Emlyn Wentwhistle Poems

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1.
Self Sacrifice- W B Yeats To Maud Gonne

When all,
my love,
you've left
of love
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2.
Snow

I'm watching snow melt on trees
from the window of a room
turned reliquary,
harbouring the bones
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3.
Idaho

Up in Idaho
night's a starched taut canopy
all owl-hoot song and woodcock coo
presaging blear eyed dawn
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4.
Heat

In such sullen heat
words themselves,
as if they bore some talismanic balm,
drip like perspiration from the lips.
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5.
Luck

I carry with me
a small wedge
of Connemara marble
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6.
Poetry

I juggle with words
Smuggled from a thesaurus
And rhyming dictionary
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7.
The Usual

-The usual please.
-And that would be?
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8.
Note To Self

This world should not contain:
canvas shoes, rain
pneumatic tyres, itinerant nails
stepping stones, snails,
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9.
Pigeons On A Flat Roof

Six thirty a.m.
and a holiday!
I throw aside the tangled sheets,
too early woken
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10.
Collectors

'A little grey suits you' she says.
'Gives you a most distinguished air'.
'It never used to' he says
noting the gaunt yellowed skin,
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