Neil Crawford Poems

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11.
'Poetry For Dummies'

'Think like a Poet'
the book advised
so I did and revised
the early work that I had done,
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12.
Pride's Bayonet

Pride, still variable, took command
and muted that loud, fanfare band
that heralded loves of longing born
and left them deafened, dumb, forlorn.
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13.
From A Hotel Balcony

Kitchen assistant in white cap and coverall,
powder blue pinny, clicky clacky catering clogs,
is late...again.
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14.
Attica At Midday

The heat, like a sheet of melting bronze,
sears against the skin.

The bay, holding sway to the east,
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15.
Banana

I find, as I age, I care
less and less for the
colour yellow.
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16.
Farmhand And Tourist

He walks through clouds while watching hawks
in the course of his working day.

Surefooted as the goats he tends, he treads
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17.
Kiln

Time is not my enemy today,
like it was yesterday,
like it will be tomorrow.
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18.
Unto Caesar

It is not a day for Poetry,
its music would be drowned

out by the sound of knives being sharpened
and axes being ground.
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19.
Table Top Abstract

Ketchup as red as Spartan blood
at Thermopylae

Brown sauce as rich as the eastern soil
from which its spices sprang
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20.
Foyer Flower

Undulating, almost sensual vase
with slashed, slanted lip
contains a plant I recognise
but could not ever name.
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