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My Poems

 

Over the years I have done quite a lot of writing, mostly various poems which I'll share over the next few pages.  I don't really know exactly when I started writing, but it was well before I reached ten.  I always used to announce to people my ambition of being a 'book-maker'...now that I use the phrase author I get slightly less eyebrows at this statement, but it's still one of those things I shall maintain an interest in at the side!

Current plans include trying to get some of this lot published, so if any of you have any useful links, or like them, please let me know! Thanks

 

Stepping Stones  

Frogs and Inspiration

Thinking

Invisible

Time goes on

Growing Up

Smiling

Empty

With You


More Poems on following pages: Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5,

 

 

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STEPPING STONES

Confusing as life is,
I'm carrying on,
Frustrating it may be,
But I'm still here,
Scary it can be,
But I'm marching through,
Stepping Stones
Make take me backwards,
But I’ll not fall off.

 

FROGS AND INSPIRATION

You've always been an inspiration to me

Someone I felt happy to talk to

Someone who'll tell me how it is

 

You won't draw pretty pictures

but you bring me down to earth

and you offer the learning of your years

 

You've always been there

to make sarcastic comments in the background

to laugh at a joke told

or to tell your own

to show your collection of frogs

and make us all smile

 

Now what you've always joked about

is happening

and I'm not sure how to say goodbye

or I'll miss you or I love you

but I'll think it

and when I see you

I shall laugh and joke with you

for it is what we have always done

 

To my Grandad, Keith Leslie (20/06/1918 - 17/04/2004)

 

THINKING

Everything is tidy, Everything is neat,
And here I am again, walking down that street,
Past the little corner shop, past a little boy,
He doesn't notice anything, he's playing with his toy,
Trees are swaying in the wind,
A storm's about to break,
The rain comes down upon my head,
A sound, a thunder break,

Everything is quiet now,
Everything is still,
The quietness that is,
The quietness that will,

Everything is tidy,
Everything is neat,
And here I am again,
Walking down that street.

 

INVISIBLE

Can anyone hear me,
Or am I crying in vain,
Can anyone hear me,
Or is my screaming kept in,
Can anyone see me,
Or is my jumping to no avail,
Can anyone feel me,
Or do they just walk through me,
I am here let someone see me.

 

TIME GOES ON

Time goes on,
Many things change,
Yet history repeats,
Again and again,
I know it is coming,
I dread that knowledge,
I enjoy this while it lasts,
I smile whilst in this moment,
I stare up through trees,
At the blue-sky beyond,
And drift upwards forever,
I stay here whilst I drift
Things will change,
But I shall remember this,
I know it is coming,
But for the moment I shall remain ignorant,
History is always repeating
Again and again.

 

GROWING UP

I miss the beach,
I miss climbing trees,
I miss hiding in the sound of the waves,
As I look up from the top of a tree,
I miss finding adults misconceptions of children funny,
I miss the time when the children's misconceptions of adults weren't.

 

SMILING

A gentle song in the background,
My bedside light is on,
Reflected in the mirror,
Across from me,
Shadows in all other directions,
I've found my smile again,
My thoughts are far from here,
And I shan't be complaining at all,
As everything fades to dream,
My mind will stay where it is,
Perfectly happy not to change what it sees.

 

EMPTY

Nothing different,
Nothing Touched,
From what it used to be,
Many letters,
Unopened as yet,
Are piled behind the door,
Nothing different,
Nothing touched,
And if you look close enough,
Dust piles upon the floor.

 

WITH YOU

I'm not alone,
I just don't know what to say,
I can lie in your arms,
And all pain will leave my sides,
For I am not in my body,
I am not in anything ,
I am just with you, in your arms,
And my body has quietly found its smile.

 

 

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