Poems
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Chocolate
This is a special poem to me because it talks about two of my favourite things …chocolate and Fairtrade. I imagined all the different family members and their most loved types of chocolate. And of course to write this poem I was helped by eating maybe more than one bar!
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The Sandcastle
Cheerful coloured buckets, spades and wonderful sandcastles – as a child I spent many hours happily building fantastic creations. But when you are little you don’t understand that the tide goes in and out, and it carries away all in its path – even my sandcastle…
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If I Could Own A Shoe Shop
When I was little, shoe shops didn’t sell anything very exciting to wear. This was my inspiration for this poem many years later… I imagined all the great types of shoes, boots, sandals and trainers that would take you on amazing adventures, full of colour, beautiful far-away places and dreams coming true.
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The Once Silent Beaches…
The once silent beaches could not knowThat they, our heroes would lie slainOn that day.The sea festooned with many boatsAnd men’s crucial anticipationBut too soon lifeless heroes layIn its […]
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11th of the 11th
Old soldier’s tears silently fallHis suffering we must never ignoreHe carries deep scars of atrocities pastOf sadly, a sometimes-forgotten war. His hands now gnarled, misshapenDecades […]
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At The End of a Norfolk Lane
Blue-framed window cottage, across from meadows and trees, where hares playfully box, in summer’s whispered breeze…
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Ten Beautiful Seagulls
This poem was inspired by my seagull watching at the beach. A group of them gathered together and then slowly flew away one by one. Each on a different mission to find food. Unfortunately, as the poem reminds us, the little presents they leave behind to those who feed them, are not always welcome ones!
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Across A Pink Washed Sky
So day will soon be gone, and seagulls with outstretched wings, fly home across a pink washed sky…
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Little Rose
Little perfect rose, opening to the sun, petals gently unfurl, one by one.