Martin Ward

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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My run may be a short sprint or a Marathon.
We know the starting time, but are never sure
when we will cross the finishing line.
May I refrain from looking at my watch:
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In Derbyshire,
we call it 'backendish: '
a time when summer
reluctantly runs to fall.
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Culture: ambition of an alchemist;
mixture in a Petri dish:
all of this and more.
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Armistice Day
(Definition of armistice: a temporary halt to hostilities,
until an agreement is reached that war will end)
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A trumpet sounds in a subway.

Crispian clarion call that would ring
exultant beneath cathedral dome.
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It's very pleasant to hunker-down
in front of the television.
Place a warm blanket over my knees;
a glass of red wine close at hand.
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Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
Thou little tiny child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
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Peace: a single syllable
that melts in the mouth
and trips off the tongue.
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Now is the time
to sow sunflowers.

A single flower
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Azure blue of Mary's Gown
laid down upon the landscape.
Brightest hues of rising spring
that only An Artist could bring.
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