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    Waiting for Ben: And Other Poems
    Waiting for Ben: And Other Poems
    Waiting for Ben: And Other Poems
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    Waiting for Ben: And Other Poems

    By Brian D Haddock

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    Brian’s poetry is a mixture of observations and thoughts about daily life. Many of the observations are influenced with art, meteorology, physics and time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateDec 14, 2022
    ISBN9781728379517
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      Waiting for Ben - Brian D Haddock

      CONTENTS

      Hesiod’s Entropy, a Violent Birth!

      On the circularity of Water

      Entropic Hinges

      A gloss

      October Morning

      Tiger

      Buckled Vortex

      Hangover

      Norfolk

      Ribblehead

      Scrape

      Newton’s Stupidity

      Quantum Ski Slope

      Hegelian Ski School

      Quads of Steel

      Salad bowls

      Dan’s Rage

      Dent Night

      Cows with Crossbows

      One Hundred and Sixty Thousand

      Neon

      Double Denim

      All the Twisted Meadows

      I have tasted Eclipses

      Dialectics & Heraclitus

      Proximity of War

      The Big Bang

      Tick Tock, Tick Tock

      Scattered Ashes

      Tectonic Visions

      Veneer by the Sea

      Nuclear Forces

      Shimmering fabric energy

      Boundaries

      Pumping Dirty Loads

      Heat Stress

      Drainpipe

      Summer Downpour

      Flash of Violence

      Heartbeat in Spain

      Bukowski

      Terraced Houses

      Bagged Mouse

      Nebulous Ideas

      Grey Ash

      Chaos Prevails

      Spain Night

      Snip, snip, snip

      Dead Rat

      Midnight Gravity

      The Lightning Storm

      The Long Road to War

      I awoke

      Keats

      Scoffing

      The Model Village – Order & Entropy

      Thermic Welds

      Under Bridge

      Daniel got rolled

      Coleridge

      Doug & the Sea

      Coleridge fire

      Mysticism

      Pander

      A grey Sea

      13 Years

      Warm Tube Ride

      Asset Summit

      The Hunger Hurts

      Pet poochies

      Post Goth

      Empiriomonism

      Death of the Queen

      Frustration

      Sunday morning – ruined

      Untitled

      London has gone mad

      Untitled

      Alpha

      Untitled

      Ezra

      Dark Jewels

      Clean

      Red Mist

      Her Face

      Collate

      EP

      Crowbars

      Flame Burns

      Screeching Sentence

      Basildon Crow

      Rollercoaster

      Apparition of the coming Winter

      The Queen is buried today

      Thales

      Dentist

      Claires mum

      Pre-Socratics

      Overcast Sky

      Last Days of Summer

      Mini Budget

      Volleyball AGM

      Thales Dies

      Magma Oceans

      Untitled

      Jannis Kounellis

      Cosmos

      Beaches

      Neolithic Children

      Untitled

      Untitled

      Iron Belly

      Marylebone Station

      Metropolitan Line

      Untitled

      Untitled

      Blake

      Untitled

      Untitled

      Symmetries

      Morbidly Obese Women

      Discovering the Big Bang

      Ceramic Skin

      Station Hotel

      Slope Stability

      We are all wired

      Conkers

      Heroic Moths

      Dans Sunflowers

      ‘Caution The Blast!’

      New Haircut

      Stuck on the North Circular Road

      School

      Hawk

      1540 AD

      G.K.Chesterton

      Placoderms

      Comet 21P/Giacobini Zinnar

      Late Afternoon Sun

      Cardboard Men

      Bathroom Landscape

      Parents Evening

      Crepuscular Rays

      October Sky

      Giant white Craniums

      Red Wine

      Storm

      Copper Mill

      Waiting for Ben

      Francis Bacon

      Paper Thin Thoughts

      DLR

      Canal

      Sky over Southend – on – Sea

      Kant

      Pumpkins and Pianos

      The Man with small arms

      Rectangular Hell

      The Field

      Poles, Posts and Pipes

      All the useless Doctors

      Marble Halls

      Nurse said

      Young Boy – North Circular

      Two empty chairs

      Spooked

      Firework Display

      Telephone Wires

      Passed Opportunities

      Euston Plaza

      Yellow Shoes

      The Doric

      SST

      Binary Stars

      The digging never stops

      Face

      Biosphere

      1776

      Wealth of Nations

      Remembrance Sunday

      Bill

      The Dentist Chair

      St Pancras

      Loughborough Rain

      Prussian Blue

      Tectonic Tensions

      Whiter Teeth

      Teeth & Yates

      Milankovitch Futures

      Fear of the Curve

      Anthropocene

      A & E

      Ice Ages

      Untitled

      A thousand Suns

      Interglacial

      Ashen

      Juggernaut

      Saturday morning – Birmingham

      Wonder

      Humility

      Leigh

      St Pauls

      Days locked in stasis,

      Tourists and Terrorists

      North Circular Road

      UIC

      Astronomy Night

      Jupiter

      Choked Oceans

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