Childhood England Poems

They see it as aesthetically pleasing 
The interconnection of a cultural clash
Making diverse diasporas meet
Distinctive city made out of filthy cash
They see the blacktop streets...

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When I was 9 years old, we moved to the countryside
My playground was the lush green fields covered in buttercups
Where sheep and cow grazed free
And...

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I longed for the days when the earth will smile again and the penitence of its mind will humble itself before the benevolent sky and...

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Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April...

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My roommates and I congregated in our suite's great room and we’ll head out for dinner soon.

“Have you ever eaten dog food?” Leong asked Anna.
“No,”...

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This is a story of a man & a girl. 
For which the man stole the girls light & made her disappear from the world.

The...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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She vowed never to marry
and kept her word
illegitimate as her father to carry
victim not she deferred

Her mother died violently
for allegedly committing adultery
a father with mental...

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Stones I Have Known

I know that stone - scoured smooth beneath the tread
Of workers' feet too early out of bed.
It sparkled finely to my childish...

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when respite was
deckchairs and picnics
on car blankets
behind 
windbreaks

sand was blown
into sheltered spaces
behind
driftwood and
rock.

dunes
grew
as grains of sand
accumulated
over time.

then
winds and waves
ate away
at everything
in their path.

as resilient barriers
gave...

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The most human of things, that was once said to me, sat in the garden, under the tree, licking my ice cream, feeling the grass,...

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Somewhere in the dungeon of my soul 
was a memory I supressed, 
and a song, a scent 
reignited the place and time long forgot.
And I...

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There once was a long vanished England;
Of well-spoken presenters 
Of the BBC Home Service,
Light Service, and Children’s Favourites, 
Of coppers and tanners, and ten bob...

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West Gorton                       ...

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Life way back then when i was ten,
   From wartime days, to peace again.
   Few luxuries on ration books,
  ...

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