Tony Jolley Poems

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81.
Faultline

Shot.

Don’t think I’m dead.
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82.
Funeral (Of Being Bereft)

The funeral was an ‘event’:
Carefully catered and choreographed –
A place for everyone
And every one, most assuredly, in his allotted place.
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83.
Tail-End Charlie

My mother had an older brother –
Name of Charles: ‘Chuck’.
Think she must have adored him all the more
As her feckless father had upped-sticks
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84.
Flamenco Fan

At times a whale tail, diving slowly, elegantly,
Sliding through the surface tension to a ripple, barely.
At others, flashing fast as a Hummingbird wing:
A red-black blur of will she / won’t she seduction activity;
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85.
The Old One Two

[Reader: you may find it helpful to read ‘The Old One’ first! ]


Haven’t seen hide nor hair of his familiar stoop
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86.
Survivors

Just five or six still standing.
Five or six from fifty or sixty thousand.
The rest? –
Mown down mercilessly
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87.
The Rags Of The Raptured (A.K.A: The Old One Three)

He came back last week.
Seemed as if he’d changed his coat and his tune,
Having worn terribly,
And faded four or more shades the deeper
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88.
Supple Spines

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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89.
The Oracle Of Delphi

Then,
They came in selflessness:
Sacrificing;
Sanctifying.
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90.
Gabardine And Greatcoat

Gabardine neatly folded and draped,
Public school-style,
Over my left forearm;
Cap in hand,
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