Hugh Mitchell Biography

No fish-merchant at the street's end now
'Palamut, palamut' no more
even the simit-seller walks on silent feet
the snow descends in feathered lumps
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Good morning Mr Magpie
alone again, like me
I greet you then I bless myself
and hope that I shall see
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This time I nearly didn't know you, Gaia,
elegant dancer; slow smiler
the children, of course, they knew you from the start,
knew you and loved you -
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The germ of an idea came to me
Watching a botanist on my TV
He said a species could be recognized
as great by how much world it colonized
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Down at the bottom of the world
amongst the snow and sleet
stands a lonely Emperor penguin
with an egg upon his feet.
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