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'Go'
You belong to the normal generation. Everything clear-cut and solvable. Climate change stabilised. No more poverty. Hunger eradicated. The gap...
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The Causes of Poverty
Neither human nature nor the order of divinity tends toward a utopia in which all are equal, and wherein there is no class hungry for even temporary...
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Condoms for Cornwall - a short monologue

Here’s the list. Now what do I need? Well not me. My gallumping son Dan, who's just passed his GCSEs. Him and the rest of his year are heading for...
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Waiting For The Flash

I wasn't sure if a photo could express Ekphrastic poetry, but decided to have a go and see if it worked. Childhood is such a mystery to me,...
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The Cricklewood Times, Sunday 25th June 2017

NB: for Jack, no, Tarquin doesn't exist and I don't have these kind of connections. Image is author's own.
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Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth (Ekphrastic IP)

Buildings, far - off and grey seen across a vast field like a yellow ocean waiting to be sailed and, lying on the shore, Christina.
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Pictures of Grenfell tower (Ekphrastic IP)
Pictures of Grenfell tower; a black and blazing tower of horror; of hopeless people and trapped screams like the worst tragedy of terror in...
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invitation to the storm
hear tidings of the dance as whispers hushed lightning begins the song from far proclaims wind is bringer of news afar of the storm announce the...
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Mack and the Loch Boggart
There was once a boy named Mack and his mother was always telling him, "Now, Mack. Remember not to go near the edge of the lake. You might fall in or...
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My Poetry
When writing poetry I just think I don't talk I just write. I breathe but no sound comes out Quiet is all I crave My thoughts they just flow They are...
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The Mirrored Niche

Inspired by Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade this one is not for the faint-hearted or prudish. A thin line between erotica and pornography???
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Present Grace, Future Perfect

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Christ had compassion, not contempt upon a leper, ill, unkempt, He touched him – no infection passed, but for the leper, joy at last: … First, Jesus pardoned him, some sneered, ‘That’s blasphemy!’, their thinking jeered – he then healed this paralysis (– one day he’ll right all that’s amiss):
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I'm Trying to Live and Let Live
I’m trying to live and let live People in Boden fun print clothes Fast-moving black spiders, ants In my cupboards outwitting me with Their highly...
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One Day at a Time
For years I groomed my children To be sensitive Well-behaved, To be like the kind of person I'd love to be. When they graduated, Hidden joys...
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For the Love of Death
Built by my father now falling all around me This wooden house erected in time of peace I live in solitude on this windswept hill; I'm sat Watching...
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In the square with a wedding party

Homage
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Summer Thrills.

The first Lark sings, a Clematis, crimson, unravels from it’s florid bon-bon bud, as lanky-stalked, lemon-yellow Lupins stretch their spines with...
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Boatman's dream 29
Taking a turn
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Evening Song

Rich, deep trilling, chuckles, gurgles twirling …
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Winter Memories
Stay with me summer. I cannot face the winter mist. Reminding me of when we met and I could not resist. Keep shining sun, I cannot stand the winter...
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