That thou art (for Arthur and Phyllis)

Was this first yellow primrose
waiting for me here
to join it in wordless praise?

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A Garfunkel moment

' I've always thought
the game in life
is to stay interesting
to yourself '

2007

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Silence at the river bank

This winter dusk, the wild goose's cry
disappears into the stone cliff:
stillness.

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0125 A Footballer Kicks a Cliché into Touch

(British readers only)

At the end of the day
that's what it's all about

sunset

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Seasonal jangle jingle

Mirthful and merry,
jovial and jolly,
in-laws for Christmas,
prickly as the holly.

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Emily Dickinson transcends

this - yet, seeing this -
the knowing, 'not this' - yet -
this knowing seeing -
That!

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On the break-up of two e-poets

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Better new kindling
than raking the embers

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Politically Incorrect Poem 2

Tell you what

I'll pray five times a day
if you love your neighbour as yourself

deal?

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0430 Why War?

when peace is forever,
why war?
It doesn't last
like peace.

(for Jerry Hughes, poet)

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0160 Happy Poem for Danny

'Everything that lives
is full of the Lord'

observed Eeyore,
his mouth full

of thistles

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