Margaret Alice Poems

You are an avenging angel
sent by God to weigh our deeds
especially to judge me as I did not
comply with your every need and did
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I don’t care about the fire you’ve made tonight
because it is clear I should not be here, but
somewhere else, because where YOU are
things ought to be right, suitcases ought to
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Glittering day, light sparkling light
buildings and trees shimmering bright
crisp beauty framed against a blue
intense, birdsong all around us
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Armed with Mr Tompkins in Paperback
by George Gamow, attending this morning’s
meeting, greeting the Chief Director by
threatening to sing her a song, she ran
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I was not prepared to admit to depression
and failure to control my reaction to food,
did my duties as noisily as I could, until
sinking down in a swoon all exhausted –
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Now is the time to stay calm, count your losses
and let it go, let it go, you can’t hang on to her
she is as free as a bird, don’t break bones, it
will scare your friends away also, especially me
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Visiting the museum was not a success,
parking was a mess, walking three blocks
down while singing happily did not appeal to
a thirteen-year old girl who feels her eleven
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Palm trees etched against silver light blue,
trees silhouetted against a soft amber hue …
The sun rose with a red face as if ashamed
like me - because the dragon dinosaur is still
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Filing to the tune of Dalida
singing Arabic music, the rhythm
makes me move like a camel and
the words – baladii, my country
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For a brief moment I focused today
for a very brief moment I visualized
exactly how I was going to do the filing
all in one go - then lost that focus as I
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