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BIRDS FLYING HIGH
02:32
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‘Bitter sweet memories in tangled dreams I dredge’........
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CARDBOARD MUTINY
01:02
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‘You kept me in a box, that when it suits you’d open’........
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CARDS
01:48
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‘It came in dribs-and-drabs, the heartbreak I worked so hard for’........
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DOWN TO EARTH
02:07
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‘I said “You see that star on the far horizon’........
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FULL MOON
02:46
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‘And now she lay in bed alone’........
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FUNERAL RITES
02:43
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‘Orphie tells me that when his grandparents died’........
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GARDEN GATE
00:50
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‘Girl boy, Garden gate’........
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I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
02:41
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‘I love you for so many reasons. I can be myself; you see through my act and amazingly still love what you set eyes upon’……..
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LOST WITHOUT YOU
01:10
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‘Without you, those beautiful girls on trains would go by car instead’........
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‘Oh I do love to see at Christmas, my Spanish friend from Stevenage’........
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NEITHER PEBBLES NOR FISH
01:24
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‘Without you, in silent domesticity, the ironing has eluded me’........
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NEW YEAR'S DAY POEM
00:50
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‘One-sided friendships have a time limit and ours has just expired’........
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SAME STARS
00:56
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‘Each night through my window pane, those same stars are back again’........
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SEA AREAS
02:17
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‘Viking: Tyne, Dogger, German Bight,
North Utsire: Twice shy through not getting it right’………
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THE BEIGE OF BURBERRY
01:40
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‘Your curves and the way that you present them’........
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TILL THERE WAS YOU
01:32
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‘There were bells on a hill, but I never heard them ringing’........
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‘She stares at flowers rolled up tight’……..
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Huw Parsons Hay On Wye, UK
Huw Parsons was born in 1954, grew up in Llyswen, near Hay on Wye, and educated at Brecon Boys’ Grammar School and Chelsea
College of Art.
He feels neither wholly English nor particularly Welsh, with his life’s diversity a social impostor and a cultural chameleon.
His influences: the poems of John Betjeman & Phillip Larkin, the novels of Leslie Thomas, the song lyrics of Sting & Jake Thackray.
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