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Turn, turn, turn

By: David Alderson April 10, 2020April 10, 2020
Poetry

A poem from the frontline of the NHS – a personal psalm for Good Friday

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Poetry

In the Temple of Mammon

By: David Alderson February 12, 2020
Poetry

Two hundred hour stints in Mammon’s gold temple, / loneliness tempered by rites which appal

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Poetry

Gone

By: David Alderson January 27, 2020January 27, 2020
Poetry

Breaking the fences, / bending the boundaries, / blind to the rules that bound / mere mortals

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Poetry

Dandelion Clocks

By: David Alderson December 17, 2019December 17, 2019
Poetry

Who ever sees their own metamorphosis? / Those glorious suns turn to angst-ridden spheres, / Like unspoken rumours of far away wars

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Poetry

Loss of Voice

By: David Alderson December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
Poetry

I’d strayed: learnt the ways of a cruel cut-throat gang

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Poetry

Admitting The Possibilities of Error

By: David Alderson November 5, 2019November 19, 2019
Poetry

Exploring the positive possibilities of mistakes as sources of sources of learning, inspiration, discovery and reconciliation

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Poetry

New Gold Dream

By: David Alderson July 13, 2019July 14, 2019
Poetry

So, when we set off prospecting/I wasn’t expecting,/not even suspecting,/we’d find El-Dorado

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Poetry

Shell-shocked

By: David Alderson May 20, 2019May 20, 2019
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I shut the bin, tight,/and put it out in the road: / out of sight, out of mind. / But a place inside me, / tight shut for thirty years— / out of Africa: out of mind— / came open; came apart.

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Treatment of Failure

By: David Alderson May 7, 2019May 7, 2019
Poetry

Knowing I’ve failed you, I’ve no way to constrain / the anguish and grief of that desolate ocean.

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Poetry

Frozen

By: David Alderson April 20, 2019May 20, 2019
Poetry

Bound in the graveyard’s wintry embrace, / Do you long, as I do, for the coming of spring, / For the soft healing waters that summer should bring, / Yet fear all the memories entombed in the ice?

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Poetry

The Direct Route

By: David Alderson April 15, 2019April 15, 2019
Poetry

All life’s struggles distilled and defined / in a tangible route to that famed mountaintop

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Poetry
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