TweetTragically, I never had to wait long for a current story to make this a topical poem to post. Lost Boys In the darkest secret part of Men for it is Men who we must face there is pure evil stark and simple beyond forgiveness beyond grace Don’t speak to me of God’s timeless plan […]
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TweetRemembrance – Your Day This is my remembrance day no bands or marching men no pomp or circumstance just private cherished memory This is my thoughtful day when I think just of you your kindness and your love the comfort I could see In your eyes This is my day to miss you feel you […]
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TweetThe Singer Threads of experience spin a strand of life weaving dreams of sense harmony from strife Summer’s passion fair gentles Autumn’s ease past is ever there sorrowing the leaves Solitary light shows a giving heart walk with me tonight share my world apart Music my delight playing my repose in my darkest night solace […]
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Tweet Remembrance Day Etched in unforgiving stone The Glorious Dead implacable stands alone washed in rain and bitter tears blood red poppies do not atone across the bitter years the sadness and the loss As each November nears we mourn our honoured dead with military pomp and facile prayers power privilege and marching bands through […]
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TweetA Sense Of Tragedy Turn your eyes towards our pain I beg of you look look see what you yes you not your God have done Wash your hands in not of our blood feel feel sense the hate you yes you not your God glorify Come close listen to the whisper of our fear […]
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TweetAt The Till The old man’s dying eyes stared at me cut to my soul at the till he knew and he knew I knew too gasping for breath each defiant grasp for life only lasted two words and then another I am dying rattle clutched my heart at the till I tried to put […]
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TweetMan and Wife His unwilling legs have felt such pain his eyes have seen such sorrow his worn down heart such loss his tears have no tomorrow for loves he can’t regain Three dead children haunt his nights their memories ghost his days his survival defies all sense courage shadows all his ways love his […]
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Tweet For those without religious belief who gave their lives and those who mourn them. If There Is No Eden If there is no Eden no paradise to be where shall rest the solace that sets our grieving free No hymns of praise console us still less serried bands the pomp and circumstance of mourning […]
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TweetLove (2) Never forget if you would see the healed bird soar then you must set her free
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TweetThe London Bombings 7th July 2005 This was posted in the week of the London bombings (7/7 2005) on www.writewords.org.uk a writers’ web site I belong to. Many poems had been posted that week trying to express the inexpressible anger and grief we all felt – hence the remarks below written with respect: “Like the […]
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