Terry O'Leary - The Poet lyrics

THE POET'S PANEGYRIC "There's someone I knew with talent unleashed and a heart that had for so many relentlessly reached This poet sought inspiration from the living and the dead But I can tell you this about the poet who has moved me by what this poet had ever said I read the words from a comfort zone which this poet created, surrounded by friends or by foes or simply alone" His essence of soul sweeps down deserted dead streets where the thunder still crackles, the burial bell bleats He laughed at himself as a Royal Rhymester Clown but bore the black pains of those all aroun', He echoed regrets but never a grudge ... of this I'll say little... let his lines be the judge THE POET'S PEN Blind shots cry out beneath the night, a car is cruising by. A stripling's blood streams words to write ... Wry rhymes to ask us why A silly girl with child, unwed... to many, but a s*ut. The baby at her breast is dead ... Cruel couplets meant to cut A drifter, broken, cast aside, lies lifeless in the cold. Tap tattoos on a tattered hide ... Some scarlet stanzas scold Two lovers clutch a turtledove, enraptured by her coo, impaled on pangs of Ladylove ... A sultry song for two A drone of drums in distant wars beguiling bold dragoons who sell their souls like wanton who*es ... Raw rhythms writ in runes The stars ablaze, like tiger-eyes reflecting candlelight, 'lume angels singing Lullabys ... A sonnet stuns the night The soulless eyes of shackled slaves drip tears that burn and blur. Their ash, like dust, set free in graves ... Emblazing ballads stir A hurricane, foretold, unfurled, unravels mystic signs as Demons dance, destroy the World ... Limned lurid lyric lines Some die a d**h neath hangmen's hands where tainted justice reigns for ‘thou shalt k**', Revenge commands ... A quiet quatrain pains While well-to-dos ama** and flaunt And follow fashion's trends, pale children starve and die of want ... And so an epic ends THE POET'S EPITAPH His words, he strewed along the sand While breakers washed ashore The ripples wove designs unplanned ... a verse forevermore His tales, entwined in cryptic airs where freedom seeds are blown, warn Guarders of the Realm ‘beware' ... his heresy is sown His life outlined a chronicle along a lonesome road It started out as doggerel ... and ended up an ode