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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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Saturday, 23 December 2023

Someone's written ...


Someone’s written a book

collecting poems he considers

worthy of re-recording, and also 

advising us how to read them.


Thanks but no thanks.

I don’t want to be instructed

in how to respond to a poem;

I just want to respond –


to let it all absorb me, wash 

through me, creating images, 

feelings, sensations: known 

and loved or thrillingly new.





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