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Please enjoy the poetry I have written throughout my life. Just click on a theme or browse the full collection below.


Set the Bar High
For Dick Fosbury, 1968 Olympian Gold Medallist With a step, skip and hop he went over the top with the Fosbury flop. In eight or ten...
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Chatterbox
TV is a chatterbox, a scatterbox, a patterbox, a blatherbox, You could say a doesn’tmatterbox but that’s not true today. Once we had a...
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Idle Verses at 6 a.m.
I had a dream this night That I was at a conference Of eminent men who could Pontificate on any learned topic. I had been quite...
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Tall Story
When I was three Perhaps just two My father took me To London Zoo. At a tall fence near The entrance gate We paused to wait Behind a...
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St Peter’s Gate
I had a dream the other night I was climbing Jacob’s ladder. St Peter stood at Paradise Gate Pondering what proof I had That I was fit to...
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To Have and to Be
To be is to do - Aristotle To do is to be - Sartre Dobe do be do - Frank Sinatra anonymous graffiti So should we then obey what such...
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Billy Graham’ s Last Crusade
He was no public advocate of Republican or Democrat, Prudently unpolitical he, in the White House privately may have skipped diplomacy....
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Stockport Viaduct
Rubbish among the tracks, Beneath the trees, Declares the north. Grey sky, long terraces, Vapour from a vent, Crooked black branches...
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Pre-election Gyps
You should dump the man named Trump, Make him jump in the nearest sump. When he's on the stump and starts to pump The heart goes bump and...
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