Cabin in the Woods
...There is a cabin in the woods
There is a light upon the shade
Smoke drifts slowly out the chimney
From the fire that they had made
There is food upon the table
As they go down upon their knees
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Categories:
tweeds, history,
Form: Rhyme
Three of a Kind
...Three of a Kind
For Caroline (Kay) Levy and Elizabeth Bishop
I could take certain scenes from your life,
a week in Paris, a fishing boat beyond the kelp,
cigarettes and ...
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Categories:
tweeds, love, memorial,
Form: Lyric
Devon Morning
...It’s early and the small town has thrown back it’s duvet of darkness and it is light.
It is slowly and with the quiet of morning beginning to stir.
Morning! Morning!
Cheery greetings from unknow...
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Categories:
tweeds, car, dog, morning,
Form: Blank verse
Profit of Lost Souls
...profit of lost souls
In the profit of lost souls
A twenty first century global order
where paper trails all but disappear
and trade moves at light speed through
Complex numbers and fe...
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Categories:
tweeds, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 1
...Five miles of neatly spaced suckered palm planted
Bustling promenade,
Not withstanding a provincial cafe-culture
Of restaurants and exciting little bars,
Enhance upon regal elegance of the cram...
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Categories:
tweeds, sea, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
My Morning
...I've had a busy morning, it didn't go to plan
I had to go to hospital to see a little man.
The man was sick and therefore away
He could have told me anyway.
I went to town to open an on - line accou...
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Categories:
tweeds, depression, funny, health, life,
Form: Light Verse
The Great Blasket Islands
...Visits long ago
to the Blaskets Islands,
to untouched areas
on the Dingle peninsula
came to mind
on this sleet winter’s eve.
The peninsula,
nestled in heather mountains.
The coastline,
tongues of...
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Categories:
tweeds, childhood, family, history, life,
Form: Free verse
My Favorite Suit
...Keep the linens, the wool blends, and tweeds,
no need for silk or pressed poplin shirts.
Give me coolmax or one hundred per cent cotton
Suit me up in a Speedo for laps in the pool.
Dress me in ...
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Categories:
tweeds, adventure, happiness, sports, me,
Form: Free verse