Sylvia Lukeman Poems

Sitting with you
Watching you, helpless;
Sleep is engulfing you
What more can I do, helpless?
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You made me smile today
And I'm smiling still.
I was cold and my sky was grey
But you removed the chill.
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Did you walk by the foaming sea today?
And eat candy floss or melty ice cream?
Did you watch leaping dolphins whilst at play?
Or paddle trousers-rolled-up in a babbling stream?
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This morn saw me rise in time
to see the lemon coloured sun begin to climb;
gentle companions early in the day
were a multicoloured sky and clouds of palest grey.
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The sound of the starting rain
had caught her by surprise
and she watched each leaf,
as it had darkened
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The grasses had been statue still
When the winds came
And set them swaying, swaying.
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There is a space
Where he stood
Mere hours ago.
He had filled it
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He had left his wife and little ones
The call had been so strong.
The war would only short they had said
He was sure that he would not be long.
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She fingered his gift
as though it were a living thing,
touched it gently
sentimentally
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