David Lewis Paget : Writing

Looking Back 1963-1976

Looking Back 1963-1976

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


I’ve often thought that all the time We spent, in spending wasted all, And lost the chance to spend our dreams The way our dreams would seem,..
Magic Mushrooms

Magic Mushrooms

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


‘The colour has run from your shirt,’ I said ‘To lie on the churly seat!’ ‘Too late, too late,’ said the surly m..
Scrawled Silence

Scrawled Silence

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Australia is a big, empty country, which often makes you feel rather empty inside....
Short Shrift

Short Shrift

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


'I’ve failed!’ How many times have sons And fathers’ fathers echoed me? ‘I’ve failed! My life was spent in dreams,&rs..
The Dog 'Sat' on the Tucker Box

The Dog 'Sat' on the Tucker Box

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


As I was driving slowly by Some Gundagai or other, I Was heard to sigh, or make remark ‘The Tucker Dog has lost his bark �" His ..
The Last Word

The Last Word

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


And so to this then, The last word on the last word penned. The tides of life have caught me unaware, And in the depths and shallows I have fo..
Woman in Child

Woman in Child

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Pregnant women positively bloom...
A Waking Dream

A Waking Dream

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Whenever I dreamed, I seemed to set Some faded poem in motion, yet, I’ve only recalled but one vignette, But one vignette, repeating; A sh..
Alone

Alone

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


What thought fear burns Along long lonely, nightlit turns; With day’s light fled And I, the last long spark Of reason, crackling on Thr..
Birmingham 1947

Birmingham 1947

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


I grew up playing in the rubble of the Second World war.