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Kim Whysall-Hammond (The Cheesesellers Wife)

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With blood and pain I gave you childrentiny hands and yes,gulping mouths to feedbut now intelligent capable caring menready to build anew I have given you my poemslittle things perhapsbut people have said they givecomfort grace hope I have tried to tread lightlyto grow and noursh fellow liveshuman or otherwiseall I want is tomorrow I …

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He haunts mea young boymid teensa lad like mineseen on the news bulletinscrambling over razor wireraised to protect fortress Europefrom the migrant tidefrom him and his likebut these were children, boysfar from home, searching for safetyfleeing from disasteralone Other ghosts have returnedliving skeletonstoddlers the size of newbornseight year olds that look like toddlersflies s...

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Two lights gleam equally across the snowThe traveller hesitates which way to go . . .One is a cottage lamp; the other rayA world four hundred million miles away. by Theodore Stephanides, who should be familiar to all who love Gerald Durrell‘s “My Family and other Animals”. Theodore was a polymath—-both Doctor and aquatic biologist, …

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We are a gate by which she enterswe accidental godswe must dance as fast as we can Fear cannot not take hold of uswe must be furioushold fast to life, to laughterto the birdsong that lifts our Sunto rain that waters and cleansesto clear streams and bright skies She is the ghost of things to …

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There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a PageOf prancing Poetry –This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll –How frugal is the ChariotThat bears the Human Soul by Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)

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