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Waiting in Heaven by Rod O'Donoghue

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Waiting in Heaven Copyright © Rod O'Donoghue 2011

She'd sit there in the corner,
Curled up like an embryo -
shedding silent tears of sorrow

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 29/11/2011
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Vintage Years by Richard J Whiting

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Vintage Years Copyright © Richard J Whiting 2011

Barley tops blush,
Thinned by drought.
A cruel winter mocked

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 30/08/2011
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Tricks by Owen Robin Davies

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Tricks Copyright © Owen Robin Davies 2011

When fires are lit and night begins too soon,
at evening time when light begins to fail,
I catch a shadow in the other room

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 26/07/2011
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The Dealer by Jen Overett

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The Dealer Copyright © Jen Overett 2011

The cup we watched him throw
(that he could not recall)
was the final straw,

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/07/2011
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Bradfield Woods, in the Spring by Victor Weston

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Bradfield Woods, in the Spring Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

It is an exceptional day
gentle warm Spring sunshine
new green leaf marvellously apparelling the trees

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 28/06/2011
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Inheritance by Thraves Thraveson

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Inheritance Copyright © Thraves Thraveson 2011

Father to son, father to son
Go wealth and title and land
With minimal gifts to the daughter

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 31/05/2011
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Fires Of Memory by James Knox Whittet, read by Paul Jenkins

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Fires Of Memory Copyright © James Knox Whittet 2011

Reading by Paul Jenkins

You who once ploughed hedged Norfolk
fields which slope to the sea in blizzards
of gulls, found yourself in Bergen-Belsen

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/04/2011
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Traffic Offence by Kaaren Whitney

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Traffic Offence Copyright © Kaaren Whitney 2011

She only meant to borrow my husband,
needed someone to vouch for her in court
as a good honourable woman

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 29/03/2011
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Sonata In A Minor Key

Sonata In A Minor Key Copyright © Florence Cox 2011

The wind is playing a dirge
in the stands of pine
and stubborn darkness covers

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Private Reading
Read When: 
Mon, 28/03/2011
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Visiting

Visiting Copyright © Jen Overett 2011

I did not think it would be like this -
this quiet, textured slowing of your lives,
past meals, eggs, ham, "a nice bit of fish"

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 22/02/2011
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