Terry Collett Poems

Martha was shown
into a parlour
inside the front door
of the mother house
...

You rode bikes with Milka
to the bridge over the river
and stood looking down
at the flowing water
...

It'll not be the first time he'll
Have said that and not meant
It and she knows oh how she
Knows that he will probably
...

On the way home from school
you and Helen stopped

and looked in the window
...

Jane sat on her haunches
and opened her hands
to show the butterfly

she had just captured
...

The grief will lessen,
the pain become
a mild ache, some said,
after the death
...

We were lining up
for school dinner.

Fay was in
...

Helen and you
walked home from school
the long way
you wanted to show her
...

Sorry about
your granddad's death
Judith said
as you stood
...

How you got into a fight
with Woolgar in the school
playground God only knows
but it seems to stem from
...