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Be Mused (again) (In memory of friends now passed)
Will we remember life, when passing on? Or does it mark the end of conscious thought I’ve often pondered friends (now sadly gone) Through ‘Prayer and Plea’ (such answers have I sought) Do they perceive existence as lived out? Awareness of our each and every move...
‘Our’ Bridge (So far)
At night the sight fair takes your breath away Tis ‘Albert’s Bridge’ as titled long ago Tho oft repaired (resulting from survey) Fragility creates its own tableau A tremble was detected ‘twixt four piers When overuse did take its toll (both ends) With redesign...
The Whirlitzer, on Remembrance Sunday, 2014.
Round and round, the horses go, dizzily, breathlessly, taking me with them, Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes high, sometimes low. The barrel-organ music plays a jolly tune, but a discordant sound to my ears. I step down from off the merry-go-round and sit, on...
The Somme
All the peace had turned to madness Christmas day was done and gone There'd be no more football matches On the land they called the Somme Men shared life with rats Made tea both black and strong For It was a long hard cold winter In that place they called the Somme...
“Tar very much”
Beyond the lapping reach of watermark I stroll’d upon the sands and scrunch’d my toes Where flotsam chose this morn to disembark In ridding self from life of ebbs and flows I chanced to see a shape which shipped ashore From whence it came, one can but only dream...
‘Christmas Selection’ (gone wrong)
Dateline: Weekend prior to Christmas 1971 Place: Royal Engineers Regiment – ‘Assaye Barracks’ Nienburg - West Germany I had occasion between “Rufty Tufty” assignments overseas, to rest my weary bones (upon my Army issue steel framed bed). This was one such time, when...