A Word

A word Is a craft A thought launched from our mind Into the flux of invisible time A drawn out, extended Gossamer string That travels dimensions In need of no wings - Egal Bohen

Defiance II

I defy the morning rising
Though I saw the setting sun
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I defy that night is coming
Even though my day is done
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I defy all that is spoken
But seek truth, where ‘ere its from
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I defy the masses massing
Knowing not their right or wrong
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I defy all of creation
Yet I think I do belong
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I defy the very tempest
Though I know I am not strong
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I defy all life’s illusions
Yet love what they're built upon
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I defy that death will take me
It's long lonely journey on
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I defy the very moment
When all things return to one
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I defy the state of nothing
Which is why I wrote this song
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As my spirit will be fighting
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Still defiant
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On and on
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When all around
Is dressed in silence
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After every thing has
-
Gone

_
Egal Bohen

Epitaph of Man

As scattered light
Spread by the dawn
Infused in nature
We are born

As grey clouds cross
A winters sky
With silver streaked
We live and die 

As cold winds blow
The flurried snow
Into the night
So we must go

But not before 
Our time has come
To touch the earth
To feel the sun

Our colours mixed
Our brush out flung
Our canvas painted
With no plan

And yet so
 beautiful

This life
Of
Ordinary
Man

_

Egal Bohen

Bumble Bees

Bemused

Befuddled

Bumble Bees

Whose ragged wings

Say

Summers gone

Still bravely forage

On and on

Now amongst

More seeds

Than flowers

Lavender

With sleeping powers

Once yellow coats

Now beige

With hours

Of dedicated purpose

Flown

Such busy lives

They never moan

Back and forth

To and fro

Until the sun sunk orange glow

Sends them to bed

Where

No one knows

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Egal Bohen

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August 2010

Then go forward as gold that is struck by the Sun

Awareness

Of

Things

-

Learning

To See

-

Language

Installed

-

Child Life

-

Carefree

-

Interaction

-

The Lie

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Distortion

-

The Pain

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Loss of Faith

Man's Delusion

Such is life's game

-

So hold

To that Moment

You first heard your Name

The lie not yet born

The mind still unstained

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Then go forward

As gold that is struck by the Sun

-

Innocence

Blinded

--

A Life

New begun

Egal Bohen

July 2010

TRUTH

Truth dwells in many places and It travels many
Roads
Truth hides behind our faces whether we be
Saints or Rogues
Truth built the world we live in as it built a
Thousand More
Truth gave us all a conscience, to lead us to their
Doors

Egal Bohen
2010

WASP

Now
Would you help
The wasp
That flounders

-
Struggling
In the jar of rain
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Or
Would you watch
His life expire

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Never to fly
Once
Again
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Could he rest upon your finger?

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Would he sting you with His
Pain?
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If he flew
Would he tell God

-
You saved
His life

-
Whisper
Your
Name

Egal Bohen
November 2009