ivor or ivor.e hogg Poems

Your wants and needs are not the same.
You needs you cannot do without.
Your wants are quite a different game.
Things that you choose to dream about.
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There ought to be! !

I’m paralysed and wheel chairbound.
Although I can still get around.
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Heavenly messenger.

As morning breaks the still, dark lake
reflects the opalescent light.
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Though gifted with great eloquence.
The candidate lacks common sense
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Absolute proof

Blood, sweat and tears don’t disappear
But always leave some trace behind.
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Fidelity personified

Though he was old he was still spry
enough to manage on his own.
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Outstandingly average.

I’m extraordinarily
ordinary. My only claim
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It’s autumn now; the trees discard
their final leaves in readiness
When winter comes times will be hard.
Their leafless branches suffer less.
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Battlefield musings

I am aware that thousands lie beneath the soil below the sky
I listen to their silent cry. Why were we sent to fight and die?
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Miserable existence.

I don’t admit to being old.
Nor will I put my life on hold.
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