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For One
He who wear the childs' glove, Who slips a thistle, Through the blood, Ran out the broken abbey cloak, Tearing the stones of the grass-slabbed bank...
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- 972 reads
Others
An earthquake is a natural disaster: we blame God. What happened on Tuesday was not an act of God, but of men for the God they believed they served,...
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- 1016 reads
The Counsellor
I have been a full-time psychological counsellor for literally longer than I can remember. I work within a number of mental institutions, but, more...
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- 1036 reads
Bottom Feeders
It had turned out to be as good a morning as the weather forecast had promised. Olaf's first glance through the porthole on wakening revealed a clear...
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- 1169 reads
Questions
Questions I have watched and rewatched all day The dreadful images of your chosen end, The fireball of your self-immolation, And I am no closer to...
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- 799 reads
FINALLY YOU
Two strangers meet as a result of a painful association
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- 474 reads
Twin towers
A reaction to the recent terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
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- 1023 reads
Today was a Nothing Day
Today was a nothing day No super hero's saved the day, No super villains got away. No jilted lovers sang the blues, at six and ten there was no news...
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- 1237 reads
Alight
Deep inside the ancient tomb A light flickers to life in the wind Illuminating the harsh curves of Granite nestled between softwood Tentative...
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- 669 reads
Questing for a Quick Buck
Making money in the 77th richest country in the world
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- 1919 reads
Missed Opportunities
Poem about a girl
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- 2043 reads
Champollion's Dream
Poem about Jean Francois Champollion, the man who first deciphered hieroglyphs (edited formatting)
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- 2617 reads
Eight Guilders Short
A sailor's lament from Holland
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- 2263 reads
Sunt Lacrimae
Title from The Aeneid by Virgil - A classic test/proof of Frost's dictum that 'poetry is what is lost in translation. Virgil's phrase can be translated as 'There are tears from things' but apparently it's even been (very loosely) translated as 'Shit happens'. Anyway I've taken a positive route from the original melancholy.
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- 1107 reads
Briefly in Bhuj
Looking but not seeing
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- 629 reads
X Letter from America
A light Rain Falls
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- 1450 reads