Thomas Golding

How light the space when you're all near
A flight of swans across an evening sky
Who wheel and turn with grace before descent
To mirrored lakes for lovers to admire.
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THE FASHION SHOW

To conclude our show we leave you with a dream
For every woman, place and time
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I see her face in strangers as they pass
A silhouette, a turn of hand
Momentarily a pause confusing time
Whilst hope is captured yet again
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LOVE POEM 2

I saw your portrait in the pool
Where autumn blossoms float
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IN PRAISE OF MODERN WOMEN

“There is truth in wine, ” claimed the Romans
Those ancient imbibers should have known better
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She curls on the couch
Tears stain the cushion
streak down her cheeks
Wide open window
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Images of dew shaken down by wind
Marvel of engineering line and brace
The builder crouches to defend
As my form looms gigantic
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Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is least fit of all?
Watch that muscle straining by
Chasing rainbows in the sky
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How unsightly by day
Those old telephone lines
Back in the nineteen forties
Erratic moirés of copper
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If I sing aloud in the world
Will my song be heard?
To the tone deaf all songs are flat;
If I never raise my voice
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Singing water running swiftly
Flowing downward to the valley
Spraying off intrusive stone
Cataract plunging to the bottom
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An extract from a poem written for my grandchildren to Brahms Lullaby

Sleep; little mice sleep
Mother will watch over you
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Policemen kindly stay away
Unless of course you wish to pay.
Hey ho mother runs a knocking shop.
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Four years on the dole
Four years in the queue
The shops full of goods I can’t buy
Or bring myself to steal
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When mother Eve
Lay with proto man
To beget us all
Did either consider
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The grass dried up and blew away
the ground is cracked and bare
we can't get renewal on our loan
who'd be a winging farmer.
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'Get him out, ' Mum said
ten am on Sunday and it's time
three nephews and two nieces
never needed much urging
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i Mother, Mother shining bright
how did you stand the terrors of the night
pressed down to fit a symmetry.
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Four tens of years plus one
Doh Ray to Me and go
Oblivious to all but inner tune
Through minefields on the way
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TURUTURU MOKAI PA*

Liam now four
Plays happily by the stream
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