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Notes from St Pancras
Kinetic Greeting Your greeting shields the clock face But few care For we are now in the city Where time passes without passion Let us all embrace Calm John I think it might rain today The wind is whipping up An umbrella is advised Each day I see trains come and go Some are […]
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Maurice
It is raining Maurice gets wet It is not raining Maurice stays dry But how do you know that it is raining Or whether Maurice is wet or dry If I suspended this question for a year and in that time Maurice travelled to Mars would I need to ask the question And how […]
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Toggle Set
Charlie You shall go to Singapore As you are nearest To the toggle set Lucy You shall take my place On the tree top path As I am scared of heights Maurice Please visit the garden Of the tigers As I am colour blind
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At Peace with Jupiter
We are following the road winds Just you and I And in this darkness may fall and die The eclipse of Jupiter is near Just days away Let us find shelter and await the display
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Sapphic Thoughts Kensington 2019
When reading my poetry at a gathering recently I was asked by a rather butch woman whether I was a lesbian I explained to her that I was to all intents a man and in possession of a rather happy penis She said that her question had arisen whilst reading my poetry and that she […]
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Fireflies
The moon hangs low over the sea Suma beach is deserted Apart from the fireflies Moon The moon hangs low over the sea Suma beach is deserted Apart from the fireflies
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A Volcano has Emerged from my Wallpaper
A volcano has emerged from my wallpaper I am not sure how it arrived It certainly was not there yesterday As I always look at my wallpaper before I go to bed I hope that this volcano remains inactive As the beautiful cherry blossoms have just arrived This makes my small bedroom quite cheery and […]
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A Heightened Sense of Reality
What is real to me may not be real to you I often wonder why as we are no different When I hear a bird singing in a tree Do you hear the same sweet songs Are you aware of the beauty that surrounds us all Are you aware of the ugliness that surrounds us […]
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A Book on my Coffee Table
I have a book on my coffee table called The Fortunes of War which was written by Olivia Manning just over half a century ago Only volume two (The Levant Trilogy) sits in front of me and its battered cover shows a young Harriet Pringle looking into the distance with one of the many Egyptian […]
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Cyprus in the Sky
And I cast a piece of balsa into the fast flowing stream Why did you do that I was interested in its destiny It vanished beneath the willow trees Was that the destiny of the balsa Possibly I will never know Let us eat at my table of beauty And I will describe the clouds […]