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Another Time, Another Place
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Distant Thunder
Farewell to Six Loved Ones
Father
For Anke
Instantaneous
Metamorphosis
Naked Autumn
Oceanus 
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Requiem for an Ulsterman
Solitude in A
West Church, Bangor

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A Child of the Troubles
Discovery of St Anne's
Donegal Pass
For Love in a Lost Place
Lamb's Conduit
Red
These are the Days
Troubled Times
Coming to Terms

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How often, children trying to please
their caring parents bring trouble upon themselves
or lead to their own disciplining.

I recall, in a Bangor church one Sunday a
children's talk of a land, far away
where Osman played Alexander's game
A child can for a moment paralyse a mother's face:
"my mummy's got Turkey in her freezer."

Thawing laughter, laughter thawing.

Displays of ignorance end an innocence
Where words are words that break no taboos;
strange, new ..

(c) Philip Ralph Johnston
25 October 1992