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    Chocolate Rain
    Chocolate Rain
    Chocolate Rain
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    Chocolate Rain

    By James Clarke

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    Poetry from an unexplected angle.  An elephant seeks its love among chocolate rain, the ratscape traveller must fight through hell to find the summer.  Guy Fawkes, a typical British pub - some unconventional ideas about who murdered the princes in the Tower.  All here.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Clarke
    Release dateSep 15, 2017
    ISBN9781386957379
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      Chocolate Rain - James Clarke

      Daybreak Publications

      This book is published by James and Jennifer Clarke,

      Rock Hill House, Aylestone, Leicester, UK 2012

      Artwork and cover by Jennifer Clarke and James W. Clarke

      Copyright © James Walter Clarke 2012

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      By the same author

      An Interview with MacBeth

      Contents

      Profile of the Author  7

      Moonstruck by Lightning  9

      Bullseye Nightmare  10

      Love on the Wing11

      The Battlefield12

      The Black Boy13

      Guy Fawkes' Lament  14

      Mistress15

      Last Journey of a Dying Lover  16

      The Last Wolf  17

      Spitting in the Wind  18

      Harlot of the Cross  18

      RoodFeelings19

      Daughters of Sin19

      The Pirate's Gift20

      Ratscape Traveller

      Foreword21

      Winter – The Arrival  21

      Winter of the Rat22

      Despair23

      Rebellion25

      Spring  26

      Summer27

      Songs from the play 'Ride the Tiger'

      Foreword28

      Death's Prologue28

      Bosworth Range29

      Two Choice Henry  30

      Hope and Freedom  30

      Charity Should Begin at Home  31

      Afterword32

      PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR.

      Jim Clarke was borne on 8th of May, 1945. The Germans promptly surrendered. He currently lives with his Wurlitzer jukebox in a rambling, Adams family style house which they share with Jim's wife, twenty-three dogs,

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