Best Anchorage Poems

He has the faith of not belonging to anything,

a rootless thief who shifts and steals

from one brief moment to another

without a culture of his own.

 
Adrift forever tying knots

to seal an anchorage not belonging to God,

to family or to the land itself

with its peculiar heritage.
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Realizing
I'll never have another
like you,
I simmer in the sound
of new age music
and read old love letters
as if they were lyrics. 

I hum, then start to sing
those clichéd poems you wrote for me
behind the celtic violin—
all those forced and obvious rhymes
strike me
in a different way than...

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We left our abode in old Cowfair,haggled a price for an old shire mare.Onto the 
landlord's canal boat,lock stock and barrel for a life afloat.Farewell to our 
Buckingham birthplace and its meagre living from old point lace.Dawdled slow 
up to Cosgrove taking our meals around...

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