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) .
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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We walked along
through evening hills,
one hand beheld one hand
and talked in the shadows
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You cannot see, you cannot go,
to where I hide, where only I know.
You cannot touch, you cannot feel,
but it is there, it is true, it is real.
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Why do you shout?
Why talk to me as if I were but a young child?
If only you knew what my young life was about
you'd see a person, not just a man: old, erstwhile.
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"But please sir, really there's no Holy Trinity,
it makes me doubt God's true divinity."
"Now lad, I know it's hard to comprehend,
but it's all about faith and hope in the end:
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