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Zabriskie Point
They shot a movie here once Really It was about a couple of drop outs Bobbie Mango was shuffling her feet in the sparse sand This is where life started and where life will end I did not answer Bobbie Mango removed her glasses Why is it called Zabriskie Point? It was named after a […]
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Deal Beach (Super Moon)
In the summer of 1895 Emma Roberts received a copy of Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism for her birthday She decorated her book by adding a Fleur-de-lis as well as a number of illuminated characters Her brother helped her to construct two ribbon clasps In later life Emma and her brother Charles became missionaries and […]
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Sad News Received in Deal
The world received the sad news this week That Leonard Cohen had passed away But for some reason death does not seem so final When you are beside the sea I did little apart from purchasing two copies of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam One of which I took to a football match
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Fires Across the Channel
We were sitting on a winter’s beach Listening to the sparse language of mermaids On the horizon fires flickered And were reflected in the low cloud Is Europe ablaze again? You asked I removed my blindfold Those are isolated fires you know Such is the brittleness of history
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I ran a mile and a half today
I ran a mile and a half today It was the first time in my life that I had felt alive No that’s not true I felt alive a long time before this Just for a second and then it was gone Until now Caron Miller Osborne 2009
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The Poetry Field
Your dull green shroud Provokes little excitement The mourners are long gone And it is left to me To guard your memories
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California
But that is the name of a Brad Pitt movie Milne It was spelt with a k Come again It was spelt Kalifornia not California Why are you calling this story California? Why do you think? Because we are in California Right first time Nelly was sitting on the settee looking at the ocean The […]
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Winchester Sound
Winchester Sound is where the mermaids reside For most of the year the waters are quiet But on the night of the Super Moon They come ashore and mate With the fisherman who are cleaning their boats In return for my silence They leave their names on my favourite rock May May May May May […]
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Influenza
My condition was self-inflicted I was building a wall To keep me safe When a brick fell on to my head And now I am lying on bed Feeling bruised and battered And have taken to writing confessional poetry The author is feeling low having had a flu jab
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Theft
Whilst in my dreamlike state I steal newspapers from a farmhouse that once belonged to the Crown The house is set away from the road and is partially hidden by a large hedge It belongs to the Pointing family And the newspapers are deposited in mailbox at the top of the drive by my holy […]