Margaret Alice Second Poems

An Ice Princess returned to her still and peaceful
frozen kingdom; too much humanity in her sister's
sunny land of chaotic kaleidoscopic patterns of re-
curring debts and random decisions which flowed
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I only wanted a bag camouflaged in black to stash
the illegal trash I drag to work: water, a book, extra
shoes, my fan, a DVD - but it was way too small an
amount for a credit card transaction so I had to buy
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Vindicated after my beloved explained his attempt
to improve our standard of living failed to bring it
on par with those of his colleagues - beautiful people
who never go to Pretoria Station as it is below their
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It's not for keeping yet, the alternative consciousness
I've lost, it was on loan to see how grand life can be
when we are free to be happy, a promise of things to
come; in its wonderful mood I was flying and dancing
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I'm shocked after learning what early voice training meant
for Charlotte Church, how she strained to keep her ‘young
girl' voice until she could sing no more; music teachers and
opera singers explained the danger of polyps and injured
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The noise of the music created confusion and I
swept my earphones away to sit in quiet peace
with my pain - a result of eating fudge-picasso
pudding (which had me sitting up for half of the
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Read on the Internet that at age sixteen Charlotte Church
lost her voice when she sang Carmen - yup, that's what I
would have done were I in her shoes, stormed the opera
citadel, shown everyone what we can do, elated in being
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My 86 year old dad is entranced by trains - went to
the Chinese shop to see what they've got - sighted
a lovely discount toy train set perfect for his delight,
emboldened I bought him a steel steam locomotive
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Now it is crystal clear what eternal consciousness is,
a mind so big and universal it contains every scene on
every scroll of the Akashic records to be viewed either
as movement, a reel projecting frames onto a screen as
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I bought your birthday card months ago, dad
got you new sports shoes, I got you a cushion
to go with the yellow pelmet in your room that
I painted when you were still in primary school
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