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Coat of Red by Colin Whyles

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Coat of Red Copyright © 06 February 2005 Colin Whyles

I stood to watch the sky
Shed its skin of daytime blue
Put on a coat of red

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 24/11/2009
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At Last by Colin Whyles

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At Last Copyright © 26th February 2005 c whyles

At last we broke our silence
Too late
Long after silent vows were sworn

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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The Gift by Colin Whyles

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The Gift Copyright © 05 February 2005 c whyles

A gift arrived
You knew at once
Flowers that told the change of time

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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To Think by Rob Lock

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To Think Copyright 2009 Rob Lock

You might be twenty minutes pregnant now.
These floating moments after morning love
when we lie back in easy silence, grow

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 24/11/2009
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On Having a Good Day by Rob Lock

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On Having a Good Day Copyright 2009 Rob Lock

In town today
I signed a Switch stub, Excellent,
settled a bill, Brilliant,

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 24/11/2009
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Island by Kenneth Steven

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Island Copyright © Kenneth Steven, 2009

I remember what it was like to barefoot that house
Wood rooms bleached by light. Days were new voyages, journeys,
Coming home a pouring out of stories and of starfish.

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Sudbury Friends Meeting House
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Sat, 14/11/2009
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The Small Giant by Kenneth Steven

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The Small Giant Copyright © Kenneth Steven, 2009

The otter is ninety percent water
Ten percent God

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Sudbury Friends Meeting House
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Sat, 14/11/2009
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Iona by Kenneth Steven

Iona Copyright © Kenneth Steven, 2009

Is this place really nearer to God?
Is the wall thin between our whispers
And his listening? I only know

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The Music by Kenneth Steven

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The Music Copyright © Kenneth Steven, 2009

He got his tunes that way;
He heard them,
As though they were edges of wind,

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Sudbury Friends Meeting House
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Sat, 14/11/2009
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Hebrides by Kenneth Steven

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Hebrides Copyright ©Kenneth Steven, 2009

This shattered place, this place of fragments,
A play of wind and sea and light,
Shifting always, becoming and diminishing;

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Sudbury Friends Meeting House
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Sat, 14/11/2009
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Complete Performance by Kenneth Steven

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A reading of poems relating to the Isles written and read by Kenneth Steven at the Isles Come To Sudbury event on the 14th November 2009

Presented by permission of Kenneth Steven

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Sudbury Friends Meeting House
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Sat, 14/11/2009
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