Colin Johnston

My head is burning with her gripes
Why am I always wrong not right?

Continually…
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<font color=green>They lie side by side,
But apart, not touching,
Separated by inches,
Which may as well be miles.
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You are my Lily, I am your Rose
In our Garden we repose
I watch you blossom
Day and Night
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They no longer use it
Since they’ve passed away
One we had for ten years
when the other came to stay
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The air is filled with reeking smoke
It's just enough to make ye boak

But when the law forbids the habit,
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Strangers, who are they?
Just someone you have never met…
Are they different?
Are they queer?
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When I awoke, there it was
A poem like a seed
In my mind's eye, for no one else,
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Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
Three countries,
all devoid Of hope
No love of life, no drink, no dance
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Up hill, down dale,
by river and by loch
in mountains and in valleys new
have you ever met him,
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<font color=purple>I sit in my armchair and still caress your thighs…
These wooden frames contain for me forever
The memory of your smile…
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<font color=red>They harm themselves from day to day
For pain that will not go away
Is it in their arms or in their legs?
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<font color=green>It is wonderful to have friends…
Seldom seen,
But forever in one's heart.
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<font color=red>My Dual Carriageway has gone
The Free-way Life did not exist
That route was never one for me
I've always wanted company
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My body’s ugly, she says,
Silently demanding approval
A wrinkle here, a wrinkle there
A stomach far beyond compare,
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I saw a fox the other night
The sight of it was pure delight
It loped along with regal grace
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Aberdour is heaven
Of that there is no doubt
But Tam the Gun was a chum
of Edinburgh
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<font color=magenta>Skin as soft as Silk
Crying out to be touched
A neck as graceful as a Swans
Light and Dark shadows
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There are Days when everything is right
And also days when it is not
Days when the Sun shines always
And many days when it does not
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<font color=blue>The house was hers and no one else's
She's lived there over fifty years
To pay the bills if it was needed
Was what we sought for later years
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<font color=green>It was in 1968 to Dunfermline
we were shipped
For four years of Apprenticeship
To be in The Navy and see the Sea
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