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Simon
When you were a baby, Then for another year you grew. Another year (summer to spring. And now that you have grown some more, Soon you will be starting school, You'll have another birthday.
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| Lament for a dumb cat
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| Verses
expressing the observations of a hospital nurse, written during the 1980s
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Patients
Eye View
Here I sit in this hospital bed, Here comes the nurse, all starchy and stiff, Here is the doctor, an Indian lady The consultant, at last, I've been waiting for him. The orderlies know, and so do the porters, SL |
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The Cellist
With bobbing head of bright young curls. Fragile blouse flutters. Sits erect. Bottom back to back the seat, Waist arched, thighs thrust out. Smooth knees apart, Gently hug the cello's rounded hips.
Balanced, Like the cello on a tip High waisted heels, transform the shoes, Prim black laced Prim hose complete Neat schoolgirl To erotic figurine.
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A riddle for northerners living in the south of England.
There's a little white flower rather like a buttercup, It's name is a riddle to me. If grass is grass and ass is ass, I should say grass of Parnassus.
It stands above a rosette of leaves, Petals veined lightly in green, If grass is grarse and ass is arse, Should I say grarse of Parnarssus? |
| Not for anyone who does not like other people's holiday
memories:
It was a Lovely Afternoon...... Beautiful silence, not just lack of sound. An occasional Baa and the buzzing of flies, Their hum as we lie, like a lattice of noise.
Crickets around us pulsate in the sun, The shimmering heat haze, on harsh heathy gound This hill that we found at the end of the land.
From this wonderful carpet of purple and yellow, It's sharp rock and spines hurt the feet. To the flat-lands below, patched yellow and green, To the sea's flat horizon beyond.
The sea and the sky, how to tell them apart? Both mixtures of blue and white hazes, But where the rock plunges deep down to the sea, It's colour is deep turquoise green.
The heat drives us off, poor weaklings we are. Just one last look ere we go. We brave the sharp walking to see This place where the land meets the sea.
Braich y Pw
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