To the Freemasons and Other Verses

By Robin Elliott

An original and interesting collection of poems from a modern man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504942560

Robin Elliott

Born and raised in England, Robin Elliott is a poet, potter, and good bloke. His qualification to write a book of poetry is his ownership of a biro and a sheet of paper. He hopes you find the detritus of his mind interesting, and if you buy this book, he might even write some more.

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Contents

Intoduction to Poems

A blank page

A lone star

A market town in Autumn

A new generation

A night of despair

A Simple Conversation

A small life

A temporary day

A Tranquil Morning

A voice of dissent

A Vow

Abracadabra

Accept our apologies

Accidents happen

Adored One

Air travel

Air

Alan Turing

Alcohol

Aliens

America

An Approximation of Sanity

An insult to modernity

An optimist’s suicide

An unmown corner

Another day of sun and sin and sensation

Anti-social secret tribe

Are We Free to Act Unconventionally

Are You Enjoying the Weather?

Artists and craftsmen

As sane as the next man.

As the zoomblat plays

The Auction of Time

August Bank Holiday

Avebury 2013

Awake at night

Babylon

Balls of space

Barricade my door

Benevolence

Blackbirds

Boiled Eggs

Born again cynic

Born Again Lover

Bring wild words

Burdened down by Mum and Dad

But still tomorrow

Butterflies

Canute can’t

Carlos

Christmas is over

Christmas

Come dine with me

Come here

Counting Magpies

Cut flowers

D.N.A.

Dandelion

Decay

Deceive to Deceive

December sunset

Deliver me from eternal death

Dignity Escapes Notice

Divinity Rages

Dog

Drunken thoughts

Early morning rain

Elvis is dead

English Beer

Enjoy me

Entangled Apes

Envy the young

Eric Satie

Eye contact

Eye to Eye

Fallen Water

Family hang ups abound

Fire

Foreign booze

Foul Masonic scum

Free Gas

Freemasonry

Friendly fire

Frost

God is doubting you

Half an Hour

Hang on in there

Happy today

Home

Houses

Howard

Hurtling towards death

I am a lunatic

I Am Acting Aimlessly

I am hearing voices

I’m no white settler

I am not me

I am sufficiently conscious

I blame my parents for what I am

I buried your body

I can tell you I love you

I didn’t believe it

I don’t know what will happen next

I live gladly

I love you

I miss being me

I Record the Mind

I remember yesterday

I Send My Message

I sympathise with Oscar Wilde

I think I’ve lost my mind

I Wake

I Write Love

If I Heard Voices

If You Could Read Between the Lines

If Your God Gave You All You Wanted

Illicit thoughts

I’m gonna shit on you

I’m great

Immortal lines

Imperfect Bodies

In the silence of the night

In the shadow of the church

Infinity Beyond Infinity

Irish Hymns

Its only ink

It’s Raining

Jerusalem

John Hampden

Jupiter

Late night music

Leave me alone

Let me live

Let the trees grow old

Lie-bore scandal

Life and death

Life nags

Like a lamb to the slaughter

Live now before times final call

Live simply now

Locked In

London

Lost in the crowd

Love thy neighbour

Market day in England

Masonic Bullies

Masonic bums

Mervyn Peake

Momentum, supremacy……………

Mortality

My line lives on

My Mind Will Change

Night time

Night

Nightmares

No place to stand upright

Notes for a Final Poem

Nothing has a purpose

Nothing much happened today

November 2

November

Now Is Wow

NZ Poem

October Girl

Old farts of England

Old

On this day I lived and loved

Ouvret la porte

Pass the Time

Payback

People Watching

Picnic

Play on

Poetry

Pottery

Prepare to fly

Provence provides

Rain beats on speckled glass

Ray

Red and yellow

Retirement

Right Now

Running on Empty

Sadness is impossible

Sectioned

Sedition has been made easier

Self portrait with loathing

Separate from the Voodoo

Shakespeare

Silence the whistle blowers

Sitting doing nothing

Sleep creeps

Smokey’s art is sublime

Snoring for England

Snow

Solomons Decision

Someone to love

Space time is mine

Spanish coffee

Spanish Holaday

Spring

Suck Justice from the Sky

Summer Bees

Summer dawn

Summer Rain

Summer Sun

Sunshine gives you cancer

Swallow the sky.

Symbolism stops at my door

Tall trees grow here

The Tap Drips

Tell God what to think

The A.A.

The abandoned village

The Adjacent Man

The age of reason has passed us by

The angels of solace

Pottery

The Asylum

The Average Delinquent

The barbecue

The beautiful survivor

The Big Apple

The bigwigs are bending

The birds of the air stand bedraggled

The Black People

The blank page

The bookcase

The cause

The chicken liberation front

The clowns of celebrity

The Coming party

The crazy years of age

The daisies are humble.

The daisies dance with litter

The Dawn

The devious county councillors

The distant window

The dream

The drunken roundhead

The egg in the nest

The electric vigil

The final couplet

The Fireball

The freedom of madness

The funeral in the rain

The Funeral

The future explodes

The Game of Musical Standing

The Garden

The gentleman of Rotary

The God who doesn’t exist

The Greek Tragedy

The hall of echoes

The heart of Brighton

The home-town blues

The injected life

The Irish know, (on reading Ship of Fools).

The Irish Mug

The jack of speed no.2

The jackdaws chatter

The Jazz of Diversity

The jewellery of the sky

The king of number 23

The knock on the door.

The Last Cuckoo

The Law of the Exceptional

The lemmings

The lottery of life

The Lovesong of Tomorrow

The Lunatic Screams

The M.P.s of Buckinghamshire

The Madhouse Killer

The minute

The moment of elation

The moment of flight

The moon

The mother of parliaments

The Music has stopped

The N.H.S.

The new day

Nightmares

The Notes of Satisfaction

The Olympic Flame

The open door

The orchid in the woods

The pan fried dead

The past burns in

The Past

The Photograph

The poet of unparliamentary language

The portrait

The Practical Pacifist

The Racing Mind

The Rain Falls

The rain

The Red Lion

The resistance

The riot in the library

The Rose

The sentences of now

The Sign at the Entrance

The sky promises

The Son of a Hero

The song of summer’s coming

The sorrow of silence

The triumph of sound

The speaker of the house of commons

The statue of liberty

The sun is shining now

The sun sets in the north