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London in poems and prose

The Loch Ness Monster – guess who started it

Sweet Thames . . .

Were you brainwashed at birth? This poem may help

Sweet Thames run softly . . .

What to give a Londoner as a present

Spring in the Park (short poem)

Can art by accident be bred – And if it were would Art be...

What happened when artificial intelligence brain ChatGPT challenged my poem with two of its...

Mulberry madness

The invisible source of the Thames

The endless journey of the Thames

Puck avenges A Midsummer Night’s Dream (poem)

Ignatius Sancho, a poem

Death and the Yew tree

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    The Loch Ness Monster – guess who started it

    by Vic Keegan 03/08/2023
    by Vic Keegan 03/08/2023

    It was down to the holiness of St Columba To wake Scotland from a time-warped slumber He not only gave God to the people Complete with bell, book and steeple…

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    Sweet Thames . . .

    by Vic Keegan 02/07/2023
    by Vic Keegan 02/07/2023

    I walk by the Thames I know so well Caught again by a riverine spell I know you well but I know you not An endless flow without a plot…

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    Were you brainwashed at birth? This poem may help

    by Vic Keegan 24/09/2022
    by Vic Keegan 24/09/2022

    Who ever knew Truth be put to flight By falsehood in an open fight? So said Milton and if truth be told It was widely swallowed in his day That…

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    Sweet Thames run softly . . .

    by Vic Keegan 08/07/2022
    by Vic Keegan 08/07/2022

    London is curiously at ease Invaded twice daily from overseas But the Thames knows Where it goes Its tide with the moon communes Mornings and afternoons Changing its course Each…

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    What to give a Londoner as a present

    by Vic Keegan 16/10/2021
    by Vic Keegan 16/10/2021

    I have been deeply moved by the reaction to my book and as a lot of readers have bought multiple copies to give as presents I thought it might be…

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    Spring in the Park (short poem)

    by Vic Keegan 25/03/2021
    by Vic Keegan 25/03/2021

    Spring in the Park Daffodils the park adorn Winter Hawthorn is reborn Willows now are weeping green The robin looks for crumbs unseen Buds unfolding now are free Spring is…

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    Can art by accident be bred – And if it were would Art be dead?

    by Vic Keegan 17/01/2021
    by Vic Keegan 17/01/2021

    This has been running on a computer 24/7 for over 20 years in an attempt to get an algorithm to replicate a two line poem as a small contribution to…

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    What happened when artificial intelligence brain ChatGPT challenged my poem with two of its own

    by Vic Keegan 30/11/2020
    by Vic Keegan 30/11/2020

    This is Poem I wrote when I was starting to suffer from writer’s block during the Covid lockdown UNTIL it hit me it was just a joke Something that happened…

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    Mulberry madness

    by Vic Keegan 26/09/2020
    by Vic Keegan 26/09/2020

    What3Words.com locates any space of 3m square using only three words. As lockdown therapy I hesitantly tried a poem which contains a 3 word location (in the right order!) so…

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    The invisible source of the Thames

    by Vic Keegan 16/08/2020
    by Vic Keegan 16/08/2020

    Poem: The Thames at source I went to a shrine without compare To see a river that wasn’t there We strolled from the station forecourt at Kemble Where walkers, like…

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    The endless journey of the Thames

    by Vic Keegan 10/07/2020
    by Vic Keegan 10/07/2020

    The Thames Flow London is curiously at ease, Invaded twice daily from overseas But the Thames knows Where it goes Its tide with the moon communes Mornings and afternoons Changing…

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    Puck avenges A Midsummer Night’s Dream (poem)

    by Vic Keegan 03/07/2020
    by Vic Keegan 03/07/2020

    Scene 1 Puck If we shadows have offended . . . Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. Stage blacks out and the lights…

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    Ignatius Sancho, a poem

    by Vic Keegan 19/06/2020
    by Vic Keegan 19/06/2020

    Poem Sancho’s shop in Westminster in the 1760s In Charles Street there used to be a shop Where many a celebrity was won’t to stop To buy sugar, baccy and…

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    Death and the Yew tree

    by Vic Keegan 02/06/2020
    by Vic Keegan 02/06/2020

    Poem Yew Most country folk will tell you all If you cut one down bad luck will befall In churchyards their seductive leaves are spread See how they thrive among…

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    The world’s oldest tree

    by Vic Keegan 22/05/2020
    by Vic Keegan 22/05/2020

    Ode to a newly urbanised tree Of all the trees that nature has endowed There’s one alone outshines the crowd Its name is Ginkgo (culled from the Greek) Its history…

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    Waterloo – the bridge that killed off a rival

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    The lost past of St James’s Park station

    10/07/2019
  • 3

    A real hidden gem – Henry V111’s wine cellar

    11/07/2017
  • 4

    Forget craft beer – meet London’s new wineries

    05/04/2017
  • The man who made London

    23/08/2014
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    The magic of the River Wandle

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    London’s Historic Pineapples

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  • What happened when Mr Tate didn’t meet Mr Lyle

    02/04/2014
  • The buried history under Somerset House

    19/10/2014
  • The island in the middle of Westminster

    24/05/2013

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About Victor

Victor Keegan was born in the outer reaches of suburbia in Raynes Park and now lives centrally in Victoria. A long serving Guardian journalist and described in the Observer as a “cult poet” he often walks the streets seeking ideas. London My London, his 5th poetry book, https://amzn.to/2OKXi2f covers life from birth amidst the bombs of the Second World War to his belated discovery of London’s hidden history.  He is married with two children

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