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  • The Clock
    Far away is one who now is sleeping
    In the same world and the same darkness,
    But not in my keeping.
    Oh no, my arms could never stretch so far ...
  • Tyne Dock
    The summer season at Tyne Dock
    Hoisted my boyhood in a crane
    Above the shaggy mining town,
    Above the slaghills and the rocks, ...
  • Progression
    See that satan pollarding a tree,
    That geometric man straightening a road:
    Surely such passions are perverse and odd
    That violate windows and set the north wind free. ...
  • Kitchen Poem
    An Elegy for Tristan Tzara

    In the hungry kitchen
    The dog sings for its dinner....
  • Ode In Honour
    Evening is part of the jig-saw truth of her,
    ply-wood ply-flesh, her insolent reply
    blinding the ace with a straight shot to centre,
    the woman's a delicate devil in twenty places...
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Love 6 I Love You 6 Never 4 Sun 3 World 3 Heart 3 Woman 3 Hear 3 Hold 3 White 2


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War_poets: 1 november 1942 sidney keyes writes that he has invited fellow poets francis scarfe and alun lewis to visit him one weekend ‘no answer yet.’ in fact, lewis had embarked for india a few days before and did not return: he and keyes never met.
Vikshirley: “a port may be a pleasant retreat for any mind grown weary of the struggle for existence…above all there is a mysterious, aristocratic kind of pleasure to be had, for those who have lost all curiosity or ambition…” baudelaire the poems in prose, translated by francis scarfe.
War_poets: 1 november 1942 sidney keyes writes that he has invited fellow poets francis scarfe and alun lewis to visit him one weekend ‘no answer yet.’ in fact, lewis had embarked for india a few days before and did not return: he and keyes never met.
Cuedotrecords: the cue dot series: 001: shoreline, by lyndon scarfe 002: a pleasant and profound hand into a peaceful death, by lying cat 003: stories from an island, by sad man and francis lowe available for download. a few 003 cds remaining too
War_poets: 1 november 1942 sidney keyes writes that he has invited fellow poets francis scarfe and alun lewis to visit him one weekend ‘no answer yet.’ in fact, lewis had embarked for india a few days before and did not return: he and keyes never met.
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Which Is The Favourite?
 by Charles Lamb

Brothers and sisters I have many:
Though I know there is not any
Of them but I love, yet I
Will just name them all; and try
If there be one a little more
Loved by me than all the rest.
Yes; I do think, that I love best
My brother Henry, because he
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