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Neale Lucas
Jul 5, 20211 min read
POETRY.
WOMAN TO CHILD You who were darkness warmed my flesh where out of darkness rose the seed. Then all a world I made in me; all the world...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 1, 20214 min read
POETRY.
THE RAVEN Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 25, 20211 min read
POETRY.
THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know nothing else. They...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 21, 20211 min read
POETRY.
HOPE Hope was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men. She was...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 18, 20211 min read
POETRY.
THE LAUGHING HEART your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 15, 20211 min read
POETRY.
MY COUNTRY The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins. Strong love of...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 10, 20211 min read
POETRY.
SHAME And some say "Shame" when we're talkin' up And "Shame" for the way we are And "Shame" cause we ain't got a big flash house Or a...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 9, 20212 min read
POETRY.
I have decided that I am going to pay a little tribute to perhaps our greatest poet. I'm not sure how many I will post, they are all...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 2, 20211 min read
POETRY.
SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one...
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Neale Lucas
May 27, 20211 min read
POETRY.
I was only a very young child when I first heard Pam Ayres. Way to young to appreciate her poetry, I do remember that I fell in love with...
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Neale Lucas
May 21, 20211 min read
POETRY.
THE PORTRAIT I watch you, gazing at me from the wall, And wonder how you'd match your dreams with mine, If, mastering time's illusion, I...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 26, 20211 min read
POETRY.
OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them,...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 24, 20211 min read
POETRY.
RUBICON Caesar paused at the Rubicon, Its waters but a trickle compared to the Rhine. His beloved horse “Toes” gave a whinny, then they...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 21, 20211 min read
POETRY.
THE GOD OF WAR I have watched you kill yourselves for generations. You have called me many names. Mars, Ares, Ashur, Ashtart, but I...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 18, 20211 min read
POETRY.
HIS LAST HAND A single bead of sweat rolls down his cheek. Death strapped to his thigh. A vulture on gnarled tree cleans its beak....
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Neale Lucas
Apr 16, 20211 min read
POETRY.
I FELT A FUNERAL, IN MY BRAIN I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 10, 20211 min read
POETRY.
Because I could not stop for Death Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves –...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 4, 20211 min read
POETRY.
SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And...
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Neale Lucas
Mar 30, 20211 min read
POETRY.
Moments of Happiness. My moments of happiness these days are few and far between. They slipped away some time ago, I know not where...
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Neale Lucas
Mar 30, 20211 min read
POETRY.
I taste a liquor never brewed I taste a liquor never brewed – From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such...
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