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Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard

...Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger musc...

Categories: kentish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Tynecot : Gods Acre

...Tynecot. God's acre.

   Here..
   A quiet churchyard on the Kentish Weald
   Finches flit from holly to yew
   Shafts of gold pierce the morning sky
   Calm is the air, serene is the view.

...

Categories: kentish, remembrance day, sad, world
Form: Rhyme

The Long Good Bye

...PART ONE
You tap me on the shoulder and ask whose staff I'm on,
 Startled I try to tell you but see that you have gone
 Down the path of memory to a place of no-recall
Where I'll no longer find y...

Categories: kentish, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Uncle Michael

...His ramrod back, his brill-creamed hair 
and waxed moustache gave him a certain air, 
a certain dash, and a military bearing. 
His speech was clipped. He walked his stick 
with sergeant major's f...

Categories: kentish, father son, friend, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Maps and Roads

...London is bewildered by its roads
The Circular, the North,the South,  the Codes
The Morse  and the  Enigma Turing broke
So now we have new bicycles with spokes

Once we had the A to Z  in hand
...

Categories: kentish, absence, funny, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Road Angst

...London is bewildered by its roads
The Circular, the North,the South,  the Codes
The Morse  and the  Enigma Turing broke
So now we have new bicycles with spokes

Once we had the A to Z  in hand
...

Categories: kentish, allegory, car, change, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Chad's Valley

...No one 
not even you
will ever know 
beforehand 
how things will go.

Practice may make perfect 
but perfect is no guarantee 
of success.


The council sent a wrecking crew 
which is
the...

Categories: kentish, anxiety,
Form: Political Verse

Brexit Sonnet 16 - Diverse Woven Strands

...Brexit Sonnet No.16
‘Diverse Woven Strands’
 

Our embroidered story, with boundaries crissed and crossed,
With boats and men ‘o horse in serried rows.
With comets, relics, hawks and battles lo...

Categories: kentish, political,
Form: Sonnet

A Longing - Hereith - a Train Journey

...Hereith

Euston Euston station
I never pass Euston station at times without feeling homesick
hereith we call it - hereith a longing
watching the trains pull out of the station into its dark tunnels 
...

Categories: kentish, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Hereith a Longing

...Euston Euston station
I never pass Euston station at times without feeling homesick
hereith we call it - hereith a longing
watching the trains pull out of the station into its dark tunnels 
imagining...

Categories: kentish, nostalgia, childhood, childhood,
Form: Narrative

Let Them Eat Cake

...An Irish marmelade loaf
A Scottish parkin
Kentish nut & pear layer
Staffordshire oatcake
Brummie bacon cakes-
A teatime 
Snack !...

Categories: kentish, food, places
Form: Epulaeryu

Great Uncle Albert

...In Arras field he watched that day
A flash of light against the grey,
High explosives whistled all around
And fallen thousands filled the ground.
Kentish man against the wall,
He had defended to the ...

Categories: kentish, death, loss, sad,
Form: Elegy