Len Webster Poems

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11.
Happiness

This poem is about a man
Who always had a reason
For being unhappy.
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12.
On The Rubbish Dump Of A Century

They were the cheated generation:
Young between two wars
Then trapped in promises
Of better times to come,
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13.
Len Webster's 'Old Age'

Old age is

When the winter is never-ending
And bones groan through
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14.
Len Webster's 'The Death Of Arthur Miller'

If Shakespeare died today
would the lights of Broadway
be lowered
and the BBC World Service
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15.
Jerusalem

This is the city of which we sang,
Of which we were encouraged to dream,
For which our hearts each missed a beat
As we thought of the mushroom clouds.
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16.
Human Resource Officer

lipstick, smug,
superior,
a fixed expression
on her unresourceful face,
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17.
Certified In Education

Can't spell?
Can't speak?
Why not teach English
To the meek?
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18.
King For A Day

They stripped me down beyond bare essentials -
Even now I can't tell the new from the old -

Dressed me in the finest green and black livery
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19.
Winter Sun

I dreamed of the snowmaiden,
white and soft,
of endless warmth
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20.
Len Webster's 'season Of Dragonflies'

The season of butterflies is the season of dragonflies
Hovering in a breeze that controls their fate.

Seen like that, trying to keep control, but edging forward,
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