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Steph Spiers longs for a simple method of wiping one's transgressions and trespasses from conscious thought,
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Steph Spiers longs for a simple method of wiping one's transgressions and trespasses from conscious thought,
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...you and I slipped through each others’ fingers
leaving behind only a catalogue of regret...
Steph Spiers' poem charts the sad end of a love affair.
Steph Spiers' vivid poem paints a bloody portrait of a famous battle between the Parliamentarians and the men of the King in England's Civil War.
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Steph Spier's poem re-emphasises that a bunch of plastic flowers can reveal the grief in a broken heart.
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Steph Spiers was moved to write this poem on hearing the news that some English universities were dropping history courses.
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The inimitable Steph Spiers pens a "green'' poem which will hopefully jab many an official conscious.
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Good-humoured Steph Spiers expresses a profound longing for bootcut hipsters.
Does vanity help us to see ourselves in a rosy light? Steph Spiers muses upon what kind of people we are.
As Spring begins to burst forth there's the threat of violence in the air, as Steph Spiers' poem reveals.
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...Vicious panic-driven epidemic ensues
driven by men infected by their ignorance...
Steph Spiers brings a powerful poetic condemnation of those who abuse children as they seek a "cure'' for the great scourge of our time - AIDS.
This poem by Steph Spiers accurately allocates blame for the world's current financial woes. If only the guilty had ears to hear!
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Steph Spiers' poem reminds us that writers are tormented souls, hovering between reality and their own invented worlds.
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Clichés can be so irritating, but they can also be fun when used deliberately, as Steph Spiers and her writing class demonstrate.
Steph Spiers has an optimistic, if sobering, message concerning the future of Planet Earth.
Steph Spiers wrote this wonderful poem when one of her friends died all too young.
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There's Hallowe'en shivers aplenty in Steph Spiers' menacing poem.
Steph Spiers was moved to write this profoundly moving poem after encountering a tragic young woman. Steph gave her sandwiches, then, not knowing what else to do, found it impossible to explain to her little boy why the woman was in such a condition.
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Steph Spiers' poem rebels against wheeled waste bins which seem sometimes to have been designed to test the memories of those who have to use them.
Steph Spiers brings a memorable blues anthem to the much-maligned plastic bag. Someone should set this to music.
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This brilliant and compassionate poem by Steph Spiers highlights the plight of those who care, and go on caring and caring, for loved ones no longer able to care for themselves.
This poem by Steph Spiers tells of the profound and lasting sadness of a family break-up.
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Steph Spiers sums up a family history in four brief verses.
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The mind can travel far while waiting in line for a pizza, as Steph Spiers' poem reveals.
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Steph Spiers published this poem, which mourns the "death'' of a coal mine, in 1997.
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Steph Spiers' powerful poem reminds us that coal miners still had a price to pay after the pits were closed.
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Do widows grieve the loss of a pit? Steph Spiers' heartfelt poem poses a rhetorical question.
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This poem by the wonderful Steph Spiers highlights the sacrifices made by coal miners in building up Britain's industrial might.
Steph Spiers' free-spirited poem suggests those lords of the air have their own ranks of nobility.
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Steph Spiers wrote a special poem for this year's National Poetry Day.
Steph and members of the Rising Brook Writers Group stepped up to the challenge of the day by giving a public performance of their work.
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This wonderful award-winning poem by Steph Spiers conjures up the mystery of an English midsummer garden.
This wonderful poem by Steph Spiers so vividly traces the course of a local brook that you hear the splash and gurgle of water.
Steph won the United Press award for this poem.
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