David Maidment

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The Child Madonna - Chapter 30 'Magnificat'

Mari arrives at cousin Elizabeth's house under pressure to have an abortion arranged and finds Elizabeth heavily pregnant with the forecast John (the Baptist).

Hidden

Another poem penned in 1968 after a train journey through Brittany and a memorable sermon in a chapel in a Welsh Valley.

The Circle

This poem is normally in circular format, but I've not been able to print it so here, despite trying.

Encounter with a Street Child - September 1989

Poem dedicated to the six year old girl on Bombay Churchgate station who inspired the founding of the Railway Children charity

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