Mike Tonkin

The moor is at it’s best
In autumn, with the air
Full of moisture, the place
Closed in
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A look. Two eyes
Filled with yearning.
A look. Two eyes
Gently burning
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On 21st of October 1966 a tip of coal slurry slid
Into the village of Aberfan and 144 people were
Killed.
Of these 116 were children who were buried
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Nineteen hundred and fifty,
There were a lot of girls
Out on the town then,
I was seventeen and
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I had a stroke,
One minute I was
Michael J Tonkin,
The next I was
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That heat drenched summer
Long passed now,
That summer
How we loved lying on the lazy sand.
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I remember you,
Oh yes, I remember you
Well.
You had on a
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Who is this woman
Who came into my life
Seemingly
Eons ago,
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I was suddenly aware
of a new voice
speaking to me.
The voice of a poet
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She walked away from me
Not looking at me
Taking no notice of me
Glad to be leaving, .
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Before you there where women who delighted,
But when you came along you were
The only one, there were not enough
Stars in the sky
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My private moments
Have been invaded..
She went
where nobody else
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I saw it first
When I was five,
It was small,
So small
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There is always a moment
Just before you sleep
When you feel a tremor
In your heart.
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Why do I love you
It seems easy to explain,
But it is not.
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I wonder sometimes
If life Is worth living.
I feel drained
With hardly any
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Wallowing in memories
Memories of childhood.
Places and times
Of no importance to
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The tide was half in,
and we were cut off,
cut off from everywhere
my mother and I.
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Gods away.
No. sorry
Don't know when he'll be back.
A war.
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I ask
Questions
Of you,
I hear them
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