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  • Home
  • The Poems
    • Gods Dance Within Us
    • Osanna
    • The Polesworth Pact
    • Squab
    • Song 13 (Drayton Dub)
    • Listen...
    • The River Anker
    • Famous Men
    • Power
    • Memories of Pooley Mine
    • Phase Two >
      • Along The Canal
      • Collaborative Poem
      • Pooley Country Park - Mining
      • Pooley Country Park - Environment and Nature
  • The Poets
    • Garrie Fletcher
    • Penny Harper
    • Sarah Armstrong
    • Mal Dewhirst
    • Jonathan Morley
    • Gill Learner
    • Jane Holland
    • Helen Yendall
    • Janine Warre
    • Raymond Hendy
    • Phase Two >
      • Peter Grey
      • Gary Longden
      • Sarah James
      • Dea Costelloe
      • Barry Patterson
      • Gina Coates
      • Margaret Torr
      • Bernadette O'Dwyer
      • Barry Hunt
      • Marjorie Neilson
      • Janet Smith
      • Gary Carr
      • Janis Kind
      • Terri Jolland
      • Hench-4
      • Jacqui Rowe
  • The Trail
  • News
  • About
    • The Poetry Trail
    • The Project
    • Phase Two
    • The Original Polesworth Poets
  • Get In Touch
  • Links
    • Polesworth Parish Council
    • Polesworth Abbey
    • Pooley Country Park

The Polesworth Pact

Bohemia returned my wild husband, Francis,
haunted by failure.  Furniture and paintings
disappeared as he funded that foreign war.
I made arrangements, and offered him my terms.

‘You gave me no children, only my name;
Nethersole now has a poisonous legacy.
Change this, with my help, or stay in the Tower.’

He stared at me, then looked down at the floor;
when his head rose I saw passion had returned.
‘The school you have long planned will be built,
and it will be named after you, Lucy.’

There was no more conflict under my command;
our love was rebuilt along with the school
and I barred all ambassadors from the gate.
Sarah Armstrong
Location: Corner of Bridge Street and High Street

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