After Being Denied

 Mango sorbet

Because the Picnic Box

Has sold out

Of strawberry ice cream

Would you rather be

Front of house

Or are you better off

Working in the back-kitchen

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Denied

The hotel does have ice cream

But the kitchen isn’t open

So I can’t have any

Also that might

Explain why

The coffee is lacking

What it takes, to reach

Those dizzy heights

Of a truly black Americano

 

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Mucknell Abbey

 Will the body stand the pain

The blue sky is clouding over

Their words are not my words

Neither can I read their music

But I can close my eyes

I can feel the breeze

Wafting through my fine mop of hair

And I can feel for those not with me

That is my discipline

To think to write a letter

Yet not a letter for posterity

Instead a letter to hold on to love

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After Not Being Promoted

 And of course

Last night’s disappointment at football

Will take quite a while

To wear off

It’s probably the end

Of that team as we’ve known it

Already I have learnt

They were the second oldest team in the league

There is a sadness

And a dullness

Also an apprehension

Instead of an excitement

This isn’t how the first day

Ought to be

Yet doubts always surface

At the beginning of an adventure

And so the emptiness

The loneliness of leaving you behind

Brings a hollowness

To the car's interior

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Flatland Slopes

I don’t belong here

What with my dodgy hips

And all these sloping pavements

Which also annoy the hell

Out of my nervous thighs

Someone once said

That Lincolnshire was flat

Well not on the wolds it’s not

All over the place there are tricks

To trip up the troubled walker 

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