Colin Johnston Poems

<font color=red>They harm themselves from day to day
For pain that will not go away
Is it in their arms or in their legs?
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<font color=green>It is wonderful to have friends…
Seldom seen,
But forever in one's heart.
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<font color=red>My Dual Carriageway has gone
The Free-way Life did not exist
That route was never one for me
I've always wanted company
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My body’s ugly, she says,
Silently demanding approval
A wrinkle here, a wrinkle there
A stomach far beyond compare,
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I saw a fox the other night
The sight of it was pure delight
It loped along with regal grace
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Aberdour is heaven
Of that there is no doubt
But Tam the Gun was a chum
of Edinburgh
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<font color=magenta>Skin as soft as Silk
Crying out to be touched
A neck as graceful as a Swans
Light and Dark shadows
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There are Days when everything is right
And also days when it is not
Days when the Sun shines always
And many days when it does not
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<font color=blue>The house was hers and no one else's
She's lived there over fifty years
To pay the bills if it was needed
Was what we sought for later years
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<font color=green>It was in 1968 to Dunfermline
we were shipped
For four years of Apprenticeship
To be in The Navy and see the Sea
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