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Please enjoy the poetry I have written throughout my life. Just click on a theme or browse the full collection below.
Protesilaus
Death awaits the Greek who dares Leap first ashore at Troy! So the goddess Thetis prophesied, And so, his ship’s prow striking sand,...
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Midsummer Moon
Mortar powders the floor, the wall leaves a chink, and a water pipe to clink on to the neighbour cell. Or should I turn to watch the sky,...
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Iconophobia
Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image ... Ten Commandments in the chapel, in the apse or on the crossing, are whitewashed or...
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Integrity
Today I heard a Quaker say That God reveals Himself. In every avenue of nature. Why, at wide or narrow Meeting roads (where Sons slay...
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Time Check
When the Beagle went to sea Fitzroy fixed the route by GMT With John Harrison’s marvellous clock In a box which stemmed the roll The...
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Telescope
Objects carry their history and our own - A drum let’s say, which traversed the Atlantic Or a telescope longue vue, Piercing the...
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Vaulting Ambition
From a holy place on the northern coast of an isle in the centre of a wine dark sea we unearthed a figurine vaulting over a bronze Minoan...
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Anaximander
Some near or distant hot hot day all that lives will burn away, how could they ever fancy that, sage men who thought the earth was flat?...
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