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    Different Times
    Different Times
    Different Times
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    Different Times

    By Mu Pi Chan

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    This book contains some of my earliest poems along with poems written much later. These poems were compiled into this book in 2012 when i first started releasing poetry via Gutenberg Self Publishing. They do not appear in chronological order, and are split into six parts each of which relates to a period of time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMu Pi Chan
    Release dateJun 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463292945
    Different Times
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    Mu Pi Chan

    Mu Pi Chan was born in 1959 in a house that was then in the County of Essex, but which now lies within the London Borough of Havering. He was brought up from a very early age just outside Southend-on-Sea (Essex). He spent three years at the University of Kent at Canterbury (Kent), and has subsequently lived In St Albans (Hertfordshire), Guildford (Surrey), and Romsey (Hampshire).Mu Pi Chan has released a number of volumes of poetry (through Project Gutenberg) covering the period 1973 to 2019. Most of Mu Pi Chan's poetry is inspired by the world around him, particularly the natural world and the people of which he is fond. Other sources of inspiration are the works of other poets and books on philosophy, science, and religion. His poems include a number of parodies, jokes and poetic aphorisms based on these readings.Mu Pi Chan firmly believes that writing poetry allows him to release the thoughts in his head which would otherwise drive him mad.

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      Book preview

      Different Times - Mu Pi Chan

      Part 1 - A Lifetime

      My Time and Place

      For what it is worth

      You should read

      The words you see

      Without thought of me

      But as you read

      And time you shed

      Your world may change

      To mine instead

      And as you read

      More time will pass

      Like grains of sand

      Through the hourglass

      But when it ends

      What have you found

      But the words

      Of another clown

      For with the passing of the pages

      You will travel through my ages

      Until ultimately you will have to decide

      Whether i live or whether i die

      Part 2 - The Seasons

      Spring in North Hampshire

      On the ridgeway walk

      From Ickpen Hill

      Past the gibbet

      Designed to kill

      Along the path

      That leads you on

      The hills of Hampshire

      With Berkshire beyond

      To Walbury Camp

      Of ancient chalk

      Where our history

      Almost talks

      The burning beacon coming on

      The earl atop now long gone

      His distant castle down below

      On the lowlands were you won't go

      And at last

      The rabbits cavort

      On Watership Down

      With their spring thoughts

      Summer in East Essex

      Memories of East Essex

      Of those wide green open fields

      With the clay cracking in the summer

      Beneath the water towers on the hills

      Memories of East Essex

      Of the pylons crossing fields

      Through a sky so vast

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