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Hot Day
It is all about paths you know Paths to the beach Paths to the pool Paths through the meadows Paths to school Peter and Petra were walking towards the municipal pool On days such as this all things stop Petra watched as a busy insect scurried past them Except insects Insects are always busy Peter […]
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I may be Maisie but I luv you a lot
I never thought that I would see the demolition of the Theale vineyard One should not harm vineyards They are areas of beauty Beauty is everything You have scarred my landscape I will not forgive u A small vineyard in Theale in West Berkshire has recently been demolished Beauty no longer exists in Theale […]
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Saturday in Swindon
Orange car Large screen Surfing kids Music playing Being ignored Smoking Drinking Sitting Watching Life around Resting Coffee Blue sky Clouding Friends Family Loneliness Boredom Anger Frantic Phoning Farewells Orange car Bus home Caron (July 2016)
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The Poetry Field
The gold is in the process of being collected Untold riches await I have arrived in El Dorado
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School Song
When Gough’s guns on the Sutlej In flame begin to play Far down in fair Calcutta We started on our way Mid the crash of charging squadrons And the crossing cannon-balls The heroes of Sobraon Kept the birth-day of St Paul’s When Garvock’s men were forcing Umbeyla’s trap of stone We came up to […]
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In a Chinese Vase
Edward kept his rather poor short stories In a battered Chinese vase He knew that he lacked the talent of his older brother But he liked writing for himself He hid his Chinese vase in the attic Under the only window in the room The attic window could not be immediately seen […]
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Ordinary Spies
Taking Tea at Torcross On an English afternoon Beatrice and Edward were taking tea at an outdoor café in the coastal village of Torcross The day was cool with an easterly breeze On the deep horizon two schooners were passing Out of Estonia Edwards was watching them through his binoculars Beatrice was writing in a […]
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Five Fine Schooners
In the distance Five fine schooners passed Unnoticed from the shore Their sailors were carrying Bunches of pale cornflowers And were dancing on the decks
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Cinema on the Beach
Over thirty years ago Marcello and I Watched a movie together On this beach It was called Tales of Ordinary Madness There was a scene midway through the film Showing Ornella Muti feeding many seagulls On a wide sandy beach She was naked from the waist down Ben Gazzara watched her from a […]
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In the Slapton Clearfields
Jack Jill and Jenny Had decided to run Through the swirling cornfields School was over Jack had a fine camera Dangling from his shoulder In a brown leather case Claudia Dormouse was watching them From within the deep undergrowth That hid the sea road from their view She knew that they […]