C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress
...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.' all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories:
despatch, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme
Comet
...Speeding out and back around the sun
The comet came on its periodic run
Straggling tail spread afar
By the wind from the star
Carrying deep at its heart
The vital spark for life to start
Each p...
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Categories:
despatch, allegory, creation, fantasy, space,
Form: Rhyme
This Little Strangeness
...Been here for four years now
Battle hardened, battle worn, battle foul
Killed so many strangers classed as enemies as they fell
The fight is finally over
1945 sees new hope for all
This str...
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Categories:
despatch, cry, fear, happy, soldier,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cues and Hues of Novelty
...Handle bundles and trundles of amity with dignity
Despatch patches and batches of blues and queues of odium
Welcome pockets and sockets of hope and humility
Above all, fertilize fields of favour a...
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Categories:
despatch, poems,
Form: Pantoum
Miss Muffet
...Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet
After coming home from the pub
When up came a spider
And sat down beside her
So she smashed it to bits with a club
Now Caroline wouldn’...
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Categories:
despatch, friend, funny,
Form: Free verse
The Other Side of Work
...The Other Side of Work
When from afar you look
The door of a big office
Tiny hole, an obscure it is
A little square of an orifice.
Draw near; knock to enter
Inside Big Guy you’ll find...
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Categories:
despatch,
Form: Ballad
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 2
...Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
enslaved by your own kind who hanker after conditioning platitudes
the clubby comfort of secretly oath-taking power cliques
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Categories:
despatch, inspirational, old, old,
Form: Dramatic Monologue