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A Dream Within a Dream
-- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Edgar Allan Poe - poems and poetics

A Dream Within A Dream

They fle from me that somtyme did me seke
-- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

The Oxford Book of English Verse

They fle from me that somtyme did me seke

Kussnester

Gedichte

Tales of a Dirty Old Man
-- Charles Bukowski

Tales of a Dirty Old Man

Notes Of A Dirty Old Man

taking offence (a poem by Alison Flett) read by Lewis 

taking offence -- Alison Flett.wav

A Description of the Morning -- Jonathan Swift.wav

The Floating Harbour
-- Lewis Samuel Robinson (1971 -)

A Petrarchan sonnet

(a funny type of poem from Sicily with fourteen lines)


The Floating Harbour -- Lewis Samuel Robinson.wav

Untitled 

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory

As he defeated – dying –
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

Notes
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112 (a poem)
by Emily Dickenson (1830-1886)
Dickenson did not give her poems titles.
They were ordered chronologically after her death when collected by editors.
This is the 112th.

Success is counted sweetest -- Emily Dickenson (1830-1886)

屌你屌你屌
仆街仆街仆街仆
英國戮童人

Haiku (Cantonese translation of English).wav

Behaviour not emotions! 
Go away and stop bothering me and you're mortal.
Fuck off and die!

3 CoHaL - XXIV _ XXV.mp3

US turns its back on me °°°°° °°°°°°.wav

Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!

James Joyce (1842-1941) - Poesie Chamber Music IX.wav

A Petrarchan sonnet.
(A type of Italian poem with a rhyming scheme)
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Another Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): 3° (Tertiary) Care
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June twenty-first, a 136 to care,
 Shown room then placed to eat, all patients male,
 Our treatment helps add breeze into each sail,
Staff may permit access to garden lair,
Welcome complete, the users learn to share.
 The MDT and clients need no braille;
 We lose our PIP - that is no gale;
A quiet room, a safe; beyond compare.
  All that, it sounds as if too good for truth,
   You see, within these walls, we're ill or sick,
  There's little leeway, fight for pity (ruth),
    Respect the strictures, universal tick.
     If running well, may lead to best of health,
     Then GP's shrunken budget:- others' wealth.

©️ 2025 Mr L.S. Robinson BA MRes(merit) (1971 -)

Explanatory notes:
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Tertiary (3°) care: as with neonatal - every breath monitored 
Section 136: Police holding powers
MDT: Multi-Discipliniary Team
GP: General Practitioner - budget covers care
Cost of bed: ~£800 per day
In Community: ~£5,000 per year
GP's budget covers all NHS patients 
Savings: Cost of MMR vaccinations, etcetera...

Another Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): 3° (Tertiary) Care

NOTES of a DIRTY OLD MAN (extract) -- Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Roma Termini
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(Copyright waived)
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Image: nearest Western Union 

There was a time I spoke a word or two
 and not too long ago as I recall 
 in mortal danger from a fatal fall
amici saved me from a far worse slew 
although we were to one another new
 and I was up against a concrete wall 
 they did not wish to bear my final pall 
and gave advice exactly as I flew.
  I chose to utter that I'd go to Rome
   when speaking of the whole of Italy 
    it had to be that land for reasons grave 
   although I cannot make of her a home 
    it granted me some tiny speck of lea
    all good & done and nothing more I crave.




Roma Termini - lewis (Luigi).wav

Psalm 15 - A psalm of David 
(Old Testament)

Oh LORD, who may find space in your sparse tent,
 and who may live on your bleak, barren peak?

Just those whose way of life is without blame,
 and those who choose to do just what is right,
 and only they who speak with truth from heart,
and speaking such - they have no sland'rous tongue,
 and thus foretelling Jesus, harm no kith,
 and do not slur and gossip with their speech,
and those despising with vengeance the vile,
 but honour those who love and fear the LORD;
those who will not break oathes, in spite of hurt,
 and those both true to their own word and mind;
and those who loan to poor without int'rest;
 and those who take no bribe against the pure.

Whoever does these things will never be shaken.

Mr. Lewis Samuel Robinson (1971 -)

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