Don Pearson Poems

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1.
Tigers - For Children

(For Julia Howe and to our grandchildren)

I am a tiger, roaring,
and you run, screaming, to hide
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2.
Innocence

I have caught tears in my mouth,
washed in the dust of the dead,
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3.
Truth - Haiku

4.
Sermon

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for they shall be beloved by their exploiters.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit nothing and yet be satisfied.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be renowned after they have been killed.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs
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5.
Poems

(For everyone involved in Poetry Teignmouth)

They wait in ambush,
poems by writers
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6.
Pohutukawa - Haiku

(for Suzanna)

Christmas blossom fades:
A newborn daughter cries out
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7.
Trains

Privatisation
Shortage of staff
Emergency repairs
Signal failures
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8.
Island - Haiku

(for Elvina)

Abandoned stone heads
Survey wasted treeless land –
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9.
Ants-Haiku

Flying ant day dawns:
The glut is unheralded,
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10.
Personal Ad

I offer neither jewels nor bars of gold
Wrested with men’s blood
From the earth’s heart.
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