Silver Spun Sand Poems
Selection of Poems
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Black Willow
To know I will never see your face again ...
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Buried Treasure
...'Stones', or rather 'Neolithic tools' as his granddad had described them.
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Came the Sandman
Evening crept – liquid chocolate... dark and soft like the fur of a kitten...
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The Last Cigarette
I hid my cigarette in the fold of my coat...
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"Darkest Before Dawn" (I.P.)
He will not sleep tonight;
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"Hi Ho Silver Lining"
“...and away you go now baby; I see your sun is shining..."
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"Hi, Mum...it's me"
“You remember," I say. She doesn’t answer, but I just carry on, anyway.
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"I Am ..." I Said (I.P.)
(Edit) "Oppression can only survive through silence." Carmen de Monteflores
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"I Loves You Porgy"
“Someday I know he’s coming to call me. He’s going to hold me, so it’s going to be like dying, Porgy... but when he comes, I know I’ll have to go.” Ira Gershwin
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"In These Shoes?"
(I.P.) So! You've wound down yer winda. So there is life on Mars!
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"Long Time No Speak..."
Off he goes again – like a well-worn LP.
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"Made in Egypt"
(Inspired by a report on yesterday's 'News at Ten') No self-respecting five-star hotel, would be complete without Egyptian cotton sheets...
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"Pretty Bubbles in the Air"
I would cup my hands; capture them. Only, I can’t...
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"Prince of Desire" (I.P.)
(edit) “The lights go out and I die. Tomorrow I will be reborn. Tomorrow I will dance again.” (Rudolf Nureyev – March, 1938 - January, 1993)
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'A Map of the World' (I.P.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8WU_RRx-A Melt to the tunes of Pat Metheny; pour myself another cup of coffee...
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'After the Gold Rush'
Sleep won’t come and so I write... listen to Neil Young – golden oldies from the past, the nineteen seventies and such.
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'All Human Life is There' (I.P.)
Scratchwood; yours truly – chilling out, after a ‘hard day at the office’.
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'At the Going Down of the Sun '(I.P.)
“As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, as the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end,they remain"
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'Back to Black'
It's the little things mean most.
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'Bright, Shiny Things'
(Edit) A mere moment in time; gone in a trice...
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'Can't Let Maggie Go'
Yellow hair, spiky fringe – sententious to a fault.
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'Dish of the Day'
Toad in the Hole. Now there's a thought.
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'Finders, Keepers'
The hill – mine, plus a hundred acres of sky.
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'Goodbye' She Wrote
“The moving finger writes and having writ moves on..." Omar Khayyam
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'Happy New Year'...
It trips off our tongue. We say it to our friends...the postman the milkman...
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'Hi, Son'
It was just a matter of time, now.
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'It was a Dark and Stormy Night...'
A scarlet shawl, from shoulders soft, slipped, silent, to the ground...
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'It's Over...'
Still can’t get his text out of my head...
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'Kiss an Angel'
(Edit) She’d said to watch his hands, and his mouth...
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'Lead Us Not...' (I.P.)
I’ve lost my way...somewhere between, ‘Our Father’ and ‘Lead us not..."
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'Little Sparrow'
Mummy said not to talk to strangers...
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'Narnia'...
Our summer-house, at the end of the garden.
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'Percussion, Salt and Honey'
Satin sheets bind tangled feet, yet, no reluctant prisoner – this.
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'Pie in the Sky' (I.P.)
(Edit 12/03/2012) There’s some might say we had it made... having gone from rags to riches;
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'Proud Mary' Blues
(Edit 19/03/2011) Soon, Katrina will come...
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'Purple Haze'
Inspired by the life and lyrics of the late, great, Jimi Hendrix
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'Songs of Love and Hate'
(Edit) With more than a nod to Leonard Cohen
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'Spit 'n Polish' (I.P.)
Each evening, Cherry, as she was called, cleaned her old man’s shoes...
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'Study in Blue'
It sizzles in Soho tonight...
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( I.P.) Oxymoronically Speaking
Seriously though...only joking.
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( IP) The Last Pharaoh
As if possessed – tears at her bodice; rips apart her rose-silk gown...
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(I.P.) "Sorry for the Wait, Sir..."
So what did you say the problem was? Your washing machine won’t rinse? My ‘washing machine’ stormed out yesterday; took my cash and credit cards with her, no less.
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(I.P.) A Winter Reverie
(Edit 31/01/2011) April seems aeons away; Blooms of daffodils a-blaze. Chilly winds make one long for Drowsy dog-days...
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(I.P.) Portrait of My Father
Even a simple shopping list he could transform into a sonnet... until one night when fate intervened.
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... Presumed Dead
We used to have so much to say. Not enough hours in the day to discuss … whatever.
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A Beautiful Find
Is it because ...?
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A Beautiful Find
A walk to the bottom of my garden...
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A Coming to Terms
(Re-edit 2/12/2012) There are lessons to be learned from fallen leaves...
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A Day in the Life
An amicable divorce...he'd wanted.
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A Distant Thunder
You can’t fight evil like that with Kalashnikovs...
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A Distant Thunder
The chink of money changing hands...
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A Familiar Affair
Never have much luck with men – not for the want of trying.
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A Fear of Falling
On my back in the orchard...
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A Fine Romance
Thinks she's going half crazy ...
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A Gambian Experience
Dimpled toes court the dust ... pencils hover in mid air ...
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A Gentleman's Agreement (I.P.)
'Tell you what...I'll do you a deal..."
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A Girl Called Mattie (I.P.)
Those castles in the sand belong to yesterday...
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A Kind of Loving
Wonders where it went... the passion that was theirs.
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A Life More Ordinary
He's still a kid deep inside, acting out his Walter Mitty world.
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A Life More Than Ordinary
A mundane kind of life...
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A Love Like That
:-)
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A Man and His Dog
Just a card would have been nice, but I’ve still got last year’s in the drawer somewhere.
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A Man for All Seasons
The shiver of corkscrew curls, and the ripple of sinews...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (I.P.)
...
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A Midsummer's Daydream
Seeing as it's International Fairies Day today...
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A Moment in Time
I was ten - you were twelve...
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A Moment in Time
There are all kinds of time
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A Nice Day for It
I remember my dad staring out the window... not knowing what to do.
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A Night in Camargue
The moon called the tune...
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A Pelican in the Wilderness
Inspired by last week's I.P. Hunted as a freak she roamed the land...
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A Place Called Mattie
Beguiling – right from the start...
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A Robin on a Sprig of Holly
(edit) Just a card would have been nice.
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A Small Ceasing to Be
I don’t kid myself the world will stop because you’re not here;
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A Soldier's Prayer (I.P.)
“For Death came flying through the air..."
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A to Z
A poem born of this week's Inspiration Point.
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A Town Like Beverley
This – the leaving behind...
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A Very Fine Affair
A whisper of a dress caressed her thighs...
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A Wing and a Prayer
Though far away, my dearest love, I must see thee, one last time...
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A Winter Without Snow
A shamal blows in from the desert...
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Ab Initio
(Edit) ‘Neath a starry maple’s shade I was young, once...
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ABC for Zoologists
Seems we're all bitten by the bug;-)
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About a Boy
Down the back of the settee I found a scrap of paper;
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Affordable Housing?
Rows of terracotta roofs and miles of decking...
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After Making Love...
I defy dawn to break this reverie...
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After the Ball
Life's no fairy-tale and I'm no Cinderella.
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After the Rain (I.P.)
He and I, soporifically sated, choose our separate ways...
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After You've Gone
(Edit 30/4/2012) After you’ve gone... who shall I have to cook for..
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Air Kisses
... the concave curve of my hips - perfect bow of my lips ...
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Alicia at Number Three (I.P.)
Trees vie to give her shade... so soft and light her tread.
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Alien Shores
Like a scene from a foreign movie.
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All Done With Mirrors
I.P. 21/ll/08 Colin’s late again, for the third time this week.
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All that glitters ...
... the cross she always wore – twenty two carat; the one I bought her for her twenty-first.
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All the King's Horses
What a circus – what a show!
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All the Young Dudes (I.P.)
Heed my warning or proceed at they peril!
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Amaranthine
A branch, tapping on the window wakes me. I watch her sleeping...
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An Englishman Abroad
Over-rated things; words.
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An Incident on the Line
IP 'No one saw him fall...'
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And Silver Spun Sand (I.P.)
You didn’t stand on tiptoes... you just reached out your hand...
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And This One's for You
(Edit 25/03/2011) When I am old, and even greyer than now... finally, ‘thrown off this mortal coil’
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Angelina
‘Beat a path of retreat up them spiral staircases, past the tree of smoke past the angel with four faces begging God for mercy and weepin’ in holy places’ Bob Dylan
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Animal Quakas (I.P.)
An attempt at the I.P. A poem (of sorts) the letters E,R,N,P,Y prohibited. Difficult, or what?
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Anniversary
You stumble in... through the kitchen door –
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Another Day...
Closer to what he will become...
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Another Man's Treasure
A square peg in this dump-it-get-a-new-one age.
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April Rising
How she hated April; tore its pages from her diary.
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Ars Poetica
I intoxicate as rain drunk from a loch...
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Artist's Impression
...
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As it is in Heaven
...
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Aubade
“Children on the street, still playing their games, smiles on their faces have never changed – I hope it’s all the same, I didn’t leave in vain...” (Stephen Gately 17/3/76 - 10/10/09)
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Away With The Fairies
On the shingle they rock and they roll in rhythm to the surf’s rise and fall.
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Baby Suits Blue
How to describe what it's like to swim with jewelfish...
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Back Pages
‘Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt, somehow Ah but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.’ Bob Dylan
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Baguettes at Dawn (I.P.)
(Re-edit) Sleep won’t come, so stroll down the cafe on the front...
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Barefoot through the Bluebells
I ran my fingers through her hair ... waxed lyrical about her eyes.
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Barely Blue
(I.P.) (Re-edit) I'm writing you now, just to see if you're better.
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Barnaby Jones
And so sleep tight...
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Beaujolais Days
She always said she’d be the first to go, but he’d gone and proved her wrong.
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Beautiful Dreamer
If you but looked inside my heart therein would lie such treasure...
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Bed Six is Betty Brown
Been here three weeks or more, this one. It’s OK; she can’t hear you...
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Bees in Amber
“I wish I could remember that first day, first moment of your meeting me.” Christina Rossetti
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Before Life on Mars
Before you and me were us...
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Before the Radiotheraphy
Everything's trivial now, except this.
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Before You Walk Away...
(Edit) Look back at the house we scrimped and saved for...
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Before You Went
I wanted to tell you this was tearing me apart...
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Behind Closed Doors...
She winces...glimpses a face in the window.
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Being Thirteen
They pretend to know it all, but they don’t.
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Berceuse
Sometimes, life creeps up and taps us on the shoulder.
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Between the Lines
(Edit 24/09/09 with a thanks to Nathan) ...that duck-shaped damp patch on the wall by our bed has come back ...
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Beyond Words
'A poem of the air' such is snow...
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Black Became Her
She'd never been attracted to him sexually.
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Black Irises
How they shimmered in the evening stillness;
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Black Lace and Burgundy
Catlike, her fingers stalk the keys; Für Elise from memory. Con espressione, indeed ...
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Black Orchid
A surprising kind of plant...one might almost say ‘pervy’.
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Black Rain
If the dead can die again, they did ... (Written with the help of source material from eye-witness accounts)
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Blackberry Wine
(Edit) The berries yield to our touch...
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Blow Up
Another for the portfolio...
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Blue
Believe it or not, a true story. Driving through the countryside we spot a quaint old pub, both of us could eat a horse, so agree to stop for lunch.
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Blue Became Her
Perhaps, because it was the colour of her eyes...
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Blue on Blue
On Sundays we’d go fishing, Dad and I.
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Blue Zebras
There's nothing to equal a child's imagination.
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Bluewater Paradise...
...for some. Edited
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Boondock's Lullaby
In reverie ...
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Boxers in Yellow
Seen – from my window two hares – boxing on Easter Day.
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Boxing Day Night...
;-)
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Boy in Green Beret
...
