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The Visitor

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I asked the woman where she came from,She didn’t utter a word,But stood outside on the landing whereShe wouldn’t be seen, or heard.She gli..

The Mantle Clock

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I found I was left a mantle clockThe type that you wind by key,It had stood upon my father’s shelf,Now it came down to me.Inside the clock I had..

The Seabed Wreck

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I like to dive on a sunken wreckIf the sea is not too rough,The seabed’s littered with carcassesI never can get enough,They range from the Roman..

Home from the Lake

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I just got home in the past half hourFrom a great weekend at the lake,I can’t remember how I got home,I think I’m about to flake.The drive..

The Steamer

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

We picked up a coal-fired steamerFrom a graveyard of ancient ships,It had lain, beached up in the Philippines,Sat on the rusted slips,The ship was cov..

The Tunnel

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

There’d been stories about a tunnelIn the old, Victorian house,We didn’t know where it led to,But were keen on finding out,It opened into ..

Blood and Gore

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I wanted to write an amazing pieceThat was like a sock on the jaw,A classical piece like the Golden FleeceIn the Gothic form of yore,But every time I ..

Jealousy

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

There was someone I detested atThe edges of my dream,He was sneaky, underhanded andI thought him quite unclean,For he knew my life with CandaceHad the..

The Shades of Sin

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

Whenever the wind is blusteryAnd buffets the chamber door,I find Elaine, curling in fearDown on the hallway floor.She cries, calls suddenly out to me,..

Together

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I need a woman to ride with me,To prove that she loves me too,A woman to sit astride of me,When one together makes two,It’s ever been the way of..