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Happy Christmas Eve
Christmas eve And lights are flashing All around are people dashing Home from work Through falling snow To settle down By firelight’s glow Later on Some of them mingle With their kids At church Christingle Children then Will go to bed Waiting for The man in red With...
PALE WINTER SUN
The rain had stopped. Its incessant drumming Now a dull memory As the low winter sun Cut through the dark grey clouds And lit the lingering mist It wasn’t warm. A cooling wind still blew Moving the piles of leaves First this way and then, that Yet still I blessed the...
IN TUNE THIS CHRISTMAS
So here it is Merry Christmas The season to be jolly Sleigh bells ringing down the lane Halls all decked with holly A frosty snowman on the green Wears scarf and battered trilby He looks like he could dance around If not just now - he will be A star shines brightly in...
Brave
Damn clock, Seems to tick down loud, My heart stops, At the doorstep feeling proud, You’re scared, But you cover your trembling hands, I’ve left, A letter in your bag, To glow bright, For when it gets too bad, Wish I, Could be as close as the words on the page. To...
Words from the missing
As day breaks through wind and rain We form a line on rough terrain To face a foe we'll never know, we will fall and die where poppies now grow. Remember us the chosen ones The lads the dads and someone's sons Be not sad just be glad Knowing we gave all we had. As you...
Remembrance
Every poppy is a person, Every poppy is a man, Almost all are under thirty, Death, not their intended plan. Every poppy is a person, Which one ‘s Sam?, They look the same, Each red poppy head blown open, All alike, but each alone. Every poppy stands unmoving, Stalk...