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More Pie
A poem about growing old disgracefully... Image: mine
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The Shadow of Good Intentions
The campfire in front of me threw dancing shadows across the dimly lit ground. A long, gangly shadow staggered its way around it. As if on patrol,...
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Sea
A poem written as a goodbye to the feelings i had of a previous partner, this is my favorite poem I've written. Hope you like it!!!!
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Looking Down and Up
About nothing at all, really. Image source wiki commons. licence CC-SA 3.0 photographer Noer kyani
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Confusion
...but not on my part.
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Walk With Me
Sunshine chased me from a corner of a deserted alley and shadows swept aside for me into the open air where critical thoughts & sad memories turn...
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Forthcoming
It is unfinished and only the introduction, but give me your hardest blows. I want the input. The wheatfield’s battered, smoldering ground. The sky a...
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Valentine
You always give me sweet feelings of pure happiness, without a single flower in sight; just your smiling presence, that happy thrill of being with...
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Renaldo in Love
“You ever been in love, Renaldo?” Renaldo gave Frederick a little nuzzle, then sat back on his haunches. “Once upon a time I decided to hitch a ride...
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Just Love
If the world was filled With just love Would I have been Smouldered and shaped Into the fierce woman That I am today Would my tears Have been able to...
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Ode on the Pacific, in water
Cool, clear, crystal water rippled in green far from the suffocating plastic clutches of man's unkind endeavours. White sanded ten thousand leagues...
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Waiting For Mum
Waiting For Mum Some images or events seem to stick in the memory and even nearly sixty years of a life cram packed with too many to recall there are...
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Arrival, Departure, Arrival
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] First arriving in a manger, concealing for a time his nature (all divine), to be a Saviour – Man to rescue...
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The Edge of the Forest
The forest is a clever adversary, a worthy lover, a lifelong friend, a duplicitous companion. You have to watch your every step, you watch every...
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The Horrible Duel
Two men died over a woman who was as beautiful as a jewel. They both loved her and they both died when they had a duel. This horrible incident...
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Grafting Haddock in the George
Haddock, haddock, haddock, all I ever see is haddock. My life revolves around haddock. I'm haddock-grafter at the George, which is an intensive role...
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I've Lost My Mummy 1
I had just moved into some new flats on a council estate. I was concerned about one of my neighbours. She was a woman in her 20s who was called...
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Fallen Leaf
A poem for a story I'm writing
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Measuring Temperature
What is the definition of Temperature? How is it measured? What is the temperature of a vacuum? Does it make sense? - At other extremes plasma, such...
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'Morning babe'
Monday 8.10am ‘Morning babe, how was your shift?’ ‘I love it that you call me babe, even though I’m 54.’ She smiles. ‘You’ll always be my babe, even...
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