ivor or ivor.e hogg Poems

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I did not think I’d live to see.
Three quarters of a century.
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Sense and sensitivity.2010

Big city life is not for me.
Too many minds impinge on mine.
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redondilla

To tell my love forbidden me.
So I must suffer silently.
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Inverted hexaduadad.

I can
choose to be a man.
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Methinks thou art a lying knave.
To thy desires nought but a slave.
Prepared to grovel if needs must
to satisfy thy endless lust.
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Guardian.


Surreal scenes of beauty lie
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Twice two is four twice four is eight.
I do not need to calculate.
I learnt my tables long ago.
I need not think because I know.
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A hanging stone on the high tor.
Is balancing precariously.
A well known curiosity
Which may well last for evermore.
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Afghanistan where young men die,
protecting us from terrorists
Here normal rules do not apply.
But still the powers that be insist.
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I want no marble monument
erected in my memory
I’m sure that I would lie content
beneath the branches of a tree.
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