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PUERILE FREEDOM
By P B Taylor
We asked for our freedom again
But we could never find it
Lost love straddled in the ruins
That they still call the living
And we felt so hard so keen
As they vomited themselves away
Nothing is that of their very importance
Always said with creeping ad nauseum
That is until we wanted to throw up
It’s what they wanted and was caught
But it couldn’t contain them forever
In their undying need for more freedom
Cambridge. Sidney Sussex. Spring 1976
Phillip Taylor MBE was born in Amersham and educated at London University and the Inns of Court School of Law. His working life was spent, firstly at the BBC in London, in the Ministry of Defence and the Army, and then as a barrister at law and mediator at Lincoln’s Inn after he was called to the Bar.
He was Chairman of the Society of Civil Service Authors Poetry Workshop from 1982 to 1986 and contributed to their annual anthology FOCUS. His poems and short stories have appeared in journals, magazines and newsletters and some have been broadcast by the BBC. He has produced several poetry collections since 1972.
The Poetry Workshop was founded by Bill Barnes in 1970. It was a part of the Society of Civil Service Authors (founded in 1935) which now known as the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers.
PUERILE FREEDOM
By P B Taylor
We asked for our freedom again
But we could never find it
Lost love straddled in the ruins
That they still call the living
And we felt so hard so keen
As they vomited themselves away
Nothing is that of their very importance
Always said with creeping ad nauseum
That is until we wanted to throw up
It’s what they wanted and was caught
But it couldn’t contain them forever
In their undying need for more freedom
Cambridge. Sidney Sussex. Spring 1976
Phillip Taylor MBE was born in Amersham and educated at London University and the Inns of Court School of Law. His working life was spent, firstly at the BBC in London, in the Ministry of Defence and the Army, and then as a barrister at law and mediator at Lincoln’s Inn after he was called to the Bar.
He was Chairman of the Society of Civil Service Authors Poetry Workshop from 1982 to 1986 and contributed to their annual anthology FOCUS. His poems and short stories have appeared in journals, magazines and newsletters and some have been broadcast by the BBC. He has produced several poetry collections since 1972.
The Poetry Workshop was founded by Bill Barnes in 1970. It was a part of the Society of Civil Service Authors (founded in 1935) which now known as the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers.
