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Two Poems from our Narrative Poetry Collection
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| BALLAD OF A BRITISH HOME CHILD |
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Amanda-lee Mcallister
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BALLAD OF A BRITISH HOME CHILD
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In the year of 1909,
In London England I was born.
Born the bugger of a beggar
From my poor mother I was torn.
Society took me screaming
To that scary Barnardo place.
Here I grew up as an orphan
My spirit beaten with disgrace.
I am just a child all alone,
Not knowing who I really am.
I’m told my name is Richard Hough,
Yet no one seems to give a damn.
At the tender age of fifteen,
Upon my own two feet I stand.
Shipped off to work in Canada,
Not a boy and yet not a man.
I wandered there from place to place,
Finding some work upon the rail.
Still the bugger of a beggar
With no family – just this tale.
I live lonely and all alone,
Not knowing who I really am
I’m told my name is Richard Hough,
Yet no one seems to give a damn.
The day I laid my eyes on her
And made lovely Mary my wife.
She loved me just the way I was,
It was her loved that changed my life.
It was together we embarked
Searching for answers to my past,
Took fifty years and many tears,
But I finally know at last.
I will die loved and not alone,
Knowing exactly who I am.
I know my name is Richard Hough,
And my dear Mary gives a damn.
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| ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER |
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Mary Shovlin
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ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER |
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ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER The beggar on the street The prisoner in his cell The sick one in hospital The old lady in church The youngster doing drugs The harlot on 7th Avenue The widow at the grave The orphan on his own The friendless The homeless The alcoholic The poor I met you today. I met Christ today. ©Mary A. Shovlin November 1990/July 2003
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