crimson
i’ve woken up now to those games you play
earth wardens
Zimmerman’s masters of war
i’ve had my coffee and drunk my asphalt tea
understood messages written
by old backwood trees
who watch like Whistler’s mother
cloaked in their witchy warnings
they hide the sun as it were an illusion
©edenbraytoday11.10.2026
1984 came, went & is no more .. . ditto
1984 came, went & is no more .. . ditto
.. .
the phone rang and Ahmed spoke so kindly
if Ahmed were his name
we talk in circles
if anyone’s to blame
it is not Ahmed
Ahmed does not live here anymore
he went away
i stopped ordering any parcels
dealing with the arseholes
who clog up my line
cholesterol users and feminine abusers
the politic is strained
on our semi-island of reform
it is 1984 and we have been here
many times before
choose the air of freedom if you can
the summer of the sixties
when life was unplanned
and we all were victorious
before the autumn of regret
our awesome winter of discontent
Winston met Kid Charlemagne
our future’s were all set
beanbags and gonks
TOPO GIGIO
clap your hands and think of breezy Brighton
the rampages and nights in prison
drunk drivers, spilt semen
when young women still had hymens
and grandfathers were laid to rest
.. .
it’s all gone now
and what is left is an androgynous queue
of surfeits and forgotten promises
the decay of western values
the chaldeans and the philistines
overturned the fence
questioned the agent’s brief
Eldorado another busted cistern
of solitude and grief
where rats gain
all the understanding
and buddhist chimes are rife
stonewall the fascist pigs
revile all religious creeps
they just create schisms
and we are all left hanging on to life
..
©edenbraytoday19.08.2026
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birth lines .. .
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birth lines .. . 2nd edit
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i was born
put my heart into it
kicking, screaming
breathing
i put my soul into it
they say you cannot
believe in the soul
unproven, undefined
and imagined yet
imagination is primal
an energy within that
inspires to inform
a prairie fire that burns
engenders metamorphosis
makes us more than
meteor travellers
of space in time
a denim chevrolet
with chromatic fenders
leathered bench seats
out on the highway 61
going anywhere
this becomes a metaphor
with hot wheels
smooth, soft edges
and a yearning centre
i was born amid
the bloodshed of
mucous trenching in
fields of purple placenta
added heartbeat
providing centre
shelter for the son of man
the essential other who
commands us to go over
face the barrage of
indiscriminate shooting
fear of human loathing
rape and warfare
who births the innocenct
smile within the
genetics of causality
..
©edenbraytoday31.08.2026
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illustration : ‘Head of Christ’ – after George Roualt – 1905
oil on canvas 450mm x 500mm x 37mm by the author ©stephen Eede
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NÜRNBERG 600 (Patrick’s Cool Lament) .. .
.. .
Nürnberg 600 (Patrick’s cool
lament)
.. .
Nürnberg your involvement grows much the
deeper, in summer sun or as cold winds blow
of reparation: wild semesters cannot throw
stained blankets over young, constrained voices
.
His voice though clear betrayed his taught emotion
outside the lined, soiled buildings of engagement
where presented they their abhorrent lie as alibi
disregarded by those who turn away disgusted
.
Judge ‘J’ confessed to this selvage of atrocity
for three hours seventeen; he disgorged
humourless tales of untold grief, sordid solitude
in terms of civilisation’s improfundity in certitude
.. .
Did they, as conjectured, deserve a martyr’s death
who planned their murderous escape by legality
within the darkest memoir of crazed disavowal
where shame hides discovery of sunken relics
.. .
In a room of five broken walls they arrange themselves
for rhetoric their circus master sought to tame all despots
who remain less than animals in striped, red spot tunics
O’ Russia rent her calico in despair of politic diplomacy
.
Its warp and woof warned then spat upon a swollen river
a signpost of their disregard for western rule of law or
their disrespect for shameful injustice clearly unspent
applied communal science to unrestored amplitude
.
Nürnberg your preposterous inhumanity reeks of blame
unrequited, unforgiven sin all judgements do deceive
squander then the conscience of a lamb, an honest sham
there is no humanity served can sever constituents of evil
.. .
©edenbraytoday07.08.2026
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lest we forget or have never been told .. .© 10 days ago, edenbray the beat poet (© Stephen Eede)
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IF JUNG WERE HEAR
.. .
If Jung were here .. .
.. .
simplicity is key
so say the weiser
one hundred mountains
snow-capped summits
above fauna valleys
bovine and capra
their bells sound
their tethers stretch
.
idylls in the sun
thatched cottage chalets
replaced by wood and stone
climb, fish for momentum
bachli, ruisseau and rivulet
steep torrents flow
the jagged rock face
granites’ grey
.
blackened kites
arms wide, long and limpid
the air cleaner, clearer
heaven’s concentrate
cold, damp and muffled
deep hand-cup
your clean, silent water
drink your fill
.. .
©edenbraytoday10.08.2026
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we are waiting for the end .. .
we are waiting for the end .. .
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we are waiting for the end
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we are waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end
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sixties paranoia
we are waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end we are waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end
sixties paranoia
…………………………….
there is a bright light waiting
there is a white light waiting
……
there is a bright light waiting
there is a white light waiting
sixties paranoia
……
behind their reddish shadows
there are young people
with their large heads
emerging
there is a bright light waiting
there is a white light waiting
…
and when humankind
has concluded
and understood all there is to know
…. we shall still be waiting
…. waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end we are waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end
we are waiting for the end
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illustration: OIL ON CANVAS
‘we are waiting for the end’ – ©edenbray1970
CIRCA. 1970 : PRIVATE COLLECTION
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