Mark Hurlin Shelton Poems

Hammersmith on Thames at Low Tide

This sparkling beach of river silt, quiet and white
the barge boats languidly tilted to rest
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May Peace be upon you
tread soft on the ground
May we spread peace-
May it fall all around
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Praise Poem 2008
Again i hear the word in my heart
falling like generous drops of peace
flowing through my grateful core
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Composed at the Times Square Cafe in Rocky Street, Yeoville, late 1999, a few months before Sinclair's passing.

My poet friend, sir Sinclair Beiles
Who has survived through many storms and gales
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The Flying Fish.
by Mark Hurlin-Shelton
Copyright 1988
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Composed on a walk between Hampstead Highgate (not too far from John Keat's house) late 1980's

It has been a day for wandering
beneath this sky of early spring
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Run Rhino Run
Let your thundering stomp
reverberate among the mountains
Echoing your heartbeat
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FATHER, MY FATHER

Father my father who were you father?
Father whose eyes were not two stars of the night sky
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The bus driver is only doing his job-
he says i am out of my zone
come on mate- take a look at the rain-
i just want to get home
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