Long Lyon Poems

Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats, 
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...

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The crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s  Il neige sur le crime

Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek...

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Translation of Marcel Moreau's " A Paris " by T. Wignesan

IN PARIS

Paris bores me no end without you
My heart weighted down with melancholia
The spleen given over to asthenia
Empties its own sense of loss on to...

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Star of Sirus
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An ode must be written to the player of strings
Thanking them for the joy their playing brings
Reminiscent to a puppet master they strike the strings
Like a ventriloquist with seemingly voicelessness the object sings.

Sometimes seated or...

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Hannah Crockroft has cerebral palsy from her birth, 
And having CP myself, she’s kind of special to me, 
Because CP is not derided anymore, much, as alien, 
But is called brain damage, not your own...

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Jade is a wheelchair racer, distance events,
Competing in the 400m, 800m, 1500m T54,
Born with her femur missing she attended, 
Ormesby School which is in Middlesbrough.

From there she enrolled in Prior Pursglove, 
A college in Guisborough...

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I AM NOT SCREAMING FOR DEATH 
OR CRYING TO RELEASE THE PAIN
WHEN DOVES FLY IT DOES NOT 
REMIND ME OF LOVE OR WEDDINGS

I THINK BABIES SUCK, I THINK STAYING
AT HOME SUCKS WHEN THEIR IS NO...

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Sophie was born with Cerebral Palsy, 
On the 23rd of January 1997, she’s 19,
And trains at Loughborough University, 
But was born in Nottingham’s glean. 

She’s won thirteen major titles, is top, 
In sprinting and in...

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I saw the nation of men who love men and women who love women fall under a great sword by those men who love the lord, and the whole world did not cry for them....

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Aled was born in Bridgend in South Wales, 
With hemimelia, or without a right fibula, 
And throws shot put and discus F42 tales, 
By training at Wales’s sports institute mega. 

An MBE, born on the...

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Phobia

Once in Paris, I was going to a venue reading poetry, the hotelier told me to take
the subway as it was easy. After being a fender for busy people I found my train
and suffocated. First...

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Sophie was born with an abnormal right foot, 
So when she was nine she chose amputation, 
She comes from Camden then moved to Bath, 
And now studies at Bath College Illustration. 

In 2011 she went...

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Anida Mann & Baron Ready
April Showers & Wade Rivers
Bertha Saylor & Abel Crews
Bunny Bunns & Wilt Dailey
Burl E Pecker & Phyllis Upman
Candy Cane & Hedon Succor
Chastity B. Lowe & Noah Hoare
Crystal Clear & Robin Blind
Demi...

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Kyron comes from Wales as he was born in Newport, 
And like his older cousin was born with achondroplasia, 
He followed Gareth into the Paralympics with purport, 
Because he’s a field athlete and also a...

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" the Power Of Entertainment" Rantez Peacock and his freind:"Wild, Wild" Devin Swink, made there in ring debut. Given the opportunity to receive a "Premier Trophy"tagteam title opportunity, they forfeited the original match to ...

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The Art of Catering 

There was a time I believed everything I read, even in Reader’s Digest. 
one such story was about a French soldier in the world war one who, 
in his breast pocket...

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The Storyteller

he is always there, in those glamoured
dream soaked holy days,
etched keenly into the memory
a fixture of the summers
that flowed then melted into one another
to eddy around the stone bench
at noon, in the park of...

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In the arcade of Milan
The accordionist stands
And though the cold bites into his hands
The accordionist plays the best he can

And his soul takes to the air like an eagle
As he sings with his face to...

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Tall as they come, this man is 1 metre 85,
A basketball player inspired by the 2012s,
To compete in disability sport so to thrive, 
At the high jump, his practice bookshelves.  

Loughborough students encouraged him,...

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Well, to be born…Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Or d’etre ne… by T. Wignesan

Now to be flesh of a man and a woman
All my life I will long for that
Without any hope of being re-born, being...

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Slow Progress (a long sonnet)

In the last seventy years, little have changed 
of technical innovation.  we had radio, then
TV and now computers, all in natural sequence
airplanes still fly as before a bit bigger and...

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Paul was born with cerebral palsy, 
Deprived of blood in the womb, 
And his father, also called Paul, 
Acted in Starwars, in the 1977 film.

He was born in 1990, 15 January, 
And is a most...

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In May the year of 1912 Albert left his home in  Lyon. 
He made his way to ecole Sommer at Genever's  Mourmelon. 
In June, with circuit d'Anjou done, and with his engineer,
Albert ...

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 I am from those moments
George Ella Lyon

I am Made of This

I am from the isolation of pioneer spirits-
an ancient beekeeper- a vintage lacemaker

I am from a land of dancing brolgas -
and Rainbow Serpents

I am...

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