How long must I wait
For my life to begin
My patience was good
But it’s now wearing thin
I’ve asked for so little
To spare me this hell
All I want is a clear head
For me to be... – by Andy Lyle | 30 Views added 2 years ago
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I’ve walked these roads with eyes closed tight
On summers days and winters nights
Never a car nor a van saw I
Just me, the road and the cloudy... – by Andylyle1 | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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I’ve walked the roads with eyes closed tight
On summers days and winters nights
Never a car nor a van saw I
Just me, the road and the cloudy... – by Andy Lyle | 12 Views added 3 years ago
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Clay clogged boots curb my flight
From bovine monster black and white
Who thinks I'm a pancake to toss
And my life would be no great loss
But I have news for this mighty bull
My boots are heavy but I have the will
To lots more nature walks complete... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 9 years ago
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My love for you is like a river
As bubbling stream it had it's start
Slowly building up momentum
Tugging gently at my... – by Andy Lyle | 8 Views added 9 years ago
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How proud your stamen stands
With crown of pollen gold
Erupting from your petals
What beauty I behold
Your leaves upwards pointing
To your Maker in the sky
I stand transfixed oh Lily
To paint you I must try
But how to find the... – by Andy Lyle | 11 Views added 9 years ago
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Seek not help from God
He made you in his image
Go and help... – by Andy Lyle | 8 Views added 9 years ago
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The fog hugged tight the street lamp light
Like two lovers in a country lane
To be outdoors on such a night
It makes your eyes to strain
To try to make out ghostly shapes
Of flitting furtive figures
It seems beneath the fog hugged... – by Andy Lyle | 5 Views added 9 years ago
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Surrounded by people I sit here alone
Head full of empty like a nuclear zone
I watch and see nothing that I can recall
How further down can my weary self fall
I sit here in tatters trying to cope
Try to read but there's so little... – by Andy Lyle | 13 Views added 9 years ago
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Across the bridge and through the Glen
Past Mill on right, wheel stopped again
Trees are leaning on the slope
That they stay up that is my hope
Till I am past and on my way
Past bracken brown and grass like... – by Andy Lyle | 5 Views added 9 years ago
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The Banshee sang its mournful song
Upon the night time air
To take souls to the other world
Who went it didn't care
Whoever heard its dreadful wail
Would be the first to leave
But many more would follow
From the Banshee no... – by Andy Lyle | 16 Views added 9 years ago
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They toiled with hands like tree bark
As they cut through rotted peat
Stacking it in heaps to dry
Did not have to be that neat
Just so long as the Westerly's
Could dry out the peat bog water
So it could burn on winters... – by Andy Lyle | 3 Views added 9 years ago
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Dont waste time going back
To recreate that special time
It will never be the same
Keep moving forward
Creating new... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 9 years ago
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Feelings drying on the page
Written down when in a rage
Soon the mood of ink will be
Happier when you're close to me
Then the flow will freely come
Tears on page, there may be some
But the final line will say
She didn't love him... – by Andy Lyle | 3 Views added 9 years ago
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The Sun had left the horizon
Far behind when I awoke
To face another pointless day
Being destitute and broke
Got up off my friends sofa
Went and made a cup of tea
Had a look through an old paper
Just to find a place for... – by Andy Lyle | 2 Views added 9 years ago
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A ball down the line
Cannot be returned from there
Even if he... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 10 years ago
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Virgin fields and dirty road verges
Following the last snowfall
Diamond encrusted branches
Free from wildlife
Icicles racing to the ground
From frozen gutters
Webs with prism splitting drops
Hanging from fragile silk
Bending twigs ground...
– by Andy Lyle | 7 Views added 10 years ago
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What use to me is your body
If your mind is off elsewhere
What use to me are your kisses
If you really do not care
What use to me are your promises
That you don't intend to keep
I might as well get wasted
And go and fall... – by Andy Lyle | 7 Views added 10 years ago
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The magical mist hugs the valley floor conjuring up trees with no trunks, telegraph poles floating on its magic carpet waiting to be re-united with their bases when the mist eventually disperses. An eeriness is exuded by the grey white soup hanging... – by Andy Lyle | 7 Views added 10 years ago
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Mountains rushing towards the heavens
Grass so green it hurts your eyes
When the sun breaks through to light it
From the grey cloud covered sky
Sandy beaches free from clutter
Waiting at the mountains feet
Shifting with the waves that wash them
To... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 10 years ago
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I've watched the Northern Lights
And seen a shooting star
Marvelled at cloud formations
Seen lightning from afar
Heard the thunder echo
Watched a raindrop fall
Gazed at the Orange sunrise
Heard the cuckoo... – by Andy Lyle | 3 Views added 10 years ago
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His life story hangs in frames
Around the room he shares
With memories from his past
When he was without cares
Safe in his photograph cocoon
He plies from room to room
Wishing that his youth had
Not fled from him so soon
Leaving behind the fading... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 10 years ago
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I remember the smell of the polish
The hissing of steam from the pots
The songs on the radio playing
And my nose dripping with... – by Andy Lyle | 15 Views added 10 years ago
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From the Faughan river valley
To Binevenaghs mighty brow
I love these roads to travel
Wish I could tread them now
To in an instant be propelled
Landing on that grassy slope
That overlooks Magilligan strand
