Alan Sandham Poems

I stand before you
Clean and sober,

No doubt some of you already wishing
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I've got the viral blues,
Empty supermarket,
Panic-buying,
Out of the fire into pan-frying,
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When I attempt some home repair
I find Incompetence lives there.

He skulks and sulks to my despair,
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Here's the time for us to sever,
May be for now, may be forever,
Maybe a sad, slow, parting kiss,
Maybe a sibilant serpent hiss;
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The other day I saw a crow
Swoop at a gull on a neighbour's bin,
Disputing salvage rights, I thought,
Although those rights are rather thin;
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If I watch a hawk hover,
As she hangs on her wings,
And I wonder at her stilled flight-
Do I distract myself with its meaning
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The Wanderer in Old Poets' books
Gets more than simple tourist hooks
To illustrate truths that Percy found
On the endurance of the maker's round.
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There's a thing of which I would speak,
Not in Latin, and not in Greek,
If it can be said at all
It can be plain.
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My neighbours like to line-dance in the street,
Pre-programmed moves an intricate, co-ordinated, feat
Bespeaking fellow feeling,
Going beyond the urge to meet
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