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The Last Day of October
Swarms of red rose ladybirds Hang heavily in the autumn air We are sharing a drink on our summer seat And should not be there at all As September has passed And October is spent Save for a day But what a day This day of golden avenues With its warm breezes and gentle light […]
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Travelling North
You are travelling to Telford Give my regards to the Iron Bridge I am travelling to Oxford With Wren Wren Leipzig A goldfinch with a phenomenal intellect If you send me a couple of selfies From your hotel room I will release the goldfinch And instruct it to travel in a northerly direction […]
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San Marino Junction
Each of the leaves Broken by its own weight Floats away from the mother tree
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A War Poem Found in a Bible
Turning Into the Void From a high vantage we watched the battle progress We watched as young men ignorant of delicate flowers Were torn apart by the confusion of war Each man slaughtered had experienced a childhood Whether idyllic or not this was of no matter It was their […]
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Self Portrait of a Fading Ghost
I went down with the Clipperton in November 1875 Nobody survived the wreck on those wretched sands But I was not accepted into Heaven As I thought I might be Due to my cowardice on that awful night I was commanded to haunt the many streets Of the Walmer Strand From that day onwards without […]
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Russian Cousins
Recently I found out that I had two cousins in Russia Which made me eager to contact them However they did not speak any English And I certainly did not speak Russian My neighbour suggested that I should face time them Which was a good idea in theory Until I found out that both Sergei […]
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The Poetry Field (Savage Sister)
You are still mad at me As I left you alone But we were estranged Long before the break I do miss you a great deal It pains me to admit that But we could not live together That was obvious for all the see Time might heal our wounds And sweeten the […]
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Marlon
Whilst hiking in the national park Marlon found many buttercups playing violins The […]
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The Luminosity of my Talent
I soon forgot about this poem and declined to retrieve it
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The Luminosity of my Talent
In 1965 I wrote my first poem