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are you prepared for off? by Victor Weston

are you prepared for off? Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

I woke with a start, in the middle of the night
I did not know the hour - except it was dark
and light was flooding in illuming

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Tue, 29/11/2011
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A visit to London November 2011, on the underground by Victor Weston

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A visit to London November 2011, on the underground Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

these are a throng of extraordinary looking people
by no means all beautiful to my prejudiced eye
diverse to the limits imaginable

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In Statione by Rod O'Donoghue

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In Statione 1 Copyright © Rod O'Donoghue 2011

Murky mists slide silent over the soft green sea;

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Tue, 25/10/2011
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No Satisfaction by Rob Lock

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No Satisfaction Copyright © Rob Lock 2011

The chest of drawers that I had hoped to renovate
so that it might become an heirloom in your keeping
had to be demolished to take in the car to the dump

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Tue, 27/09/2011
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Dreamer by Jen Overett

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Dreamer Copyright © Jen Overett 2011

Last night, I dreamt us young again, then woke
to yet another working day. I saw the soft flesh
of our hands, your one-was-wavy hair, such youthful

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Tue, 26/07/2011
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Before The Solstice by Richard Whiting

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Before The Solstice Copyright © Richard Whiting 2011

June. The wheat heavy on the stalk
Grey-green, sea-whispers in the breeze.
Sunlight sweeps across the fields

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Tue, 26/07/2011
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Sink by Fred Rapsey

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Sink Copyright © Fred Rapsey 2011

Unbalanced heaps of food-smeared forks and plates
Present an under-rated chance to think
The dried-on crocks are greeted in the sink

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Tue, 28/06/2011
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The Nationʼs Favourite Poems by R J Whiting

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The Nationʼs Favourite Poems Copyright © R J Whiting 2011

Reprinted in ‛97, (eleven times)
Eleven times! And you threw me on the grass;
Nice tarpaulin though, green, mud-veneered

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Tue, 31/05/2011
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Vase of Daffodils by J.S.Watts

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Vase of Daffodils Copyright © J.S.Watts 2011

Bright enough to burn
Into a bleakly urban Tuesday morning -
Vase of yellow sunshine on my window sill.

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Tue, 29/03/2011
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Suffolk Soil by Victor Weston

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Suffolk Soil Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

You can drive out from Bury in any direction
and you have only to look
on the soil, the selig Suffolk soil

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