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We are a friendly local poetry group that meets on

the third Sunday of each month to read our own

poetry, listen to others’ poetry and talk about poetry.

Meetings take place on the third Sunday afternoon of

the month starting at 2.00 o'clock and finishing at

approximately 5.15. In December we meet on the

second Sunday.

They are held in the library of Orley

Farm School, South Hill Avenue, Harrow, Middx.

The nearest tube station is South Harrow. There is no

access by car from the South Harrow end of South

Hill Avenue. Entrance to the library is by a door

round to the left of the building.

Fancy yourself as a poet?

Come and listen or read your own verse. This local

poetry group started in 1992. Visitors £3.00.

For further details and before coming telephone

0208 864 3149.



Below we will be placing some of our latest verse as tasters.

Saturday, 8 August 2009

Closing My Eyes

Closing my eyes
an aeroplane dances to the fore
a backdrop breeze
pastes it there
while splayed out voices
surround me
in compulsive chat.

I hear the sun
talking things up
bullying people into smiles
they never owned.
A pit bull, panting for air
serrates the atmosphere.
There are no solos here,
except the mad lad
who grins alone.
Drinking up their ecstasy
by the pint
I Sauté my emotions in beer
like a holiday maker
beached and calm.

About me, groups in cliché
plod out memories
and problems,
and louder problems
as each cider sinks,
and they are talked-out
assassinated,
then removed
to that bottom office draw
by the biscuit tin.

Removing my glasses now
the world creeps closer, realer,
even the blurs look touchable,
till at last I’m slipping along
not quite centre stage
just off
piste.

Jerry Pike
Posted by Jerry at 20:09

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