Len Webster Poems

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21.
Len Webster's 'Journey By Train'

Am I reaching the pale stretch home now?
Wire-lines are confused and a complex pattern
Is weaving its changing way past scrapyards
And ghost-inhabited derelict stations.
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22.
Old Before My Time

I was brought up
in a lost time
when a liberal
education
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23.
The Armenian Hill Fort At Namrun

A strident stir through dust and history,
Clambering, mistakenly, up forgotten paths,
I reached the summit among the mountains
And rested on stonework pillaged by generations.
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24.
That Night

On the night that they hanged Saddam Hussein
We were not speaking.
Weary and bored, not least by the high winds,
We were barely curious, our attention
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25.
Journey By Train

Am I reaching the pale stretch home now?
Wire-lines are confused and a complex pattern
Is weaving its changing way past scrapyards
And ghost-inhabited derelict stations.
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26.
The Entertainers - Unplugged

Late night TV is not generally for me.
The sight of Baddiel and Skinner on a set
Never rouses me to ecstasy
Or, at least, it hasn't yet
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27.
Len Webster's 'Orwellian Nightmare'

The New Establishment is very well-meaning,
Believes in Democracy, holds itself Accountable to the People,
Gathers in Evidence
To re-mould the Truth about itself,
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28.
Old Age

Old age is

When the winter is never-ending
And bones groan through
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29.
Between The Road & The Western Hills

As the sun goes down behind the western ridge
And laughter comes from the feasted circle,
As rice and Mekhong whisky flow
And dogs await the issuing of bones,
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30.
Over By The Fish Pond

Let me get the tone just right: KAB-BEE.
So brief, but strong, the word I shall use
For what in English we call dragonflies.
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