Silver Spun Sand Poems
Selection of Poems
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Black Willow
To know I will never see your face again ...
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Buried Treasure
...'Stones', or rather 'Neolithic tools' as his granddad had described them.
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Came the Sandman
Evening crept – liquid chocolate... dark and soft like the fur of a kitten...
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The Last Cigarette
I hid my cigarette in the fold of my coat...
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"Darkest Before Dawn" (I.P.)
He will not sleep tonight;
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"Hi Ho Silver Lining"
“...and away you go now baby; I see your sun is shining..."
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"Hi, Mum...it's me"
“You remember," I say. She doesn’t answer, but I just carry on, anyway.
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"I Am ..." I Said (I.P.)
(Edit) "Oppression can only survive through silence." Carmen de Monteflores
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"I Loves You Porgy"
“Someday I know he’s coming to call me. He’s going to hold me, so it’s going to be like dying, Porgy... but when he comes, I know I’ll have to go.” Ira Gershwin
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"In These Shoes?"
(I.P.) So! You've wound down yer winda. So there is life on Mars!
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"Long Time No Speak..."
Off he goes again – like a well-worn LP.
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"Made in Egypt"
(Inspired by a report on yesterday's 'News at Ten') No self-respecting five-star hotel, would be complete without Egyptian cotton sheets...
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"Pretty Bubbles in the Air"
I would cup my hands; capture them. Only, I can’t...
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"Prince of Desire" (I.P.)
(edit) “The lights go out and I die. Tomorrow I will be reborn. Tomorrow I will dance again.” (Rudolf Nureyev – March, 1938 - January, 1993)
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'A Map of the World' (I.P.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8WU_RRx-A Melt to the tunes of Pat Metheny; pour myself another cup of coffee...
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'After the Gold Rush'
Sleep won’t come and so I write... listen to Neil Young – golden oldies from the past, the nineteen seventies and such.
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'All Human Life is There' (I.P.)
Scratchwood; yours truly – chilling out, after a ‘hard day at the office’.
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'At the Going Down of the Sun '(I.P.)
“As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, as the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end,they remain"
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'Back to Black'
It's the little things mean most.
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'Bright, Shiny Things'
(Edit) A mere moment in time; gone in a trice...
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'Can't Let Maggie Go'
Yellow hair, spiky fringe – sententious to a fault.
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'Dish of the Day'
Toad in the Hole. Now there's a thought.
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'Finders, Keepers'
The hill – mine, plus a hundred acres of sky.
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'Goodbye' She Wrote
“The moving finger writes and having writ moves on..." Omar Khayyam
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'Happy New Year'...
It trips off our tongue. We say it to our friends...the postman the milkman...
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'Hi, Son'
It was just a matter of time, now.
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'It was a Dark and Stormy Night...'
A scarlet shawl, from shoulders soft, slipped, silent, to the ground...
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'It's Over...'
Still can’t get his text out of my head...
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'Kiss an Angel'
(Edit) She’d said to watch his hands, and his mouth...
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'Lead Us Not...' (I.P.)
I’ve lost my way...somewhere between, ‘Our Father’ and ‘Lead us not..."
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'Little Sparrow'
Mummy said not to talk to strangers...
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'Narnia'...
Our summer-house, at the end of the garden.
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'Percussion, Salt and Honey'
Satin sheets bind tangled feet, yet, no reluctant prisoner – this.
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'Pie in the Sky' (I.P.)
(Edit 12/03/2012) There’s some might say we had it made... having gone from rags to riches;
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'Proud Mary' Blues
(Edit 19/03/2011) Soon, Katrina will come...
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'Purple Haze'
Inspired by the life and lyrics of the late, great, Jimi Hendrix
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'Songs of Love and Hate'
(Edit) With more than a nod to Leonard Cohen
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'Spit 'n Polish' (I.P.)
Each evening, Cherry, as she was called, cleaned her old man’s shoes...
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'Study in Blue'
It sizzles in Soho tonight...
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( I.P.) Oxymoronically Speaking
Seriously though...only joking.
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( IP) The Last Pharaoh
As if possessed – tears at her bodice; rips apart her rose-silk gown...
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(I.P.) "Sorry for the Wait, Sir..."
So what did you say the problem was? Your washing machine won’t rinse? My ‘washing machine’ stormed out yesterday; took my cash and credit cards with her, no less.
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(I.P.) A Winter Reverie
(Edit 31/01/2011) April seems aeons away; Blooms of daffodils a-blaze. Chilly winds make one long for Drowsy dog-days...
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(I.P.) Portrait of My Father
Even a simple shopping list he could transform into a sonnet... until one night when fate intervened.
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... Presumed Dead
We used to have so much to say. Not enough hours in the day to discuss … whatever.
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A Beautiful Find
Is it because ...?
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A Beautiful Find
A walk to the bottom of my garden...
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A Coming to Terms
(Re-edit 2/12/2012) There are lessons to be learned from fallen leaves...
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A Day in the Life
An amicable divorce...he'd wanted.
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A Distant Thunder
You can’t fight evil like that with Kalashnikovs...
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A Distant Thunder
The chink of money changing hands...
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A Familiar Affair
Never have much luck with men – not for the want of trying.
