David Lewis Paget Poems

She was a queen of the old Levant,
Of a country, lost in shame,
Each page, blood-drenched of its history
Was burnt, to bury its name,
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There are times when fate steps in, and then
You never stand a chance,
For your life is cut and tailored to
Some random fortune's dance,
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The cumulo-nimbus clouds crept up
From the South, preceding the dawn,
Under the cloak of darkness they
Arrived as the day was born,
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The thickest smog that I'd ever seen
Came down as I caught the bus,
It swirled on down from the chimney tops
And mixed with the fog at dusk,
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I live in a great, wide open land
At the other end of the earth,
But the TV News and the Devil's views
Are beamed to my own home hearth,
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‘The neighbours are holding a Christmas fete, '
She said, ‘have asked us to go along,
It's fancy dress, we can go there late,
I know you'll say that we don't belong.'
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He walked the length of the village street
With a board - ‘The End is Nigh! '
In a dirty army overcoat,
He looked like a nice old guy,
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He peered on out at the darkening sky,
Pulled out the watch from its fob,
Traced his finger across the hand
That would time his nefarious job,
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My girl went out on a Saturday night
They said that she was alone,
I'd said, ‘We'll meet at the Cineplex, '
But the movie was postponed,
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When the Gao Gao clan lost its favourite son
In a coal disaster in the mines of Shandong,
He could not be buried in the family plot
For he died unmarried, with his lifeline cut.
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