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Forthcoming Poetry Collection: Shadows and Birdsong

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I am pleased to announce that my poetry collection, Shadows and Birdsong, will be available to purchase from Amazon in Kindle and paperback in the next 4-6 weeks.

 

Book Description:

 

  Shadows and Birdsong brings together poems that reflect on nature, memory, friendship, and the quiet passing of time. Moving through woodlands, graveyards and everyday rooms, Kevin Morris writes about the moments that stay with us and the ones that slip away.

The collection touches on ageing, loss, companionship, and the small details that shape a life: birds calling in the trees, the steady tick of a clock, the feel of rain, the presence of shadows. Some poems remember those who are gone; others simply observe the world as it is, with its mix of beauty and impermanence.

Dave in a Grave

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When I found a young man named Dave

Lying in a freshly dug grave,

And I said, “are you dead?”,

He said, “No! I am ted!”

I said, “No, you are most definitely Dave!”

 

Postmodernism

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Let us deconstruct all things

In this Postmodernist day.

All our elusions must fall

Away

And everything be analysed

Until our eyes

Can no longer see

Beyond this reductionist

Ideology

After the Rol Play (Fiction)

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We role played.

Afterwards you stayed

And spoke of your childhood

Which, on the whole, was good.

 

Then you told me

Of a family friend’s knee …

 

But now you are at university

And all that was long ago,

And besides, you do not know

Whether it was really so.

And of course you are free

To say “no”

To me

 

It happened years ago

And I have no responsibility

For what he may

Or may not have done.

 

 

Its just fun

To engage in role play.

No harm is done

Or so we say

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early Morning

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Sitting in just

My boxer shorts

In the cool of a summer morning,

I think on is and ought.

 

 

I touch

My own skin.

And think how thin

Is the veil

That separates me

From the eternity

Of dust

 

Consumer

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A man in a sweet shop chooses

From a menu online.

The sweets are divine

The website says

So no-one loses.

 

The candy arrives

In pretty bows

And wrapping

Fragile as flowers.

 

He knows

How it goes:

The tapping of heels

Bring deals

Of sugar sweet

He can’t keep,

While the website

Offers fleeting delights

Of fresh flowers

He takes,

But his thirst

Remains unslaked

My Younger Self

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I sit here

Drinking beer

Alone at home

In this dying heatwave

Unable to forget

What I could not save.

 

 

As I drink

I think

Of girls who padded like cats

Around my bachelor’s flat

In their bare feet.

 

 

We drank wine

And, sometimes

I would find

A kind

Of comfort in a stranger’s arms.

 

A few  left charms behind.

A hairband

I kept in a drawer,

Though I saw her no more.

 

I returned hair extensions.

There was no pretention

Of love.

 

Drinking my beer

I look back on half wasted years.

There where tears and laughter

But what comes after …

 

Perhaps I can find

A sort of tenderness

Tinged with regret.

 

 

I can not forget

And sometimes wonder

What they remember

Of me

Marr’s Bar

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I know a young lady named Marr

Who works in a very rough bar.

I like to drink there

With a tough guy called Blair,

And we’re all terrified of Marr!

Thoughts on a Thunder Storm

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The thunder came

In the early morning.

 

 

I heard the heavy rain

And saw the lightning

Flash across the  summer sky.

 

 

Alone at home

I thought of the old gods

Who  will remain

When man can no longer see

The lightning

Nor hear Thor

Laugh

For he knows

Civilisations rise and fall

And men are fragile

As glass

In shop windows

Lighted at night

To display

What we know

Must pass away.

Poet Kevin Morris’s Show on World Poetry Cafe on Thursday 18 June 2026

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On Thursday 18 June I was delighted to host a segment on the World Poetry Cafe, which is a show on Vancouver Co-op Radio. To listen to the World Poetry Cafe please go to https://www.mixcloud.com/VictorSchwartzman/world-poetry-cafe-june-18-with-kevin-morris/. My segment starts approximately 20 minutes into the show.