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Best a Poet Can Get
Poem scribbled into my phone
is my best and new number one.
Can’t believe I’m so in the zone,
where in space did that come from?
Hit me with extraordinary pace,
ideas strident, in avalanche flow,
filling the bright white open space,
the right words set up to glow.
Me witness to growing perfection,
and conduit without choice.
Happens so rare...
Monday 4th September 2023 3:00 pm
HS2 Is Not Coming Soon
I am sorry to announce,
but my long awaited
HS2 poem
has been branded
‘unachievable’,
and is at risk
of not coming out.
Successive
brutish reviews
say it won't deliver
soon, and
a poetic replan
should cut the
quatrains to haikus.
My sonnets
run obsolete,
villanelles
don’t complete,
and the limerick (below)
is the only...
Monday 14th August 2023 1:19 pm
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