Reginald Reid Poems

LIFE PERSPECTIVE

I've heard teachers and orators
Say things they think profound.
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NEW YEAR'S EVE

Midnight has passed a new year has begun,
And in this darkened arbour now we wait, no moon no sun,
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NEXT SPRING

'Tis spring as all the world revives
and all around shouts I'm alive.
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SOUL TALK

I can talk to a bird, a dog or a cat
Nobody thinks very much about that.
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SUMMER DAZE

Alone, half dazed by relentless summer heat.
Staggering, blistered sore hot feet.
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THE RANDOMNESS OF LIFE

If the random intersect of lifelines had occurred another day,
Or the place of my conception been in a place so far away,
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THE SILENCE OF SOLITUDE

In the silence of my solitude my mind is free to dream,
To contemplate the things that were, that are, and those that might have been.
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THE SPEED OF LIFE

Astronomers talk of the speed of light.
They never mention the speed of night,
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THIS ANCIENT GARDEN

Come see the glory of Australia, a great and modern land,
One rich in old world history with a future no man planned.
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TIMES

I have seen the seasons come and go,
Watched the waters ebb and flow,
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