Would be my greatest... – by Andy Lyle | 8 Views added 10 years ago
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You see me as a rainbow
Or a cloud up in the sky
You see me on a misty morning
Or when a raindrop hits your eye
You see me when the kettle's on
Or when you wash your face
You see me on a frosty day
Making spiders webs like... – by Andy Lyle | 99 Views added 10 years ago
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Don't stop for breath between the lines
Keep reading on ,now that's just fine
Don't stop now you have got the flow
Keep reading we have far to go
First let me tell you about me
It started off when I was wee
And Mum to me a rhyme would tell
About a... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 10 years ago
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No one can see or feel the pain
That I have got inside
So great it is my agony
It seems like someone died
I think I know just who it is
And if you look into my eyes you'll see
That the person who has passed away
You're right that person was... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 10 years ago
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Don't stop for breath between the lines
Keep reading on ,now that's just fine
Don't stop now you have got the flow
Keep reading we have far to go
First let me tell you about me
It started off when I was wee
And Mum to me a rhyme would tell
About a... – by Andy Lyle | 10 Views added 10 years ago
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The horizon gives her shelter
For another night
To rest her rays and firestorms
Till dawn calls for a light
Then up again she rises
To herald in another day
With a veil of mist and fog
In the valley down our... – by Andy Lyle | 18 Views added 10 years ago
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Sound your trumpet loud oh Daffodil
So all around can hear
Cover green with golden quilt
To show that spring is here
Fill our hearts with hopes of Sun
To warm us to our core
Enrich our lives with petals gold
Heralding spring with winter... – by Andy Lyle | 9 Views added 10 years ago
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Chest tight
Eyes red
Heart pounding
Full of dread
Legs like jelly
Breathing fast
How long will
This pain last
Will it ever
Go... – by Andy Lyle | 3 Views added 10 years ago
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The day put on her twilight veil
And walked off into the night
No moon or stars to show the way
Just darkness to dull her... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 10 years ago
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Walk in the sunshine Sweetheart
Feel it warm up your clothes
Close your eyes and picture you
With sun cream on your nose
On some idyllic island
With feet on golden sand
And someone special close to you
Holding your soft hand
And once that image is... – by Andy Lyle | 3 Views added 10 years ago
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I loved you in the morning
When first I saw you there
With eyes all wide and sleepy
And your lovely ruffled hair
No make-up on your smiling face
Well I say none there was a trace
A hint of shadow above your eye
I looked at you and felt a sigh
Of how... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 10 years ago
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I often went a wandering
Through the glens at home
The trees created archways
Through which I loved to roam
Sometimes I'd be a Cowboy
Hiding from my feathered foe
I'd run until my heart raced
And I'd reached the rivers flow
Then I'd cast my shoes... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 11 years ago
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The little Church was crammed full
When my brother left this plane
A kilted piper piped him in
Then piped him out again
Abide with me it skirled out
Bringing lumps to lots of throats
And many cheeks were watered
From eyes that looked like... – by Andy Lyle | 9 Views added 11 years ago
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Virgin fields and dirty road verges
Following the last snowfall
Diamond encrusted branches
Free from wildlife
Icicles racing to the ground
From frozen gutters
Don't you just love summer
Said the... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 11 years ago
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There was another planet out there
In a Galaxy far away
Where everything was dying
As its sun had gone astray
The Elder of the planet
Knew very well of their plight
That very soon no day would come
They would have only... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 11 years ago
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Oh man what are you doing?
To our lovely Mother Earth
Polluting her streams and rivers
Giving green technology a wide... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 11 years ago
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The flowers that you sent me
Have long since gone away
Emptiness has filled their space
On my screen every day
I know not what has happened
To the sender of this gift
Was it something I might have said
That caused this awful rift
Or is it just that...
– by Andy Lyle | 24 Views added 11 years ago
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Sun please don't rise tomorrow
Or the next day if you can
As my aching heart can't face another day
Let nights cloak wrap around me
And hide me from my woes
When I lay my head to pillow
And my eyes I finally... – by Andy Lyle | 3 Views added 11 years ago
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I look into the mirror
And see my earthly guise
But I don't see anything
That I recognise
Where is the brown hair
Tinged with red
The skin an olive tan
The soulful eyes of azure blue
That made me what I am
The eyes still hold
Their hue of blue
But... – by Andy Lyle | 6 Views added 11 years ago
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Yellow ochre sun
In vermillion sky
What a lovely canvas
Pleasing to the eye
Cirrus clouds change
From grey to red
As wild birds fly
To their tree top bed
Red now changes
Back to darkened grey
As ebony night
Is on its way
There's an eerie light
From... – by Andy Lyle | 23 Views added 11 years ago
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I just want to thank you
For the way you understand
And the way that you have touched me
Though you never held my hand
I can see a bright light shining
Through the darkness of my life
Even though I have been cut
By a sharp unkindly... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 11 years ago
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Wrapped up in her own earthly plight
She traipses round on this dark night
Hoping in the shadows to find
Another fix to free her mind
From all the misery in her life
Lost loves, abuse and other strife
She is a product made by man
When he turned his... – by Andy Lyle | 4 Views added 11 years ago
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