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Boy with a Bird Tattoo
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Boy with Violin
(Edit 14/4/2012) He – my bow; such a fine length – perfectly honed.
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Boy-Blue
Current I.P. His sweetheart, she rose early, one bright and sunny morn,
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Brave New World
Night fades to morning; I hear screams – outside in my back-yard.
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Breaking the Ice
The thaw, slowly setting in...
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Breaking the Ice
The thaw slowly setting in...
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Breaking the Mould
He watches her sleeping. 'Peas in a pod', they’d been...
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Buy One Get One Free
The lather’s to die for – bubbles galore! Cost an arm and leg but sure as hell I’m worth it; Dolce Vita by Christian Dior.
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By Silver Stream
We watched the ripples grow.
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C'Est La Vie (Say the Old Folk)
It was a teenage wedding.
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California Sands...
A far cry from LA ...
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Call that Poetry
A lot of what these poets write, it makes no sense at all...
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Camomile Lawn
A gem of a morning, a sunrise to die for...
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Campari and Orange
I wish... (edit)
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Carmine Kisses
The door groans open. “Anybody there?” he calls...
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Chardonnay and Me
Beside a pond, stiller than a dream, we set our picnic basket down, she and I.
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Chef de Cuisine
His white apron, languishes on the back of the kitchen door...
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Cherries Are Not the Only Fruit
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Chessie
She didn't have a home for ten months, until I took her in.
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Chiaroscuro
Depict your contours in soft charcoal.
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- 2248 reads
Chicken Tikka for One (I.P.)
Standing at the sink, washing-up from dinner...
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Child of Mine
Just one short week since you arrived...
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Child of Our Time
(edit) I was not there when war began...
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Cider with Gramps
I don’t recall that last time I ever saw you...
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Clanger! (I.P.)
Clanger was chuffed as a dog with two tails...
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Clean, Young Englishman (I.P.)
Plus-four breeches, green, baize coat...
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Cloud (I.P.)
I’ll meet you at the bend in the river.
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Cold Comfort
Funny...how we've changed over the years.
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Cold Comfort
Time to move on now, Mrs. Jones; to cross the i’s and dot the t’s...
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Collage
Crazily it shone... that moment –
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Come Away With Me
ABC Mag IP. Let's just sleep on it. Pretend it's all been a dream.
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Come Springtime
The same unforgiving wind...
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Come Summer
All winter long I played the role of feckless youth;
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Come the Spring
(Edit) What price...progress?
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Comes the Sandman
He spoke softly to you; coaxed eyelids fall shut.
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Coming to Terms
And how I would show you the snowdrops...
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Cote d'Azur
You stripped off on the beach...
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love
His last tour of duty; scuffs the sand with his boots.
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Crazy Maybe
(Edit 10/02/2011) A winter’s afternoon, yet a May Tree by my window bursts into bloom!
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Dad, it's me (I.P.)
(Edit 19.04.2010) "All the world's a stage, and one man, in his time, plays many parts..."
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Daffodil Dawn
So many rooms we've slept in... The one in Pont Saint Pierre with a bath, bidet, but no loo;
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Dancing in the Dark
No step I couldn’t master when caught up in his arms. No other partner with whom I danced so well.
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Daphne's Dafferdills
A wry look at this week's IP. "Who needs poems ...?"
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Days Like These...
Peeling potatoes at the kitchen sink I watch him walk back down the path –
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Days like These...
‘The Chaos Theory’ personified – you and your room...
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Days of Lies and If Onlys
We got scolded when we climbed the lemon tree...
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Dead...Again
Today, I have 'died a million deaths'...
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Dear Daughter...
Don't go looking for an answer...
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Dear Diary ...
Dank, dark and drizzly this November afternoon;
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Dear Mr. Oboe Man...
(edit) ...like I'm the only one in the world unable to sleep...
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Dear Whomsoever ...
When you read this note, you'll have found my box...underneath the floorboards.
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Frank Cooper and Me
And there we are, just the two of us...
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Fridays on the Towpath
We banked on being millionaires by fourteen;
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Little Dancer
An enchanting slip of a thing...
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- 515 reads
Nine White Tulips
A midnight sky drizzles its wind like curaçao, through the lime trees...
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No Happy Returns...
...no cards, no party...
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Sliding Doors (I.P.)
8.30 a.m. on the Bedpan Line...
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Somewhere in Ypres
Curled against you in this god-forsaken ditch. (Battle of St Julien 24 April – 5 May, 1915)
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Summer Nights
Time moves at a snail's pace.
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Summer Pudding
"No...this isn’t a poem, it’s just a three-day old loaf..."
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- 667 reads
To Glimpse a Butterfly
I nicknamed her ‘Papillon’, from that very first day I saw her...
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Wild Geese
Three months, they gave you...
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- 570 reads
Zac's Garden
A red house on the hill
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A Kind of Grieving
Pour myself into gardening this morning...
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The Stars and Back
Once more tonight I drown...
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Dragonfly
Once upon a sunrise...
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Dressed to Kill
‘Made in Bangladesh’, wherever that is, the label read.
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For Silver
The time of the year when the sun sets further away...
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Four ASBOs and a Wedding (I.P.)
A blushing bride emerges up at 23A... takes the front porch steps, two at a time...
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It Usually Rains at Funerals
A tragedy, of course, the next door neighbour – only twenty-five...
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Lady April
Satin shapes sway inside her dress...
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Little Bird
(Edit) A fledgling fallen from the nest.
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Love Soup
Tonight he’ll win her heart with his haute cuisine
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Maddy by Moonlight
Her body, a geology of mountains and grottoes...
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Morning Song
We wake...me for the umpteenth time
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Not for Resuscitation
Only know me, not as the one wires me up to some machine...
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Sara Orange Tip Was Here
http://greennature.com/article2313.html 'Please, make me beautiful,' she said.
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Song of the Windflowers
After you’d gone, grieving was good they’d have me believe
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That Treasured Time
On the shores of Loch Maree
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The Games People Play
Blasted my eardrums, you two when you were kids.
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The Green Faerie
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder...perhaps.
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The Man with the Earring
There was someone, some time, somewhere.
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The Poetess
In memory of Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818 – 1895 who wrote such hymns as All Things Bright and Beautiful, Once in Royal David’s City, and There is a Green Hill Far Away....
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The Times of Our Lives
There were three of us that day... two boys, and me.
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The Times They Are A Changing (I.P.)
(Edit) We were together in so many...
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Room Five is Mrs. Jenkins
... or could be any one of us.
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Verity Jones
Her T-shirt soaking wet, I gave her mine.
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Uncle Sam
My sister said to tell on him ...
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The Matchstick Men and the Rainbow
When one's reach exceeds one's grasp
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Murder in the City
An air of death in the City this morning.
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The day I grow up ...
...I'll watch the whole of Marathon Man.
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First Frost
(Re-edited 21/04/2009) You are just a pawn in this crazy thing we call life.
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How High is the Moon
(edited, 22/09/08 with a thank you to jennifer, sunshine and Mori;-) Like schoolgirls we giggle, mad she calls me.
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To Whom It May Concern
The gift of life doesn't come fancy packaged ...
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What Kind of a Name is Penelope?
She stirred up the leaves with her white, spiky Nikes.
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Lady in Red
A family gathering – Mother’s ninety-fifth. The spirit stronger than the flesh ...
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The Woman in White
They paid their last respects – laid tulips on the freshly-dug grave of the vicar’s late wife.
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The Leaving
Caught up in a whirlwind of buying duvets and curtains, mugs, plates and bowls, electric kettles and toasters.
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My name's Marilyn. What's yours?
Looking for a good time, handsome? Barrel of laughs – that’s me. We could while a way an hour or two – three if you like.
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His Father's Son
Alexander’s never known you and yet he swears he loves you. Vows to follow in your footsteps
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Poppies and Polka-dots
Yesterday was her birthday. She looked pretty in her party dress – the satin one with polka-dots. Red always was her colour.
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The Wolves of Wakepeke
Just a late attempt at the inspiration point:-) “Can you hear the white wolves crying?” said Maranga to Kalista. “I can only hear the river,” said the young boy to his sister.
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This One's for Me
Look out, Amy Whitehouse or whoever, here I come. (edit)
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Some Other Spring
Best thing about this dump is the chestnut tree and the garden. House not up to much. Only what you’d expect of Army Barracks.
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What Makes Me Happy ...
At the end of a hard day, an easy-chair and a cold beer – a letter from a long-forgotten friend.
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Word Perfect
The path of true love ... and all that.
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- 2380 reads
Moonchild
Our pilgrimage, this - our last ditch attempt as if, by some miracle, this would make you well again.
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Evening in Paris
I used to ask her where she went most every night. “To see a man about a dog,” was always her reply
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I remember ...
The way the wine dribbled down the bottle and you wiped it with your hand – licked your fingers as it drizzled down your chin
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In Another Life
“There is a better place,” she says. Tells me it’s my call. Up to me to decide where that will be.
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Glory Days
In those hungry years when we were young we had nothing.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Incidentally, so sorry I’ve wrecked your Christmas. A lot more attractive things you could be doing on Christmas Eve.
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The Gift
Almost the hardest thing I’ve ever done, was surviving last Christmas.
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- 2800 reads
The Square on the Hypotenuse
He stares, blindly, through the window. “Good morning, Mr. Reeves,” say the children ...
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Sweet Charity
She’s only here to shelter from the rain. So am I, if the truth be known.
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Holcombe - the last time
‘Must be in my second childhood,’ the old man mused, as he watched her chase the waves ...
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Just This ...
(edited) Went for a walk in the snow today ...
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The Man Next Door
Strange thing - that sixth sense of ours.
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I Could Have Written A Book About ...
IP. Some things about me ... as seen through the eyes of another.
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The Others
All that breathes – moves – quakes, quickly darts for cover.
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Girl Watching Goldfish
Her world, so different from theirs and yet in some ways, much the same …
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She Was ...
At the end of the day, we are the things we love ... I guess. (Edit, with thanks to Jennifer)
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Ever So Slightly Mad
'Abba had nothing on my dancing queen ...'
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Esher Girls
He makes great coffee, so ... can I complain?
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Southwold Revisited (The Sound of the Sea)
A walk on the pier in the pouring rain, not her best idea.
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- 5755 reads
The Stuff of Dreams
What had rekindled this passion – long-since smouldering, to suddenly spring alive?
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Things My Daughter Taught Me
Taught me ... I wouldn't be remembered for how clean my floor was. (edit)
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Going For a Song ...
This week's IP (30 words)
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The Beat Goes On ...
Scrawled-on stairwells resound to a sweet discordant euphony of climactic ecstasies.
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Some Enchanted Evening
... a posh cocktail affair.
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- 2379 reads
Thicker than Water
Never told you this, but often, as a kid, I hated you.
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Smoke and Mirrors
"Monsters aren't real." Mummy says.
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Letting Go
Let the violets go you once pinned in my hair ...
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The Crow and I
I am no vegetable ...
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- 11 comments
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Today I wrote a poem
Times change, sometimes for the better.
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Paradise Found
A bed and a table, a lamp and a chair; not much of a room ... except heaven is there.
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For Whom the Cicada Sings
“I ask you. What finer way to die than as a hero?"
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Phoning Home
He was in the garden – digging, according to her, and I could picture him...
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Me, and Her with the Piercings
(edit) ...we didn’t want the night to end... to slip through our fingers like a dream –
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Driving Great Aunt Maisie
We'd already done 'I Spy' to death...
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Sweet Emmaline
Life...ain't no bowl of cherries.
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Tomorrow's Children
In an infinite universe, anything is possible.
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How It Is
He was posted to Basra.
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- 5252 reads
The Beautician's Day Off
A flimsy curtain screen all that’s between them and their dignity...
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Roundabouts and Roses
At the far-end of the bypass, opposite the garage you’ll find it...
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- 4155 reads
The Trouble with Grace
We couldn’t help ourselves, even though we knew where it would end.
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No Poem
There is nothing I can write
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- 14 comments
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- 3325 reads
Picture at an Exhibition
A T-shirt that said, 'Save Our Seals'.
