James Howden Biography

If we could make this world of ours, a safe and happy place,
If only all the nations could lovingly embrace.
Devoid of greed and corruption, where love is joyously sung,
No ageless imperfections, if all the world and love were young.
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A delicate moonbeam, dancing high, atop the star filled sky,
filters down to crimson brook, where once we use to fly.
Where night flight dancing filled the air, a bustling brook of fun,
where hearty revelry and feasting time, was had by everyone.
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To snuggle in my mothers arms, to gaze into her eyes,
to feel her soothing, gentle caress, subdue my tearful cries.
To hear her gentle voice once more, to look upon her face,
to revel in her loving grasp, cocooned in her embrace.
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Darkness covers polluted lands, where death and squalor reside,
for our eternal battle with mother earth, this apocalyptic slide.
Our constant rape of natures gifts, our technological advance,
has obliterated landscapes, proffered no second chance.
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och, tae walk again, through the winding hills;
wae the heather at ma feet.
jus tae wander roond the glens n lochs,
or tae climb auld arthurs seat.
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