Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Midnight ghost Maurice Redmont.
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An Empty Hourglass
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stagnant water
funereal perfumes
Turkish cigarettes
ostentation
and
revictimization
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the avant-garde dance
of a sacred demon
sleepwalking naked
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Maurice Redmont was born in Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»71 years ago and has been writing poetry for 56 years. He is, in his own words, “unknown and without reputation. I walk the back alleys and deserted streets of the city after midnight for inspiration.â€
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