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Poems 2024

Shylock’s lament Rates go up, as well as down And an unpaid surer cannot be sound A penny short requires an eye or a tooth We have to live and that’s the truth Some call me base, my trade so … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo24

Under The Volcano Oblivion awaits us all It is a long time To pre-empt it artificially Seems a waste I have never been to Mexico But should like to remember my visit All of us live a life in one … Continue reading

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Poems 2023

Going Equipped The officer stopped me, fairly, but firmly Could you open your bag please? What do we have here? Alliteration Assonance Onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Personification Repetition Hyperbole Enjambment Anaphor Epistrophe Caesura Couplets Refrains Rhythms I Suspect  you of Going … Continue reading

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The occasion of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

I have been asked to write and perform at two events celebrating this occasion. It is, and was, very easy to be ultra cynical, particularly from a child of the Silver Jubilee, the Sex Pistols and the “stuff the Jubilee” … Continue reading

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Devotional poems

Inspiration in rhyme 1.Etheric healing Healing of the body, as well as the soul That is Dom ignacios’ dedicated goal Flowing through portals from dimension to dimension Etheric and physical healing his avowed intention Tap into his power, use his … Continue reading

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Children’s Poems

children like a Story, repetition, rhyme,and animals Cyril The Seagull Cyril the seagull swoops and loops He dives and he dips, Cyril the seagull likes other people’s chips Boating lake  in Roath Park, Cardiff Riding a giant swan Paddles slapping … Continue reading

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Poems 2022

Let there be Let there be clouds Let there be rain Let there be sunshine Let there be hail Let there be wind In your sails Let there be smiles Let there be jokes Let there be laughter Let there … Continue reading

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Found Titles

Book Titles found poem Pride and prejudice in cold blood To kill a mockingbird and one hundred years of solitude The brave new world of the wide Sargasso sea The great Gatsby, the go between The grapes of wrath, 1984 … Continue reading

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Poems 2021

Upon seeing a matryoshka doll On Arbat Street At the back of the shop It was tight to twist  vaguely fragile Perhaps her name was Svetlana Wearing the dust as an extra layer Each sharp turn revealing a hidden frame. Each cadaver was … Continue reading

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My Town

My town, is like your town A few bewildered denizens of the past Hover outside the concrete carcasses of the old ways New Gods are worshipped, Kelloggs, Andrex and Dettol Gucci, Prada and Burberry, Now corpses in fading thoroughfares Toppled … Continue reading

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