Category: Poems
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My New Year Poem – 2024
By Derek Winters New Year – ‘Time to Die’ To my dear Lord God high above… This New Year I pray for nothing. Not for money, not for health, Not even for a woman’s love. Because each day might be my last… I’ll fear nothing – not a thing. No…
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Wild Horseman
The fog roles in thick and vast, Blanketing most of the meandering river. The far bank is lost from view, Concealing a sight that would make brave men shiver. A hybrid from a forgotten past, Approaching the river so furious and fast. Could it be the sound of a horse?…
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Pray
Pray, pray against the coming darkness… Against despair and loss of hope Pray for our freedom and redemption Against vanity and pretension Guard us against this new false pope… Pray, pray against the beasts of the night… Evildoers our souls will take From those unwary those unwise Seeing not that…
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Go on then and breathe it in –
In the inner Earth, the Jurassic, tropical jungle contains many species of flowering vines, creepers, and plants
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The Fighter Pilot
Strong hands gentled, his fingers light. Breathe in then out, beating heart calmed. Eyes sharp with peripheral sight – He’s fast, deadly, and always armed! He swoops and swerves his steel winged bird – Yawing then banking, left and right. He sees the first two, then the third. Enemy…
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Master and Student
‘Because the world is round of course and likened to a globe. The crust, the mantle then the core – the deeper one might probe…’ ‘So just how deep have we probed?’ the student asked the master … ‘Eight miles or more, or so I think, too deep would court…
There Be Dragons 