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Was that my life? by George Sheils

‘Tick-tock, tick-tock’ goes the clock in the bedroom he shares with no-one. He sees that it is time to rise...
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Magpie and Mouse, poems by Liz Quirke
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3 Poems by Liz Quirke

Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
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waterfalls in Nairobi
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One-way Ticket to Nairobi, by Poppy Johnson (Translation by MD Wanyagah)

There is a long dusty Kenyan road that carries me to you, Forging a likeness to the same reddened particulate...
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Poems by patrick deeley
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Poems by Patrick Deeley

TOBY’S SOLILOQUY To think what stands against me still is not the harm of falling off a ladder at two-storey...
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Binh Duong, a New City
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Binh Duong New City, By Michael Halloran

You will ask—name the mushrooms on the grounded log And the anatomies of the shifting clouds. Tell me these fifty-one shells on...
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Spring Day in the countryside
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Poems by The Rural Writer (Pat Argar)

Spring Day Blustery breezes, sunshine and sudden shower Banish hoary-handed winter from the land. Burgeoning buds and lancing leaves appear,...
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Nicki Griffin writes about the natural world
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3 Poems by Nicki Griffin

Crossing Places  At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
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A perfect 35 for the bees
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A PERFECT 35° (Poem), by Jessica Maybury

All day they mumble in a clump outside the hive. I water the days of an unexpected life. I fill...
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Poems by Dudley Laufman
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Poems by Dudley Laufman

THAT GERTRUDE COW   for Annie the Herdswoman It was below freezing in the milking parlor. The freshly hosed down cement...
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