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A Fear of Falling
On my back in the orchard...
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A Fine Romance
Thinks she's going half crazy ...
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A Gambian Experience
Dimpled toes court the dust ... pencils hover in mid air ...
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A Gentleman's Agreement (I.P.)
'Tell you what...I'll do you a deal..."
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A Girl Called Mattie (I.P.)
Those castles in the sand belong to yesterday...
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A Kind of Loving
Wonders where it went... the passion that was theirs.
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A Life More Ordinary
He's still a kid deep inside, acting out his Walter Mitty world.
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A Life More Than Ordinary
A mundane kind of life...
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A Love Like That
:-)
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A Man and His Dog
Just a card would have been nice, but I’ve still got last year’s in the drawer somewhere.
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A Man for All Seasons
The shiver of corkscrew curls, and the ripple of sinews...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (I.P.)
...
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A Midsummer's Daydream
Seeing as it's International Fairies Day today...
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A Moment in Time
I was ten - you were twelve...
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A Moment in Time
There are all kinds of time
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A Nice Day for It
I remember my dad staring out the window... not knowing what to do.
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A Night in Camargue
The moon called the tune...
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A Pelican in the Wilderness
Inspired by last week's I.P. Hunted as a freak she roamed the land...
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A Place Called Mattie
Beguiling – right from the start...
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A Robin on a Sprig of Holly
(edit) Just a card would have been nice.
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A Small Ceasing to Be
I don’t kid myself the world will stop because you’re not here;
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A Soldier's Prayer (I.P.)
“For Death came flying through the air..."
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A to Z
A poem born of this week's Inspiration Point.
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A Town Like Beverley
This – the leaving behind...
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A Very Fine Affair
A whisper of a dress caressed her thighs...
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A Wing and a Prayer
Though far away, my dearest love, I must see thee, one last time...
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A Winter Without Snow
A shamal blows in from the desert...
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Ab Initio
(Edit) ‘Neath a starry maple’s shade I was young, once...
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ABC for Zoologists
Seems we're all bitten by the bug;-)
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About a Boy
Down the back of the settee I found a scrap of paper;
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Affordable Housing?
Rows of terracotta roofs and miles of decking...
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After Making Love...
I defy dawn to break this reverie...
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After the Ball
Life's no fairy-tale and I'm no Cinderella.
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After the Rain (I.P.)
He and I, soporifically sated, choose our separate ways...
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After You've Gone
(Edit 30/4/2012) After you’ve gone... who shall I have to cook for..
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Air Kisses
... the concave curve of my hips - perfect bow of my lips ...
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Alicia at Number Three (I.P.)
Trees vie to give her shade... so soft and light her tread.
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Alien Shores
Like a scene from a foreign movie.
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All Done With Mirrors
I.P. 21/ll/08 Colin’s late again, for the third time this week.
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All that glitters ...
... the cross she always wore – twenty two carat; the one I bought her for her twenty-first.
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All the King's Horses
What a circus – what a show!
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All the Young Dudes (I.P.)
Heed my warning or proceed at they peril!
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Amaranthine
A branch, tapping on the window wakes me. I watch her sleeping...
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An Englishman Abroad
Over-rated things; words.
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An Incident on the Line
IP 'No one saw him fall...'
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And Silver Spun Sand (I.P.)
You didn’t stand on tiptoes... you just reached out your hand...
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And This One's for You
(Edit 25/03/2011) When I am old, and even greyer than now... finally, ‘thrown off this mortal coil’
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Angelina
‘Beat a path of retreat up them spiral staircases, past the tree of smoke past the angel with four faces begging God for mercy and weepin’ in holy places’ Bob Dylan
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Animal Quakas (I.P.)
An attempt at the I.P. A poem (of sorts) the letters E,R,N,P,Y prohibited. Difficult, or what?
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Anniversary
You stumble in... through the kitchen door –
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Another Day...
Closer to what he will become...
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Another Man's Treasure
A square peg in this dump-it-get-a-new-one age.
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April Rising
How she hated April; tore its pages from her diary.
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Ars Poetica
I intoxicate as rain drunk from a loch...
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Artist's Impression
...
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As it is in Heaven
...
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Aubade
“Children on the street, still playing their games, smiles on their faces have never changed – I hope it’s all the same, I didn’t leave in vain...” (Stephen Gately 17/3/76 - 10/10/09)
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Away With The Fairies
On the shingle they rock and they roll in rhythm to the surf’s rise and fall.
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Baby Suits Blue
How to describe what it's like to swim with jewelfish...
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Back Pages
‘Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt, somehow Ah but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.’ Bob Dylan
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Baguettes at Dawn (I.P.)
(Re-edit) Sleep won’t come, so stroll down the cafe on the front...
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Barefoot through the Bluebells
I ran my fingers through her hair ... waxed lyrical about her eyes.
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Barely Blue
(I.P.) (Re-edit) I'm writing you now, just to see if you're better.
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Barnaby Jones
And so sleep tight...
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Beaujolais Days
She always said she’d be the first to go, but he’d gone and proved her wrong.
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Beautiful Dreamer
If you but looked inside my heart therein would lie such treasure...
