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Lost Moment

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I’d only been gone for a moment,A moment was all that it took,And up to the edge of that momentI’d been sitting, and reading a book,Then I..

Whispering Walls

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

The place was a crumbling ruin,It sat on the top of a hill,If we hadn’t been travelling tired that dayWe may have been travelling still,But you ..

The Jacaranda Tree

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I woke in the early hours to findMy head between her thighs,She hadn’t been there before, I swearAnd I’m not a man who lies.I’d seen..

The Garden Door

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

The garden at home, from what I recallWas massive and overgrown,More like a huge untended parkThat was mine to explore and roam.There were trees and s..

The Black Dog Run

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

The hull was that of a freighter, merchant,Old, but still under steam,It rose from off the horizon, distant,Out of somebody’s dream,Its livery h..

Wedlock

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

The door was ajar to a pokey roomAll gloomy and morbid inside,It gave off an air of despair and gloomNot joyful, befitting a bride,The couple arrived ..

Two Steps Closer to Hell

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

Have you crept off into the darkness,Have you hidden yourself in your spell,Is your world the world of starkness,Are you two steps closer to hell?I fe..

Bon Voyage

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

She stood and she watched as the storm came inWith the wreck of the Unicorn,Its forward cabins under the swell,Its masts so high and forlorn,Her sailo..

Strangers

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

‘We never had much in common,’ saidThe man in the sailor hat,‘He was the father, I was the son,And that,’ he said, ‘was ..

Planetary Wiz

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

He was wearing a coloured waistcoat,All covered in Moons and stars,With planets and things, and Saturn with rings,And one glowing red like Mars,I saw ..