Tony Jolley Poems

“It’ll be different! ”,
He said,
Not perhaps knowing
Quite how right
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Twilight gave you to me,
Framed your delicate forms and features
In a way the summer sun could only hope,
In her wildest of dreams, to do.
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Then,
They came in selflessness:
Sacrificing;
Sanctifying.
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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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Bruebach to Brunstatt to Didenheim
Every day, without fail, rain or shine.
Stick-thin – and a thin stick at that –
No 'old stick' though:
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Full surgery – caseload queue surging out of the waiting room door
And curling down the corridor
Like some sick snake
Swallowing a cocktail of complaints
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Size matters –
Doesn't it just…

Not the hoary old joke
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