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The Selfling

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I saw her first in the lighting flashThat lit her up in the storm,The rain was beating on down to slashHer more than shapely form,She’d just eme..

The Elopement

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

‘Be waiting up at the window,’ saidThe note he sent by hand,‘I’ll come and collect you at midnight,’Said the note, &lsqu..

The French Corvette

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

At midnight, out on the cobblestonesThere’s the sound of rolling wheels,And a shadow cast on a window paneFrom the road outside, it steals,A wag..

You May Glimpse Wings...

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

He took to the skies most every nightUnfurling his wings of black, not white,Invisible in the night sky whenHe hovered above the world of men.‘G..

The Ringmaster

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

There were tigers, bears and elephants,The day that the circus came,And dwarves and clowns in our tiny townIt never would be the same.The people stare..

Amnesia

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

I came home to an empty houseTo find that you were out,That you’d be home much later, thenI hadn’t any doubt,But the day stretched into ev..

Christmastime

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

Christmastime was lurking atThe corner of the street,Just waiting for the 25th.,It tried to be discreet.It didn’t want to force itselfOn Muslims..

Castle McClair

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

There wasn’t a lot of the Castle left,A couple of Towers, and Keep,Most of the walls had fallen inTo a courtyard, full of sheep.It stood up high..

A Tale Will Tell

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

He was only a simple storytellerBut looked much like a clown,He wore red, yellow and jingle bellsWhen coming to our town,He’d sit outside by the..

The Bloody Train

A Poem by David Lewis Paget

By a stream of running water,Underneath a moonless sky,Like a nightmare of a slaughterThe blood-spattered train goes by.Where the rails have long been..