Martin Ward Poems

An Autumn Elegy

Turn the season,
golden morn.
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Seven Women Dancing

Seven women dancing:
Fourteen legs;
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An Engineer's Epitaph
(Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby)

Work of an unknown poet, transcribed
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Earth from Space

You look so beautiful:
putting on your finest face.
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Cathedral

I could not
read the words,
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The Carrot Sonnet

My beautiful, orange, four-legged friend,
not a barking dog, nor a neighing horse:
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Saint Teresa's Wisdom
(Based on Saint Teresa of Avila's words)

If you have love,
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Adelard's Tree
(The Allestree Sonnet)

In Allestree, Adelard's Tree stands strong.
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Never turn back

No Moon that night as the North Sea swelled,
Sending blinding rain in a North-East gale.
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Each year, at this time,
I see beneath the washing line,
a beautiful flower appear.
No matter if the shears
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