David Lewis Paget : Writing

Brother Love

Brother Love

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


I knelt to peer at my brother’s face In the light of the early morn, The face of the man I’d grown to love Since the day we both were b..
Byron Bay

Byron Bay

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


I lay a-dream in Byron Bay And felt a voice to sigh and say: ‘Get up, get up, There’s much to be done, And more to be seen, to be work..
Come Quickly

Come Quickly

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Before the mountains Quake and fall away, And rivers dry, or Turn to scattered clay, Could I live to see the day Come Quickly! Before the hea..
Coming Home

Coming Home

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


My mind is musty, overgrown With weeds and deeds the years have sown And names untold that never left a face, I turned to you to find you’..
Death of An Airman

Death of An Airman

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


To the memory of Gus Brittain.
Titan

Titan

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Deals with my frustrations with T.S. Eliot's 'Waste land', and all his other cold, emotionless works.
How Many Men

How Many Men

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


An exercise in alliteration
Mary Boots

Mary Boots

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Based on a headstone in the Raymond Terrace Cemetery
My Generation 39/45

My Generation 39/45

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Out of the nightmare came a dream, Out of the night, the dawn, A thousand bombers overhead The night that I was born… The world was filled ..
Pen & Ink

Pen & Ink

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


If all the world were pen and ink And all the folk were sorrow, If all the trees were burly breeze And Wednesdays, come tomorrow, If all the stars..