celticman
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free rites
You’ve come a long way From nits in your hair Suit yourself Tears of anger and shame When you went hame Mum would say ‘The world’s just that way’ It’...
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the honourable member for Witney
Best thinking comes from not thinking The proud voice is the loud voice Pontification of what need to be done The great nob-game of bob-a-job To keep...
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poet on the rack
Philosophers and poets discuss how it is to be More tree than tree Point of view fucks off to Timbuktu Imagination pickled on a straight line In...
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Land lubber
Only the sea contains the sea Laws of sensation Balance on moon beams Light burning in the turn Roll and crest and crown Crop of water healing below...
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the visitor
I kiss the ghost in the study, you have to wind down curved stairs to reach, pass a similar entrance, with a similar set of keys, and fly down...
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A Dickens of a poem. Well
Posted on Mon, 09 Dec 2013
A Dickens of a poem. Well done!
Read full commentPosted in Havisham
I'm not sure what the
Posted on Sun, 24 Nov 2013
I'm not sure what the underlined words or italics are meant to emphasise, but there are lots of surprised in the text and I really liked it.
Read full commentPosted in Within the Mirrors
enjoyed this. thanks.
Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2008
enjoyed this. thanks.Read full commentPosted in Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion
I especially liked the first
Posted on Mon, 01 Aug 2011
I especially liked the first stanza, but that is maybe that was just my certain boyish impulses. Great stuff Chris. It's not often I'm proud of 'Futility.'Read full commentPosted in Futility
evocative. well done.
Posted on Thu, 09 Sep 2010
evocative. well done.Read full commentPosted in The approach of winter
Needs a bit of proof reading
Posted on Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Needs a bit of proof reading eg 'She was an attractive and she knew it.' And there is a bit or repetition, you could cut a few hundred words quite easily. A good story, which I enjoyed.Read full commentPosted in Blood Money
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