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A story about
                an old poet
    and his cottage

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A dream of an old mariner
                lost in Wales
    adrift on his words

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A memory of
                a young boy
    on his maiden voyage

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A memory of
                innocence
    lost at sea

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A line on a chart
                between a girl
    and loneliness

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A communion
                between an affair
    and marriage

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A vigil by a wife
                waves on a beach
    memory of a ship’s wake

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A night on watch
                with a ghost
    of a girl above the horizon

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A night at sea
                under the  southern stars
    a sailor dreams of heaven       

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A tear on the cheek of a girl
                writing urgently of love
    letters unseen for weeks

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A union of words
                sadly disrupted
    by world time

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A memory in the Welsh sky
                a poet sees dolphins
    in a bow wave of cloud

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A murmur
                between life
    and rhyme

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A dialogue
                between time and
    loss

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A line of verse
                between loneliness
    and memory

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A reflection of a man sitting
                beside a fire
    memories in embers

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A poem about
                an old sailor
    in his cottage

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