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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).

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!

 

Birds and Men

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Birds

In early morning

Sing

Of coming spring.

 

Cats

Have no cruelty

Yet we condemn in them

The cruelty of men

 

While the birds still sing

Of spring

And my heart responds

To birdsong

My Valentine’s Date

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A gorgeous young lady known as Kate

Has invited me on a Valentine’s date.

Her pretty friend Lou

Will join us too.

I wonder, should I invite my mate …

flâneur

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When I met a young lady named Flair

Who said, “sir, you are merely a flâneur!”

I said, “I observe the street

And many people I meet.

But Flair, tell me what is a flâneur !”

Andy the Dandy

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My friend whose name is Andy

Has a reputation as a dandy.

He thought Miss Mandy hot

And offered her cheap chocolate.

But Mandy she preferred a shandy!

 

Beyond Birdsong

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I awake from sleep

And start my day

With tea.

 

I feel the life within me

Flowing strong

I will be

Just me

Ere I find sleep

Again.

 

Sometimes I weep

But the wood

Is full of birdsong.

 

I will walk there again

For I am half in love

And I do not have long

Ere sleep finally takes me

To beyond birdsong,

Love and sleep

 

Open Window

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I open my window

And listen to bird calls

As rain falls

To the garden below.

 

This is the timeless time

Of nature’s passing rhyme.

But work calls

And I must go.

 

Yet the fall

Of the rain

And the bird’s call

Remain

 

 

Marr’s Scandolous Memoir

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I know a young lady named Marr

Who is writing a most scandalous memoir.

She has just turned 22

And has already been through

Countless ripped dresses and tonight’s torn bra …