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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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Belshazzarʼs Feast by Victor Weston

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Belshazzarʼs Feast Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

I had been invited to a
performance of Beshazzarʼs Feast;
it would be as if the history of our own time

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O by Rob Lock

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O Copyright © Rob Lock 2011

Yesterday we woke to fog
the sky a white canvas waiting
for its picture of a day.

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Ashes by Owen Robin Davies

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Ashes Copyright © Owen Robin Davies 2011

A car drove by the barn the other day;
quietly, and parked secretly by the dell
where the woods begin, now in their autumn glow,

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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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The Revelation Of A Nightmare by Victor Weston

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The Revelation Of A Nightmare Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

In my dream I screamed, I could not hear the sound
as there, in the boot of the car,
was revealed

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Tue, 25/10/2011
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the wholesale closure of the Welsh chapels by Victor Weston

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the wholesale closure of the Welsh chapels Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

Out of the sheer bulk of these mountains and hills
thrust up through rain-drenching clouds into the sky
the people of Wales have raised these edifices:

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Tue, 27/09/2011
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Outside Waitrose by Rob Lock

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Outside Waitrose Copyright © Rob Lock 2011

Everyone was standing around fussing this dog
whoʼd been tied to a bench and abandoned.
Mobile phones were being fingered

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Tue, 27/09/2011
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Corpus Domini 2000 by Victor Weston

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Corpus Domini 2000 Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

We walked with Jesus through the streets of Sorrento
he came to us in the bread and the wine
while the sky was blue and incense wafted heavenwards

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Tue, 26/07/2011
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An Elusive Sense Of Belonging by Victor Weston

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An Elusive Sense Of Belonging Copyright © Victor Weston 2011

A small boy from Brum
practiced each night (in Norfolk dialect)
‟potaa-ah, tomaa-ah”

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Tue, 26/07/2011
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