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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Please enjoy the poetry I have written throughout my life. Just click on a theme or browse the full collection below.
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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Drumroll
Behind the curtain of the trees the throb of drums conveys a meaning, curse or welcome who can say, drums of war or peace or prayer...
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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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To Have and to Be
To be is to do - Aristotle To do is to be - Sartre Dobe do be do - Frank Sinatra anonymous graffiti So should we then obey what such...
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Billy Graham’ s Last Crusade
He was no public advocate of Republican or Democrat, Prudently unpolitical he, in the White House privately may have skipped diplomacy....
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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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Stockport Viaduct
Rubbish among the tracks, Beneath the trees, Declares the north. Grey sky, long terraces, Vapour from a vent, Crooked black branches...
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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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Vermeer's Delft
Delft in half shadow reposes on water, light and dark clouds sail overhead, the sunlit New Church has an empty belfry, the Old is dark...
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Pre-election Gyps
You should dump the man named Trump, Make him jump in the nearest sump. When he's on the stump and starts to pump The heart goes bump and...
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La Grande Jatte
The river bank alive with people Seated, standing, mostly thinking Many wtih a prop to handle: Sunshade, flowers, pensive pipedream...
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