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Bed Six is Betty Brown
Been here three weeks or more, this one. It’s OK; she can’t hear you...
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Bees in Amber
“I wish I could remember that first day, first moment of your meeting me.” Christina Rossetti
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Before Life on Mars
Before you and me were us...
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Before the Radiotheraphy
Everything's trivial now, except this.
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Before You Walk Away...
(Edit) Look back at the house we scrimped and saved for...
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Before You Went
I wanted to tell you this was tearing me apart...
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Behind Closed Doors...
She winces...glimpses a face in the window.
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Being Thirteen
They pretend to know it all, but they don’t.
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Berceuse
Sometimes, life creeps up and taps us on the shoulder.
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Between the Lines
(Edit 24/09/09 with a thanks to Nathan) ...that duck-shaped damp patch on the wall by our bed has come back ...
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Beyond Words
'A poem of the air' such is snow...
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Black Became Her
She'd never been attracted to him sexually.
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Black Irises
How they shimmered in the evening stillness;
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Black Lace and Burgundy
Catlike, her fingers stalk the keys; Für Elise from memory. Con espressione, indeed ...
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Black Orchid
A surprising kind of plant...one might almost say ‘pervy’.
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Black Rain
If the dead can die again, they did ... (Written with the help of source material from eye-witness accounts)
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Blackberry Wine
(Edit) The berries yield to our touch...
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Blow Up
Another for the portfolio...
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Blue
Believe it or not, a true story. Driving through the countryside we spot a quaint old pub, both of us could eat a horse, so agree to stop for lunch.
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Blue Became Her
Perhaps, because it was the colour of her eyes...
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Blue on Blue
On Sundays we’d go fishing, Dad and I.
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Blue Zebras
There's nothing to equal a child's imagination.
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Bluewater Paradise...
...for some. Edited
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Boondock's Lullaby
In reverie ...
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Boxers in Yellow
Seen – from my window two hares – boxing on Easter Day.
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Boxing Day Night...
;-)
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Boy in Green Beret
...
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Boy with a Bird Tattoo
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Boy with Violin
(Edit 14/4/2012) He – my bow; such a fine length – perfectly honed.
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Boy-Blue
Current I.P. His sweetheart, she rose early, one bright and sunny morn,
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Brave New World
Night fades to morning; I hear screams – outside in my back-yard.
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Breaking the Ice
The thaw, slowly setting in...
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Breaking the Ice
The thaw slowly setting in...
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Breaking the Mould
He watches her sleeping. 'Peas in a pod', they’d been...
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Buy One Get One Free
The lather’s to die for – bubbles galore! Cost an arm and leg but sure as hell I’m worth it; Dolce Vita by Christian Dior.
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By Silver Stream
We watched the ripples grow.
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C'Est La Vie (Say the Old Folk)
It was a teenage wedding.
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California Sands...
A far cry from LA ...
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Call that Poetry
A lot of what these poets write, it makes no sense at all...
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Camomile Lawn
A gem of a morning, a sunrise to die for...
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Campari and Orange
I wish... (edit)
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Carmine Kisses
The door groans open. “Anybody there?” he calls...
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Chardonnay and Me
Beside a pond, stiller than a dream, we set our picnic basket down, she and I.
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Chef de Cuisine
His white apron, languishes on the back of the kitchen door...
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Cherries Are Not the Only Fruit
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Chessie
She didn't have a home for ten months, until I took her in.
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Chiaroscuro
Depict your contours in soft charcoal.
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- 1553 reads
Chicken Tikka for One (I.P.)
Standing at the sink, washing-up from dinner...
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Child of Mine
Just one short week since you arrived...
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Child of Our Time
(edit) I was not there when war began...
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Cider with Gramps
I don’t recall that last time I ever saw you...
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Clanger! (I.P.)
Clanger was chuffed as a dog with two tails...
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Clean, Young Englishman (I.P.)
Plus-four breeches, green, baize coat...
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Cloud (I.P.)
I’ll meet you at the bend in the river.
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Cold Comfort
Funny...how we've changed over the years.
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Cold Comfort
Time to move on now, Mrs. Jones; to cross the i’s and dot the t’s...
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- 2821 reads
Collage
Crazily it shone... that moment –
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Come Away With Me
ABC Mag IP. Let's just sleep on it. Pretend it's all been a dream.
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Come Springtime
The same unforgiving wind...
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Come Summer
All winter long I played the role of feckless youth;
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Come the Spring
(Edit) What price...progress?
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Comes the Sandman
He spoke softly to you; coaxed eyelids fall shut.
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Coming to Terms
And how I would show you the snowdrops...
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Cote d'Azur
You stripped off on the beach...
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love
His last tour of duty; scuffs the sand with his boots.
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Crazy Maybe
(Edit 10/02/2011) A winter’s afternoon, yet a May Tree by my window bursts into bloom!
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Dad, it's me (I.P.)
(Edit 19.04.2010) "All the world's a stage, and one man, in his time, plays many parts..."
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Daffodil Dawn
So many rooms we've slept in... The one in Pont Saint Pierre with a bath, bidet, but no loo;
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Dancing in the Dark
No step I couldn’t master when caught up in his arms. No other partner with whom I danced so well.
