Stan Ridgeway Song
...The readjustment was the hardest part
Not leaving the war zone
Or coming home back to his country
And to his wife and family and friends
But actually readjusting to the fact
That fact that he ha...
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Categories:
ridgeway, conflict, military, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Old Town Elegy
...OLD TOWN ELEGY
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign
And barely more trace tha...
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Categories:
ridgeway, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy
The Ridgeway
...The Ancient Track strides out across the plain,
A trading route five thousand years ago,
A constant presence – sunshine, wind and rain,
Forever onward winds the ancient road.
The Ancient Track s...
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Categories:
ridgeway, history, nature, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Love In the Sunshine
...Shimmering light
The lily pond
The music of your eye
The touch of your arm
Your always honey smell.
I love.
Rustling trees in a row,
A wide green lawn;
People stoop to see small flowers.
A snail on...
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Categories:
ridgeway, beauty, happiness, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
The Green River
...The river lazily ran through the lovely pasture scene.
Poets wrote their pretty poems about the river’s charms,
Carrying its living water, reflecting purest green
As lovers sat upon its banks, loc...
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Categories:
ridgeway, deathriver,
Form: Quatrain
Ridgeway Rambles
...Avebury a Wiltshire village low
To windswept beacon of Ivinghoe.
Eighty-five miles,vale and hill
Wayfare freedoms,exhilarate and thrill.
Striding downs in grassy scrub
Midst trees and clumps o...
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Categories:
ridgeway, places,
Form: Ballad