Stevie Turner, Author.

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    • No Sex Please............
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    • A Child in the 1960's
    • A Christmas Poem
    • Annie Withinshaw's Surprise
    • For Marcus and Lisa
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    • The Moving Ball
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      • Malcolm Archibald Interview
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      • Interview with Dani J. Caile
      • Marnie Cate's Interview
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      • Margaret Millmore Interview
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      • Cynthia Morgan's Interview
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      • Interview with Talia Pierone
      • Amy Reade's Interview
      • Julie Shackman's Interview
      • Queen of Spades' Interview
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Annie Withinshaw's Hallowe'en Surprise

Here's the first poem I submitted to Fabiola's Sunday WordPress 'Inspiration Galore Project Party', which you can check out by clicking the button to the left:
ANNIE WITHINSHAW'S HALLOWE'EN SURPRISE

The churchyard path doth wend its way,

By mossy stones where bodies lay

Beneath the soil in eternal rest,

Their weary bones as dry as dust.

John De’Ath, a farmer’s son,

Had died in eighteen and seventy one.

By moonlight’s shadow on Hallowe’en,

He rises up to survey the scene.

A ghostly shroud in which he’d been bound,

Falls into pieces on the ground.

John is left in his birthday suit

To startle the choir,

He thinks it’s a hoot.

Floating in through the old church door,

He spies Miss Annie Withinshaw.

Annie had never seen such a sight

Of a naked man on choir practise night.

She grabs some specs from Mabel Fanlee,

To feast her eyes on John’s dingly dangly.

But John had been dead for many a day,

His manhood had simply rotted away.

His flesh was green, his eyes were gone,

There wasn’t much left of poor old John.

Annie stopped in mid carouse,

And fainted in the choir pews.

John felt guilty, turned and fled

To a draughty tomb and a cold, hard bed.

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