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Daphne's Dafferdills
A wry look at this week's IP. "Who needs poems ...?"
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Days Like These...
Peeling potatoes at the kitchen sink I watch him walk back down the path –
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Days like These...
‘The Chaos Theory’ personified – you and your room...
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Days of Lies and If Onlys
We got scolded when we climbed the lemon tree...
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Dead...Again
Today, I have 'died a million deaths'...
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Dear Daughter...
Don't go looking for an answer...
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Dear Diary ...
Dank, dark and drizzly this November afternoon;
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Dear Mr. Oboe Man...
(edit) ...like I'm the only one in the world unable to sleep...
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Dear Whomsoever ...
When you read this note, you'll have found my box...underneath the floorboards.
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Frank Cooper and Me
And there we are, just the two of us...
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- 8 comments
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- 922 reads
Fridays on the Towpath
We banked on being millionaires by fourteen;
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Little Dancer
An enchanting slip of a thing...
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- 433 reads
Nine White Tulips
A midnight sky drizzles its wind like curaçao, through the lime trees...
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No Happy Returns...
...no cards, no party...
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Sliding Doors (I.P.)
8.30 a.m. on the Bedpan Line...
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Somewhere in Ypres
Curled against you in this god-forsaken ditch. (Battle of St Julien 24 April – 5 May, 1915)
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Summer Nights
Time moves at a snail's pace.
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Summer Pudding
"No...this isn’t a poem, it’s just a three-day old loaf..."
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- 571 reads
To Glimpse a Butterfly
I nicknamed her ‘Papillon’, from that very first day I saw her...
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Wild Geese
Three months, they gave you...
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- 477 reads
Zac's Garden
A red house on the hill
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A Kind of Grieving
Pour myself into gardening this morning...
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- 2147 reads
The Stars and Back
Once more tonight I drown...
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- 10 comments
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Dragonfly
Once upon a sunrise...
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- 1466 reads
Dressed to Kill
‘Made in Bangladesh’, wherever that is, the label read.
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- 1126 reads
For Silver
The time of the year when the sun sets further away...
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- 1007 reads
Four ASBOs and a Wedding (I.P.)
A blushing bride emerges up at 23A... takes the front porch steps, two at a time...
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- 2540 reads
It Usually Rains at Funerals
A tragedy, of course, the next door neighbour – only twenty-five...
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Lady April
Satin shapes sway inside her dress...
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Little Bird
(Edit) A fledgling fallen from the nest.
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- 2013 reads
Love Soup
Tonight he’ll win her heart with his haute cuisine
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Maddy by Moonlight
Her body, a geology of mountains and grottoes...
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Morning Song
We wake...me for the umpteenth time
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- 10 comments
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- 1131 reads
Not for Resuscitation
Only know me, not as the one wires me up to some machine...
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Sara Orange Tip Was Here
http://greennature.com/article2313.html 'Please, make me beautiful,' she said.
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Song of the Windflowers
After you’d gone, grieving was good they’d have me believe
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- 14 comments
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That Treasured Time
On the shores of Loch Maree
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The Games People Play
Blasted my eardrums, you two when you were kids.
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The Green Faerie
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder...perhaps.
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The Man with the Earring
There was someone, some time, somewhere.
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The Poetess
In memory of Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818 – 1895 who wrote such hymns as All Things Bright and Beautiful, Once in Royal David’s City, and There is a Green Hill Far Away....
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- 1100 reads
The Times of Our Lives
There were three of us that day... two boys, and me.
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The Times They Are A Changing (I.P.)
(Edit) We were together in so many...
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Room Five is Mrs. Jenkins
... or could be any one of us.
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Verity Jones
Her T-shirt soaking wet, I gave her mine.
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Uncle Sam
My sister said to tell on him ...
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The Matchstick Men and the Rainbow
When one's reach exceeds one's grasp
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Murder in the City
An air of death in the City this morning.
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The day I grow up ...
...I'll watch the whole of Marathon Man.
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First Frost
(Re-edited 21/04/2009) You are just a pawn in this crazy thing we call life.
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How High is the Moon
(edited, 22/09/08 with a thank you to jennifer, sunshine and Mori;-) Like schoolgirls we giggle, mad she calls me.
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To Whom It May Concern
The gift of life doesn't come fancy packaged ...
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What Kind of a Name is Penelope?
She stirred up the leaves with her white, spiky Nikes.
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Lady in Red
A family gathering – Mother’s ninety-fifth. The spirit stronger than the flesh ...
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The Woman in White
They paid their last respects – laid tulips on the freshly-dug grave of the vicar’s late wife.
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The Leaving
Caught up in a whirlwind of buying duvets and curtains, mugs, plates and bowls, electric kettles and toasters.
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My name's Marilyn. What's yours?
Looking for a good time, handsome? Barrel of laughs – that’s me. We could while a way an hour or two – three if you like.
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His Father's Son
Alexander’s never known you and yet he swears he loves you. Vows to follow in your footsteps
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Poppies and Polka-dots
Yesterday was her birthday. She looked pretty in her party dress – the satin one with polka-dots. Red always was her colour.
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The Wolves of Wakepeke
Just a late attempt at the inspiration point:-) “Can you hear the white wolves crying?” said Maranga to Kalista. “I can only hear the river,” said the young boy to his sister.
