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Great Feedback On My “Selected Poems”

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I was delighted to receive the following email earlier today:

“Dear Mr Morris,
I am writing to tell you that your poems in “The Collected Poems of K Morris” that you gave me on the train on my way to college are exceptional. You might not remember me but I am the girl doing politics and history that you met on the train and gifted your amazing book to. I have always been interested in writing poems and therefore you have really inspired me to carry on my interest and write some poems of my own. I would really like to thank you for gifting me your book and inspiring me to continue writing”.

The Selected Poems of K. Morris

“The Selected Poems of K Morris” can be found here https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WW8WXPP/ (for the UK), and here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WW8WXPP/. (for amazon.com customers).

(Please note, I have not included the young lady’s name in order to protect her privacy).

Vera

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I met a young lady named Vera

Who said all the people fear her!

I said to Sky,

“Please tell me why?”

She shivered and said, “go ask Vera!”

Lost Glasses

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When a Marxist who had lost his glasses

Said, “religion is the opiate of the masses”.

And I said, “How so?”

He said “I don’t know!

And comrade have you seen my glasses!”

Buccaneer

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There was a young lady named Fay

Who met with a gentleman one day.

He said, “I’m a buccaneer!”

Which Fay found quite queer,

As he worked in a field of hay!

In the Quiet Time

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In the quiet time

Before I go online

I see the sunshine

Fall on my office walls.

 

If I could stay

And watch the sunlight play

I would be happy,

Temporarily.

 

I have seen another January

Come and go

And trust I will see

The coming spring

Bring flowers to me.

 

 

But man’s hours

Are brief as flowers

And I may go

And not know

January or spring

The Human Heart and Art

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In the early morning

Before the birds are heard

I think on light

And dark

And how the human heart

Makes art.

For we are light

And dark

Ark

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I awake to rain again.

Should I build an ark?

If I do the shark …

My thoughts grow far too dark …

 

A bear in my bed

Would keep me from sleep

For fear that it would eat  …

 

I have no dread of the pussycat,

But what of the mouse and rat …

For the poor pussycat

Must be fed …

 

I do like dogs

Yet fear they would gobble up frogs!

 

I imagine the crocodile’s smile

As he lies, just like a log

Waiting for some cat or unfortunate dog

To pass by …

 

On second thoughts, perhaps I

Should wait for the rain to stop

For I can not chop wood in rain …

Strawberries and Cream

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When a young lady eating strawberries and cream

Went and told me about her weird dream,

I said to her, “Lee,

That seems strange to me!”

As she covered me in strawberries and cream!

Miss Bangs’s Fangs

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I met a young lady named Bangs

Who showed me her pearly white fangs.

My girlfriend Miss Moriah

Claims she’s a vampire.

But she doesn’t have fangs like Bangs!