Tony Jolley Poems

In their impatience,
In their petulance,
And with eider elbows flashing fit to fly,
They jostled and jousted
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Wonder what she knows:
Whether she hears what we hear,
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Saw your picture
From a year,
A country,
An imagination away.
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“It’ll be different! ”,
He said,
Not perhaps knowing
Quite how right
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My life changed again today –
Took a quantum leap of such unique proportions
That it defied Heisenberg’s ‘Uncertainty Principle’,
For I know the time, the place and the velocity:
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Silent steps from the deep end of Eternity
Seem to echo more mournfully down the corridors of your life.
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All the anticipation, expectation & prognostication having systematically considered
Every one of the almost infinite permutations and possibilities,
Assigning each its own probability,
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“Don’t give me all that! ”
She shouted,
Her bitter barbs flaying the skin off his spirit’s back
For the god-knows-how-many-hundredth time.
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Does the 'Big Bang' of living
Leave a sort of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation behind it –
The faintest of faint echoes
Reverberating below the waterline
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