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- 11 comments
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- 3757 reads
Requiem For a Friend
(edit 06/01/2010) We were both typists and jive-crazy.
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- 7097 reads
His Father's Eyes
He stirs; grabs at life with all ten fingers...
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Requital
Life is a gift...they told me
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- 9 comments
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Lines in the Sand
For my sixth birthday I wanted a doll; instead they gave me a rifle...
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- 18 comments
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Justifiable Suicide
Odd - the things that come to mind sometimes.
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Paper, Scissors, Rock
Current IP. They snatched the scissors away...Nothing sharp permitted here, not in this place.
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Hotel Paradiso
(edit) They dine on langoustine – say how good it’s been to mingle with the natives.
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The Passing of Aunt Maud
(Current I.P.) The biggest bonus of being old, one doesn’t lose sleep over niceties.
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Tonight Josephine...
Current I.P. In retrospect, posing nude, not that much of a deal.
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Gnome Truths
Current I.P. Cast your mind back, if you can, to nineteen-fifty-five...
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The Fallen
(edit) "A barbed-wire fence, no deterrent...
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Monday Afternoon...
(An edit and retitle) She whispers she hear hears something outside. So do I...
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Saved by the Bell
Current I.P. "Keys that enchanted, perplexed, excited...
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Shades of Blue
I christened him ‘Blue’, the man with the Tesco carrier-bags.
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One Enchanted Evening...
Deprived of their TV – instead they chat of galaxies, giant-reds, black holes...
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Lear in a Nutshell
Current I.P. ;-)
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Picture This
(edit) A rainy afternoon...flicking through an album
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Hey Joe...
So, label me a whore, Joe... feed the gossip, fuel the lies!
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Last Orders
Current I.P. I’ m waiting for the owner of this god-forsaken dive to call time...
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Read All About It
Current I.P. (Edit, with thanks to Ewan) My dream; to see my name in print.
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How's Frank?
'Frank died...Don't you remember?'
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Santa's Lament
The commotion awoke the whole family – the kerfuffle and hullabaloo...
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Winter Solstice...
(edit 22/12/09) December 21st...as seen from my window this morning
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Madame Butterfly
"Like the tattoo," I say...
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She Always Did That...
(edit) She had such nice hands...
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In Retrospect
One snowflake, so fragile, but by sticking together, they can bring a country to its knees.
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Killing Me Softly
Much too old for Ring-a-Roses; not old enough to go proposing.
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Happy Divorce Day!
Who am I to shake the tree?
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Hear No Evil (I.P.)
The workmen couldn't get on her nerves no more.
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The Fortune-Teller
Your body speaks to me...
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Her Legacy (I. P.)
"Spend it like there'll be no tomorrow..."
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Losing One's Marbles
Memories – elusive things. Where do they hide when they escape us? (Edited;-)
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Waltzing Matilda
(edited, with thanks to kheldar;-) ...bunches of forget-me-nots festoon the old, oak rafters.
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Name's Roxanne (I.P.)
Window shopping, are we, handsome?
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For the Love of Her
Thus, our pilgrimage; friends and family...
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The Silence of the Summit (I.P.)
Avalanche risk was high; only, I’ve always courted danger...
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Myth of Narcissus
...I grow impatient for spring.
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Every Little Thing (I.P.)
"Twins, separated at birth," we joked...
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Girl with Cello
She, who came in from the wind and drifting snow.
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The Moon and Back
Edit (22/3/2010) Thought I’d experiment. Take a stab at the moon; hoped you wouldn’t mind.
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Only the Flowers Grow Wild
(Edit) 'Everyone bombs us now,' he says.
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Unrequited
The night you left...
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Sweet Nothings
Can't recall the things we spoke about...
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Freeze Frame (I.P.)
Good as dead – long before I hit the water.
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The Tender Buds of April
A flower, in all its splendour, finally opens...
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Sweet Caroline
Don’t make me wait with bated breath to feel that thrill of flesh on flesh...
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Fear of Falling
The fallen; easily forgotten.
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Golden Delicious
(Edit 29.04.2010) A tree that grew outside their kitchen window...
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Goodbye to April
(Edit 1.05.2010) She rocks to sleep as the chair sings its own, sweet elegy to the passing of time.
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Vissi d'Arte
(Edit 7.05.2010) Bankside - Tate Modern...
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Saving Gracie (I.P.)
A saint, they called him, and to some, he was...
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Once More with Feeling
...fumble for our cosy, towelling robes...
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Homemade (I.P.)
"Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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Reclining Nude
A model, draped over a green baize settee;
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One Man's Junk (I.P.)
...another's treasure.
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Milk or Lemon?
A pleasant reunion; thanks to ‘Friends Reunited’. We chat of this and that; she serves afternoon tea..
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Going Down to the Sea Again
...the boarding of a train on our yearly pilgrimage to Broadstairs.
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Holly Blue
(Edit) Your dignity defiled...
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Summer Evenings like These...
...the chatter of martins, sitting, gossiping on the wire.
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Rose
"Who needed men?" she'd asked a friend.
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Since You Arrived...
'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings...' or so it was written.
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The River that Drowned (I.P.)
(Edit 15/6/2010) ...inspired by China's "Three Gorges Dam Project" http://www.flickr.com/photos/wicks/3488452739/
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Frankie Goes to Summer Camp (I.P.)
“On far-off fields, by elm and oak, I see the lights. The Camp-fires of the Past are burning.” Henry Van Dyke ‘Indian Summer’
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Girl with Blue Eyes
(Edit 4.07.2010) She never missed a trick...
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Postcard from Mumbai
Those few precious lines are part of the ether now...
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Solveig's Song
(Edit 6.8.2010) Through an open window wafts a melody by Grieg.
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Zoe's Garden
Her hands shake more of late...bending down a painful process...
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Wish You Were Here? (I.P.)
(Edit) A honeymoon story in 60 words...and they're all true!
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Maryam's Story
Her makeshift shelter swept away...
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Impasse
You know you need help, but who to turn to?
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Who'll Pay the Piper?
“Piper Alpha...one hundred and sixty-four missing...”
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Sepia Days
A fleeting smile of recognition...
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Watching Emily Play...(I.P.)
as she danced amongst the bluebells...
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Have to Laugh - Don't You?
(Edit) “Don’t worry,” the medics advised... it’s not life-shortening.”
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Woman
On tacky, lino floor, huddled in a corner...
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Penelope Fairchild
She prays to a god of the copper, or silver kind...
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Paper Dreams
(Edit) Put the paper napkins in a drawer, now summer is done.
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The Cherry Tree (I.P.)
“How you shiver, Cherry Blossom! Let me warm you with my kisses..."
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Fish With Everything! (I.P.)
Shack up with a Sunfish, have yourself some fun, fish...
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Whiteout! (I.P.)
...
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I Bring You Roses...
You stare at your knife and fork...
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Up to Here with the Weather ... (I.P.)
(edit) and up to here with you...
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Past Imperfect
(Edit 8/12/2010) "I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide." (Edna St Vincent Millay)
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Sweet and Low
His body – comforting as I climb in, between the sheets...
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I Crave to Save and yet...(I.P.)
Of some things, a hot-blooded girl like me can never get enough.
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Winter's Garden
A midnight walk last evening...
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Too Cold for Snow
Too young, as I was then, to know the true meaning of love...
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Fergal's Wake
Now you're gone, what am I left with?
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Girl, Painting...
(Re-edit 28/12/2010) Close my eyes – I can almost see her ...
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Oyster Bay
There’s a place I once knew called Oyster Bay – I went there one day in my mind...
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If...
If you were sent to Neptune, I’d hire a rocket-ship...
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Saskia's Song
(Edit 8/1/2011) Sepia memories...
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Wild Child
Thirty-one, seemed over the hill...in those days.
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Lights...Camera...Action (I.P.)
(Edit 10/1/2011) Couldn’t eat a thing; my hands atremble – throat, dry as the Sahara.
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No Name Joe
He’d call me ‘his Lily Rose’...
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Had it With You!
And, I’ve had your babies, vacuumed your floors...
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For Better For Worse
Cusses to herself, does Judy. Silently she weeps, but not for him.
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Postcard Home
how it came undone... that knitted swimsuit I wore
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Woman of Small Histories
(edit 28/01/2011) She was a hoarder of poems of diaries, letters and cards from husbands, lovers and friends...
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School's Out Down Gas House Lane
Kids swarm like flies to the sweet shop round the corner. “Two at a time,” or so the notice says.
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Samantha
“You see I’ve forgotten if they’re green or they’re blue, anyway...the thing is what I really mean – yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen...” Bernie Taupin
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Just Supposing...
You’ve passed on – gone to heaven; you could be anything you wanted.
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Seven for the Seven Stars in the Sky (IP)
For once, the guns were quiet. He lay on his back, counting the planets and constellations.
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One is One, and All Alone (IP)
(Edit 8/02/2011) Fog comes down, thick and fast, up here, in the churchyard on the moor.
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You Know That Feeling...
You’re exhausted; you’d give anything for sleep.
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That Beautiful Game
Ended up outside Craven Cottage; no Lillywhites that night.
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Until Tomorrow...
(Edit 18/02/2011) Is it such a crime to be old? I have lost the power of speech, but not my mind.
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Truth and Lies
It was all so easy then.
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Lake of Sighs
(edit and repost) Thunder brewed in threatening skies; a violent squall – their boat capsized, and boy and girl were lost from sight...
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Wild Blows the Willow
Spring comes and it goes...
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Sunny
Don’t play me no blues no more
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His Sweet Muse
Through a crack in the door he sees her...
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Old What's His Name...
‘I Am the New Jesus’ written on his T-shirt
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Grandpa's Funeral...
Funny, how no one ever told me – not outright, Gramps was dead.
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The Tiger and the Fly
As the canvas sings its own sweet elegy to a masterpiece...
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Sundays at Six...
You have left me...already, yet still, I kiss you goodbye.
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Ring Around the Moon
"The end of the world is nigh and all of us is doomed..."
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Just Another Sunday...
Nothing more I could want – right now, but right this moment.
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Silly...I Know
I dreamt of him, again last night.
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Girl with the Gypsy Earring
She deseeds juicy, plum tomatoes...
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Just Another Poem (I.P.)
I am but a string of words
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On Hollyhock Hill...
As a woman, I have learned all there is to know about waiting...
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Once Upon a Time
There was a time your goldfish were mine, too...
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Monday's Child (I.P.)
Occasions such as these, I wish to god, I’d been born on a Tuesday...
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The Long and the Short of it
He’s had a full life, and a good one...
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Present Imperfect
"How many light years to heaven?"
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The Line of Beauty
Separation does not wait its hour.
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In Reverie...
Now I am content; paint-brush on its rest.
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Resurrection of a Kind (I.P.)
Do not look for me amongst the cold and mossy stones...
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The Widow Next Door
This week, I'm reading her Jane Eyre.
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Rising Five
...young enough to play 'Oranges and Lemons'...
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Something in the Air
A kind of longing in the air today.
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Poetry in Motion (I.P.)
bronze, be her body, un a reet dazzlin sheen...
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You Know How It Is...
You hear a fragment of a tune...
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Let's Start Again...
Competition entry
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I'd Die for a Cherry... (I.P.)
Give anything to taste a luscious, ripe morello...
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With Her Without Her
Manic sounds of frenzied packing...
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General Knowledge (I.P.)
“Thou knowest all; I sit and wait with blinded eyes and hands that fail..."
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On Making Fruit Salad
It’s moments like these, I ache to realise my wildest fantasies...
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Those Were the Days...
There were squeaky wooden-gates between backyards and alleyways...
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The Kiss (I.P.)
Not the way she closed her eyes sipping her wine...
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Edith
Sad songs she sings... sad, like she was.
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Jessie's Garden
The swing-seat’s still there; I can hear you now – chiding me for rocking it...
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Let's Start Again?
No – this isn’t a poem...
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Gymnopédie (I.P.)
Like going back in time, when I heard that tune today.
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Minutiae
Little things mean a lot.
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Making Love
Their bedroom door ajar, I catch my breath...
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Pretty Flamingo
‘Crimson dress that clings so tight...'
