UNCLE BOB (Barry Tebb Poems)
Shell-shocked from Korea A grenade that left him The platoon's only survivor, Put him in Stanley Royd For thirty years. ...
Shell-shocked from Korea A grenade that left him The platoon's only survivor, Put him in Stanley Royd For thirty years. ...
Just a family get-together in a terrace house in Bradford High tea with a few stuffy aunts I hadn't seen ...
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
There was a hope for poetry in the sixties And for education and society, teachers free To do as they ...
The Poetry School, The Poetry Book Society, The Poetry Business: So much poetry about you'd think I'd want to shout, ...
Sitting in outpatients With my own minor ills Dawn's depression lifts To the lilt of amitryptilene, A double dose for ...
You were the one I wanted most to know So like yet unlike, like fire and snow, The casual voice, ...
They have my own fear of the dark, Tupapau - spirits of the dead they call it; Returning late with ...
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
THE KINGDOM OF MY HEART 1 The halcyon settled on the Aire of our days Kingfisher-blue it broke my heart ...
Give me life at its most garish Friday night in the Square, pink sequins dazzle And dance on clubbers bare ...
Pulled from a life some leaves in evergreen Or dressed like fragrant crinoline draped Over shadows by di Chirico, stolen ...
Why our son, why? Every morning the same dark chorus wakes me And I wonder how I am still alive. ...
for Daniel Weissbort Some poems meant only for my eyes About a grief I can't let go But I want ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories