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Two Beggars
Old Jim was at the pierhead
Mendicant as usual
When an old blind robber
(a business rival, Bert by name)
Came and mugged him
And took his pathetic earnings.
Bert stole Jim's begging bowl
Full of cast-off buttons
And selected pebbles
Which he was too blind to realise
Were not really coins
After all.
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Free verse
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London, Culture Capital of the World
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Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).
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Breakinglogic
Wed, 2020-07-29 01:44
did enjoy!
I don't know what much to say except that I do like the interesting dynamic and situation you've created and I like the way you phrased it.
☆ raffy
Edna Sweetlove
Wed, 2020-07-29 14:40
Thank you...
...for your comment!
xxx
Edna
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