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- 9 comments
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Summer Solstice
The lush of the meadow murmurs morning prayers...
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Killing Time
(Edit 24/6/2011) After he...left, they told me – ‘Keep occupied...start writing...
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Grace
The essence of you, still lingers in this room...
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Summer ...the First Time
Breathless, one summer, at the top of a hill...
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Somewhere in Madison County...
How many trysts, made and broken here...
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Homespun
Like a quilt of many colours...
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Say It Isn't So
...or at the very best, help me to forget...
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Now She is Six...
She's an expert in cat-speak...
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Going for Silver
Her lips met mine...not an ordinary kiss
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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
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Telling it Like it is...(I.P.)
Spring never ever came that year - the year he left...
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No Fairytale (I.P.)
A mix, she was - somewhere between an angel and a nymph...
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Peace in Our Time
I remember a clanky, Mobo scooter...
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Lady in a Chinese Restaurant
People-watching; my favourite occupation.
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Tired of Counting Sheep...
Five a.m. Looking out my window;
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Impossibly Yellow
Dedicated to the memory of Andrea Parker MA (02.08.1968 - 31.12.2007) ‘Celebrate my life – don’t mourn the life that I had not’
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Three and the Quarters...
My son rides high upon my shoulders... hacking our way through jungle.
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The Lavender Chair
She outbid me at an auction that morning.
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No Bouquet for Rose
Just a line to say I miss you...
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The Green Wheelbarrow (IP)
Why not Carlos Williams’ red one?
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Oranges and Lemons...
Tottenham born and bred, the terrible events of the past few days have been difficult for me to try to come to terms with.
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Poppy
Almost as if you had never been away – there you are.
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Once Upon Perseids...
One of those evenings you can hear the stars sing.
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The Art of Art
'Vissi d'Arte'
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Only Fools...And Roses
He lays six, crimson roses, growing wild, at the side of the road...
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Just Killing Time
'To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens.' (Ecclesiastes 3)
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In Another Life...(IP)
I'd dare to do things differently...
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In Shady Cloisters (IP)
Resigned to history, its Art Deco, stained glass windows.
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Small Wonder
The cord – cut, but the bond firmly tied.
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Rose By Any Other Name
All she has - theirs, when she's gone.
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Strange Places (IP)
Her mother seeks her out – but not in her bed, for she seldom sleeps there...
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Object of Desire
One kilo sells for a least thirteen hundred pounds.
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Midnight Sun
'Heaven's where you are'...I guess.
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The Days of Maggie Spencer
Pouring bleach down the toilet, her mind goes back to how she’d got there...
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The Unbelievable (I.P.)
I am that voice in your head...
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The Colour Blue
A decade on...
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On Believing the Unbelievable...(IP)
Yesterday – too much to take in...a bad dream... if not for this.
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Freedom Is
A seven letter word, begins with 'F'...
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Room Eight's the Geordie
At just fifteen - sent down the pit to earn his keep.
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Of Ghost Shrimps and Things (IP)
Death - less than a breath away...
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Just Jade
(Edit) I'd ask him who Jade was, but he'd never reply.
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Mea Culpa
Do you know what? Undressing you’s more like undoing a sack of potatoes!
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Year of the Rabbit
Reluctant partners in this, yet to come to terms with, death thing.
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Hey - Joe
You got me purring, now, Joe. Vibrato always gets me going...
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Girls Like Me
I don’t know what it was; the age-gap thing, perhaps...
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Piano Man
I can read your mind through those pianist’s fingers of yours. You can’t keep secrets from me.
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Like a Sentry it Stood...(I.P.)
At the end of a long, dark hall – a grandfather clock.
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The One Called Dulcie
(Re-edit 7/10/2011) What colour - Mother's bouquet? I'd ask her myself, but that's another story.
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Ivy Rose
She dies, a little, every day...
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When Words are not Enough (I.P.)
(Edit 9.10.2011) For the past twenty years, she’d grown tired – weary of all who’d come with words; words, but no language.
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Quantum Physics and Other Trivia
And so you sit, having a stab at Einstein, God and the Tories...
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Of Mattie and a Mountain
Coming down, far harder than going up.
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Shush...
Her fingers speak of places I've not been...
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Mood Indigo...
If Autumn were a tune
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Dolly After Dark
Flying high - that's where she is...
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The Lemon Grower's Wife
(Edit 20/10/2011) How was he to know she was unhappy?
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On Putting the Clocks Back
Today, I saw swans tilt towards the south.
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This Eden
I crave that certain stillness...
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The Pumpkin Eater
‘Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn’t keep her. Put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her, very well.’
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Salut D'Amour
Demure – she sits, as her music sucks me in.
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Just Before You Go...
“If today was not an endless highway If tonight was not a crooked trail If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time Then lonesome would mean nothing To you at all...” Bob Dylan
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Ticket to Ride
I fell asleep – head on your lap on a bench at the station...
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Done with Counting Sheep
(Edit) Tonight – the silence, almost tangible.
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On Wings of a Song
Like a zephyr in the breeze, a thread of a tune wafts my way.
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On Entering...
Silly, I know, but I half expected to see her...
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Love in a Cold Climate
Strange...I acquired no taste for olives; she adored them, she said.
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Seven Fishes in a Pond
We had it all, then; ‘the world – our oyster’
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Lady in White
A lone, white hood, bowed in prayer...
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Visiting Hour
“Tell me – do you believe in reincarnation?” she asks.
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Nothing Good about Goodbye
I kidded myself if I said goodbye, then...when it came to the crunch it wouldn’t hurt as much.
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Growing Pains
Love-struck, we were in those days.
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Something about Sophie
‘Only something in your eye. I’ll have it out in a jiff,’ he’d tried to reassure her.
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Oh, What a Lovely War!
Said my prayers every night but still war came; and cravings for bananas and a dad who went away.
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Lily May
You in your jeans and waxed jacket, up to your armpits in mud...
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Pumpkin and Me
As good as it gets...
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Snake with Ruby Eyes
I’m just a helper... come and work here when I can.
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Winter Solstice
This year is dying – let us welcome in the next.
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The Long Way Home
I knelt down...the soil, damp and peaty.
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The Fragility of Porcelain
“So, what was she like? Your first wife?” I ask him.
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Fated Attraction
“Come inside, why don’t you? You’ll catch your death out there. Can I tempt you with a promise of food and wine to share?"
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The Vanilla Room
In the vanilla room incense burns low...
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Feathers and Fandangos
Eventually, I knew not to ask about the frogs – sat on lily-pads on a scarf she’d knitted for me.
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Only Remember
I ask for no memorial no headstone, tomb, or tree for all are finite, in their time, no – these are not for me.
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Guns and Roses
Blind since birth, he paints flowers...
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No Fairytale, This
(Black shoe - prawn sandwich competition...as inspired by a piece in the national press) 5.00 a.m. – Heathrow, Terminal 3, eerily quiet;
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Forever Eden
You showed up at my front-door; thrust a bunch of chrysanths at me.
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Of Men, Mice and Marmosets
Even though Mr. Kablinski had been around for longer than most people would care to remember, he’d always had an air of mystery about him...
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Saffron and White Sugar
Tehran’s smog crept inside my lungs, pressed like lead on my chest
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Other People's Lives (I.P.)
A kind of sombreness about the place... sensed the moment we turned the key.
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Moving Day
Time to pack up – moving on as one does...
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More than Words
He insisted I listen hard, for he’d secrets to tell, and yet, so much I already knew.
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Yesterday's Sky
Blue Moon – he chose; roses from my love...
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Hide and Seek
'Coming ready or not!’ she’d yell. You used to say she was a cheat for going too fast.
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The View from Here...
I travel back to that place they call 'childhood'...
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The Woman in the Street (I.P.)
(Edit 26/1/2012) Inspired by Margaret Atwoods dystopian 'Handmaid's Tale'.
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Saying it with Flowers
‘Something came up. Really sorry, my sweet...’
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The Muse and the Poet
(Edit 6/02/2012) The very essence of you lingers – a heady mix of sandalwood and pine.
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That'll be Ben
The hall light’s still on... a noise wakes me.
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Things to Do
Change the sheets. Feed the Cat...
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The Poppy Man
I tell him the widow next door, died last June. ‘I know,’ he tells me..
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If Love Were Banned...(I.P.)
Where would all the lovebirds go?
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The Girl Next Door
She sat, skinning a lemon; spying, as I was, through a hole in the fence.
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Terms of Endearment
You lived in me, and I in you.
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The Folly and The Ivy (I.P.)
His torso stiffens as a sickle moon rises...
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The Art of Letting Go
How could I have known?
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The Day I Scaled the North Face of the Eiger
I remember the elation, still...
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The Spinster, Late of this Parish
(Edit 23/2/2012) Light green crocodile skin – her handbag, from an age of Greta Garbo
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Storm
Through it all, she sleeps; her breath falls, soft, upon my cheek...
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The Nature of the Beast
OK, so I’m drinking too much, and smoking way too many cigarettes
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Rocket Science it was Not
Sometimes Sunday lunch is more than just Sunday lunch.
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The Thing about Dubai
Before shopping malls, and seven-star hotels...
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Of Moths and of Men (I.P.)
Boring as hell, staring at him, staring at it
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Homer...and all that Jazz
I lay with her in her room...
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Rustle of Spring
Will Spring, famously shy to a fault, hide in March’s billowing skirts...
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These Foolish Things
The attic room; how it smelled of musk, patchouli and you...
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The Beautiful Game
White Hart Lane, My dad and me.
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On Golden Pond
Star-gazing...again.
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The Dog with the Luminous Nose (I.P.)
He sometimes got lonely and longed for a mate but his back legs were made out of spatulas and he had no illusions – accepted his fate. There were worse things than being a bachelor.
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Seen From a Window
Her eyes, almost meet mine, almost every time...
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Journeys
‘We cannot reach you,’ they said. ‘Where do you go inside that head of yours?'
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‘Les Amoureux en Gris’
After a painting by Marc Chagall, 1959 http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/Les-Amoureux-en-Gris-161694.html
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My Girl Friday (I.P.)
Funny – the way they say, ‘you don’t miss what you’ve never had’...
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Nice Day for It
I remember how Mum fought like a tiger when it was her turn...
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Try to Tell Myself...
Yet, who am I trying to kid?
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Poem for a Granddaughter
You’re hell-bent on travelling half-way round the world, on this gap-year thing – I can see it in your eyes.
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This Started Out a Love Song...
Until the love song started to grow stale... its hair – turn grey.
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On Putting the Clocks Forward
She sleeps beside me; her back – curled against the morning...
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No Bowl of Cherries
Nevertheless, we have much to be thankful for...
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Now Blossoms the Magnolia (I.P.)
I wish you could see it...
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The Man with the Fish Tattoo
She knew all she meant to him was ‘his bit on the side’...
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The Strife of Brian
(Edit) Harking back, of course, to 1979; dear old Monty Python and all, if your memory stretches that far.
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Lady at the Piano
Her pizzazz had got up and gone, but her sostenuto – wistful...
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Silent Witness
Queenie won’t be needing no milk... not this morning.
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No One Can Ever Love You Like I Do (I.P.)
I’m bleeding...but only a little, and after all, they do say love’s supposed to hurt
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Lark Rise Over the Ridge
At his head, I lay wallflowers from my garden...
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The Art of Dying
You taught me right from wrong... the difference between a butterfly and a moth...
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The Woman in the Street
Soho steams tonight...
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Small Joys
It's always the little things in life mean most.
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Requital
Looked back at the house you painted, all those years ago...
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Tomorrow's Child
May you never prime the guns of war...
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From Mattie with Love
(Edit 4/05/2012) Naked...all except her Chinese silk kimono
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Lilac Wine
We got high on lilac wine and sunshine...
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My Mother Myself
Your bedsores sting me a million times more than they hurt you,
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L'Atelier Saint-Germain
Greying auburn hair – set ablaze by late evening sunshine
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No Lilies for Sophie
Tomorrow was all she ever asked for.
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Still Life
After you went, 'Find yourself a hobby,' they said.
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Journeys
Seeing her off at the airport...
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Since He's Been Gone...
