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    Visionary Scales
    Visionary Scales
    Visionary Scales
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    Visionary Scales

    By J.B. Balda

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    A cryptic collection of poems & songs
    Scribbled concisely as Time moves along
    To hope to find solace in a line or verse
    Surgical stanzas dissecting your worth
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781483605814
    Visionary Scales
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    J.B. Balda

    Born in Cambridge on the 23rd of the 9th-1979 Grew up and schooled in the land of The Ox Came of age at the Equator & the East Coast of A Also wrote rhymes in the Northern sauna of Spain Resides in a little ghost town down by the sea On the South Coast of England & lives merrily

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      Book preview

      Visionary Scales - J.B. Balda

      Copyright © 2013 by J.B. Balda.

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4836-0580-7

                      Ebook         978-1-4836-0581-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 04/26/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      Contents

      Misery Junction

      Nights of Thunder & Glass

      Shift in Consciousness

      Dna Galleons

      Circus

      Ode to a Potato

      Gun-Slinging Blues

      Magpie

      Pollen Days

      The Kestrel

      Heaven’s Daughter

      The Me Genereation

      Townie Demons

      R.O.A.D

      The Vagabond

      Disenchantment

      Home

      The Yearning

      The Thorn

      Pandora’s Lust

      Here as We Wait

      The Operatic Farse

      It’s All Lies

      The Seperatists

      In Defiance

      The Whores of the Industry

      Goodbye to Elocin

      Xmas Tarts

      Haunting Snapshots

      Saved by the Surfers

      Forget

      The Skirmish

      Utopia Falls

      W/ All My Love

      Yes She Does

      Mistress

      Demeanour

      Animalistic Folly

      State of Mind

      Sunshine Blues

      Unravel the Coils

      All She Wrote

      Days of Zara

      Neon Light Infinities

      The Voiceless Mynah Bird

      Light You Bring Me

      Wet Dreaming of Exile

      The Canvas

      Misery Junction

      Stranded at Misery Junction

      Stuck in the Traffic-jam of Boredom

      Don’t even try to talk me round

      You’re wasting your time

      I’m braking out of this Prison Cell

      The Final Curtain’s coming down

      Happy Days

      Hours of Contentment

      Early Morning Bliss

      Barred from the playground

      Detention of Silence

      Writing lines lonely

      I must not be so

      I must not be so

      I must not be so, so, so

      I must not be so

      I’ll Trade with you

      Lend you my space

      But I’ll need it back

      For The Evening may vanish

      & put everything back into its place

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      Nights of Thunder & Glass

      Last night was of Thunder & glass

      Insanity exhaled

      As the distance trawled behind us

      A journey through the sky

      Into what we all want to know

      How to linger?

      To

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