Margaret O Driscoll Poems

Looking into the future
sitting on a wooden crate
light suit, waistcoat and tie,
a long cigar to drag on as time goes by
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He checks his neighbour's bee hives
He's the only one still living there
His neighbours have fled the war
The town in ruins, shops all bare
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Hemmed in all Winter behind four walls
On the first fine day the beach calls
By a deep channel flowing into the sea
I follow the tide mark, checking debris
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I wish for them a curious mind,
answers to questions they pose
I wish for them a love of nature,
interest in all that grows
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It hadn't hit me, I wondered why -
it all seemed so surreal
until a memory melded in my mind then formed in a tear
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Uncoiling the cord, birth delayed,
arriving all blue, mother dismayed
Baby cries out, a quick embrace,
tears of joy on a mother's face
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Unspoilt, unique, a soulful place,
ancient oaks all around
Scattered acorns sprouting shoots,
new life emerging from the ground
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High rise flats, high rise birches
Obscuring, softening the scale,
Yellow tulip buds in elastic bands
Babushkas hoping for a sale.
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