(Edit 19/5/2012) Love manifests itself in many ways;-)
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If They Ask Where I'm From
I tell them I am come from lamplighters, and chimney sweeps... usherettes that sold ice-creams, and ladies that ‘did’...
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Sons and Brothers
I ask, “What was Father really like? You know,” I say, “Man to man.”
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Where is the Love?
(Edit 3/06/12) Sapper Jones – his first tour of duty
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Girl with Pitcher
Somewhere between the sleeping and the waking...
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Nothing but Pearls
You ask me come swim with you...
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The End of the Affair
I spent all afternoon amongst the ‘living things’...
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Etude for Elise
I would watch her through my window of an afternoon...
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Jesamine in June
Rushes inside to show him her find...
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L'Art Pour L'Art
“Any man who doesn’t have his inner world to translate is not an artist.” Theophile Gautier
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Summer Storm
So much rain and still it rains;
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In Loving Memory
On his lips, an almost smile...
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Girl on a Train
In my reverie... she was an angel fallen from grace
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Of a Summer Solstice
It is hard to see beauty without you around
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The Intruders
The door, all-but hanging off its hinges...
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End of Story
Being born too soon... his only misdemeanour.
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In Praise of the Pigeon (I.P.)
With pizzicato feet they peck about
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Son et Lumière
The cold, and the death, chill his bones...
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Thrice Caws the Crow
Realistically speaking, I’m for the knackers yard, shortly, so why waste money keeping me alive?
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Kicking It ( I.P.)
For once in our lives we agree. Yes, it is ‘a frigging filthy habit’, but I’m not entirely to blame.
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My Girl Friday
Four iced buns she buys; comes here every week.
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Just How High the Moon
How high is high?
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Man with the Sapphire Eyes
I watch him half-smile in his sleep...
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Picture Imperfect
Close my eyes and I can see you...
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Pie in the Sky
I’d be a vet when I grew up – him – a pilot like his dad.
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The Beyondness of Things
...
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The Lady in Bed Six
People drifted in and out... smoothing sheets –
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The Leaving
I’d not considered what it would be like – the leaving.
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Road to Nowhere
Not a night for driving to any place, or worst still, away.
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This is Him...
Coaxing laidback, Sunday morning bluegrass from his guitar
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The Seamstress
The TV flickers mindlessly on; repeat after repeat, but she wouldn’t notice.
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The Boy Next Door
I used to think he never washed, and how I envied him.
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Nimbus Stratus (I.P.)
The sky – leaden, and an easterly blows chill
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Odd Job Joe
(Edit) His touch...rough and ready.
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Great Aunt Zelda
Afternoons, I’d climb on her bed, brush her hair...
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Flo's Flutter
“Eyes down, and we’re ready to roll!”
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Mea Culpa
At first light I go outside to feed the ducks...wild mallards but they come here every year
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Nine White Tulips...
a vase – shimmers liquid silver by the bed
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Standing Stones
I write songs in my head about ‘happy ever afters’.
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Season of Mists...
Days like these I want to be seventeen again...
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Ode to an Austin A40 Somerset
All hail to thee – blessed car; you served us well...
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Equinox
Summer turned to autumn all too soon...
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Girl at the Piano
I’d watch her from my window – the girl across the street
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That's What I Call Poetry
National Poetry Day today. Hence this little ditty. A shrinking violet I am not, so I’ll get this off my chest...
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Hey...You! (I.P.)
Listen, if you will; hear the lapwing sing
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On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Custom dictates the maid close the drapes, this dull, rainy morning in Leamington Spa.
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Holly-Blue
Cradled in the palm of my hand – you, slightly out of focus
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Reasons
Seems like a lifetime ago now...
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Softly Chimes the Bell...
In the corner of the kitchen a little boy...
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The Opaqueness of Glass
It’s been almost three years...
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Sophie's Choice
Found a parcel in the kitchen, on the table, tied with string,
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The One
He was a smoky dance-floor... the razzamatazz of a Saturday night...
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Lonely Planet
My dearest Ashley... not sure where you are
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Looking After A & E... (IP)
Note to self
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Girl with a Silver Tongue
Apollinaire, wasn’t it, who said, ‘Memories are hunting horns, whose sound dies on the wind’?
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Despatches
A poem inspired by a remarkable young lady, who just happened to be my daughter.
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Mightier than the Sword! (I.P.)
What fun you could have being small, if you were just two inches tall;
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You have to Laugh...Don't You?
"Wretched whatchamacallit, darned Parkinson’s thing!"
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I Believe in Angels
'...something good in everything I see...'
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Saying it with Pearls
Deep inside her, something burns – a searing, white heat...
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Monopoly
In winter we played that game a lot, after tea on Sundays;
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Sabita's Story
Through the brutal debris of theirs’ and other people’s lives – she wades, waist deep,
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November Geese
7.15 a.m. – not long to sunrise...
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The Eye of the Beholder (I.P.)
She was no artist, or so she maintained.
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When We Were Six
The first and only time you were six, you recall being five...
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The Upstair's Maid
Custom dictates I close all the drapes...
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Japanese Crane
‘Freedom,’ it begs,” she said.
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One is One and All Alone
...
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Forbidden Fruits
His dark curls entered my life before he did
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The Last Day of December
How could I have known that this - the last time I would see you?
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Happy New Year!
You can’t always have what you wish for, but what I wish for you in the coming year I hope comes true;
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Salut d'Amour
A kind of peach-sorbet dawn...
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The Patchwork Lady
A click of needles; a kaleidoscope of colours – the yarns she works.
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Nature of the Beast
On the brink of widowhood, she stops at the door...
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Winter Solstice
The pond - a solid sheet of ice
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The Bees
...the sting of wet grass...
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Stuff I Never told You
You had lovely hands; couldn’t cook to save your life.
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Girl Gone Dancing
For the first, and the very last time, she knew what they meant by ‘coming home’.
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When I'm Old I'll Wear Purple
And then, I spot him – wandering my way; hovering over the lingerie counter...
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Stars and Stuff
Brass monkey weather – high on Dunstable Downs, spotting shooting stars.
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Molly Mandy
Fat lot of good it done me, that so-called ‘special school’
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Fading to Sepia
And this is she... two minutes old
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EarthAirFireWaterEther
Dawn breaks in this small town where it drizzles
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Forever in Blue Jeans
At the bus stop – see a girl in a doorway; mobile phone to ear.
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Song to the Moon
...
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In My Life
“There are places I’ll remember all my life..."
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Now We Are Sixty (I.P.)
A Zimmer-frame’s on order –
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The Widower Next Door
Yesterday – credit, where credit was due, they arranged a fitting funeral.
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On My Daughter Learning to Ride
She can barely walk, but she must learn to ride, she says.
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Where there's Hope...
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” ― Anne Frank
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On Listening to Mahler
(edit) They say Mahler’s 5th turns corners...
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Girl with Grey Eyes
There’s a speck of a boat pricks the horizon;
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The Hours
Playing gob-stones beside the kerb...
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Morning Song
"Love set you going like a fat gold watch." Sylvia Plath
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Girl with the Flaxen Hair
She stoops to tend a rose...
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Lilac Wine
Thoughts of Spring, and sap...rising
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March Mad
Crazy, I know... as if months take heed of dates
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They Called Her Rose
...arms full of flowers, for the altar.
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Run Roe Deer Run
The thriving population of UK roe deer could be damaging woodland, according to a study out today...adding fuel to the argument more wild deer need to be culled to protect the environment.
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Written in the Stars
Written in the stars... him and me, I said, but beware he’d be playing with fire
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The Myth of Narcissus
A rogue narcissus, punching its way on through
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Things Piss Me Off... (I.P.)
Those who preach, ‘Time’s a great healer’...
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To Each Their Own
In these we lived and loved; white-walled rooms...
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The Beast in Me
His fingers sure did things to me;
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The Reason Why...
I dreamed decimated forests, and drowned rivers...
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This Here Spring
A green woodpecker, pecks at the grass beneath inches of snow...
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Song Without Words
“Hope is the thing with feathers” Emily Dickinson
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Moon Child
He told her her eyes shone - sparkled like the stars...
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What I Really Really Want
I’d like to see you – hair, dripping wet – fresh from a shower...
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These I Have Loved
Sparks of static dancing in the dark...
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Who is Sylvia?
“And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
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Z to A (I.P.)
I could not believe what came in the door...
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Whales' Song
“Dark rainbow bliss in the sea”
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Under the Sun
Warm today Has spring finally sprung?
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Remains of the Day
...the London fog dogs me like a stalker...
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Photo of my Father at Twenty-Three
So many things I wanted to ask you
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Beaumaris Pier...the last time
Packed away in the attic our tacky, tin buckets and spades...
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Rain Man
(Edit) I see him walking the lanes, sitting on gates...
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Clair de Lune
Her sigh bends the down on my neck...
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Coffee Mornings
Brand new estate...brand new mums.
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The Way of the Wind
Lately, I forget a lot of things...
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Ginger-Lily
Can picture her now...
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Finding the Words
My tribute to a great man, and great poet, Seamus Heaney, who died a few days ago on 30th August, and now sleeps in peace beside his brother - tragically killed at just 4 years old.
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Moonchild
You were born at home...
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"The Moon is Down"
“Someone will remember us I say, even in another time.” ‘Sappho’
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"Happy Birthday Dearest Wife"
You want to say it to her any way you can...
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Waiting for the Rain (I.P.)
Home at last from the smells and sounds of a hospital ward...
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When I Was Very Small
We stood in the cleft of the hill... straining our eyes watching Orion ride
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Room Six
We take it in turns to sit with her
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The Constant Gardener
It was Old Tom found her... the one used to mow her lawn
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Study in Blue
And this is how I'll remember you...
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On Listening to Mahler
The memory of she at the top of a hill, and how she went cart-wheeling down...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside (I.P.)
I kissed you; left you with them.
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Dear Anyone...
"My emptiness has a lake in it, deep and watery, with several temperaments." Mary Landau
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Women of Small Histories (I.P.)
(Edit) A crying shame - the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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An Angel By Any Other Name...
All at sea – adrift, in the middle of Oxford; the sat-nav, as usual, speaking in tongues.
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The A -Z of Zoe (I.P.)
Just remembering lazy, daisy-chain days...
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October Geese
(Edit 3/10/2013) "Wild is the music of the autumnal wind Among the faded woods, but these blithe notes strike the deserted to the heart.” William Wordsworth
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Poetry Sucks...
My contribution to National Poetry Day 2013 I ditch my pen and paper... go outside...sick and tired of trying to write
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The Man on the Street
Every afternoon they shuffle in – him, holding her hand
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Don't Mention the 'P' Word
When they told me I’d got Parkinson’s – took the wind right out my sails.
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The End of the Affair
Between us – a thousand miles...
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'After the Bath'
After a painting by Degas... Would he have overlooked the mole on my left buttock?
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Dream of Delight
Hair...black as liquorice, eyes like Chartreuse.
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Going Down to the Sea
I went down to the sea to be near you;
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Sparky
You know who I mean...you must have seen him...mangy mutt in tow.
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Awakenings
Spring, summer, autumn, winter...all the seasons passing.
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B's the Name
He could do most things he set his mind to... anything but speak.
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'Ladies of the Woods'
Erect they stand - heads bowed...
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Duet for Violin and Sky
You - the bow to my strings.
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Come the Autumn
Tonight...as we put the clocks back.
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Rise
Bending with the wind, a barbed wire fence, no deterrent –
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Just One of Those Days
In the middle of the frozen-food aisle at Tesco, she asks how babies are made.
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The Scattering
For the fallen - yesterday's, today's...and tomorrow's.
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Fly Fujairah...
Fujairah is one of the seven United Arab Emirates, and the only one with a coastline on the Oman and none of the Persian Gulf. It also boast the oldest mosque...dating back to 1446, built of mud and bricks.
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Eight for 8.00 at The Pink Geranium
'How many ways do I love thee?' springs to mind...
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A Certain Coming to Terms
A week ago since I heard my mother speak...
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Thursdays with Aunt Maud
Each week, she’d bid me sit down; pour us both a sherry
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Those Were the Days
There were squeaky wooden-gates...
