Dr Ian Inkster Poems

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
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West Virginia, Trumpland (after John Denver)


Jobs are dying, West Virginia
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Annabel Lee, VERSE BY Edgar Allen Poe [ballad]
It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,
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Break My Chain (Anon England,1830s)

Sweet master, break my gallingchains,
And set your prisoner free;
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There's A Good Time Coming [1846, John Mackay]


THERE 's a good time coming, boys.
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Dylan ThomasDo not go gentle into that good night Written for his dying father, (1951)


Do not go gentle into that good night,
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Dream a Lonesome Sky [September 2017]

Why can't I dream a lonesome sky
And shape it blue, make it true.
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1896 (Music by Ian Inkster 2018)
The Witch (circa 1896)

I have walked a great while over the snow,
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IN LONDON TOWN
By Mary E. Coleridge circa 1896

It was a bird of Paradise,
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With The West in her Eyes [ the poem titled 'Unwelcome' by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861-1907]

We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
And the door stoodopen at our feast,
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