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Tyrian Purple

By: David Alderson 25 April 202325 April 2023
Poetry

A poem about growing through failure

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Poetry

Turn, turn, turn

By: David Alderson 10 April 202029 March 2023
Featured, Poetry

A poem from the frontline of the NHS – a personal psalm for Good Friday

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Featured, Poetry

In the Temple of Mammon

By: David Alderson 12 February 2020
Poetry

Two hundred hour stints in Mammon’s gold temple, / loneliness tempered by rites which appal

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Poetry

Gone

By: David Alderson 27 January 202029 March 2023
Poetry

Breaking the fences, / bending the boundaries, / blind to the rules that bound / mere mortals

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Poetry

Dandelion Clocks

By: David Alderson 17 December 201929 March 2023
Featured, Poetry

Who ever sees their own metamorphosis? / Those glorious suns turn to angst-ridden spheres, / Like unspoken rumours of far away wars

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Loss of Voice

By: David Alderson 3 December 20193 December 2019
Poetry

I’d strayed: learnt the ways of a cruel cut-throat gang

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Poetry

Growth Rings

By: David Alderson 5 November 20195 April 2023
Poetry

Exploring the positive possibilities of mistakes as sources of sources of learning, inspiration, discovery and reconciliation

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Poetry

New Gold Dream

By: David Alderson 13 July 201914 July 2019
Poetry

So, when we set off prospecting/I wasn’t expecting,/not even suspecting,/we’d find El-Dorado

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Poetry

Shell-shocked

By: David Alderson 20 May 201920 May 2019
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I shut the bin, tight,/and put it out in the road: / out of sight, out of mind. / But a place inside me, / tight shut for thirty years— / out of Africa: out of mind— / came open; came apart.

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Treatment of Failure

By: David Alderson 7 May 20197 May 2019
Poetry

Knowing I’ve failed you, I’ve no way to constrain / the anguish and grief of that desolate ocean.

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Poetry

Frozen

By: David Alderson 20 April 20195 April 2023
Featured, Poetry

Bound in the graveyard’s wintry embrace, / Do you long, as I do, for the coming of spring, / For the soft healing waters that summer should bring, / Yet fear all the memories entombed in the ice?

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The Direct Route

By: David Alderson 15 April 201915 April 2019
Poetry

All life’s struggles distilled and defined / in a tangible route to that famed mountaintop

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Poetry

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Anxiety can grow up in any life like a field full of dandelions gone over to seed.
Trust in the truth of the tap-root of love to change your perspective.

John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

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Anxiety can grow up in any life like a field full of dandelions gone over to seed.
Trust in the truth of the tap-root of love to change your perspective.
John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

#poetrylove #poetsociety #poetry #poetryislife #poetrycommunityofinstagram 
#bibletruth #sharejesus #biblequotes
The Direct Route is a poem that I wrote about climbing: why I used to love climbing and why I stopped. 

Do follow the link on my bio to read the whole poem.

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The Direct Route is a poem that I wrote about climbing: why I used to love climbing and why I stopped. Please do follow the link on my bio to read the whole poem.

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The Direct Route is a poem that I wrote about climbing: why I used to love climbing and why I stopped. Follow the link on my bio to read the whole poem.

#climbing #rockclimbinglife #ropespoetry #writing #poetrycommunityofinstagram #lifelessons #poetryofig #poetryporn #poetryislife #poet #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #writing #poetrycommunityofinstagram #lifelessons
Stories are how we make sense of the world - those we tell to each other and those we tell to ourselves.

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Stories are how we make sense of the world - those we tell to each other and those we tell to ourselves.

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Stories are how we make sense of the world - those we tell to each other and those we tell to ourselves.

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A poem I wrote about not being defined by our failures.

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A poem I wrote about not being defined by our failures.

Please share to someone who might need this.

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A poem I wrote about not being defined by our failures.

Please share to someone who might need this.

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The beauty of nature - an everyday miracle

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The beauty of nature - an everyday miracle.

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The beauty of nature - an everyday miracle.

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To everything there is a season... 

In the early days of COVID, my faith was a lifeline. 

What was your experience of that time?

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To everything there is a season...

In the early days of COVID, my faith was a lifeline. 

What was your experience of that time?

https://buff.ly/3z8hmlp 

#amwriting 
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poetsofinstagram 
#sonnet
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To everything there is a season... 

In the early days of COVID, my faith was a lifeline. What was your experience of that time?

https://buff.ly/3z8hmlp 

#amwriting #poetry #writers #writingcommunity #writersblog #poetrycommunity #poet #poetsofinstagram
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