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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Fleeting Glimpse She looks down at me from high on my living room wall. A fairy now, although she was real enough when she drew the picture. We often talked about fairys, about the fairys at the bottom of her garden. Her face appears before me as I write. I thank her once again for the lesson which she taught me before she chose to leave. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
I should perhaps point out that not everything described in this poem is true.
Happy Christmas everybody
David
Star GazingÓ 2009 David Agnew
One o’clock in the morning, pitch black.
I stand at the toilet look through the skylight at a panoply of stars, see Orion framed exactly.
I discover I am peeing down my left leg.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
 Cacophony Constant chatter from the herring gulls aloft, on top of thermals rising after dawn, calling to each other and again perhaps to me. Ownership; the sky and air belong to us proclaim those fierce and independent birds, home is where we spread our wings ours, the wind, the sun, the sea. Never scared to revel in our freedom. You can only envy; you might as well enjoy. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
I went to a workshop a few weeks ago - the topic was surrealist poetry. Sometimes I get very good poems out of workshops, sometimes I get very silly poems. My lover turns into a teapot I looked at you sitting on the sofa, a giant teapot, rose coloured, rocking gently from side to side. I put my arms around you - I was cold, embraced the warmth - felt it seep into my being; picked you up, carried you through to the kitchen, tipped you, poured your contents into my favourite mug, topped it off with milk and carried it through to my armchair to drink while I enjoyed a cigarette. "Oy" you said from the kitchen. "Oh shit" I thought, pondered on changing you back, but instead closed the door to the kitchen so I could have my tea in peace. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Friday, December 04, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
 Looking for Alice
"That’s the hole" I said "Just there" Police constable Brown looked at me sceptically. "She ran in, then disappeared" I said. He looked at me again.
Perhaps it would be best, I thought, if I do not mention the White Rabbit.
Copyright 2009 David Agnew
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Current mood:Sense of humour restored
Category: Writing and Poetry
Candle Power
Four times you flash, then a pause; your light penetrates, illuminates, for more than twenty miles.
But me, I want a more consistent light which reaches in, not out, exposes hidden, secret places, brightens up my whole inside.
I see the journey, know the route, am not afraid of darkened path.
Your power, though good, is wasted. All I need - one candle lit within.
Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Perception She bought me a ball, plastic, yellow and red. I took it out, played with it, turned it over in my hands, thought "What use is this?" "Throw it gently in the air." she said "Catch it as it falls." I threw it up, watched the red of its outside disappear. When it landed in my hand it was yellow. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
It is not often that I get a poem out of one of my own workshops, but last Saturday I did - Knowing I can see through you. And yet it does not help me to know you better. Your shadow passes across the landscape before me. I want to know you better. Have you come into my life to fight me or embrace me? May I know you better? And will you dance with me, fill in, for me, the gaps, let me see you whole so I can know you better? Sit down beside me on the grass, let us talk of who you are and who I am until we know each other better. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
I attended a poetry workshop last week in which the themes were - Peace, Heroes and Heroines. I have problems taking poetry workshops seriously - hence the following poem. I should point out that it is in no way auto-biographical. *Smile* David Heroes I spent all afternoon looking through my knicker drawer; problem was none of them were suitable. I had to disqualify those with holes in the backside, white ones - too plain, those which played music when squeezed, or with pictures of Fred Flintstone, or which said Glentoran Football Club, and the ones I was keeping as souvenirs, a thong that got left behind when she left, the lace ones I bought her for Christmas, and the ones she said were her favourite. It is clearly impossible to be a super-hero if you have no knickers to wear on the outside. Ó 2009 David Agnew
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Ninth September 2009
The sun had already cleared the horizon by the time I awoke; another year older, some the wiser, glad to be alive,
my head full of caves, castles, sandy beaches, fairy glens and magic,
of people, special people, one still asleep in bed, others scattered across continents, who made, and make, a difference.
"If I had known" the man said "that I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."
That may be true.
Yet, as I stand here on a balcony early in September smoking a cigarette, feeling heat from the sun, I am truly grateful.
Ó 2009 David Agnew
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