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This One's for Me
Look out, Amy Whitehouse or whoever, here I come. (edit)
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Some Other Spring
Best thing about this dump is the chestnut tree and the garden. House not up to much. Only what you’d expect of Army Barracks.
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- 1993 reads
What Makes Me Happy ...
At the end of a hard day, an easy-chair and a cold beer – a letter from a long-forgotten friend.
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- 1930 reads
Word Perfect
The path of true love ... and all that.
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- 2037 reads
Moonchild
Our pilgrimage, this - our last ditch attempt as if, by some miracle, this would make you well again.
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Evening in Paris
I used to ask her where she went most every night. “To see a man about a dog,” was always her reply
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I remember ...
The way the wine dribbled down the bottle and you wiped it with your hand – licked your fingers as it drizzled down your chin
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In Another Life
“There is a better place,” she says. Tells me it’s my call. Up to me to decide where that will be.
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- 1429 reads
Glory Days
In those hungry years when we were young we had nothing.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Incidentally, so sorry I’ve wrecked your Christmas. A lot more attractive things you could be doing on Christmas Eve.
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The Gift
Almost the hardest thing I’ve ever done, was surviving last Christmas.
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The Square on the Hypotenuse
He stares, blindly, through the window. “Good morning, Mr. Reeves,” say the children ...
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Sweet Charity
She’s only here to shelter from the rain. So am I, if the truth be known.
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Holcombe - the last time
‘Must be in my second childhood,’ the old man mused, as he watched her chase the waves ...
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- 2285 reads
Just This ...
(edited) Went for a walk in the snow today ...
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The Man Next Door
Strange thing - that sixth sense of ours.
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- 1880 reads
I Could Have Written A Book About ...
IP. Some things about me ... as seen through the eyes of another.
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The Others
All that breathes – moves – quakes, quickly darts for cover.
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Girl Watching Goldfish
Her world, so different from theirs and yet in some ways, much the same …
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She Was ...
At the end of the day, we are the things we love ... I guess. (Edit, with thanks to Jennifer)
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Ever So Slightly Mad
'Abba had nothing on my dancing queen ...'
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Esher Girls
He makes great coffee, so ... can I complain?
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Southwold Revisited (The Sound of the Sea)
A walk on the pier in the pouring rain, not her best idea.
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- 4991 reads
The Stuff of Dreams
What had rekindled this passion – long-since smouldering, to suddenly spring alive?
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- 2067 reads
Things My Daughter Taught Me
Taught me ... I wouldn't be remembered for how clean my floor was. (edit)
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Going For a Song ...
This week's IP (30 words)
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The Beat Goes On ...
Scrawled-on stairwells resound to a sweet discordant euphony of climactic ecstasies.
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Some Enchanted Evening
... a posh cocktail affair.
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- 1970 reads
Thicker than Water
Never told you this, but often, as a kid, I hated you.
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- 2096 reads
Smoke and Mirrors
"Monsters aren't real." Mummy says.
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- 2128 reads
Letting Go
Let the violets go you once pinned in my hair ...
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- 1931 reads
The Crow and I
I am no vegetable ...
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- 11 comments
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Today I wrote a poem
Times change, sometimes for the better.
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- 3108 reads
Paradise Found
A bed and a table, a lamp and a chair; not much of a room ... except heaven is there.
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- 2622 reads
For Whom the Cicada Sings
“I ask you. What finer way to die than as a hero?"
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Phoning Home
He was in the garden – digging, according to her, and I could picture him...
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- 4287 reads
Me, and Her with the Piercings
(edit) ...we didn’t want the night to end... to slip through our fingers like a dream –
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Driving Great Aunt Maisie
We'd already done 'I Spy' to death...
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- 4208 reads
Sweet Emmaline
Life...ain't no bowl of cherries.
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- 3299 reads
Tomorrow's Children
In an infinite universe, anything is possible.
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- 2646 reads
How It Is
He was posted to Basra.
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- 4186 reads
The Beautician's Day Off
A flimsy curtain screen all that’s between them and their dignity...
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Roundabouts and Roses
At the far-end of the bypass, opposite the garage you’ll find it...
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- 17 comments
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- 3193 reads
The Trouble with Grace
We couldn’t help ourselves, even though we knew where it would end.
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No Poem
There is nothing I can write
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- 14 comments
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- 2615 reads
Picture at an Exhibition
A T-shirt that said, 'Save Our Seals'.
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- 11 comments
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- 2931 reads
Requiem For a Friend
(edit 06/01/2010) We were both typists and jive-crazy.
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- 5624 reads
His Father's Eyes
He stirs; grabs at life with all ten fingers...
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- 4655 reads
Requital
Life is a gift...they told me
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- 9 comments
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- 2066 reads
Lines in the Sand
For my sixth birthday I wanted a doll; instead they gave me a rifle...
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- 18 comments
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- 5168 reads
Justifiable Suicide
Odd - the things that come to mind sometimes.
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Paper, Scissors, Rock
Current IP. They snatched the scissors away...Nothing sharp permitted here, not in this place.
