Paul Warren Poems

We were teens just outta school
Did we really know what was the plan
Some did I suppose and weren't a fool
When we fronted with suitcase in hand
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Do you believe
Really truly believe
In what they say
If it doesn't spoil your day
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A story I read about war and good luck charms…..

Standing on the dock in front of the troop ship
His mother hugged him and fussed about Straightening his hat and brushing his tunic and bits
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Some of us came from reserve cadets
Waiting for the course to commence as yet
Standing in khaki for the first time
Balmorals angled just fine
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Threads connect us to things in the past
A song a happening or person we think would last
Where were you when it happened then
Is stamped to come back to replay in your memory again
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You think I am ordinary he said
As he wiped the sweat from his head
I have done things I now dread
Where I made choices with the dead
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One thing about the sixties time
Was the music was just fine
Listen to it now
The Electric guitars were just wow
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I pick up the words that are no longer mine
And it returns me again to an older time
A place polluted with a thousand memories
To experience again whilst paying the fee
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What does being Australian mean
It seems there's no answer now that's clean
There have been different people over years
That have come to the land some in tears
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What is left at the end (please insert she for he where needed) ……

How he was remembered
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