by Steve Tanham
There is a particular science
of Evil
Which draws its ghostly blood
From the bones of hatred.
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Its moment is likened to
a Ship
Strangled with strange growth
That fills the shapes of sailing
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It has learned the helm of your
Reactions
And has a blunt denial that you
Float on water
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Laden with untruth
Darkly smeared
We lie in others’ rotting water
And gaze at edges
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For only there can freshness
Dawn
Where good becomes, beyond despair
Its own baptised survivor
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©Stephen Tanham
Sun in Gemini 
Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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You speak as though you have been such a ship, Steve… I recognise the scenery too, if I am honest…
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Thank you, Jaye. The photo manipulation is a deliberate corruption of a good thing, symbolic of how evil works in the world. The background is Lake Windermere, a very beautiful place. Thank you for the reblog.
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Reblogged this on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo.
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Thank you, Sue x
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Powerful ❤
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Thank you, Alethea. These things need saying…
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Reblogged this on Not Tomatoes and commented:
A powerful poem by Steve Tanham
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You’re welcome. I quite agree.
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You are a very talented poet, Steve. I really enjoy your poems.
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Thank you, Robbie. I love it that you do.
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Powerful imagery Stevie. 🙂
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Thank you, Debbie.
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This poem is incredibly powerful! I truly got the sense of evil and the way it works. It surely spoke to me, for evil is such an insidious thing, as we have seen in some of the myths and stories we have looked at. Great work.
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Thank you, Anne. There is much evil at work in the world. We need to expose its methods the. We can all SEE it.
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That is very good thinking. What I am trying to understand is why so much random violence and evil exists today throughout the world. Is it that it runs in cycles, the governments of the world in general or what? In so many of the cases I read regularly online or in the paper, it almost seems as though the people who do these things are very mentally unbalanced. I guess what I was writing to Sue recently (still in progress) sort of deals with that when we lose those special abilities/powers we spoke of earlier, people do become unbalanced, and when they do, the world becomes a very different and frightening place. We all have a dual nature, and the scales are quite unbalanced right now.
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Thank you, Anne. There are periods of ‘breaking down’ in the larger cycles of civilisation. The ancient Hindus understood this well.
The growth of Fascism, in all its forms, is never seen from within the country or state in which it happens.
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Yes, this seems true, and while the great rulers and dictators go about building huge memorial structures to themselves and fighting so many wars to gain control over nothing in the end result, the little man plowing the fields or the woman weaving cloth silently in her home continue to survive century after century, eon after eon. They are the true strength of the world I think. The world is certainly full of things stranger than fiction.
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It is, Anne, and there’s nothing as fragile as winning…
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Thank you kindly, Steve.
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Great post! Keep it up!
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