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The River of Eros
Trickling tingles bubble, goaded from the verdant body / As a butterfly’s flutterings coax the flow / Widening and filling
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I’ve lost my pencil
Biro poetry doesn’t work / It does not flow or fill the page with easy thoughts / The pen is a bulky lover, rather than the finer bodied pencil
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Nightlight
Nightlight is waiting, deadly quiet, / Waiting for you to see, / Nightlight is heavy, rich, aromatic,
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Scylla and Charybdis
So what of love, / Hearts burning fire, / Impaled on the horns of pain and desire,
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A Psi for Physics
So is Physics now in trouble / Because neutrinos too fast fly / As clever troglodytes with white coats
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The fable of the Orange and the Biscuit
Into his plastic lunchbox / He did, an Orange and biscuit, shove / And said the biscuit to the orange
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Hard floors and Bananas
Lifetimes ago / Behind a sofa, on hard floor, we slept entwined, / Warmed by lust – and those eyes.
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Between the Lines
The station Tannoy’s so polite, / Train’s here but late; commuter’s plight, / Doors opening, pushed to platform’s edge,
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The World Unseen
Do you know the world unseen? / The one that every human being / Takes for granted every day
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Cockerel Sun
Cockerel sunshine slips between the curtains / Energising dust to dance in beams / Lifting lethargy as I do the duvet
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