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Southampton Doggerel
Southampton Doggerel Is a village on the edge of town Which is painted white but never brown
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The Triple Pace Of My Eye
The Triple Pace Of My Eye Is a restaurant in St Margaret’s Bay Which serves mainly vegetarian and vegan dishes The building used to be a care home But was converted into a restaurant About two or three years ago Alice and I dine there quite often And I am now beginning to feel That […]
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In Praise of Invisible Cities
Beauty Follows Infinity Is the name of our house Which overlooks the beach at St Margaret’s Bay We have lived here for twenty-eight years I own the Green Mint Room Whilst Ray owns the Rouge Red Room Each of our rooms have unobstructed sea views And we can often see France on Clear Silver Days […]
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In Bed with Erika and her Garden Gate
Today is my Thirty-Sixth birthday And I am celebrating it joyously With Erika and her garden gate We are all naked as the B&B is empty That is how we were spend our day I am so blissfully happy here in Leeds As I never thought that inanimate objects Possessed such intelligence and feelings And […]
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Room
I had stayed in this comfortable Bed & Breakfast for the last three nights But as I had concluded my business in the town it was now time to leave Although I felt tired having spent a restless night in my tiny room I dreamt (or thought I dreamt) that the owners daughter Who reminded […]
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Love Under the Rain Shadows
At last we were together on our cabin bed You were wearing a vest and nothing else But I am still fully dressed as I can hear A distant storm raging against our shared God is good so very good as he has given us Everything that we love and admire He even gave you […]
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None But The Frozen
We are slowly becoming part of the landscape I said as we sat under the pale blue gazebo But you did not answer me -it was as if you were transfixed But the ever changing shades of the desert light We should leave quite soon Esther Collencinni As the deserts can freeze at night It […]
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A History of My Unknown Cousins
We slept under the stars that night In our warm sleeping bags But our faces were damp As we looked at the stars Under the dark desert sky For we were meeting Our unknown cousins For the first time Diary Entry If all the grains of sand came together Then they would form a […]
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Las Vegas Land
We should have been in bed resting But we were out on the neon razz And strolling the streets of the meadows Instead of being in bed dreaming As we were driving to Death Valley next day To discover ourselves in the high bar heat I was wearing a white cotton shirt And scruffy jeans […]
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The Three Mary’s
The Three Mary’s watched as the pterodactyls flew at will In the lead grey skies above the Ramsgate Retail Park But these creatures are extinct (Mary B) The asteroid that gave us life was responsible for their demise (Mary W) Ramsgate (Mary S) Retail Park (Mary B) Sucks (Mary W) Mary D said nothing as […]