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Of Minutia and Mattie
You need a Kindle – she said...
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The Night Without
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When you've Stopped the Clocks, Cut off the Phone, Placated the Dog...
Slate me off – joke about me, think of me often...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Back in the USSR, 1927, food was scarce...
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Remains of the Day (I.P.)
For a long time I went to bed early...
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New Beginnings (I.P.)
This is just to say, 'Happy Divorce Day', darling...
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Castles in Spain
Unaware, that winter’s morning would be the last one they would share...
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The Leaving of Lydia
Aloneness, and loneliness - two very different things.
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Black Was Her
He’d never really, turned her on; unlike others before him.
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My Daughter Myself
Afraid of your own shadow... escalators, lifts...flying
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Ars Poetica
The key to poetry is not the written word...
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Woman in Blue
You glimpse her from a window, merely for a second...
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The Night Before the Morning After...
He asks, should we, perhaps, have an early night?
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Rememberings
We were in France Pont St. Pierre.
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Girl with Blue Eyes (I.P.)
Her dress - ravaged by the wind...
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'Bird, Moon and Falling Stars'
After the painting by Morris Graves
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Santa's Lament
When Santa got stuck up the chimney said Rudolph, ‘It’s no big surprise...
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Only This...
There are some moments too beautiful to last...
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Any Mother's Prayer (I.P.)
What child is this to cause such strife a king would kill with bloody knife..
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Merry Christmas Mrs Lawrence
By the way...so sorry I screwed things up.
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The Man Who Did
He could neither read, nor write...
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Six Years On...
For Andrea
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Night Thoughts
A heron lifts in the last light of day.
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See Emily Play
For me, days like these seem to say it all
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Mornings
She takes her coffee black – takes a shower;
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Endymion - Revisited
At the edge of the canvas, his hand poised – he stopped and half remembered.
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Stuff Happens...
And so it goes.
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Bluesette
Sitting, alone, in the taxi, coming back home, it felt surreal...like a dream
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The Dark before the Dawn (I.P.)
(Edit - January 20th) You, in my bed...
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Reasons to be Cheerful on 'Blue Monday'
Being able to jump out of bed at will...
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These Foolish Things
...the boofadoo you bought in Provence...
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Dear Diaries
I've been going to write, again, for such a long, long time.
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Jake Junior
I never ever saw you –
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Fox
'Across clearings, an eye, a widening, deepening greenness...' Ted Hughes
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Where the Bluegrass Grows
She hung-out in the shack on Deadman’s Hill.
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Colour Me Blue
Shall imagine the sky is Aquamarine... not a weary shade of Winter Gloom;
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What Remains
(Edit) Her latest piece – The Goldberg Variations still open at the final page.
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In These Shoes? (I.P.)
So! You’ve wound down the window; so there is life on Mars.
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Dusk Deep January
I’m tired of this winter...tired of writing poems about rain,
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Perusing Plato
And thinking too, of the night we first met...
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Mathilde
Mozart on the radio, my arm resting on the wound-down window...
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One More Thing Before I Go...
So many things I wanted to ask you
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This Here Now...
Is when you bend to kiss my breast...
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Lost in the Flood (I.P.)
His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud
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Always Read the Label
In between his cornflakes and his toast, he looks up at me – says he thinks he’s probably bipolar. Why’s that? I ask him. Because, he says, of his...
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A Chertsey Morning
"So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay." Robert Frost
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JoinedUpThinking
Why did he do it? Sure as hell, not for queen, or country.
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Sara Orange-Tip
(Edit) "Remember me," she pleaded
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Come Hell or High Water...
A stench of death turns her stomach; the water makes her sick, but still, she drinks.
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The Devil in Mrs Jones
Your beloved late husband will be drinking a toast;
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The Nature of Things
Us, gazing at a cocktail of stars...
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'On Such a Night as This...'
I glimpse you glancing down, from wherever you are,
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Stories My Father Told Me
Hungry to learn then, I was.
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The Heat of the Desert (I.P.)
"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars – stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places." Robert Frost
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Your Mother Yourself
You, and things important to you, have become inconsequential to your mother...
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'The Man in Black'
(Re-edit) The man wore black and wrote a song 'bout Vietnam... Johnny Cash 26/02/1932 – 23/09/2003
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The Art of Letting Go
A balloon wafted over my yard today... reminded me of a Mother’s Day six years ago, now.
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The Leaving
Mind if I sit here? Lovely afternoon, isn’t it? Who did you come to visit? Me? My son.
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Definitely Not Just Another Dog Story
(Edit 18/03/2014 Her old faithful bought it yesterday – under the wheels of the dustcart.
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Sliding Doors
Inside my head, though, I’m out of here; light-years away from this hell-hole
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Swallows and Sauté Pans
We were in the field, picking the first of the spring greens,
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Dear Darling...
"Please excuse my writing; I can’t stop my hands from shaking..." http://www.muzu.tv/olly-murs/dear-darlin-music-video/1878041/
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Musings on my Muse
Watch you as you sleep; arms akimbo...
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Child's Play? (I.P.)
"He says he'd like a Rubik's cube," said Mum to Dad, one afternoon;
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His Will be Done
...that small, silver cross catching the light...
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Waiting for Godfrey
So, what's up, Godfrey; cat got your tongue?
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Once Upon a Life...
I got into bed – made love with the boy – happened to be there
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A Touch of Red
(Edit) Cancer not only ravages our bodies... "Each day, she dies, a little bit more..."
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Flying Without Wings
A day, a place, a moment, he was to remember, until the end of all his moments...
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Out of the Mouths...(I.P.)
A family meal in the Beijing Palace, and the waiter says to her...
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Lilies for Lily
Her twentieth birthday today... I take her out to lunch
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Shibboleth...
...an open book a hint of patchouli
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The One...
The one married the wrong bloke, the one was in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Today I Wrote a Poem
This one's for you
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Marginalia
...succumbing to another painful bout of writers' block...
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Journeys
So, I wouldn’t bring you back, even if I could, to somewhere you wouldn’t want to be
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When Barry Met Larry
I'm with Moya...My offering for Parkinson's Awareness Week. "Mention Parkinson's to most folk and they haven't got a clue..."
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Finding Ashley
It hardly seems but a minute ago, you were knee-high to a space-hopper...
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The Season of Migration (I.P.)
Dusk fast falling, and I contemplate the day; how I’d seen the first swallow of the season
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Just Because
Because I wasn’t meant to be.
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Gone to Ground
...maybe the one ate the tops off your radish plants, you so carefully set the night before?
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Sons and Brothers
"At this rate he would not live. He had that poignant carelessness about himself, his own suffering, his own life, which is a form of suicide. It almost broke her heart." (D.H. Lawrence - Part 2, Chap. 10, Sons and Lovers)
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A Sudden Resurrection (I.P.)
If ever there were to be a second coming what would it be like? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARmMn5hJaHM
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At Holcombe Beach (I.P.)
Each day he would stroll to the sea, walking arm-in-arm with ghosts of the past...
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Stones
There were no words, not that day, not that afternoon; not then
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The Colour Red
Why’s learning the names of colours so important?
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After You'd Gone...
They told me, ‘Keep busy; take up writing, again.’ Get a dog...
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Crow and I
(Edit 30/04/14) A 'vegetative state'? What the hell does that mean?
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Came the Spring
There was a barn stood here, once;
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'Mad Dogs and Englishmen...' (I.P.)
(Edit) Towels at the ready...bag the sun-beds, slap on their Factor 10.
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The Blue Chair
I’m too old to be your muse...
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Wild Child
Braids – blowing free...
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Women of a Certain Age
(Edited) The year is nineteen-forty-seven...
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Since Parkinson's was His
Albeit unwittingly, he taught me many things....
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The Night Before the Radiotherapy
Hugs his pillow – craving his affections, after what they term, necessary, drastic surgery
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These My Daughter Taught Me
Made me see the beauty in the common and garden weed...
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Beaujolais Days
Straw hat tilted to shade her eyes, in the shadow of the vine-covered veranda, she sits – glass in hand,
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One Morning in May
I watch the tall trees bend in the wind, at the far end of the lawn;
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Etude
That first morning I woke before you...
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Castles in the Sand
How fast a fortnight flies...how very blue the sea was.
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Air Kisses
You think you own me and, in a way you do;
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"Oh, It's a Lovely War!"
A fiddler plays The Twelfth Street Rag, wives and husbands clap their hands...
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Castle in the Clouds (I.P.)
(Edit) Her mother seeks her out – but not in her bedroom, for she seldom sleeps there..
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Phoenix Rising
Real events don’t have endings. Only the stories about them do.
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The Naming of Plants
Enough to bore the socks right off the birds and the bees!
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Darcy May
My thoughts – entirely of her, every mile of the way; leathers on, the wind in my hair...
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Just Jade
A watercolour – signed, just, 'Jade' – his portrait, as a young man
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Letticia's Come Home... (I.P.)
Gives it up for the morphine – for the nurse – treads, black-stockinged through her mind...
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
For fathers...everywhere, on Father's Day.
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No Fairy-Tale – This
Once upon a time, found himself in Basra; Royal Engineers – Parachute Squadron.
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Little Red Shoes
A summer storm - yet no raincoat, no umbrella...
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Poetry and That
Something stirs, something breathes...
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Life on Mars
Reminds me so much of my first day at school; like being marooned on another planet.
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In These Shoes?
(Edit) So...you've wound down the window - so there is life on Mars...
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The Undergraduate
To set the scene, it was 1968; Jonathon – seventeen, and me? Shall we say…a year or more his senior?
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What Kind of a Name is Penelope?
Suffocating...say, I need some space
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If Pigs Could Fly
Something was in the air tonight – even Battersea seemed half-bearable. Stubs out her cigarette.
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Tomorrow Would Have Been Her Birthday
Times, like now, I feel humbled by nature...
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Kuroi Ame (Black Rain)
August 6th 1945 Were you born yet? If so, where were you? What were you doing?
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After the Ball
"May I have the pleasure?” asks this debonair young man
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A Star is Born
There’s a stage at the Theatre Royal, in most every child’s heart;
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After the Heat Wave
A skylark climbs the ladder of its song...
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It All Came Out in the Wash
Brand new estate... brand new mums, so we had a rota, week and week about...
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Flying with Wings
And still one more time they circle the pond... my two ducks.
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Crazy for You
Travel light, didn’t you always say? I might just take your advice;
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Girl with the Golden Hair
For her
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Note to Self
As is her way, she knocks on my open door, this woman of the world,
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When the Lights Went Out
In the grand scheme of things our loss was nothing, nothing at all;
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Freefall
If you are the first to go...
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The River that Drowned
(Inspired by China’s “Three Gorges Dam Project”)
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Breaking Up
(Re edit) Looking forward to summer holidays – tea-time, just after, when Mum got ill...
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One of a Kind
Just one of the ones who dreams a dream
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Another Man's Treasure
(Edit) Under graffiti-daubed, grey arches – his abode;
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Present Imperfect
(Edit) He still misses her, I sense...even after all these years,
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Blackberry Wine
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...’ And of blackberries, the caviar of hedgerows
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It Usually Rains at Funerals
I’d planned to cut it short; just pay my respects, that sort of thing.
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Monday Morning Autumn...
and a murder of crows insist amongst the shawl of pine trees
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Days Like These
‘The Chaos Theory’ personified – you and your room...
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Dear Darling...
"Please excuse my writing; I can’t stop my hands from shaking ‘cause I’m cold and alone tonight" Olly Murs
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Schiehallion
You came into my life like errant mist steals across a mackerel sky at dawn,
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Reaching for the Sun
Despised, and presently considered nothing more than a weed...
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Tonight Josephine
Saw an ad in the local rag and there I was...in the buff
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The Backpack
And so you’re off to Uni in a week or so... your gap year...plus one, at an end;
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Small is Beautiful
maybe one and the same you and the moth...
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The ABC of Zoe
Autumn returns – way too soon
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Lines in the Sand
Given up as infants; a disposable commodity. All we ever wanted was to belong.
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New Shoes?
Who you staring at Mister, in your posh limousine? Kerb-crawling’s illegal, so stop hassling me.
