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LEAVES

STEPHEN BEER 1969 (plymouth)

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Leaves
My journey is no longer mine
Owned by
Deceptive roads deceitful milestones
And friends who turned enemies
Also enemies who never became friends
After so much of living
Even death is unreachable

But I've sternly decided
To enter the last mile with a breathless poem
With whispering pine-trees clouds and rivers
I'll seep into soil like rain wearing my tuxedo of dark verses
Wet in tears of joy and sadness of a few
Whom I loved with overflowing hurt I caused

Before I do that
I want to sell springs
Wrapped in shivers of winters
Except the volumes of autumn I've packed to carry along
For unlike the rest
There never was a moment where heaps of dry leaves
Had ever unowned me

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Submitted by steveb.68590 on May 14, 2023

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Scheme AXXXXXXX XXBXXX XXBXXAX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 683
Words 126
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 6, 7
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STEPHEN BEER

An obesity campaigner from Plymouth says councils across the UK should put tighter controls on takeaways opening in certain areas of towns and cities. Stephen Beer from St Budeaux has featured on many television programmes about the battles with his weight. Now at 35 stone, Stephen is on a strict diet to try and get his weight down and live a more healthy lifestyle. However, he claims the easy accessibility of takeaways has contributed to his obesity. £16bn Obesity related illnesses are costing the NHS an average of £16 billion pounds a year. Stephen has campaigned against new branches of certain takeaways and fast-food author more…

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