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  • Brown Paper Bag /Somerset Gift

    We recently revealed around the West Country an often forgotten poem of mine I trad ir ro Sephine in an inn in Wells  Beautiful beautiful Wells  Tgis tint city amos glowed in the autumn light  She gave me a featuresless brown paper bag  Which obtained a mysterious book  I was instructed not to open my gift  Until the sun set slowly and silently over Somerset 

  • Snow Blossoms Mountain Peaks

    I touched your serene fingers  Which were surprisingly cold 

  • The Story of a Love Story

    About ten years ago Josie and I found ourselves on Lanzarote  We won the holiday in a raffle  I did not want to go as I hate flying  I was there in 2018 Joe  Saul and I were working as holiday reps  It is a beautiful island  I agree  Do you know the Bar Lolira  […]

  • William Watson

    To achieve free speech one must inhibit free speech 

  • William Watson Wells

    My father knew him well  They were born only months apart  And died on the same day  Their only difference was that my father  Came from a very privileged background  Whereas William was street born a bred  He only ever received one educational certificate  Which reflected his poverty  But he had a brilliant mind  And was […]

  • Lolita Jones

    I suppose I have watched too many movies  I have read too many books I have written too many poems  I have attended too many parties  Dressed as Mrs Captain Hook 

  • John Keegan Poet

    What is that Joe  It is framed copy of a poem  Did you write it  No it is not mine  May I look  John Keegan I cannot say that I have heard of him He was a Irish ballard-writer  Was he famous  No  He came from a very poor background  Yet he started writing verses at […]

  • Haunting Verses

    I am often haunted by my poems  I do not remember them easily  The odd line certain words  Yet others I can recite them fully  This confuses me  As I am a birth mother  Who has forgotten her children 

  • Staring at your Bottom

    I often stare at your beautiful bottom  This cannot be avoided  As I have a large photograph  Of your bottom  Opposite my bed  We no longer live together  Our jobs have seen to that  You are in America  I float around France  This photograph was taken in Paris  From our high apartment  It was a hot day  You […]

  • line two

    the light is being sucked  out of the day  a poem was suggested