Ropey Poems - Poems about Ropey

...Migrants on the move from violence their only possession breath-space on a smuggler’s boat secured with back-bent harvests in pretzel-bent systems weight of crates of strawberries hoisted on ......

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...Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things. Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inv......

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... you locked up shadows in old chests with rusty hinges and ramshackle fittings those fields of tulips ......

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...Black Rose was her name, a pirate ship of great fame, she sailed the Cretan seas, of turquoise blue, so un-tame, crashing through the high waves, sea air in our hair, salt and rum on our tongu......

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...Leany Reany was so cleany, She bathed five times a day, She washed herself with ropey soapy After every little play. Dirty Burty was so shirty When he had to take a shower, He washed himself wi......

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...The coral crumbles, and paradise is overthrown in sand And they pour the children into it like water upon tongues What the breeze blows in my eyes cannot blind my tears Your captains do not know......

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...Each time my Auntie Rosa went to shop in the High Street, She’d bring us back a pink-iced bun; it was our special treat. We’d take them up to Grandad’s (we preferred to eat them there) We’d scoff ......

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