Summers past

Piglets suckling on the sow

Aunty milking at the cow

Cockerel crowing in the barn

Uncle spinning us a yarn.
Lifting water from the well

Sunday morning churchyard bell

Golden corn and tilling fields

By the pleasant pasture yields.
On the bog, drink cold tea

A place you always want to be

Scent the beauty in the air

Freedom captured now so rare.
Just a memory now alas

Different era, different class

Softly spoken soothing words

Too busy now to hear the birds.

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Somewhere a coffin will be held high

People cheer for the death of a patriot

Corrupted by the angry and misguided 

No thought for the innocent.

Atrocities in the name of religion 

Can in no way be forgiven

But let’s not isolate our friends

For that can never make amends.

For those involved let’s shed a tear

Live our lives in love not fear

Let peace be our resolution 

Love become the revolution.

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I wake. The night is young

Traffic in the distance hum

Darkness but a shaft of light

Sudden sound, birds takes flight.
Calmness lies within my soul

Clear my mind. Take control.

Breathe slowly, cleanse the skin

Of Demons that lie deep within.
We all of us from time to time

Worry. Worry, It’s not a crime.

Open up, shed some tears

Do not bottle up your fears.
Life is like a bumpy road

Sometimes you carry that heavy load

Just remember however hard it gets

Life’s too short to have regrets.
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 At times it takes you unawares

 That certain scent you used to share.

 Embrace the moment, whisper the name

 Admit to your loss, there is no shame.
 Life moves on, we find new love

 Who understand what we’re made of.

 Don’t try to hide your broken heart

 For in your life they play a part.
 Rejoice the fact that you once found

 Someone to cherish, be around.

 Look down they will and see you smile 

 And know their mission was worthwhile.

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Remembering all those who nurture nature.

                                 
Lost in tangled torrents of my mind

Memories I now struggle so to find

Faces ghostly now in their appearance

Smiling just a distant interference.

At times a flash of vivid inspiration

Clear as day recall the information

But then, there is no way I can relay

No matter how hard I try, I cannot say.

I am here within my troubled mind

Sit, don’t shut me out, just be kind

Stay awhile you may not see the flicker

When your around my heart just beats 

A little quicker.

Outwardly I’m just a timid frame

Inside I see your face it’s still the same

Thankful now for kindness that you now show

Hold my hand it’s near time for me to go.

      ©J.Poet7

                                    Fear the future
 I fear the fuse is getting short 

 While we are praying for support.
 One man governs now with tweets

 Unrest is spilling on the streets.
 A fearful shiver down my spine

 See refugees along the Rhine.
 Their villages the bombs do pummel

 Homes and schools now turned to rubble.
 The world sits now upon the brink

 Can we survive or will we sink.
 For now the UN must police 

 Come together and broker peace. 
 Fears are that it is all too late

 We sit for hours in this debate.
 Do they listen or even care

 Radical, fanatical, doctrinaire.
©J.Poet7