Dr Ian Inkster Poems

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
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West Virginia, Trumpland (after John Denver)


Jobs are dying, West Virginia
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Annabel Lee, VERSE BY Edgar Allen Poe [ballad]
It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,
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Break My Chain (Anon England,1830s)

Sweet master, break my gallingchains,
And set your prisoner free;
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There's A Good Time Coming [1846, John Mackay]


THERE 's a good time coming, boys.
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My Lovely Moon - A Ballad for the Forest

Dr Ian Inkster 2016
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The Hangman's Tree [traditional]

Hangman hangman, hold your hand oh hold it just a while
For there I see my father coming riding many a mile
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She Came in Spring

The Invalid, [W D Gallagher]
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My Song Rabindranath Tagore/Ian Inkster

[after Rabindranath Tagore,1861-1941, fundamentally re-written by Inkster for scan and rhyme, from his poem of that title] For the story behind this see Story panel below, for the song see attached MP£ file.
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Lamentation (Charles Sylvester 1797)

Here come I a vagabond, ragged and forlorn
An object of pity, or rather of scorn
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