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Gone
Gone
Went away one day
Hid
On the moors
Where every swell and dip
Looks like every other
Counted to ten
Over and over
And over again
They looked in ditches
In the bleak mist
Of northern hills
Black shadowed coppers
Bobbies with grim features
That would stay with them
A lifetime
My mother cried
Never stopped looking
Died
...Wednesday 17th May 2017 7:12 pm
My work used by Dreamcatchers for Abused Children (an official non-profit 501(c)3 org in the US).
Dreamcatchers for Abused Children (an official non-profit 501(c)3 child abuse and neglect organisation in the US) has a Missing Persons Division. They have used my video poem 'The Missed' (top left) on their page :
http://dreamcatchersforabusedchildren.com/media/missing-children/
I will be working with some charities and important organisations again in 2012. These a...
Tuesday 10th January 2012 3:44 am
'The Missed'
The Missed
They went missing on...
There could be so many dates
And even more names...
I cannot imagine
The pain
Of those families, long nights
Looking at the door
Hoping for a loved one...
To walk right through
As if
Nothing had ever happened
Looking out the window,
At passers by
A glimmer, a hope,
For them to return home ...
Monday 6th June 2011 8:15 pm
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