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Beside the Clay

Doug Blair 1951 (London)

Does it help
If I just simply sit a while
Here beside
You as you reel in recent pain?

Naught to say
No thoughts to re-invent your smile.
Hurts too much.
Will you hold up ‘neath all this strain?

Sun will rise
But it will surely take a while.
God is love.
You, clay upon His wheel again.

Turning, yearning
For relief and smiles.
Revelation comes with cost
His dawning Domain.



Consider our Ebook of years back.

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Scheme XAXB XAXB XAXX XXXB X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 463
Words 97
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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Doug Blair

Doug was once a lawyer. Frustrated. Went broke 1987. Turned to manufacturing. People talked straight. Worked hard. Listened when appropriate. Lead Hand Shipper and Workplace Safety. Married to Hilary 1974. Two kids Lauren and Jordan. Poet. Photographer. Hiker-photographer. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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