I am a 68 year old English journey from Chelsea to Colchester, via Harlow, Rossendale, Epping and Frinton, collecting along the way, one very beautiful (half Scottish) wife of 67 years, four intelligent and talented children and nine grandchildren. I love art and literature, and poetry is my release. (December 2024 Colchester) .
We walked along
through evening hills,
one hand beheld one hand
and talked in the shadows
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From there atop our Christmas tree
she sits each year for you and me,
her angel eyes have watched and seen
the making of our Yuletide scene.
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Davy Bucket lost a pocket
from off his best suit trews,
he searched there, and everywhere,
but could not find any clues.
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There is just one question of you I pry:
if, should we never have met before
and shared our lives through richer or poor,
would you marry me now for sure?
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A lemur named Rick from Berwick,
Wrote a poem of five lines with a Bic,
It rhymed A A B B A,
Which he thought was OK,
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