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Hayfever
To welcome the summer.
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Home Leave
Bidding prayer for a close friend, travelling home for the first time in years, for a family bereavement.
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Lest we forget
In Memory of Life
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Oops!
Opps! Beanz, meanz, expensive Similarly washing power and cornflakes Some products don’t scan to the cheap But wine is fine And milk, don’t you find The economy as good as
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Searching; fifty shades of sight
If you had agreed to a guide dog, as your Ma and Pa in Coventry wanted you to do, you wouldn't have fallen onto the underground line would you James?
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Searching; fifty shades of sight
How my new novel, Searching, fifty shades of sight begins.
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Insomnia
I cannot time's fleeting pages still With my pillow's down feathery quill Into stiff tonic cannot vapid space distill Lingering shadows around hazed mind spill
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Abrasive Hawk
What gallant form from vaunted perch does alight Leaving tailwind that unassuming gawkers affright Whose tawny shadow the sun's rays does blight; Swarthy silhouette shading glint so erudite
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Unrequited Dreams
Once more, treading the boulevard of dreams Only the sun's glint on the corroded surface gleams Shangri La's gate no longer in the distance beams
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Faithless
A short poem from an atheists point of view of being faithless and finding joy in the impossible questions that surround our perceived reality and religious constitutions. Enjoy writing friends!
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The News From Moidart
“The news fae Moidart come yestreen Will soon gar mony ferly, For ships o’war have just come in And landed Royal Charlie.”
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A Fading Dream
A fading dream (On death anniversary of my child hood class mate, friend Sangram Mishra) P K Routray Sangram! Before a long painful year three hundred sixty five dark nights earlier
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Pigs might...
After a coffee with a fellow poet, we found these pigs inspiring...
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A debatable question
A debatable question P K Routray Atheist does always see From God, religion to soul a superstition tree challenging His existence keeping religious belief and faith at a distance
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Sculptures by the Sea
Inspired by the Photograph by Norm Jorgensen of a sculpture on Cottesloe beach in Western Australia.
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Self Esteem
Self esteem P K Routray (On a photo of very old emaciated lady with white saree selling flowers Face bloodless, feature lifeless cloth white, spotless self with dignity and grace
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Smack Talk
Inspired by a Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smack_talk
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Faith Alone
Poem / Petition for understanding and help in despair
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Helen
Here, her eyes spoke deader. Heart longs for yonder. Missing, just like her false teeth. Was her life meant for something more? Just because.
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