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A foreign wood

The empire called for more men, and they came.

Shipped from sub-continent

to western front,

Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa, 

largest volunteer army in the world.

 

They weren’t ready for the cold;

couldn’t understand new officers

when theirs were slain. 

Some wounded, shipped to England,

died and were buried

in a corner of a foreign wood

with Muslim honours...

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The 'rules' of modern poetry

Tell it slant, don't tell it straight. 

Don't tell it at all. Show me. 

Lyrical is ok, up to a point. 

Don't overload with details. 

 

Whoa! Hold it right there. 

This is veering towards 

the anecdotal,

the confessional,

the conversational,

and, Heaven forbid, 

the sentimental. 

 

I find it easier to get obscure

poems published, than ones 

where the mea...

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The computer said 'No'

for the many hard-working and innocent

Post Office operators wrongly accused and

defrauded by their employer. Some were jailed,

and four took their own lives  

 

The best comedy lines are funny

because they resonate with truth.

Funny in a mirthless kind of way.

Some Post Office manager

got a huge bonus for installing

a computer system that didn’t work.

They coul...

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