Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
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Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.John Betjeman
for love I could not speak,
It left me winded, wilting, weak,
And held in brown arms strong and bare
And wound with flaming ropes of hair.
John Betjeman
Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another-
Let us hold hands and look.
John Betjeman
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
John Betjeman
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