Boarding School
...you took me down to Eastbourne boarding school
to offer me a palliative
to cure my dyslexia
I lived for your letters
until the teachers got it
to a fine art
" No news is good news"
Each tea...
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Categories:
eastbourne, angst,
Form: Free verse
Anne
...When the acorns are vast
Winters throws are Multindous
A particular Cafe Nero to go
where I meet Anne for the first time
and she remembers the 70s
like everybody's yang and yin would like to
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Categories:
eastbourne, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Ann Gilmour a Poet and Friend
...I know this lovely poet,
Her name is Ann Gilmour
She really is an angel,
One that I adore.
She's a best friend of my Auntie,
They have a lot in common,
Parkinson's being one of them
Which is ...
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Categories:
eastbourne, friendship, poems, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and Confuses Me
...Why when waiting for a bus
You contemplate as time goes by
Should I walk and make no fuss
Will I be left here high and dry
So off you go
You start to walk
All on your own
No one to talk
Wh...
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Categories:
eastbourne, confusion, irony, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Sod's Law
...Why when waiting for a bus
You ponder as the time goes on
Should I walk and make no fuss
Is it coming
Or has it gone
So off you go
You start to walk
All on your own
No one to talk
What’s...
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Categories:
eastbourne, anxiety, humorous, riddle, stress,
Form: Rhyme
God Only Knows
...The Beach Boys are singing with the Royal Philharmonic
as I sit upon my balcony and sip my gin & tonic
The music plays, it draws me in, the sounds are getting louder
they transport me to sunny c...
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Categories:
eastbourne, music, ocean, paradise, sea,
Form: Rhyme
A Tea Named Green
...The full Moon shines upon us on this Earth
Exquisite in its shape and in its girth
Lighting up the World from where ever we may be
In England, sunny Eastbourne, to Miami by the sea
Through a...
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Categories:
eastbourne, moon, sky, space, water,
Form: Rhyme
I Envy You Oh Father
...I envy You Father Heavenly I really do ,
You made the world and you did rest now i am crying here what i can do best just cry and little laugh and smile again why cant i be ...
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Categories:
eastbourne, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Sex and the British
...They’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping up hall...
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Categories:
eastbourne, love, psychological, sexy, social,
Form: I do not know?
Faye Mcclelland
...Faye was working as a gym instructor,
When a colleague asked her to set up,
A triathlon event, and she was a runner,
In the contest, so desired to join up.
She competed in her first triathl...
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Categories:
eastbourne, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain