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1st
Prize, BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year, 2006;
published
in BBC Wildlife Magazine, October 2006
Odysseus in London
watched
over by a crew
who
cannot hear the
beep…
ping,
beep…
ping
of
the siren’s voice,
but
it’s too late: the sonar’s song
has
gripped your cetacean heart,
led
you through shipping lanes
down
narrowing curves
that
echo Eustachian tubes.
The
call is fading now,
drowned
by the constant
thump-thump
of the engine,
those
monitoring your heart
might
just pick up its echoes
before
they see that long flat line;
Ithaca
still beyond the horizon.
Derek Adams
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poetry favourites:
Littoral
Press;
Ninth
Arrondissement Press;
Chimera
Magazine;
Essex
Poetry Festival;
Southend
Poetry Group;
Poetcasting
and in
the
shop
...
collection -
"Everyday
Objects, Chance Remarks",
Littoral Press
chapbooks
-
"unconcerned but not indifferent - the life of Man
Ray",
Ninth Arrondissement Press;
"Postcards
to Olympus"
Poetry Monthly Press
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