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Poetry
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Anaconda Root
Not my normal practice, but last week’s Anaconda Root needed some surgery…here’s the tidied-up version.
Anaconda Root
The shed to come needs a firm flat foundation which in turn needs an uneven patch of garden to be levelled, weeds, bricks, and stone…and hidden roots…removed
The Dog I Never Knew
Do anagrams wag their tails? Or contradictions tell the truth, the whole truth…?
1492; Semicolon Love
I do love a well placed semicolon…but more…I love its ‘look’ . Art and punctuation.
Tomorrow might not work
Long walk tomorrow…not sure I’ll make it. A poem for those whose tomorrow might not work.
The Servant Girl & the Prodigal
Luke 15 parables culminating in the Parable of the Prodigal Son keep on giving…grab a bible and soak in it…like in the poem.
Beloved Tehran
Iran, the birthplace of some of the world’s finest Persian poetry, suspended once more between people and politics
Friday’s Irregular Poetry Corner – a day late
Friday’s Irregular Poetry Corner -a day late. Guest Poet: Kimberley Johnson, Golf
Longing for Snow
I know when I’m old - when I don’t long for snow. So far so good! Boots are ready.
More Than a Barber
Usually a barber’s is a room full of chatter, radio noise, clippers, and traffic outside…not on this occasion
Wazzock On the First Tee
For those of a golfing frame of mind…and who might remember plus fours or even plus twos? Wazzocks, of course, inhabit the whole of the known Universe…or Cornwall
The Arithmetic of a Dead Tree
Just north of Tiverton a field is interrupted by a dead tree, white dead