A love in verse

Funny Faith

1993-04-25
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It’s farce and there’s nothing like it

So stupid, ‘gainst the grain

Don’t publicise – don’t mic it – 

They’ll say you’ve gone insane


Consider, smugly, the evidence:

What’s hoped’s beyond the odds!

Sometimes a couple lost their sense – 

A silly pair of sods!


But in this dim grey Sunday noon

The sun comes blasting through

Faith scoffs at odds, they move, and soon

We’re favourites, us two! 

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By the Aegean

Three boats ride at anchor in the calm night

Warning lights winking without respite

And the far headlands to left and right...

Daughter

She will find the flowers soon

Catch them suddenly – pinks – 

In a glance, surprised, as she enters...