Joyce Hemsley Poems

The only way to be happy in life
is to sort out problems with care,
erasing all worries from the mind
and avoiding a dismal nightmare.
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Edward Lear, poet and humorist
introduced the popular five-line
Limerick into England in the year
eighteen-twenty. I quote one
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To live in the south of England
in nineteen forty-one
was terrifying and horrifying
the bombing left one numb.
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Forty words:

No more 'world wars'
How could there be?
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Forty words:

Obsessed within a fantasy
Where wise men seldom go
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Forty words:

Gentle Jesus I pray unto Thee
Prayers of sincerity...
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As I step across the
ancient shores of England,
I feel such homely
rapture in the air...
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Acrostic

Jaded and bored all the day through
Idle moments were making him blue.
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Divided are we by the deep rolling sea, but
Anglo-American virtues, continue eternally.
A mountain called 'Hope' together we climb,
the largest expedition in the annals of time.
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Romance took a chance
and he kissed her...
She was always his fairy queen
Beautiful sweet and glamorous
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