Colin Ian Jeffery Poems

(For my goddaughter, July 2006, carrying Cora)

Radiant in pregnancy
Glowing beauty personified
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We stood fingers entwined
Drenched by falling rain
But did not notice
Thinking ourselves love's perfection
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From this side of truth
Lies fall twisted at the gate
Sweet cradle songs
Wayward mothers sang to soothe
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Last train comes and goes
While hidden in darkness
Down midnight leafy country lane
On melancholy moonless night
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"Save one life and you save the world"

Dark tide of evil swept over Europe
Eclipsing light and truth
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Quietly he endures
Without anger or reproach
Suffering for my sake.
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Britain commemorated British and Commonwealth
fallen soldiers of the First World War at the Tower of
London, on Armistice day,2014, one hundred years
after the war started.888,246 poppies --- one for
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("Here lies one whose name was writ in water")
John Keats

Foul relentless death
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I stand tall and free
Without Death
Terrorizing my soul.
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(for PJD)

Elderly vicar, shepherd to his flock, caring for souls
Living with wife and daughter, daily doing his best
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