September 2009
Exemplary by Rob Lock
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Rob Lock1:16 minutes (1.16 MB)
Exemplary Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock
It's assonance that we aspire to
with all of half rhyme's cultured subtlety:
poems where each line appears to grow
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Empty by Rob Lock
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Rob Lock0:33 minutes (512.4 KB)
Empty Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock
The bin is empty, the wood all burned.
The flames that recently reached out
against the black, with those soft thuds
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When by John Snell
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — John Snell1:21 minutes (1.23 MB)
When Copyright © 2009 John Snell
When all the tears have fallen
And smiles are in their place
When all the problems of the world
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- 5 reads
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Isla by John Snell
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — John Snell1:23 minutes (1.27 MB)
Isla Copyright © 2009 John Snell
Beautiful Isla
Perfection personified
You were not the only one who cried
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Listening to Sharon Olds by Colin Whyles
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Colin Whyles0:36 minutes (623.31 KB)
Listening to Sharon Olds Copyright © 2009 Colin Whyles
Listening to Sharon Olds
you hear the blade upon the bone
a surgical incision made
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Of Mother and Childhood pt3 by Colin Whyles
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Colin Whyles1:42 minutes (1.62 MB)
Of Mother and Childhood pt3 Copyright © 2009 Colin Whyles
And then there were the headaches
your constant companion as I grew
“Please don't make any noise”
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Walking The Doggerel by Colin Whyles
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Colin Whyles1:09 minutes (1.07 MB)
Walking the Doggerel Copyright © 2009 Colin Whyles
I slip a chain around its neck
I wouldn’t want to choke it, yet
It often takes me down the paths
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Flick Book for my Aunt by Rob Lock
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Rob Lock1:26 minutes (1.32 MB)
Flick Book for my Aunt Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock
Thrum the pages: see two trees
flicker into single symmetry,
until a canker kills one off;
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Embarking by Rob Lock
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — Rob Lock0:53 minutes (825.46 KB)
Embarking Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock
Soon after dawn he sees them: crows, gulls
skimming the red grey sea of rooves,
swooping the gullies between for left-behinds
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Retirement by John Snell
Tue, 29/09/2009 - 20:30 — John Snell2:15 minutes (2.05 MB)
Retirement Copyright © 2009 John Snell
I’ve no use for a watch or clock
My times now all my own
That is, after I have weeded the garden
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- 4 reads
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