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Poems for Remembrance Day

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Dear WOL members,

If anyone has a poem with the theme of Remembrance and would like it to be considered for an exhibition in the Holy Trinity Church, Hull next month, then please send it to me at  winstonplowes@googlemail.com. If chosen your poem could be supporting the artist Martin Waters' Poppy Drift installation.

Poems should all your own work;  be submitted by 1 November; be on the theme of Remembrance Day; ideally be accompanied by a suitable useable image; please send poems as a .doc (Word) attachment and images as a jpeg file; poems can have been previously published online or in print.

Many thanks, Winston

 

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<Deleted User> (7075)

Tue 22nd Nov 2011 10:48

Some feedback from Hull artist, Martin waters -

Thanks very much for the comments, i will add them to the comments book.
my knees ache a bit but it all seems to have gone very well. Thanks again for your input to the project, the poems were a valued part of the experience, i watched many people reading the poems whilst i had my lunch each day, after walking through the drift i felt they had greater poignancy for the readers, people often read the poems then walked through the drift again perhaps with different thoughts.

best wishes for the future
martin

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Dave Morgan

Sun 30th Oct 2011 20:18

Winston, youre welcome to this if it is suitable

Remembrance Sunday

Sunday 18th November 2007 8:41 pm





Yesterday being Remembrance Day

I made a point of remembering

And joined several hundred other rememberers

On the Town Hall Square

Where I bumped into Alec Simister

Who I hadn't seen for ten years

Now there's a man who could wear a bowler hat and rolled umbrella

As well as any city banker, retired guards officer

Or Orange Lodge member
His high cheek bones and straight black hair suggest he could be of the same lineage

As Vlad the Impaler or maybe Chinghis Khan

I was pleased that he remembered me

"I pissed my sides" he said "when I saw you in the paper,

Writing poetry, is that your latest scam?"

He was never one to mince his words.

A man constructed of dinosaur bones

His crushing grip staying on the hand for minutes

Then I drove to Stoke to visit my brother's grave.

It seemed a good thing to do it would have been his birthday today

Our street, which was falling down when we were kids

Is still falling down, the 70s makovers washed away by time

The entries seem to get narrower

But the cobbles, ever more subsided

Are still covered in dogshit

Our local pub Scrimmies, was as full as on any Sunday in my father's day

No miners now but everyone still looks old

Were these the people I went to school with?

I didn't remember them.

And they didn't remember me.

But the Bass tasted just like it used to!

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