Susy Evelyne Poems

Life was a song you would sing
In your warm, beautiful way,
From the moment you first drew breath
Until your last mortal day.
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To be a mother
Is a privilege like no other.
A blessing from God.
A journey down a path untrod
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Apple jelly warms your heart,
Each jar's a little work of art.
Love it on crumpets or on bread -
Glowing rosy-sunset red!
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Part-way down a mountainside -
Above the trees, below the ice -
Something told me loud and clear
That I would find an edelweiss!
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Great slab of Wensleydale cheese
crumbling into the sea!
How old you are -
And yet, for all your crumbling, you endure.
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A Diplodocus
One day lost focus
And fell into a pit.
It couldn’t rise
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Three times within a single day
Straying out of your usual way
To pass lily of the valley
En masse in a garden's gulley -
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Remember the things we used to do?
Like the conker I'd slip into your shoe,
Only to find it back in mine...
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I cannot forgive.
I cannot be as the maple tree,
The one they all but cut down
Yet somehow sprang green again.
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Something strange is going on
at the age of forty-three:
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