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The Lightning (a poem by DH Lawrence)

by Misk Hills Mountain Rambler III

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'The Lightning' is a powerful poem by DH Lawrence, so powerful that me and 'Wailin Nick Morland' felt that we couldn't let it pass us by!
We recorded this in one take ... like lightning!
It is not a song ... it is a poem and there's some music playing ....!

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The Lightning (poem by DH Lawrence)

I felt the lurch and halt of her heart
Next my breast, where my own heart was beating;
And I laughed to feel it plunge and bound,
And strange in my blood-swept ears was the sound
Of the words I kept repeating,
Repeating with tightened arms,
and the hot blood's blindfold art.

Her breath flew warm against my neck,
Warm as a flame in the close night air;
And the sense of her clinging flesh was sweet
Where her arms and my neck's blood-surge could meet.
Holding her thus, did I care
That the black night hid her from me,
blotted out every speck?

I leaned me forward to find her lips,
And claim her utterly in a kiss,
When the lightning flew across her face,
And I saw her for the flaring space
of a second, afraid of the clips
Of my arms, inert with dread,
wilted in fear of my kiss.

I heard the thunder, and felt the rain,
And my arms fell loose, and I was dumb.
Almost I hated her, she was so good.
Hated myself, and the place, and my blood,
Which burned with rage, as I bade her come
Home,
away home, & the lightning floated forth again.

the lightning floated forth again
the lightning floated forth again
the lightning floated forth again
the lightning floated forth again

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released January 24, 2013
Misk Hills Mountain Rambler III recites the poem
Wailin Nick Morland plays guitar

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Misk Hills Mountain Rambler III Nottingham, UK

An absurdist 'Skiffle Poet' with a banjolele and a washboard . . . Bagthorpe's only 'Skiffle/Folk' protest singer . . . Adversely influenced by Ivor Cutler, Tom Waits and Johnny Dowd . . . chain sawing his way through the madness of life . . . this is NOT X-factor . . . Don't ask for a cover unless you want one thats 100 years old! There are songs about tractors, hangings, the Devil, We ... more

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