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SMALL WORLD

I hold the world in my hands

to make what I may of it.

They open and close,

grasping with the frenzy of fish

what they can find

 

and so it must be

from three to ninety three

until, by some outside design

they cease to be of my world

cease to be part of me.

🌷(8) 

â—„ ON HALLOWE'EN

ON THE QE2 1977 â–º

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raypool

Fri 15th Nov 2019 12:29

Thank you Tom , a pleasure, and Jennifer too.

Tom , Brian, Lisa and Kate, obliged for your likes.

Ray

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jennifer Malden

Thu 14th Nov 2019 16:37

Loved this one, concentrated and full of significance.

Jennifer

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Tom Harding

Sat 9th Nov 2019 09:15

this is lovely, compact and beautiful

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