Captain planet

 I have seen the rising of the moon

And I have leant into the arms 

Of the sea

I have known that this life only

Is lie in a tragedy 

Captain planet he's a hero

Gonna take pollution down to

Zero

Gonna tell you this life is framed

For the murder of futures unnamed

He's gonna wave the chequered flag

He's gonna leave you to carry the bag

He's off on holiday and round the bend

And this way or that way he'll be your friend

Captain planet, I wish I knew you

And could let down my hair in a new hair do. 

A lad in the levels

 Aladdin in the levels

There was a lad who lived near the levels. This lad one day

Decided the revels had been let out on his virginia scout. So he climbed

Down the vines and onto the peat swamp

The long lines of peat excavations lay before him

Like the grave mounds of great leviathons or sea monsters from the deep

And as he wandered over them, his tired mind did sleep

And he had to lie down for some rest

Shortly after doing this atop a mass grave of peat

He dreamt he was riding upon a whales back through the sea

And the blow hole was spout water and air

Suddenly what he knew was he must go down there

And so he did, he just slid down like a spiral stair

Without the steps

and finally he landed in the whale's mouth

Well it was not much more friendly a place than before

It was damp and a little cold,

But in the corner of the cavenous chamber he saw a lamp

It was golden and shining

And so he picked it up.

A little dim patch caused his reflection to be obscured

And so he rubbed it clean

And as he did a Genie  appeared

In a puff of smoke and spin

The Genie float high above and then leaned in

Are you Aladdin?

Yes said the boy in answer to him

Well come now make a wish

And I will grant it

Aladdin thought, but spent too long for in that moment

The Whale sneezed and both were thrown out onto the rolling seas

With that the boy awoke from his sleep

And found himself nestled into a groove in the peat

Just below him some peat workers were chattin

Lucky for Aladdin he was hidden out of sight, and 

Then he saw near where he lay, a little hole made by a rabbit he would say

So he quietly crawled over and peered in

Aladdin he heard his name echo

Somewhere within

And drawn in further he leant and leant and leant until

Finally he fell head first down the peat well

If you have ever walked in peat you will know this is no light thing and 

That to fall in a sink hole can mean the death of you

So Aladdin was by now beginning to panic

He was head first in a tunnel

and he could see a rabbit but the more he tried to twist and free himself

The further down he slid until darkness seemed to overcome him

And finally he closed his eye lids

With a twitch of his nose he sneezed and awoke

He could see a little rabbit who seemed to laugh at a joke

And down in this chamber hidden deep under ground

He was stuck in the upper quarter of the ceiling of the burrow

Somehow he freed and arm and then pulled on a root

And this action brought him down without harm

But with a thump

The rabbits scattered then meekly peaked their heads out

Where am I he thought?

Am I under the swamp?

The chamber was bigg enough for him to crawl along

On his hands and knees and a strange glowing light of green

glowed from underneath the trees - their roots held some

Algae or perhaps laces of fungi

That glowed iridescent in the dark

Suddenly a glow worm spun down and said

Hello Aladdin, my name's spark

Spark showed Aladdin the way through the cave system

And into and underground wonderland

He could see sticking out of all the walls

lots of artefacts of ancient archaeology 

There were 16th century pistols used by highway men, there were 

Anglo-Saxon treasures of helmets and spears

There were Roman chariot wheels, and shields and old sandals

There were even some Roman Catholic candles

There were iron age devices and fires and stoves

And stone age pottery and glowing glass globes

There were Victorian furniture -tables and chairs

And medieval cannons and the skeletons of bears

And it was like a museum of preserved treasures of the past

But what caught Aladdin's eye was of course the last

A shining golden lamp that had something in it

So that when he gave it a tap somebody said stop it

And so he handled this lamp between his fingers

And began to polish its edges and peer under the lid

And finally he thought well thumb it, so he gave it a rub

With the rub spewed forth this ancient Genie

The Genius of the levels trapped in a bottle

Like a message he came out

Statistics

 Statistics :

It's just sex, death and money

Seaside serenade

 Because she is a sea wolf 

She will defend her litter

Because the dragon rises above

The winter sky so bitter

Because she has an assassin's eye

She can kill me dead

Just with that one killer look

I'm a fish landed, 

Caught upon her hook

It's just the sea

Is full of sharks

And a harpoonist must cry

Out to new moon evangelists

Who in the sunlight die

But my soul is a balloonist

Readying to fly

Come join me in my basket

Blast it we can only try

Orwell news

 Pennies in the hands of miners

Stocks and shares go underground

Anywhere you find shoe shiners

Liberty is lost and found

And the rainbows and the diamonds

Shining out in summer times

Can you see the Maypole flying

Colours of the flag in primes

Count me in or count me outwards

I am like the acrobat

Flying from all the high wires

 Swinging high or falling flat

Don't make roller-skates for spiders

Don't make gates for garden climes

There the blue bird waits his fate

But love and hate the church bell chimes

Singing homage to Catalonia

Keep the Aspidistra flying

I am nearly home to ya

Even though my eyes are crying

In the house of the new spring

All the white things lie

Like worms on strings

And carpet baggers

Liars will their tongues soon tie

Set them free

 Baby you'll never know

What you meant to me

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free

And baby When all is said

and done then finally you'll see

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free

There are murderers in chains

And they sway in the arms of the sea

Well all that I know is

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free

To kill a love is kindness 

But so close to this is cruelty

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free

And when the wheel turns

Then maybe you'll return to me

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free

The world now

 If in truth my death is dying

Then like a bird out the window flying

Goes the spirit of the word

Hangs the Damoclesian sword

And if in hearts 

The songs are sung

Of choosing right or wrong

That's hung

In the scales of a breathless lung

Love breathes, love is silence long

I should know their ways

Are shining

To the ever receding horizon

In the burning of a child's eye

In the breath of a mother's sigh

This world is not long for keeping

But who owns her or him in sleeping

When we sleep perchance of dreaming

That this world is soft and gleaming

Not dull and hard like knives cutting

But through stars our dreams are jutting

Pushing over far frontiers

Of clouds that drench like children's tears

Of all lost meaning in innocence drowning

Until tears turn to laughter, smiles from frowning

And in wastelands spring love's eternal waters

That soothe like a balm God's sons and daughters

Who play their parts in peace and slaughters

Oh what a world it is now