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Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 20, 2021

America: A Prophesy

What happens when the wealth is gone, is spent
Because we all buy the wrong metaphors?
We give the world democracy through wars
And live it up on what the future’s lent.

Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 2, 2021

The Limits of My Language

A single bird upon the wire
A final flickering fading fire
A white upreaching Catholic spire
And you alone all I desire

Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 6, 2021

Reborn

I am anointed by the dews that flow
From you — you raise me up,
You bring me to myself and make me know
Myself as I drink from your cup.

Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 5, 2021

Whatever Happens

Whatever happens, I’ll love you — I’ll hold
You in my heart as ore grips tightly gold.
I cannot dream a world without you — cold
Steel is the world where we would not grow old.

Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 18, 2021

Courtly Love

Oh loving troubadours, you brought us love,
The love we know, to birth — a love of death —
From fairyland and from Medieval minds
Brought modern man to life. And me, my love.

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Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 22, 2021

Why We’re Where We Are

It all began with Archduke Ferdinand.
The war that caused the Germans to send Lenin
To Russia, hoping revolution would
Take Russia from the war. It did. The cost
Was millions dead from his and Stalin’s rule.
For Germany the outcome was the same:
Defeat and retribution that would make
The…

Troy Camplin in Thyme and Time Again

Jan 19, 2021

Transcendence

Descending from the mountains, down the plain,
Into the valley, I have found a cave
To live in and to contemplate my pain
And joy, the love and strife designed to save

February 2021

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