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Desert Night

Metaphor for the journey of life, sometimes (most often) dark and dry and it's a long,long way...

Fargo Joe

Enter the zany world of the Wild Wild West, where pensioners listen to radio wrinkle

Unfortunate souls

Will I last until my fear arrives? I have been told that my spirits are no use, My dreams and my opinion of what happens are useless, The life of...
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Train Now Leaving

Memorable Crash
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Bridges

I like a drink
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Beneath the Workaholic

No need to check the time: it's 8.42 She says "Hello" to everyone with her eyes downcast Puts her bag and brolly on the desk; still on cue Whilst...

Destiny's Ocean

There's a personal childhood story behind this poem.

Archangels

From Goethe's Faust translation copyright Mark Scrivner 2001

Sealion

poem on a sealion in the zoo

This Lunar Night

a lyric on moonlight in suburbs

At the Beach

You can't even get to read a book in peace on this beach.
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A--Dream Days

remembering my grandmother

Daydream in Color

Sometimes even I don't really understand what I write
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A Living Death

The sound of the handle being pushed down The door opens into a stuffy and stale room Trying to accustom eyes to the darkness ahead Flicking on the...
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Paper cuts

The truth was packed inside that letter Folded in quarters A crease in my mind I do hope the edges were sharp! As knife edged as my sentences Can you...
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U: The Lesson

From an early age most men are taught their central lifelong macho fear: that basic fear of being caught. Those secret playground fights we fought to...

Football Mad

Thirty years ago, I wore the number nine jersey, scored in every game in the 1970 season?. I was a wiry Jack the Lad who couldn't wait to clock off,...

Peggy Spout

The journey of a natural spring

Coalfield Regeneration

After the coal is gone...

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