R.Boase's Poems

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A Brief Moment of Remembrance : In Memory of Anna Politkovskaya (1958-7th Oct. 2006)

When Brian Haw, that stubborn weather-beaten figure,
scourge of the parliamentary warmongers
and all of us who by our mere indifference
are in some small way complicit in torture,
dressed in his usual hard hat
studded with dozens of badges of...

– by Roger Boase

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Milton Part One: Dreams & Memories

the lapping bow
of a drifting boat
before the sun goes down
behind the brow of Dumbuck Hill

rowing across Dunbowie Loch
known to some as White’s Dam
designed to turn the timber wheel
of the calico printing mill
now a ruined gothic...

– by Roger Boase

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A Babe is Born (Wednesday 27 Jan 2021, 7.34 pm)

miracle of spring
is stirring in the branches
rustling in the bushes
and trembling in the air
which is why the small birds
have been so restless
restless in the undergrowth
all night long
sensing that spring is near

it is a full moon...

– by Roger Boase

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Swallows in March (2004)

Invisible pewits are calling musically across the marshes
at the southern edge of the Ampurdan plain,
lashed this morning by a cold gale
speeding fresh from the white Pyrenees.

Beneath the wind-swept pines
near the steep path to the disused...

– by R.Boase

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A Brief Moment of Remembrance

A Brief Moment of Remembrance

  In Memory of Anna Politkovskaya (1958-7th Oct. 2006)

  (Westminster Abbey, 13.30 hrs, 13 Oct, 2006)


 
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– by Roger Boase

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