Charlotte Peters Rock Poems

They gather in the Greeting Place
A smaller flock than once expected
Still elated - out from work and office
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Green as hanging heliconia
beneath the rosy moonlight

chattering incessantly out loud
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A darker shape
Flapping lazy through the further clouds

The great grey bird
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I want to sleep in the dorm, where the backpackers sleep,
and to laugh and to joke and to tell tales of woe,
and to catch midnight buses, where backpackers go,
and to scrimp and to pinch every penny with them.
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White haired and gay in London
with that determination born
of fleeing from Vienna
A Jew breaking up her life
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Aeltje Boelens Mother of twins
Wife to Jacob Dirkszoon de Graeff
Honoured Mayor of Amsterdam
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she wasn't
Temper - violent
Children - various
Colour - brown
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Lugh

Raven and spear and the longhanded Lugh
like Odin equipped into fear
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Managing doormat in rose-coloured glasses
shock of grey hair and a simpering smile

Snowy net curtains whose pattern surpasses
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His high profile made The Qualities.
On one arm a graceful woman
Tucked in close another photograph
woman doppleganger - and his first
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