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Kevin Morris reading his poems ‘Genes’ and ‘Reprieve’.

 

Both of these poems can be found in my collection ‘Refractions’, which is available here for the UK and here for the US.

 

My latest collection of poetry, ‘The Writers Pen and other poems’ is also available on Amazon, here for the UK, and here for the US.

 

Reprieve

Is a poem a thing of art
Carefully crafted in every part?
Or does the poet roughly ssing
Of Cupid’s sting
And pages wet
That he may not forget
His unrequited love?

The heart
Finds expression in art.
Rough hewn or not
The poet has got
To find a voice.
He has no choice
Other than to obtain a brief
reprieve
From grief
In the words he doth weave.