Keith Shorrocks Johnson Poems

Every man who has a serviceable soul
Is not whole but contains a chimera
The twin girl child of his earliest youth
Whose emotions live on enveloped.
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Like us the year had life, was born and dies:
Its immediacy did not exist
Before we were born to sentience -
And all too soon will be dismissed.
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When young you were as stunning as the dawn
Red clouds threatening an impending storm
Older you are as lovely as the dusk
Quiet in twilight now the storm has passed.
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Yesterday we sort of rescued an old man
Who had crossed The Parade at Wakefield Park
Stumbled and cracked his head so hard on the pavement
That the paramedic could see his skull –
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I love to cook two crispy snacks
Of Aussie grub and Kiwi tucker,
But the little crawlies both have knacks
Of gumming up my cooker.
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In mid-year when the grass was thin
The buttercups would gild the fields
But when the hay was gathered in
Daisy-dust each swathe revealed.
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Back home the wives are waiting there
Reading stories to the kids in bed
As their menfolk joke across the square
Being heroes at the bar instead.
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There are problems with relativity
And matching it to quantum mechanics
In trying to understand how
In the great scheme of things
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The roguish golden sun kisses the hills
And lustred meadows feel the warming touch
The gilded streams respond with sleepy smiles
And protestations that won't count for much;
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As the stars reverberate
I cup my ear to listen
And hear repeated
Resonating
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