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Mood: Courage

The Masque of Anarchy - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.

Discharged - by David Mackie

{ Poem }

When the fighting days are over,    And we’re finished with the fray,When they draft us back to Dover    To be put on pension pay;You may think we’ll be in clover    But remember this, my son,When the fighting days are over,    Then our fight has just begun. It is hard, there’s no […]

The stars are the map I unfurl - by Gary Quinn

{ Poem }

Da starns are da map I unrowl

Warning - by Jenny Joseph

{ Poem }

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
/ With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
/ And…

The Door - by Miroslav Holub

{ Poem }

Go and open the door.
/ Maybe outside there’s
/ …

Hard Working Women - by Msandi Kababa

{ Poem }

Hold on Women of great courage
/ You have held on so bravely and tirelessly
/ Hold on Women of great courage, hold on
/
/ Women…

Invictus - by William Ernest Henley

{ Poem }

Out of the night that covers me,
/ Black as the pit from pole to pole,
/ I thank whatever gods may be
/ For my…

A Recipe for Whisky - by Ron Butlin

{ Poem }

Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry;
/ Take sleet, the driving snow, the hail;
/ Winter twilight; the summer’s sun slowed down
/ to pearl-sheen dusk…

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