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How should I record our Norfolk walk?

Immediately pentameters ensare

And even if I try to break the mould

The form seems to assume I will not dare;

Yet each walk takes its own particular shape -

A sonnet cycle for the South Downs Way

An epic poem up on Hadrian's Wall

Reflective snippets for a single day.

But even when ideas begin to come

It takes some time before the hedge and mead,

The muddy path, the misty river bank,

Settle to the verse which you now read.

            So far I've abandoned several tries.

            It seems that I must wait for Norfolk's skies.

Brian Hick April 2012

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