A look. Two eyes
Filled with yearning.
A look. Two eyes
Gently burning
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On 21st of October 1966 a tip of coal slurry slid
Into the village of Aberfan and 144 people were
Killed.
Of these 116 were children who were buried
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Nineteen hundred and fifty,
There were a lot of girls
Out on the town then,
I was seventeen and
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The moor is at it’s best
In autumn, with the air
Full of moisture, the place
Closed in
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I had a stroke,
One minute I was
Michael J Tonkin,
The next I was
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That heat drenched summer
Long passed now,
That summer
How we loved lying on the lazy sand.
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I remember you,
Oh yes, I remember you
Well.
You had on a
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Before you there where women who delighted,
But when you came along you were
The only one, there were not enough
Stars in the sky
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Who is this woman
Who came into my life
Seemingly
Eons ago,
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I was suddenly aware
of a new voice
speaking to me.
The voice of a poet
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