Susy Evelyne

Life was a song you would sing
In your warm, beautiful way,
From the moment you first drew breath
Until your last mortal day.
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To be a mother
Is a privilege like no other.
A blessing from God.
A journey down a path untrod
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Apple jelly warms your heart,
Each jar's a little work of art.
Love it on crumpets or on bread -
Glowing rosy-sunset red!
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Part-way down a mountainside -
Above the trees, below the ice -
Something told me loud and clear
That I would find an edelweiss!
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Great slab of Wensleydale cheese
crumbling into the sea!
How old you are -
And yet, for all your crumbling, you endure.
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A Diplodocus
One day lost focus
And fell into a pit.
It couldn’t rise
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Three times within a single day
Straying out of your usual way
To pass lily of the valley
En masse in a garden's gulley -
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Remember the things we used to do?
Like the conker I'd slip into your shoe,
Only to find it back in mine...
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I cannot forgive.
I cannot be as the maple tree,
The one they all but cut down
Yet somehow sprang green again.
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Something strange is going on
at the age of forty-three:
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Normandy kine are very fine -
All dappled, whites and blacks.
And once they've eaten pastures green
They're flat out on their backs.
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Spider!
Should have stayed an outsider,
Should have known we’d not abide her.
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Dog swimming
Couple strolling
Waves scalloping the shore...
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The first time I saw the shimmering
It seemed to me I was dreaming.
A pool of hazy blue appearing
In the dip of the downs,
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So many lights gone out.
Ones loved and lost
that would shine for us
through the years, each
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Hidden in the pod
a line of small round new peas
wait to be counted
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I wonder what happened to R…?
He soon quit me when I wouldn’t go as far -
or as fast - as he wanted.
Leaving teenage me crushed and daunted
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Tatty petals and leaves lie on a lawn.
Rag-tag soul-mates, thrown together
By the gusts of autumn.
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Like Saddleback
is your young back

Or some other long hill
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Fine shimmering rain
dancing on skin, alighting
on leaves as glitter
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