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The Cricket Matches of August
It has been ten years since I visited this cricket ground Nothing much has changed apart from the clubhouse Which has enjoyed a lick of paint and now looks quite splendid Although I do not drink I was given a local ale on my arrival As I am well remembered in these parts as I once hit […]
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Being and Time
I was reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time in Ramsgate yesterday It was hot and really I was just loafing through this vast work and enjoying an ice cold Coke when an American couple sat at the table opposite me For some reason I found the woman looking at me or rather what I was […]
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Freedom Road
For the last week or so I seem to have lost my senses The weather has been hot and have not wanted to waste it As when the cooler weather arrives (and mark me it will) I will think of these sun drenched days with a great sadness I will stop my travels now […]
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Glasses
I purchased a glasses case for Jane yesterday It was of a William Morris design I reached this beautiful decision Whilst paddling in Pegwell Bay Where one can at low tide Walk across the sand flats Whilst taking care to avoid quicksands And other natural hazards
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The Small Histories of my Residence
I own a sea facing cottage on an unmade road It is about one hundred years old And was built as a summer retreat of a London solicitor It is said that he brought his mistresses here And there are written accounts of them swimming naked in the sea In 1968 when clearing out a […]
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Fig Tree
There is a fig tree near a sea facing inn The hot weather has not disfigured it
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I sent three poems to my beautiful wife
I sent three poems to my beautiful wife These poems were full of love As two oceans separated us
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An American Flag
An American flag flies next to a lane That is essentially English It brings colour to the ochre beach
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Replacing Beach Furniture
Anna I have just been to the beach Yes We have new beach furniture I know it was Daddy’s gift to us both Do you like it Yes and no Why no Because the old beach furniture was part of the beach It had rusted and aged with the passing years It was beach worn […]
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My Beautiful Country
my beautiful country has become polluted there is so little that I can do apart from dream of the Northern Lights anon