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Hotel Paradiso
(edit) They dine on langoustine – say how good it’s been to mingle with the natives.
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The Passing of Aunt Maud
(Current I.P.) The biggest bonus of being old, one doesn’t lose sleep over niceties.
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Tonight Josephine...
Current I.P. In retrospect, posing nude, not that much of a deal.
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Gnome Truths
Current I.P. Cast your mind back, if you can, to nineteen-fifty-five...
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The Fallen
(edit) "A barbed-wire fence, no deterrent...
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Monday Afternoon...
(An edit and retitle) She whispers she hear hears something outside. So do I...
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Saved by the Bell
Current I.P. "Keys that enchanted, perplexed, excited...
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Shades of Blue
I christened him ‘Blue’, the man with the Tesco carrier-bags.
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One Enchanted Evening...
Deprived of their TV – instead they chat of galaxies, giant-reds, black holes...
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- 14 comments
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Lear in a Nutshell
Current I.P. ;-)
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Picture This
(edit) A rainy afternoon...flicking through an album
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Hey Joe...
So, label me a whore, Joe... feed the gossip, fuel the lies!
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- 2586 reads
Last Orders
Current I.P. I’ m waiting for the owner of this god-forsaken dive to call time...
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Read All About It
Current I.P. (Edit, with thanks to Ewan) My dream; to see my name in print.
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How's Frank?
'Frank died...Don't you remember?'
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Santa's Lament
The commotion awoke the whole family – the kerfuffle and hullabaloo...
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Winter Solstice...
(edit 22/12/09) December 21st...as seen from my window this morning
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Madame Butterfly
"Like the tattoo," I say...
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- 2183 reads
She Always Did That...
(edit) She had such nice hands...
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In Retrospect
One snowflake, so fragile, but by sticking together, they can bring a country to its knees.
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Killing Me Softly
Much too old for Ring-a-Roses; not old enough to go proposing.
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- 2978 reads
Happy Divorce Day!
Who am I to shake the tree?
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Hear No Evil (I.P.)
The workmen couldn't get on her nerves no more.
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The Fortune-Teller
Your body speaks to me...
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Her Legacy (I. P.)
"Spend it like there'll be no tomorrow..."
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Losing One's Marbles
Memories – elusive things. Where do they hide when they escape us? (Edited;-)
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Waltzing Matilda
(edited, with thanks to kheldar;-) ...bunches of forget-me-nots festoon the old, oak rafters.
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Name's Roxanne (I.P.)
Window shopping, are we, handsome?
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For the Love of Her
Thus, our pilgrimage; friends and family...
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The Silence of the Summit (I.P.)
Avalanche risk was high; only, I’ve always courted danger...
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Myth of Narcissus
...I grow impatient for spring.
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Every Little Thing (I.P.)
"Twins, separated at birth," we joked...
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Girl with Cello
She, who came in from the wind and drifting snow.
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The Moon and Back
Edit (22/3/2010) Thought I’d experiment. Take a stab at the moon; hoped you wouldn’t mind.
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Only the Flowers Grow Wild
(Edit) 'Everyone bombs us now,' he says.
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Unrequited
The night you left...
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- 4799 reads
Sweet Nothings
Can't recall the things we spoke about...
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Freeze Frame (I.P.)
Good as dead – long before I hit the water.
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The Tender Buds of April
A flower, in all its splendour, finally opens...
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Sweet Caroline
Don’t make me wait with bated breath to feel that thrill of flesh on flesh...
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Fear of Falling
The fallen; easily forgotten.
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- 4192 reads
Golden Delicious
(Edit 29.04.2010) A tree that grew outside their kitchen window...
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Goodbye to April
(Edit 1.05.2010) She rocks to sleep as the chair sings its own, sweet elegy to the passing of time.
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- 3462 reads
Vissi d'Arte
(Edit 7.05.2010) Bankside - Tate Modern...
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Saving Gracie (I.P.)
A saint, they called him, and to some, he was...
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Once More with Feeling
...fumble for our cosy, towelling robes...
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Homemade (I.P.)
"Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)
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Reclining Nude
A model, draped over a green baize settee;
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One Man's Junk (I.P.)
...another's treasure.
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Milk or Lemon?
A pleasant reunion; thanks to ‘Friends Reunited’. We chat of this and that; she serves afternoon tea..
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Going Down to the Sea Again
...the boarding of a train on our yearly pilgrimage to Broadstairs.
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Holly Blue
(Edit) Your dignity defiled...
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Summer Evenings like These...
...the chatter of martins, sitting, gossiping on the wire.
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Rose
"Who needed men?" she'd asked a friend.
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Since You Arrived...
'Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings...' or so it was written.
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The River that Drowned (I.P.)
(Edit 15/6/2010) ...inspired by China's "Three Gorges Dam Project" http://www.flickr.com/photos/wicks/3488452739/
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Frankie Goes to Summer Camp (I.P.)
“On far-off fields, by elm and oak, I see the lights. The Camp-fires of the Past are burning.” Henry Van Dyke ‘Indian Summer’
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Girl with Blue Eyes
(Edit 4.07.2010) She never missed a trick...
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Postcard from Mumbai
Those few precious lines are part of the ether now...
