Under the Cover
...Under The Cover.
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You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the way
All have a story to tell
Hidden away
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Som...
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Categories:
steelworkers, appreciation, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Port Talbot
...Port Talbot
The city of steel,
Is the place where I belong,
Under its industrial cloak and working class reel,
Where talent is abundant and steelworkers are made from steel.
The city of steel,...
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Categories:
steelworkers, business, corruption, culture, freedom,
Form: Political Verse
An English Life
...An English Life
It is midnight the Milk train pulls into darnall station
No ordinary passengers here
Steelworkers with their families
Loaded with fishing tackle, sandwiches and maggots
The Fos...
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Categories:
steelworkers, childhood, happiness, passion, education,
Form: Free verse
Never Forget
..."Never Forget"
A brutal blow
From a foe.
Awoke a gentle giant.
With hatred fused.
Our planes were used
Like daggers while they chanted.
Hundreds of lives
They stole that day.
Of every ...
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Categories:
steelworkers, death, dedication, history, loss
Form: I do not know?