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December Collage Poem: Waves

Swansea waves words at passing poets

 

The twenty-fifth day is long and in others souls,

A week later we enter the next chapter with

New raging goals.

 

Kissing capitalism's ass and not mine

Highway traffic moves in waves,

Or should that be it crawls like a crab

 

Marrying a woman from East Texas

She cooked Christmas pudding for dinner each night

In peanut and r...

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July 2017 Collage Poem: Old Photographs

 

An apt public hanging, packed treasure

Not like mine

 

The past zooms into focus in blow-up

In camera obscura

 

No-one spoke,

And the silence said volumes

 

Spuds and carrots and don't forget

To pick up the horseshit!

 

All sit in Domino rolls

I never told my students of stories

Waiting to escape

 

Pictures of matchstick men

Waiting to escape...

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Easter WoL Collage Poem

 

A riotous toast to Queen Victoria

the lighter the better, under the table

black dagger stabs my heart

 

Oh! To be in Anglesea;

so beautiful - 

death, rape, law, sacrifice. The more things change...

 

And still the penny rolls like a sunset

cascading what it simply used to mean.

We worry not, for our lady still holds

the sky whilst she sings.

 

The anxiou...

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