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A Day in the Life...
(Edit 2/10/2014) An amicable divorce, he'd requested...
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The Thing about Autumn
to see but one leaf fall, releases the melancholy in me
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October's Geese
Pinch-punch
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Flo's Flutter
An ocean of mixed rinses dazzles;
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Moving On
Hard to imagine, before – us taking different routes; halving our possessions.
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Sweet Charity
(Re-edit) She’s here to shelter from the rain. So am I, if the truth be known.
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Something Inside
She promised me faithfully she wouldn’t ever let it happen again
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Albatross
A CD on repeat, and Fleetwood Mac softly strum her to sleep...
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Room Nine's the One in Three of Us
What’s up? You need the loo? And yet... seems you couldn’t wait.
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On Putting the Clocks Back
Autumn drags its heels. Summer – got its act together, for a change, this year...
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The Power and the Glory
Always there – on that broad chest of his, that small, silver crucifix I gave him for his 21st.
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'Poppies in the Snow'
Red – her colour. Poppy by name and nature,
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Letters from the Dead
I think of your future sans me, of world peace, of global warming...
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Blithe Spirit
...the Weeping Window and the Wave to be given a reprieve.
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The Shadow of Lilith
Erase from my mind, endless afternoons...
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Night Moves
Closer, closer yet, the tawny...
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PS No PS
Light has bleached the ink...
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My Mother Myself
A Monday in the long, hot summer of 1983, headed for Tooting Bec Asylum.
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Only Silence Speaks the Language of Birds
Words were curtains, smoke-screens;
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Breaking Glass
Died inside when they ushered me in; my mother – stripped naked,
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December Late Afternoon
A CD on repeat; neglected all others – gathering dust;
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The Beautician's Day Off
Her nail polish, chipped – in need of repair... except...
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Always Read the Label
n between his cornflakes and his toast, he looks at me – says he thinks he’s bipolar.
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Spiegel im Spiegel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFPdBUl7XQ
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Saving Gracie
Smoke hung low over the cemetery, from allotments across the street.
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Quarter to January
Christmas morning; that off-kilter smile, that very last gift you gave to me
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A Passing Thought
Saw the Beatles, live at the Apollo, Hammersmith
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Lily Rose
Fay-like – fragile, she seemed...
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In the Early Morning Rain...
Deposited you at the station
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Epiphany
Tell me she’s not really gone...
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You Are No More...
You who are no more, no less, than a memory now...
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And Then there was You...
And then you taught me to find pleasure in the ordinary things.
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Loving Angels Instead
No last goodbyes – no sad songs, no sentimentality
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Ars Poetica
'To begin at the the beginning...'
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Shoots Leaves and Eats
Think they own me for it’s true; I am all theirs in exchange for a pound or two.
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Letting Go
If only we could begin again...
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Reasons I Hate Winter
Strike winter from my diary...when we first made out beneath the trees...
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Breast is Best
(Edit) Support her head for goodness sake! Didn't the midwife teach you anything?
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Girl at Piano
I'd watch her through my window of an afternoon –
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27th January, 2015
And so they came with their tributes – world leaders, all
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Late January Morn
The snow – melting underfoot;
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Shenandoah
She speaks to me, often, if only in tongues
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Only Cats Know When to Walk Away
Nothing in the photo bodes of your crap life early dementia... early demise... it’s all sweetness and light – you sitting on a swing beneath a tree...
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For Sale - Sold as Seen
The yard full of clutter – an old sink, a has-been lavatory cistern, to ‘come in handy one of these days’.
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Girl Watching Goldfish
A grand affair, indeed, her new husband's house...
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Room Six - Tooting Bec Asylum...1982
where people like my mother, merely suffering from early onset Alzheimer's were sectioned and committed, until its closure in 1992.
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These I Have Loved
(Edit) A glimpse, of a balloon slipped its string, up there in the blue.
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To a Cherry Tree
Your limbs – stripped bare... trunk, so slim, so delicate,
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His Father's Eyes
So soundly asleep; lays her cheek next to his, so soon bruised by the world
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Ticket to Fly...
...and a one-way ticket, at that.
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"All the World's a Stage"
“The lights go out and I die. Tomorrow I will be reborn. Tomorrow I will dance again.” (Rudolf Nureyev – March, 1938 - January, 1993)
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Beaujolais Days
(Edit) I drink a toast, my dear, my own, my darling.
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Green Railings
Green railings divide earth from heaven..
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The Fragility of China
two mugs stashed – each in each; so tight I can’t prize them apart for fear they’d break in my hands,
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Silence is Golden
Looks at her – 'eyes could charm the birds right out the trees', and perhaps they did.
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The Beat Goes On
Durham Buildings reeks of spliff, of fish and chips and oysters,
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Spring Springs
The time of year when the earth is created again, one piece at a time,
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The Nothingness of Stars
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars – stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places. Robert Frost
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The Myth of Narcissus
Spring has arrived and yet, but one tiny bud would dare to open;
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In the Cold, Spring Sunlight...
(Edited) ...it was mothers who stood out on the steps of St. Paul's, at today's service commemorating the end of UK's involvement in the Afghan War...some wearing blood-red knitted poppies to raise money for military charities that give ongoing care for the wounded. Whatever views one holds as to the rights or wrongs of such involvement, the stark reality is, that 453 British souls were lost, along with an unrecorded number of Afghanistans', and as many families...wives, husbands, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, friends, left to deal, alone, with the aftermath. At the very least...a prayer for them?
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A Blot on the Landscape
...much of rural Britain, clothed in the garish garb of a rubbish-tip; plastic bags...French-fry cartons...
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Camelot
A story, loosely woven from the threads of the legend of Camelot, written in the style of Tennyson's poem, 'The Lady of Shallot'.
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The Naming of Plants
Some half-naked – stripped of their papery raiment...
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My Favourite Things
Forget raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens !
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
Perchance the comparison should be more fitting to liken thee to a winter’s night,
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With the Mother of all Headaches...
woke up this morning...
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'White as Diamonds'
I've known mornings, white as diamonds, silent from a night so cold such a stillness... calm as the owl glides... Alela Diana Menig
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Little Red Shiny Shoes
What's the time, Mr. Wolf?
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On Putting the Clocks On
With a ‘ morning’s come too soon ’ kind of a yawn, she drifts off to sleep again beside me – her spine curled against the dawn only moments ago,...
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Don't Rain on my Parade
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Festival of Lights
Diwali - coming around soon...glances at the moon, and the stars...
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The Prodigal
OK – so you’ve finally made it home, and yes... I am mad at you...and I might sulk for a while...but
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Long Night's Journey into Day
Winter long – so sound, they sleep;
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Another Kind of Heaven
Verdigris – the fall of light between the trees.
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Simmering Sibblings
OK...I admit it. So, I pissed my sister off..
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Cinderellas Have Stubble Too
Balls aren't all they're cracked up to be...
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A First Foraging
Sun-crazy – cloud wild, a Kite’s domain...
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Pick a Colour...Any Colour
Pick a colour...any colour you fancy, kid. Lipstick, rouge....
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Holly Blue
Spring’s hedgerows; blossoming brambles and white nettles, await your kiss;
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Black Was Her
Wear them black stilettos until you tilt, babe...
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"Don't Laugh at Me..."
To mark the start of Parkinson's Awareness Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbwS9qcpi0k 'Don't Laugh at Me 'Cause I'm a fool' Norman Wisdom, OBE 4/2/1915 - 4/10/2010
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A Woman Wants...
(Edit and repost) someone gives her the courage to ask, 'Milk...and one lump or two?'
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Lady Plays the Blues
No curtain call – not this time, not ever again –
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Zone Red
“Leave the money on the pillow, close the door before you go; it’s freezing in this hell-hole and the meter’s running low!”
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Fishing with Gramps
Sundays were fishing with Gramps...
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Now Blooms the Magnolia
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Pas de Deux for Violin and Sky
Absence is the highest form of presence, didn’t someone say?
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For the Love of Her
“...and if I should carol aloud from aloft all things that are forked, and horned, and soft would lean out from the hollowed sphere of the sea all looking down for the love of me.” ‘The Mermaid’ (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
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Night in the Camargue
Not the Camargue or the Rhone, not the wind bending bamboo on the brackish, delta marshes;
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A Small Ceasing to Be
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Run Roe Deer Run
(Edit) Through the half-light glimpse a roe deer...
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I Am I Said
*I am, I said, to no one there," and no one heard at all. Not even the chair." Neil Diamond
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They Called Him a Tramp. I Called Him Joe
The day after the end of the world was the last anyone ever saw of him
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Things make me want a Duvet Day
(edit) Meeting someone in the street, tells me, ‘ Time’s a great healer’ ; dogs that make a bee-line for my crotch...
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Moving On
All that ‘stuff’, squirreled over the years...gathering dust in the attic; time to pack it all up in a cardboard box...time for moving on.
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Night Moves...
Somewhere – far off a lovers’ knot is tied;
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Quietus
Ink may fade, and paper age under the sun's unrepentant light as a silent epiphany leadens
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Of Mattie and Me...
Loch Awe, the bees, buzzing in the heather, the way you squealed and ran away whenever one deigned to invade your space...
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Dearest Daughter...
That last time I visited you in the hospice, wanted to confess...own up, tell you what I’d been doing that afternoon, but didn’t know how.
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The Weatherman said...
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Uncle Amos
Turned up with a pushcart – the old man who moved in across the street. A ‘Yid’, Dad said he was...
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The Birds and the Bees
A ribbon of mist curls from the moor skirts the river; a farmer’s predatorily parked Jeep at the entrance to the field...
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Matchstick-Man and Rainbow
A covey of chairs – lace-backed, pink-chintz...
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Boy Blue (Poetry Monthly)
His sweetheart she rose early, one bright and sunny morn, the sheep were in the meadow and golden glowed the corn.
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The Hand that Takes the Picture
All floral frock and seamed stockings, shaded by a tree, where the sun sought you out –
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The Last Goodbye
Love, you are the world to me, yet it’s time to call it a day.
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I'm Not Here to Talk to You...
I came out for the stars...
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The Longest Day
Another night, another day... this last one, the longest, waiting...for finality,
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Future Imperfect
How serene, and unruffled they seemed. Much like us; standards to uphold. Heaven forbid we’d break the moral code.
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Boxers in Yellow
...once on a rising sun....
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The Letting Go
If only we could begin again, or at the very best... forget, but gradually, for love is precious, love is rare...
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The Ties that Divide
Your tiny hand...white as a lily. And mine? Black as coal.
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Fay's Flutter
An ocean of mixed rinses dazzles; outside it’s drab; grizzled anoraks drift by, but in the bingo hall it’s warm – as, pen in hand, Flo spreads her cards before her like a florid fortune-teller.
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From a Stopping Train (Poetry Monthly)
A fleeting glimpse from a window... in her small backyard, all wrapped up in a winter-jasmine wind...
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Women of Small Histories
The year is nineteen-forty-seven... through the smog I can glimpse it. Summer dragged its heels – one of the hottest on record. Women are waiting for life to get better.
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'Just One of those Things'
‘ So it’s goodbye, dear, and Amen... here’s hoping we meet, now and then. It was great fun, but it was just one of those things ’. Cole Porter
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'You've Been Framed!' (Poetry Monthly)
Pigeons potter in puddles; in the road, an old man with a stick brings the traffic to a standstill... Bankside – Tate Modern.
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Sweet Daughter Mine
On my desk she perches... eyes of ambergris,
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Reclining Nude
A young, black girl – draped on green baize settee;
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Up to Here with the Weather...
He can’t abide me smoking in the flat; that’s why I’m out here, on the roof, on this drizzly afternoon...
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Red Devil
Touched, it seems, by earthly fire, up it spirals...ever higher... eyes and mind with death conspire;
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The Town the Wind Blew Away
“Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis pumped a lot of gas down in New Orleans, but I never saw the good side of the city till I hitched a ride on the river boat queen...”
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I Believe in Unicorns
Strangely taboo – yet beautiful, that last ever image I have of you...
