Rod Cox Poems

Where is the land that I own without money?

Soon I will die and my body will rot
And my children will pay for my costly plot
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In the year Two-Thousand-and-Ten
365 Missiles were fired by Gaza men.
Across the wall, No Jews were killed at all
But 8 felt shock, when in July
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WIFE OF BATH
What doth a woman most desire? What doth a woman wist?
Was what the wife of Bath asked Men; they hoped it was a kiss.
"Dominion, fools", the wife replied, full eight times married then,
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Sunday,11 November 2018
In Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori: A Poem for Remembrance Sunday
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Loneliness, a sense of dread, a void,
A step outside an aircraft door;
An abstinence, a pointless tear;
A Universe of Black - no Asteroid,
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The aero-thermodynamic name
Of Concorde's elegant paper dart frame,

Is hot, very hot, very very very hot.
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