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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.
Walking North
Above the ramparts of Iford Hill, The sun dipped low in a green sky, Rodmell Church lay between trees, And up the valley a cold wind...
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Slow Train East
for Auntie Maddy A roar past the carriage window Hurries on westwards. In the silence pursuing, In a meadow, slow-moving, Two lovers...
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Mehr Licht
for Karlheinz Stockhausen They say Karlheinz asserts The greatest work of art was when The 767s destroyed World Trade But opines that...
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In the Shakespeare Head
The world enters in flashes, Like the sun through wickerwork, As they sit at the table, Arboured together. A pump handle tips, A mirror...
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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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Experts on the Universe
Quite intentionally made Sense-armoured by their mental trade They view the heavens with aplomb In their high probing towers from Which a...
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For Claire
It seems so brief a time On a January day You came into the world And bawled in no uncertain way You were here to stay. Now a well-known...
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Tom at Four
Tom, Tom, our daughter’s son, what and who will you become? It is quite clear that you will be someone quite different from me. On the...
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Cigarette Case
How we get used to things. The tarnished cigarette case Bearing my initials, Grimy in interstices, Tobacco grained from cigarettes Smoked...
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Even Stephen
Do not question, said the Pope, the God-engendered bang. In the beginning He Was, and so is Now; without Him we are puffs of smoke, all...
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Evening at Knott End
The tide has not yet swept the littered shingle, Green and red buoys mark the channel, Pitch in scuds of rain. Violet fells Flow west...
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