Jack Winsley Poems

It's said that loved ones' who have passed away.
Can visit us in other living form.
If you dismiss this as sheer fallacy,
My evidence will quickly reinform.
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He stood quietly in the supermarket queue
Observing the people with trolleys ahead of him.
The lady in front if him turned and said
'You only have a few things my darling, you go before me'.
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What shall we do today my love?
What shall we do today?
We'll lie in a boat
Not even afloat
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Fragile and beautiful
Graceful and strong
Hither and thither
All the day long
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I left the comfort of my home
And ran away to be alone.
I walked the shore down by the sea
And just my footprints followed me.
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When I was young, I thought I'd hate to reach the age of fifty-eight.
I looked at my old uncle Jack who wheezed and coughed and grew quite fat
And thought, I'll never be like him, I'll die at thirty-five quite slim.
But when I got to thirty-four I realised that I wanted more
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