ivor or ivor.e hogg Poems

Soft moonlight filters through the trees
Which seem to dance to melodies
Created by the gentle breeze.
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When shopping at the superstore
I find each time I must pay more
For food than what I used to do
And other prices increase too.
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Patrolling city streets by night.
On foot as policemen used to do
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I tell you in strict confidence.
Because I know you can’t resist
Passing what I tell you on
To anyone and everyone
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Experimental form

Why
Should I try?
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My pencil’s charged with poetry.
It can write verses fluidly
and inscribe them on the sheet
in rhyme and perfect metric feet.
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At fall of night the desert lies
silent. Waiting for the moon to rise
Which will reveal the muted tones
of rolling dunes and time worn stones.
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In days of old when dragons flew
amongst the clouds for all to see
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I’m just an ordinary guy
who’d like to know the reason why?
The powers that be resort to lies
about the strangers in our skies.
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I wandered slowly in my dream beside a placid flowing stream.
I pondered as I walked along. Was something missing something wrong?
I realised I was alone. I had no love to call my own.
The sun no longer shone for me I was enwrapped in misery.
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