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James Garratt – A life lived and recorded in ink since 1992

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Tag: #poetry

I Am Not Other People – Written Wednesday 12th September 2012 (Aged 37)

i am not other people
out on a limb
not prepared
and i never have been

#poetry, poems, writer, writing

Eyelids – Written May 2015 (Aged 40)

something about this –
closed my eyelids
like they did –
when they stole heaven

#poetry, poems, writer, writing

Working Through the Pilgrimage of Life – Written April 2002 (Aged 27)

attitude is important
and i should do more
i should work things through
working through,
the pilgrimage of life

#poetry, poems, writer, writing

The Day That Never Came – Friday 9th March 2012

another phone call
with formalities exchanged
no search from, ‘wood’, try, ”barker’
her former name

#poetry, creative - writing, free verse, grief, loss, mum, writer, writing

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