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Doppelganger (Poetry Monthly)
I have to agree with you. Could be your double, and I should know
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Sara Orange-Tip Was Here
Like a warm, sleepy southern drawl dawn arrives; wafted here by a primrose wind white-winged, she stutters in.
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The Poetry of Porcelain
He could tell by its style...the shade of the clay – trace its origin, its artist...
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Opacity of Glass
and in the orangery remained a phantom of the past...
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Chess
her breathing melding with the ether...
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Flypast
A field of August wheat...
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Sweet Lightning
Thunder thrums; in the middle distance a willow – overhangs the window, screeches on the pane...
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Ten Things I Love...
A walk in the park with my daughter... two dogs in tow;
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Clothes-Speak
Anyway, they wouldn’t understand, not about death, even though it seems they ask...her clothes...
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The Silence of the Summit (Poetry Monthly)
Darkness falls and I am cold; limbs – stiffening, hope – fading.
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Washing Day
Her smalls on the line – slow shimmying with the breeze;
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Black Rain
6th August, 1945. Hiroshima. Seventy years on.
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For What it's Worth...
How could I possibly have known when I woke that December morning, the last of the month, it was to be the day we two would make that final ascent?
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An Air on a G String
Bach was to blame for bringing them together;
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A Little Tart
I just have to do as he tells me. "C’mon love, Give me what I like...I’ll see you’re alright..."
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Something I Said
Gentle – go gentle I want to tell them as they lift you from your bed to the chair...
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Summer Wine
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...’ of rosehips, and ripe plums bejewel the tumbled twilight of thicket and spinney...
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To Every Picture a Story
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Prayer for the Common Man
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
(Edit) She invites him up ‘for a coffee’...but then they all say that, don’t they?
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On my Daughter Learning to Ride
She could barely walk, but she must learn to ride, she says.
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Spilt Milk
Half asleep, he rubs his eyes - pulls back the awning, glances outside. From his mattress on the floor picks up a kaftan – soft his bare-feet fall on...
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Snap Shot
Musical box full of sea shells and 'if onlys'...
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Performance Piece
“This a poetry reading, lady?” enquires a sunny faced Japanese gent –
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Ruddy Ducks
I wouldn't care if I never saw another ruddy duck...
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Lights...Camera...Action
No Oscars for you though, my sweet...
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In the Name of the Father...
...as of this moment, there is a new definition of the word, 'Displacement'...
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Pas de Deux for One
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The Weight of Snow
We started talking about nappies today...how he'd been such a dab hand at folding them...
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Eveningesque
...a pair of Whooper Swans, wowing clouds...
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The Lavender Rocker
She outbid me at auction - the girl in a beat-up, green MGB GT...
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'The Old Man of Coniston'
Gaze so glued to the skies, I doubt he's aware the two of us share the same square meter of shale...
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The Woman in White
They paid their last respects, laid tulips on the new-dug grave of the vicar's wife...
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Lucy in the Sky
Days were scattered that year, like the leaves seemed to engulf the bench where we two sat...
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Why Does it Always Rain at Funerals? (Poetry Monthly)
Fascinating things - funerals...snippets of conversations. Especially if you're a 'fly on the wall'.
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'Mine's a Saveloy!'
Closer to who he will become, I watch him cycle off down the street...
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My Father's House
The place is ablaze with trees torched by autumn's epiphany...
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It's Four in the Afternoon...
I'm writing you now, just to see if you're better...
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The Light on the Stairs
If they could see me now, Jesse...
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Journeys
Child in her eyes, and in her bones...
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'Made in India'
Treat myself to a new dress for my niece's twenty-first...
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Stepping Stones (Poetry Monthly)
...blew a kiss, as they hit the open road...
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Poet to his Muse
My contribution to National Poetry Day
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It was Summer - that First Morning
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It's Only Me, Mrs. Jenkins
It's a programme on TV, Mrs. Jenkins. No need to be afraid. Just a flim. It's not real life.
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Where the Seabirds Fly
'Why can't we reach you?' they ask
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Oyster Bay
Twixt myth and magic, is Oyster Bay...elusive, yet easy to find...
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'Go Now'
The Moody Blues blasting out from a cherry red 'Dansette Bermuda'. There we were, my sister's boyfriend, Rob, and me...and Monday's washing dirty-dancing on the line...
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'The Borrowers' (Poetry Monthly)
An expedition...all the way to the top, me and my two year old; a picnic by a covey of chattering pines...
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The Dark Before the Dawn
Hand to chest - that pain again...
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Baobabs and Bedouins
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'Incident on the Line'
No one saw him fall...
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The Missing
Fall is the season of mellowing and missing...
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Girl with Cello
All Hallows' Eve...
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"At the Going Down of the Sun"
Saw the morning star tug, with all its little shimmerings at nights such as these...
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Ben
It wasn't meant to be this way...
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Novemberesque
Spring, summer, and autumn, come and go...
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Nights Such as These
When I think of you, I can’t recall your face but there are times when I walk outside – like this evening – the sky a deeper shade of missing you...
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Kiss and Tell (Poetry Monthly)
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Lines in the Sand (Poetry Monthly)
For my sixth birthday I wanted a doll. They gave me a rifle and box of bullets...
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Joyride
I rode away into forever...
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'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
Imagine, if you can...the two of us, drifting slowly to sleep, and when we woke, the joy of starting over again.
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
...goes inside - turns his back on distant towns and cities...
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An Ill Wind
Wishing his life away...he knew that, but this was it; winter had, finally, arrived. He felt content now... lulled by the rain thrumming on leaded...
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For Sale - Sold as Seen
The yard full of clutter - an old sink, a has-been lavatory cistern, to 'come in handy one of these days'.
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Through the Grass, Darkly...
she scurries, her sett left far behind...
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The Journey to End all Journeys (Poetry Monthly)
With which of us would you bide until today...we who bore you here, sweet child?
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Seeing the Light
'There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in'...Leonard Cohen
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'The Parting of the Ways'
For a neighbour, and dear friend, who passed away, suddenly, this morning, in their 93rd year.
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What Am I?
I am the fawn-light, the ambergris of a forest floor...
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Girl with Tambourine (Poetry Monthly
Girl in crimson dress...crave her caress...girl in dress of fire...igniting desire...
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Preparing to Meet Your Goliath
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Solemates (Poetry Monthly)
A very fishy tale indeed this one
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On Preparing a Fruit Salad
It's moments like these I ache to live my wildest fantasies...
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This Isn't a Dummy Run...
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About My Daughter...
...something I've wanted to ask for eight long years...
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One Man and his Dog
Your gift – ribbon tied, sits, ungiven still, beneath the tree; a mere bottle of Port, but a vintage one, I think...not that I know much about that...
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A Tiny Light
(Edit) Bon Voyage to Tim and a safe return - Tim Peake - the first British astronaut to arrive at the International Space Station...now safely docked. The space station will be visible on earth to the naked eye as a 'tiny light'.
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'Girl by Moonlight'
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No Fairy Tale
As God's my witness, honestly, you couldn't be more wrong. No pack of lies....no fairytale
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Glass is a Supercooled Liquid
I wasn't leaving her alone - not in that place, any more than I had to, but died and died again when they ushered me in...
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Santa's Little Helpers...(I.P.)
...not forgetting Donner and Blitzen who were mortified to discover they might not get a mention. Quite a challenge to write, but our little cloven-hoofed friends are worth it, hands down.
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Reprise (Poetry Monthly)
If only we could begin again...
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Stars of Wonder
'They cannot scare me with their empty spaces....'
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The Paler Shade of White
'See last gold sun behind clouds, inked water in moonlight. No poems written to praise you, I write them white'. Carol Ann Duffy
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White Noise
"Good Morning, Mr. Reeves,' say the children, as steadily it snows on the playground and the trees...
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The Guy Pushing Big Issue
He's got the gift of the gab...that look in his eyes...
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On Asking for the Moon
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A Sin is What it Is
Pity I never topped myself when I reached seventy-five...
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Of a New Year's Eve
Trapped in a time-warp, dusk succumbs to dark...
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Happy Days
What is it with the past attracts us like metal to a magnet...?
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Things I Never Told You
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'The Way Through the Woods'
This is the track leads to the tree, still remembers your first time...
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What Seems to be the Problem?
Come in. Do take a seat. Mrs. Parker, isn't it? Forgive me...I'm new to the practice...
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My Family and Other Animals
Hot-house plants...me and my sister...
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Beginners, Please...
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It's Hard to Kill an Aspidistra
Iron Plant - its nickname. Almost impossible to kill, but you managed it in one fell swoop; unless it learned to swim, it never stood a whisper of a chance...
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Sarsparilla Dreaming
...sipping sarsparilla through a straw...slipping off our shoes and socks...
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'Come Away With Me'
Listen. They're playing our tune. 'Come Away With Me'...
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Bird (Poetry Monthly)
Before you were a bird, you were a sunburst....
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Thus Spake Jeeves...
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The Way of Rain...
the way I always write in the past tense, these days...poems about yesterday
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Nobody Passed like Aunt Sis Did
"The best thing about getting old, one doesn't lose sleep over niceties..."
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A Clockwork Forager
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My Father's House
Many rooms you and I have slept in...
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A Borderline Case (Poetry Monthly)
Migrants from India, Bangladesh, China...passports forcibly seized at the border...
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The Making of Love
Creep up the stairs...peep in through a crack in their bedroom door.
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Pink with Purple Peonies
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The Lady that Played Piano
A potted palm sits, stalwart, atop her piano, an ancient upright, unquestionably seen better days, taking me back in time...
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Anniversary
And so, it's that time of the year, again, a time I don't want to remember...nor forget, if that makes any sense.
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Different Strokes...(I.P.)
Only goes to show, one never can tell.
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Painted Lady Motel
It's thirty years since we booked in to the seedy motel; Mr and Mrs Might-Have-Beens...
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Painting the Homeless Godly
As long as spots go , hand in hand, with chickenpox, so Billy was always there in the pitch next to mine...
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The Theory of Everything and Nothing
(Edit) From now on, nothing is the same...forever tainted.
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"Yours Truly"
"Well. Of all the cheek! Just can't believe this is meant to be about, 'Yours truly' "... he said.
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Too Cold for Snow...
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Say That Again...(Poetry Monthly)
Why did I do it? Join up in the first place, do you mean?
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The Tenth Circle of Hell
Your hell, blow Dante, you said, was a circle of chintz-backed chairs...
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Lucy's in the Sky (Poetry Monthly)
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New Beginnings (IP)
It was ever Christmas in Gran's kitchen - painted gloss-green.
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A Passing Thought (Poetry Monthly)
Don't mind if I scream at the next person tells me, 'You're in the best place'...because I'm not.
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Future Conditional
Say the sun turns into a red giant tomorrow...Say the clouds' water supply gets turned off - permanently....
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As it is in Heaven (Poetry Monthly)
The clocks didn't stop...dogs insisted on barking...
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The Naming of Bulbs
How impatient they are to be freed – these teardrops with roots,
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'In the Name of the Father'
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Spring in Suburbia
This is a dream of a dream...
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Not Just Any Sunday
Easter Day; an afternoon's hard digging behind me, glance up - two lapwings splice and ocean of lapis lazuli...
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Chasing Stars
A perfect night – we scoured the skies as the clouds, finally, broke;
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Not Quite Fern Hill (Poetry Monthly)
Still...my favourite place to be...Narnia's any place you want it to be, and this is mine.
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The 'It' Girl
'Make it snappy!' she'd holler, standing on the porch, curlers in her hair...
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'Evening in Paris' (Poetry Monthly)
Camden Lock - doing the junk-shop rounds...
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Girl with Yellow Wings (Poetry Monthly)
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"It's All about the Bag this Spring..."
Inspired by today's junk mail from 'House of Fraser'
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Where the Bee Sucks
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Sleepless in Stratford-upon-Avon
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T'is the Season...
Dusk fast falling, and I contemplate the day...
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Saint Elmo's Fire
"Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin"
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Rising Fives...
My son rides high upon my shoulders...
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Am I losing it?
Hi Tina,
I'm sure I commented on your poem about the lady with arthritis ... and the bird in the cage... and now it's gone? Hope all is ok?
Thanks, $