Lost and found
Poems and tales, that touch upon a recurrent theme
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And I am telling you now
A meeting in a cafe and some e-mail was all Yet for me it feels Like we are a girl and a boy In a slightly parallel universe Staring in to the open...
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Autobiography - To Revolution Singing
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Before I Post Them
You left behind your knickers and your vest Returning from the station, here I see Two memories of a loved one who has left. In pink lace florals was...
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Cheers to the Goddess of Goodsurprise
Cheers to the goddess of goodsurprise that lifts me o'er my thinly hidden but often truly twisted bitter cynicism into continuing with folks...
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Children's - I see you, little mighty one.
Red faced on your back Squalling your needs, Eyes shut Mouth opening and closing Like a cross little frog. Carried reposing on my friend's shoulder...
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Waiting for the Rain
Rain coming hard So hard Sheeting down heavily Battering waves More upon more upon more Driving down like heartbeats that curve round When reaching...
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Exeter St Thomas
A sportswear lad lounges in the white concrete shelter As I shuttle through the drowsy branchline Its entrance unmanned. Inner town generous C19...
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Fantasy - Unexpected Journey
My local writing group had the Inspiration Point 'the Unexpected'
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Holiday letter to Jess
I bought a camera for myself after our holiday. Because it's the images that stand out. You holding Fifty Shades on the shuttle from plane to airport...
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Humour - It's not easy
I once had a bee in my bonnet About writing a Petrarchan sonnet I tried time after time To create the perfect rhyme And then I realised that the...
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IP Babylon was built on Grain
Baby crying in the rain Regaining boiling loneliness. Lone buildings lie in ruined grain. Speak true baby, gale blown bubbles Gray babble grazing...
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Knit we Together
This is written in response to the Inspiration Point; 'Rotting apples on the ground' and 'The electric blue dress'. The writer is asked to create a piece of work containing both phrases. My piece is a dialogue between Despair and Hope.
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Miscellaneous - The Open Door
Corals Head Office in their glitzy new setting in Stratford's Westside Shopping Centre had now cut my hours cleaning my local betting shop from five...
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Primary School Memories
Mixed up little witch sky-high before lunch I hid beneath the cave of wooden desks with metal inkwells in first year juniors. How did Miss Cooper get...
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Nature in the City
The rosy red - the vibrant green The purple flourishing the scene The sun the sky the trees the flowers The thrill of beauty - sunny hours. I had...
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November
The clocks turn back, soon dusk will start at four And guttered pumpkins bulk the wheelie bins. Geese fly from Canada on exhausted wings And summer...
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Romance - The road-trip near sestina of Pat, Sue and Nina
Sad start, happy ending
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Spiritual - There's words and
Always an 'and' When I'm open to it. The third one The other one Lee way Debatable passage. Pauses The spaces inbetween. Reasons to express To pull...
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The old Heifer and the Two old Bulls at Peace
‘It’s not age, it’s what comes with it’ The time to cook and to eat well and talk. I have breathed in Pete’s garden His hardy geraniums and forty-...
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Tom and Old Willie
Elsie meets her daughter for Bath-time fun. Who are the guys?
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Travel - Penzance
The teller of the tale is in Exeter Bus Station, waiting for two road buddies to return. Penzance. Penance. Pen, can, pan, nape, cape, pane, cane. An...
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Spring
Spring marches in Daffodils shine, rising like saints To the strong slow pulse Of the pale foggy sun. Sap rises, Life surprises Our budding, opening...
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Wanton Wanting
(Reposted from 3 years ago) My lotus eating fantasies that fire my body but shirk the possibilities of flesh and blood I want not. My ragged boys and...
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Sun Song
The food, the flowers, the family, the friends Morrie and Joan's back garden when a child, The suburbs of North London. Today - a sunny Devon garden...
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Echo
remember Amanda that day Helen’s Bay when we ran from the House and the work and the stress and the slowrattle train all the stops oldseat carriage...
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Daisy Chain
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Ray of hope for 'us lot'
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Juli-Anne's last morning
The sun shone bright on the pavement as Juli-Anne carried her lap top in to her last session of her placement. 'We're been observing this little boy...
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From 'Good news Sings the Blues'
Jayce continued to travel. He was watched and followed by an ever-increasing multitude. What the flipping fishcake was going on Where did he get the...
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Early
We are the tribe of Early We are the Cleaners Window Cleaners Recyclers Gardeners Workers for the Royal Mail. Bus and Train Drivers Cabbies...
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Free like Fergie
And now I am free To come and go as I please And tell me why My freedom today feels like Fergie Not not the Duchess Sarah But years ago a girl called...
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Two-thirty
Elizabeth Windsor passed on at two-thirty yesterday at Balmoral. They say Balmoral Was the place She loved the best. Most of us are not royals, or...
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Healing - to Dave
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Healing is the better part of dealing It is nearly 4am I have a stinking cold. I pull myself out of my pit. I light the gas I brew up a cuppa. I add...
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No Longer Ozymandias
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My unique point of view I sometimes lose From rock to barmaid yet frequently retain A sense of difference that I blithlely choose but couldn't once,...
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Here
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My mother bore me in Wembley in Kingsbury Maternity I do not know if I was swapped at birth My mum and dad from Eastern Europe, Dad from a place...
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Railway - a true memory poem
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Esme picks up rubbish Bin after black plastic bag Shedloads pf rubbish. Old rubbish bottles glass, plastic crisp bags Piles of the stuff She bags it...
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