‘Edenbray in Exile’

A Retrospective Anthology of 50 Poems, Articles and Essays

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Oldfield

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Is taking the time

Whose taken the train

Or followed the line

To where the end is before the beginning?

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Whole nights wasted and forlorn

Pasted in albums

With yellow ends torn

Not even buried, not ever drawn

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Fake moments dressed

Cold cake, cold flesh

Peppered bold, worn yet stressed

A layman’s cove

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                                                   writtenbyedenbray13.11.2016

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#Authors Note : I have included this piece in its barest and most basic form as the 36th submission in a 2nd Retrospective Anthology of 50 Edenbray Poems, Articles & Essays ~ Originally published post-2013.

‘Oldfield’ was written out of literary respect for the work of Langston Hughes, a writer who I very much admire and who formulated a style of prose which came to be known by the term ‘Jazz Poetry’. Although this piece does not purport to copycat the style of Langston Hughes its imitation is more in consequence of an attempt to respond in kind by recreating the same rhythm, natural form and the same skeletal structure. What you might term antipleonasm~ edenbraytoday 

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