Philip Dodd lives in Liverpool, England, has a degree in English literature from Newcastle University, and has been writing songs, stories and poems since he was twelve. He is the author of three books, Angel War, published in April,2013, Klubbe the Turkle and the Golden Star Coracle, published in March,2015, and Still the Dawn: Poems and Ballads, published in October,2015. He has had poems published in his local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo, The Dawntreader, a quarterly poetry magazine, published by Indigo Dreams Publishing, and Mallorn, the Journal of the Tolkien Society. One of his poems, The Redundancy of Gods, was published in Greek Fire, an anthology of poems, inspired by Greek mythology, which was published in June,2015 by Lost Tower Publications.
The Round Table is broken,
to divide this green island, Britain.
Now I must obey the last words of Merlyn.
Take Excalibur, the sword of Arthur,
...
Four hundred years,
that is one hundred years less than half a thousand,
that is a long time to be absent from the stage,
a long time for your plays to go on and have no equal,
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Worst is when you want to cry
when there is no reason.
It's just a summer passing by,
like any other season.
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Panther black jungle night.
Monkeys screech,
parrots squawk in fright.
Muddy brown river,
...
I strayed into long ago,
somewhere in the east,
yes, the Orient.
Time moved slow,
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