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A Ship of Rhythm (Poem) (Live on BBC’s Night Ride, 11th June 1969) Lyrics by Marc Bolan

Bolan At The Beeb

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[Marc Bolan reading a poem from Page 46 of his book "Warlock of Love"]
A Ship of Rhythm lit like a beacon
tossed like a ferret on the
wings of fleeing night.
Snuggled like an acorn,
Withered like a willow,
Wanded by the skycloaked founder
of precious light.
His nose was a clifftop unto me.
An ocean swelling and talking
Was lost in the lonesome lands
Of his kind hand, and he gave
To me a word to brand my being with
to wash in it's windy splendour and mellowness
and to treasure as my inheritance,
when the panther of pride beckons me,
for he knows me since a sapling
through the ink of my foolishness he's seen
and he's cared
as a father would.
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Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan

About “A Ship of Rhythm (Poem) (Live on BBC’s Night Ride, 11th June 1969)” by Marc Bolan

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