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Having been immersed in memoir writing for many months, I decided to write a small poem every day for a year to keep my poetic hand in. I've posted them to Instagram and facebook as written – where, to my amazement, people love them – but on this blog they are sometimes subject to later rewriting.
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Sunday 18 June 2023

I watch beloved Venice ...


I watch beloved Venice die

          on my TV,

and know too well the reason why

          this death will be —


perhaps. Although it’s we who cause

          the city’s end

it’s we as well can make it pause,

          we who can mend


what we first made then slowly broke….

          In ’98,

I fell in love on sight. Now, shock. 

          Are we too late?



I just discovered the Alexandroid form, devised by Jared Carter, 

and of course couldn't resist giving it a go.

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