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WMD-The SoundEven battered Even broken The people of this world Can cheer And chant and cry Tears of near-disbelief That is the sign of soundest faithWMD-The Sound
Amongst the ashes, I suddenly Delve into the history of this earth Of conflicts of violence Where the force of right Did not exist In Dubrovnik City They put these clean stones in
There was… restoration.
And that, the prospect of that, Isn’t that the sound of oppression tumbling down? The fresh bread at the feasts
The smiles of dreams beginning to be dreamt once more &n
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TMS-Make Me CleanI’ve looked into the eyes of a beautiful monster And I can’t get it out of my head. A look that just keeps looking, staring Etched on me A stain that darkens my mind’s eye.TMS-Make Me Clean
I’m down on my knees: Make me clean.
I’ve looked in the mirror And found that it’s not lying Today All the mistakes, all the blemishes Are mine this night.
I’m down on my knees Recognising again, again If it’s your will Make me clean.
I’ve looked for emotion in all the wrong places And only found tears aft
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TMS-WhenDiscovery, capture, exile Each of these have a still More potent ensuring That my thoughts turn to my martyr's death These songs I have written to explain it Accompany it, are memories Not simply those that are memories full-clear explored Yet only Then Did the thought of martyrdom beginTMS-When
Diocletian, might we say, reigns Both week and tyrannical If Babylon is Rome, then Rome is...
When When it happens Shall then my sanctity be complete? I can feel at the edge of my consciousness A new brigade of revelation Just as I shall
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TMS-I Will ComeThere's an impression of holiness on stone, unlit Unused A holiness in hidden corners To holiness, I will comeTMS-I Will Come
[The Temple of the Mass on the World Where in churches of obscure saints I am now a refugee from 'justice']
I will come as Father Paul Duré Strong of heart Sharing in the crucifixition Never accepting a cross of falsehood Only the real Lord, the real Resurrection I will come when I am as he
I will come as Father Lenar Hoyt Weak in conviction Subject to plots and ploys Though from his throne These centuries o
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| Current Projects: The Martyr's Soundtrack - optimistic, bright, grand, one man meets the Divine and travels through past, present and future to find his destiny. Currently: Act V: Sanctity, Issue #28, As Above, So Below We Must Destroy - vitriolic, bitter, torn, explosive, a demonic figure reflects the truth of society and then seeks to destroy it, trying to find justice through violence. Currently: Act V: War On Equal Footing, Issue #35, Polar Foe The New Tapestries - Fragments and lines akin to [link] written onto flipchart paper on the walls of my dwellings. Also being serialised on Twitter [link] Currently: New Tapestry II of VIII Unto (Part III - My Name Is...) - concerning the Wanderer's choice, and his former name. Currently: [link] Towards - The events that made another character from my novel, Elizabeth Green, who she is, a blend of gossipy backstabbing and literal strangulation. Currently: [link] Future Projects: The Cross of Jerusalem - poems driven by interlocking themes that drape across one another. Progress: 2 of many completed After (Part II - Sina in the City of Dreaming Spires) - the next part of After, moving ahead to Oxford in 2009 and the main character of my unreleased first novel Reason. Progress: 1200 words of many completed Collegiate - a poem written for every college and hall in Oxford. Progress: 18 of 44 completed Notwithstanding - two charity workers with haunted pasts discuss redemption. Progress: 2000 words of about 5000 completed |
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| Timothy J Swann is a writer of novels and of poems, currently working on the publishing of his first novel, The Purity Construct, as well as a host of ongoing short stories and poetic series. He admits his name is a little pretentious, but is of the opinion that it looks better on a book cover than Tim Swann, even if he's called Tim by everyone he knows. |
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- Jun 2, 2009 Numbers
- May 11, 2009 Follow Me
- Apr 28, 2009 Exams Over
- Jan 23, 2009 marvintheparanoid:status-update
- Dec 30, 2008 Ongoing, or 'What's Going On?'
- Oct 23, 2008 Ambitions and Missions
- Sep 8, 2008 But We
- Jun 20, 2008 We Believe the Time has Come (still)
- Jun 2, 2008 Laureate, Martyr, Destroyer
- Apr 16, 2008 The Cut
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i could've sworn that i did
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami
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Hey, guys, can you do me a favour? I need help translating a language.
Oh? What language is it in?
Government.
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it seems you have tons of talent with as many different projects you do
Having said that, what you say is quite a compliment and I thank you for it.
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so lemme rephrase that.. i like literature in front of me, but dont read that much on the internet
probly cus when i get online im wanting to look at photos or read factual news articles
i dont like that im like this.. id like to read more on the net but just dont
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