Journey

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I must away and on a journey go

Adrian North / 09/10/2024

I must away and on a journey goOut to where the world breathes easyFar from this muddling bustling thingI so […]

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I walk a lonely path

Adrian North / 16/03/2021

From nothing I cameAnd to nothing will I returnBetween these an eternal agony of existingBearing me onwardTowards oblivionA nobody I

Poem

A Passionate Love

Adrian North / 18/09/2020

And in this time of loneliness,My thoughts they rest on you,And then my wandering mind returnsTo everything you say and

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I Started Seeing Skeletons

Adrian North / 08/02/2017

I started seeing skeletons on the street the other dayNot clean, clinical, comical, classroom onesBut stinking, putrid corpses where rotting

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Awkward comes the day

Adrian North / 18/09/2009

Awkward comes the dayWhen we must partAnd on our lonely pathsWeary journey forth

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Our Lives

Adrian North / 18/09/2000

We are all journeyingComing from nowhereTravelling to nowhereOur sojourn we spendIn confusionWithout understandingOurselvesOr those around usWe dieAs we have livedAloneAnd

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Untitled – 2000

Adrian North / 14/09/2000

Across the plain the pilgrims comeGod’s mercy to receiveBefore them majestic liesCathedral, mystic placeMan builtA house of wonder and prayerOf

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Slow silent flows the river

Adrian North / 06/09/2000

Slow silent flows the riverPast willow, rush and grassMountain bornSnow fedAged nowSilt ladenMeandering, turgidGiving of its beingAs it passesHeading onwardsTowards

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An ending we have in darkness

Adrian North / 02/05/1992

An ending we have in darknessAnd a beginning.’Twixt theseAn emptiness of pain.