Joyce Hemsley Poems

Seeing the name of my mother in print
captured the joy of past years, but
the word 'deceased' followed her name
and caused me to weep streams of tears.
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Faithful in all I do
faithful my dear to you.
When we were young
we made a vow
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Quote:

Oh how madly in love we fell
in the springtime before we were wed,
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Oh my darling Lily of the Valley
My dearest Lily of Laguna, I see
Your pure white glow of delight
As across the meadow we wander.
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High seas and rainfall swept over the land
and each earthly thing was submerged...
Man could not cope ~ there was no hope;
very soon, not one voice was heard.
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I noticed a rising moon today
just before darkness fell
a perfect circle in full bloom
a beacon shining on the hill.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and William Wordsworth were
eighteenth-nineteenth Century
British Poets of renown...
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She said:

Can you speak more slowly
can you make it clear
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Poetic Style 'Nonet'

I wear gold and silver on my hand
memories of a life well spent
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Rictameter:
Syllable count
2-4-6-8-10
and return.
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