Jim Evans

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What did you shout in the tunnel?
Who's left to listen down there?
As you fled underground
Was the only sound,
...

His low blows once struck and left no trace,
But today I smashed grandfather's face;
I smashed his face and cut my fists;
With shard-grained knuckles, scarlet wrists
...

Jim Evans Biography

As an avid childhood reader who grew up to be an adult with daydreams of writing outside of a science-based career, I began writing poetry on a whim in September 2010 after seeing posts in the “WriteLion” forums of Nottingham’s LeftLion magazine. I had a couple of poems published and that encouraged me to go to poetry nights to try out my poems on an audience. That’s led to me being one of the acts performing at the “Speech Therapy” night in November. We’ll see what happens after that; in the meantime I’m just finding my feet and enjoying having a creative outlet.)

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Colonel Who?

What did you shout in the tunnel?
Who's left to listen down there?
As you fled underground
Was the only sound,
Footsteps and mad wheezes for air?

Were you always a pantomime villain,
To have planned such a textbook escape?
Now it's behind you King Lear,
All the violence and fear;
The passage's end taking shape.

How loud will you shout from your hiding?
It's harder to hear you from there.
Such a noisy recluse
Could well swing from a noose;
A sore throat's now a thing to beware.

Will you withdraw your ill-gotten investments?
Pension-off one last change in regimes?
From Colonel to Field Marshal,
A promotion impartial;
Bumps up final salary schemes!

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