Colin Ian Jeffery Poems

Never speaks
Trapped within damaged brain
Body twisted, limbs trembling
Sitting in hospital yard
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During the battle of the Somme, France,1916, the British
British sustained 60,000 casualties on the first day.
Torrential rains turned the battlefield into a quagmire.
In one month, the Allies advanced five miles at the
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He lies near to death
Dying in the dust
Broken and forgot.
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I would die a poet
Pilgrim from burnished land
Remembered for humour, compassion, love
Claimed by many a friend.
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Happiness is elusive like the wind
Coming and going like migrating birds
And sound of echoing peals of church bells.
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On the morning of 21st October 1966,116 children and
28 adults died in a sea of slurry engulfing a school after
the collapse of a coal-tip in Aberfan, South Wales.
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How I long to see your face
Intoxicating loveliness
Which brings such exhilaration
Enrapturing my heart
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Within dark caverns of the mind
Fearsome creatures abide
Demons tempting with praise and bribes
Offering false hope from Hell's fires.
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(Israeli and Palestine conflict)

Prostrate with grief
Rachel weeping for a dead son
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God's most holy son
Teach me of your love
So through its joy
I might immortal come
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