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Dartmoor
Coarse granite slabs split the earth / glinting at the fractured sunlight. / Sly winds whip and lash the grass and gorse;
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Meeting Morpheus
Silent, swiftly sliding through a mazy mix of memories / Confused by what is up and what is down. / I can’t be sure if what I see is quite correctly coloured:
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Sunrise
autumn dawn / breaks once again across / this wide expanse of fields
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Habitable Zones
I have looked towards a million worlds tonight, / fearful that there might be more like ours, / where despair and anger rage and reign,
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November
This unkempt spread of damp, bedraggled lawn / Presents a sorry sight. And there, forlorn / In rotted heaps, the summer’s fruits decay,
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Out to Lunch
My sandwich sits in cellophaned silence. / A caged morsel: / Man’s inhumanity to ham.
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Making Toast
As I gazed at the flames of the fire, / It rekindled a childhood vision; / Memories of a chill winter morn,
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Woodles [Word doodles]
This page frightens me / with its whiteness- / pale and interesting,
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Life Forms
Slack canvas bends with the first strokes: / brush and paint scar a waiting whiteness. / Others follow of less distinct pressure
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Foundling
We are halted on the path / where a small amphibious mite / has sprung headlong into an unknown world,
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