Car poems

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from the Ansty Experience

© Rg Gregory

(a)
they seek to celebrate the word
not to bring their knives out on a poem
dissecting it to find a heart

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from Proverbs of Hell

© Rg Gregory

isn’t that what things with the palsy
are supposed to do – lovely lake
give the world the miracle it waits for
what a laugh that would be

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A Christmas Carol

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day.
The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray,
When Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day.

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from crossing the line

© Rg Gregory

there was a great man
so great he couldn't be criticised in the light
who died
and for a whole week people turned up their collars over their ears
and wept with great gossiping

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peach-power

© Rg Gregory

peaches exude this thrall -
reminders of those luscious
whereabouts that lips
best find their precious sips
to cry let this be all

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Orlando Furioso Canto 23

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Astolpho soars in air. Upon account

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haunting the quark

© Rg Gregory

(I)
if you can’t scientifically explain it
dawkins says it has no value – some hope
inside the mechanical framework of a guess
(as far as any fact can truly grope)
doubts roam – mere looking can’t attain it

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(i) the inkman

© Rg Gregory

whirligig twister
dancer prancer
st vitus’s quester
chancer romancer

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"Mylo Jones's Wife"

© James Whitcomb Riley

"Mylo Jones's wife" was all

I heerd, mighty near, last Fall--

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girl (three) and the black horse

© Rg Gregory

i want to hold the horse's string
cried the girl (three) stamping her foot
told by adults she was much too young
the black horse stood staring at the wall

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Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVI

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Who has not wept with Manon? Of all tales
That thrill youth's fancy or to tears or mirth
None other is there where such grief prevails,
Such passionate pity for the loves of Earth.

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the arrival of spring (cathe waller)

© Rg Gregory

on the last day of winter i went to bed
harsh winds rainstorms beating my head
houses trees with a sucked-out look
new year flaked from the old one's hook

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Experience

© Jane Taylor

--A COSTLY good ; that none e'er bought or sold
For gem, or pearl, or miser's store, twice told :
Save certain watery pearls, possessed by all,
Which, one by one, may buy it as they fall.
Of these, though precious, few will not suffice,
So slow the traffic, and so large the price !

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book I - Part 01 - Proem

© Lucretius

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,

Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars

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Eclogue the Third Abra

© William Taylor Collins

SCENE, a forest TIME, the Evening  

In Georgia's land, where Tefflis' towers are seen,

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Ode. Supposed To Be Written On The Marriage Of A Friend

© William Cowper

Thou magic lyre, whose fascinating sound
Seduced the savage monsters from their cave,
Drew rocks and trees, and forms uncouth around,
And bade wild Hebrus hush his listening wave;
No more thy undulating warblings flow
O'er Thracian wilds of everlasting snow!

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a reader’s de profundis

© Rg Gregory

in my reading of the moment i have learned
the figure next to christ in da vinci’s last supper
(a painting i have actually seen in a milan church
fragilely restored) is a woman – an honour earned
by mary magdalene who (according to research)
turns out to be christ’s wife – hang on what a whopper

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The Grave

© Robert Blair

While some affect the sun, and some the shade,
Some flee the city, some the hermitage;
Their aims as various, as the roads they take
In journeying through life;—the task be mine,

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The Spartans At Thermopylae

© Richard Monckton Milnes

No parleying with themselves, no pausing thought
Of worse or better consequence, was there,
Their business was to do what Spartans ought,
Sparta's chaste honour was their only care.

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The Closed Door

© Duncan Campbell Scott

_The dew falls and the stars fall,

The sun falls in the west,