Alan Sandham Poems

I stand before you
Clean and sober,

No doubt some of you already wishing
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I've got the viral blues,
Empty supermarket,
Panic-buying,
Out of the fire into pan-frying,
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When I attempt some home repair
I find Incompetence lives there.

He skulks and sulks to my despair,
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See the rushing shining water,
See the flowing River Tees,
From the hills and farmlands yonder
All the way down to the sea;
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If I watch a hawk hover,
As she hangs on her wings,
And I wonder at her stilled flight-
Do I distract myself with its meaning
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The other day I saw a crow
Swoop at a gull on a neighbour's bin,
Disputing salvage rights, I thought,
Although those rights are rather thin;
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Here's the time for us to sever,
May be for now, may be forever,
Maybe a sad, slow, parting kiss,
Maybe a sibilant serpent hiss;
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The magpies are massing after dark:
I think they mean to take the Park
And banish other birds,
Who seem clearly down by at least two-thirds;
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When all that can be done's been done,
And all that can be said's been said,
And most of it is clearly gone,
But some of it's inside my head,
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