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Solveig's Song
(Edit 6.8.2010) Through an open window wafts a melody by Grieg.
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Zoe's Garden
Her hands shake more of late...bending down a painful process...
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Wish You Were Here? (I.P.)
(Edit) A honeymoon story in 60 words...and they're all true!
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Maryam's Story
Her makeshift shelter swept away...
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Impasse
You know you need help, but who to turn to?
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Who'll Pay the Piper?
“Piper Alpha...one hundred and sixty-four missing...”
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Sepia Days
A fleeting smile of recognition...
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Watching Emily Play...(I.P.)
as she danced amongst the bluebells...
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Have to Laugh - Don't You?
(Edit) “Don’t worry,” the medics advised... it’s not life-shortening.”
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Woman
On tacky, lino floor, huddled in a corner...
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Penelope Fairchild
She prays to a god of the copper, or silver kind...
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Paper Dreams
(Edit) Put the paper napkins in a drawer, now summer is done.
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The Cherry Tree (I.P.)
“How you shiver, Cherry Blossom! Let me warm you with my kisses..."
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Fish With Everything! (I.P.)
Shack up with a Sunfish, have yourself some fun, fish...
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Whiteout! (I.P.)
...
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- 14 comments
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I Bring You Roses...
You stare at your knife and fork...
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Up to Here with the Weather ... (I.P.)
(edit) and up to here with you...
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- 1990 reads
Past Imperfect
(Edit 8/12/2010) "I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide." (Edna St Vincent Millay)
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Sweet and Low
His body – comforting as I climb in, between the sheets...
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I Crave to Save and yet...(I.P.)
Of some things, a hot-blooded girl like me can never get enough.
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Winter's Garden
A midnight walk last evening...
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Too Cold for Snow
Too young, as I was then, to know the true meaning of love...
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Fergal's Wake
Now you're gone, what am I left with?
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- 10 comments
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Girl, Painting...
(Re-edit 28/12/2010) Close my eyes – I can almost see her ...
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Oyster Bay
There’s a place I once knew called Oyster Bay – I went there one day in my mind...
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If...
If you were sent to Neptune, I’d hire a rocket-ship...
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Saskia's Song
(Edit 8/1/2011) Sepia memories...
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Wild Child
Thirty-one, seemed over the hill...in those days.
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Lights...Camera...Action (I.P.)
(Edit 10/1/2011) Couldn’t eat a thing; my hands atremble – throat, dry as the Sahara.
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No Name Joe
He’d call me ‘his Lily Rose’...
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Had it With You!
And, I’ve had your babies, vacuumed your floors...
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For Better For Worse
Cusses to herself, does Judy. Silently she weeps, but not for him.
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Postcard Home
how it came undone... that knitted swimsuit I wore
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Woman of Small Histories
(edit 28/01/2011) She was a hoarder of poems of diaries, letters and cards from husbands, lovers and friends...
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School's Out Down Gas House Lane
Kids swarm like flies to the sweet shop round the corner. “Two at a time,” or so the notice says.
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Samantha
“You see I’ve forgotten if they’re green or they’re blue, anyway...the thing is what I really mean – yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen...” Bernie Taupin
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Just Supposing...
You’ve passed on – gone to heaven; you could be anything you wanted.
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Seven for the Seven Stars in the Sky (IP)
For once, the guns were quiet. He lay on his back, counting the planets and constellations.
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One is One, and All Alone (IP)
(Edit 8/02/2011) Fog comes down, thick and fast, up here, in the churchyard on the moor.
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You Know That Feeling...
You’re exhausted; you’d give anything for sleep.
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That Beautiful Game
Ended up outside Craven Cottage; no Lillywhites that night.
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Until Tomorrow...
(Edit 18/02/2011) Is it such a crime to be old? I have lost the power of speech, but not my mind.
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Truth and Lies
It was all so easy then.
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Lake of Sighs
(edit and repost) Thunder brewed in threatening skies; a violent squall – their boat capsized, and boy and girl were lost from sight...
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Wild Blows the Willow
Spring comes and it goes...
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Sunny
Don’t play me no blues no more
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His Sweet Muse
Through a crack in the door he sees her...
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Old What's His Name...
‘I Am the New Jesus’ written on his T-shirt
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Grandpa's Funeral...
Funny, how no one ever told me – not outright, Gramps was dead.
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The Tiger and the Fly
As the canvas sings its own sweet elegy to a masterpiece...
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Sundays at Six...
You have left me...already, yet still, I kiss you goodbye.
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Ring Around the Moon
"The end of the world is nigh and all of us is doomed..."
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Just Another Sunday...
Nothing more I could want – right now, but right this moment.
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Silly...I Know
I dreamt of him, again last night.
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Girl with the Gypsy Earring
She deseeds juicy, plum tomatoes...
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Just Another Poem (I.P.)
I am but a string of words
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On Hollyhock Hill...
As a woman, I have learned all there is to know about waiting...
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Once Upon a Time
There was a time your goldfish were mine, too...
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Monday's Child (I.P.)
Occasions such as these, I wish to god, I’d been born on a Tuesday...
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The Long and the Short of it
He’s had a full life, and a good one...
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Present Imperfect
"How many light years to heaven?"
