Paul Warren Poems

We found it on the shelf in a shed
From the dust it had sat as the dust fed
But the gears and cogs still worked around
And it made an efficient machinery sound
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At a particular time of the morning
When you walked past without warning
A whirling noise came from the cave
With pulsating red and yellow lights it gave
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Stand for the right
It will be alright
Note that you care
And you will be there
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In the mangled wreck she sat
With the force injured at that
There was nothing we could do
Just hold a hand as she died too
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They are going to study the big red spot
That is a storm on Jupiter raging a lot
For centuries since it appeared
Scientists have wondered the wierd
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Grief is hard to see
Crying, remembering what used to be
The person that was is no longer
And it's hard to be then stronger
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Too many times when it's not adequate
To come when it is too late to equate

What needs to be done in bad times
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Just out of your vision's periphery
You see the shadow people moving easily
Some say they are shadows of creatures
In other dimensions that will sometime feature
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The Barunga left Plymouth, England on 14 July,1918
With 900 Australian soldier invalids for home to be seen
But there was lurkinga U-boat in the Bay of Biscay
And a torpedo hit her blowing the first two bulkheads away
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Saint Dunstan's Hospital for blinded soldiers and sailors
Was in Regent's Park, London and by 1916 had a full house
Of 150 blinded servicemen who were taught how to survive
After being blinded in the Great War battles across the world
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