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  • A Grey Day's Story
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    This is an account of the mental illness I suffered more than forty years ago. It is more explicit than anything else I have written.

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  • Longer Poems I Like
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    This is intended as an extending collection, in no particular order, of those longer poems that I have liked. As for my 'Short Poems I Like', their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment.

  • More Short Poems I Like
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    This is intended as a further collection, in no particular order, of the short poems that I have liked. Their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment. For those who dip into it, I am hoping with this personal anthology to convey something of the pleasure poetry has for so long given me. Lik...

  • Short Poems I Like
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    * There is an alphabetical index at the end (including authors). This is intended as an extending collection, in no particular order*, of the many short poems that I have liked. Their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment. For those who dip into it, I am hoping with this personal antholog...

  • Family Folklore, in my Father's Voice.
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    Here my father, born in 1900, reminisces on people and the funeral trade in Belfast during his own and his father's time.

  • Memories
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    Recollections from earlier years of family and friends; and of some observed events, mainly in a troubled Northern Ireland.

  • The Pity of War
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    "My subject is war and the Pity of war. The poetry is in the Pity". Wilfred Owen

  • Die Laughing
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    True humorous poem anecdotes from the family funeral and wedding trade. If you like any please consider giving it a vote. It would be a great encouragement.

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  • Poets and Poems
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    This is a collection in which I choose a poem I like, not necessarily a representative one, and add a short biography of the poet

  • Behold The Man*
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    This is mainly a five part idiosyncratic reflection on the life of Jesus of Nazareth; someone whom many people with little time for religion still find attractive. It is mostly from a talk I gave in 1988 while visiting a church in Pennsylvania. Please make allowance for this context in what I have written. I am not tr...

  • Poems of Youth and Age
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    At seventeen I wanted to write poetry, at thirty-two I had to write it and at seventy-three I was startled to write it. These poems, serious and humorous, that I am posting are the result. If you like one, please consider giving it a vote, by clicking on the 'star' below the poem. It would be a great encouragement t...

  • More Snippets
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    More bite sized oysters of fun with an occasional pearl of wisdom.

  • Snippets
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    Bite sized oysters of fun with an occasional pearl of wisdom. Some were written to amuse my grandchildren or young friends; some just to amuse me!