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The Line of Beauty
Separation does not wait its hour.
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In Reverie...
Now I am content; paint-brush on its rest.
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Resurrection of a Kind (I.P.)
Do not look for me amongst the cold and mossy stones...
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The Widow Next Door
This week, I'm reading her Jane Eyre.
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Rising Five
...young enough to play 'Oranges and Lemons'...
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Something in the Air
A kind of longing in the air today.
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Poetry in Motion (I.P.)
bronze, be her body, un a reet dazzlin sheen...
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You Know How It Is...
You hear a fragment of a tune...
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Let's Start Again...
Competition entry
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- 33 comments
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I'd Die for a Cherry... (I.P.)
Give anything to taste a luscious, ripe morello...
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With Her Without Her
Manic sounds of frenzied packing...
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- 15 comments
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General Knowledge (I.P.)
“Thou knowest all; I sit and wait with blinded eyes and hands that fail..."
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On Making Fruit Salad
It’s moments like these, I ache to realise my wildest fantasies...
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Those Were the Days...
There were squeaky wooden-gates between backyards and alleyways...
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The Kiss (I.P.)
Not the way she closed her eyes sipping her wine...
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Edith
Sad songs she sings... sad, like she was.
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Jessie's Garden
The swing-seat’s still there; I can hear you now – chiding me for rocking it...
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Let's Start Again?
No – this isn’t a poem...
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Gymnopédie (I.P.)
Like going back in time, when I heard that tune today.
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- 1907 reads
Minutiae
Little things mean a lot.
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- 14 comments
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Making Love
Their bedroom door ajar, I catch my breath...
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Pretty Flamingo
‘Crimson dress that clings so tight...'
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- 9 comments
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Summer Solstice
The lush of the meadow murmurs morning prayers...
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Killing Time
(Edit 24/6/2011) After he...left, they told me – ‘Keep occupied...start writing...
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Grace
The essence of you, still lingers in this room...
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Summer ...the First Time
Breathless, one summer, at the top of a hill...
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Somewhere in Madison County...
How many trysts, made and broken here...
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- 11 comments
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Homespun
Like a quilt of many colours...
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Say It Isn't So
...or at the very best, help me to forget...
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Now She is Six...
She's an expert in cat-speak...
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Going for Silver
Her lips met mine...not an ordinary kiss
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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
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Telling it Like it is...(I.P.)
Spring never ever came that year - the year he left...
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No Fairytale (I.P.)
A mix, she was - somewhere between an angel and a nymph...
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Peace in Our Time
I remember a clanky, Mobo scooter...
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Lady in a Chinese Restaurant
People-watching; my favourite occupation.
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Tired of Counting Sheep...
Five a.m. Looking out my window;
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Impossibly Yellow
Dedicated to the memory of Andrea Parker MA (02.08.1968 - 31.12.2007) ‘Celebrate my life – don’t mourn the life that I had not’
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Three and the Quarters...
My son rides high upon my shoulders... hacking our way through jungle.
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The Lavender Chair
She outbid me at an auction that morning.
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No Bouquet for Rose
Just a line to say I miss you...
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The Green Wheelbarrow (IP)
Why not Carlos Williams’ red one?
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Oranges and Lemons...
Tottenham born and bred, the terrible events of the past few days have been difficult for me to try to come to terms with.
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Poppy
Almost as if you had never been away – there you are.
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Once Upon Perseids...
One of those evenings you can hear the stars sing.
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The Art of Art
'Vissi d'Arte'
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Only Fools...And Roses
He lays six, crimson roses, growing wild, at the side of the road...
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Just Killing Time
'To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens.' (Ecclesiastes 3)
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In Another Life...(IP)
I'd dare to do things differently...
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In Shady Cloisters (IP)
Resigned to history, its Art Deco, stained glass windows.
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Small Wonder
The cord – cut, but the bond firmly tied.
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Rose By Any Other Name
All she has - theirs, when she's gone.
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Strange Places (IP)
Her mother seeks her out – but not in her bed, for she seldom sleeps there...
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Object of Desire
One kilo sells for a least thirteen hundred pounds.
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Midnight Sun
'Heaven's where you are'...I guess.
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The Days of Maggie Spencer
Pouring bleach down the toilet, her mind goes back to how she’d got there...
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The Unbelievable (I.P.)
I am that voice in your head...
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The Colour Blue
A decade on...
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On Believing the Unbelievable...(IP)
Yesterday – too much to take in...a bad dream... if not for this.
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Freedom Is
A seven letter word, begins with 'F'...
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Room Eight's the Geordie
At just fifteen - sent down the pit to earn his keep.
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Of Ghost Shrimps and Things (IP)
Death - less than a breath away...
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Just Jade
(Edit) I'd ask him who Jade was, but he'd never reply.
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Mea Culpa
Do you know what? Undressing you’s more like undoing a sack of potatoes!
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Year of the Rabbit
Reluctant partners in this, yet to come to terms with, death thing.
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Hey - Joe
You got me purring, now, Joe. Vibrato always gets me going...
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Am I losing it?
Hi Tina,
I'm sure I commented on your poem about the lady with arthritis ... and the bird in the cage... and now it's gone? Hope all is ok?
Thanks, $