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Gateway to Delight
Poems by Ronald Haydock
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    • To Whom It May Concern
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    • 3D bowls
    • Comparing fractions
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    • A nasty mishap
    • Consider the Lilies of the Field
    • Ladies all!
    • Rules of address
  • Marriage
    • Eighty-sixth birthday
    • Oneness
  • Miscellany
    • Animal crackers
    • A speaking likeness
    • Connoisseurs
    • Descent of Rossett Ghyll
    • Financial crisis
    • Hubris schmubris
    • In the pink
    • Pedant’s English Lesson
    • The fight at the FNMH
    • The point
    • The secret of life
    • Walnut trees
  • The passing scene
    • Entrepreneur
    • Epitaph
    • Greed
    • Speech Day
    • Tixerb!
  • Verse forms
    • Clerihew
    • Early Autumn (Haiku)
    • Election triolet
    • Haiku
    • Limerick
    • Villanelle
  • Willersley
    • Byron and me
    • Seasons
    • The feel of water
Gateway to DelightGateway to Delight
  • Home
  • Afflictions
    • A cold less common
    • An affliction
    • September song
    • Tinnitus – tinniti
  • Bow Wood
    • Autumn, Bow Wood
    • Roots
    • Sermon from a tree in Autumn
  • Demise
    • Goodbye, everyone
    • Snapshots of a life
    • To Whom It May Concern
  • Dreams
    • 3D bowls
    • Comparing fractions
    • Conjuring trick
    • Dream history
    • Dream words
    • Rude awakening
  • Fashion and manners
    • A nasty mishap
    • Consider the Lilies of the Field
    • Ladies all!
    • Rules of address
  • Marriage
    • Eighty-sixth birthday
    • Oneness
  • Miscellany
    • Animal crackers
    • A speaking likeness
    • Connoisseurs
    • Descent of Rossett Ghyll
    • Financial crisis
    • Hubris schmubris
    • In the pink
    • Pedant’s English Lesson
    • The fight at the FNMH
    • The point
    • The secret of life
    • Walnut trees
  • The passing scene
    • Entrepreneur
    • Epitaph
    • Greed
    • Speech Day
    • Tixerb!
  • Verse forms
    • Clerihew
    • Early Autumn (Haiku)
    • Election triolet
    • Haiku
    • Limerick
    • Villanelle
  • Willersley
    • Byron and me
    • Seasons
    • The feel of water

September song

I’m feeling a trifle deciduous –
No longer ever so green;
My thatch is already exiguous –
I’ll soon be as bald as a bean.

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