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Grandad's Shed
So many warm afternoons
spent in my Grandad’s endless garden
Home to my first and only treehouse
when air-raid siren tests
still filled those Northern streets
And most magical of all
the rough lumber shed he’d built
A place of wooden-handed tools
you had to carefully maintain with oil
tools that would have been his grandad’s
A place where big furry bees
chose to die with dignity
b...
Thursday 25th August 2022 1:17 pm
Never told you
Never told you
I never told you
How much I really loved you
or how much I really did care
That is my biggest mistake
I would do anything for you
Even lay down my life
In place of yours
Without a moments hesitation
I never told you
How stupid I felt around you
Or how you took my breath away
And I regret not telling you
But if I told you now
Would you believe me
Would it even...
Monday 11th July 2022 7:36 am
Borrowed
I found out my old school friend who I had known since I was 5 years old suddenly passed away. He used to love to read biographies, and as I was thinking how sad it was that he never got to write his own autobiography, I realised that we are all in a way just like a living book. We've been lent to earth while waiting to be returned to the akashic library in the sky.
This one's for you Gary (R....
Wednesday 9th March 2022 3:33 am
How It Should Bee...
Ssssh
Listen…
Modern world blocking the transmission?
Too much traffic?
A world too erratic
Does the whispering grass
still play a tune
Or has brick and mortar
brought it to ruin?
This world is so fast!
Take me back to the past!
It makes such a din
I don't know where to begin!
And cars,
bloody cars everywhere!
If I had an...
Thursday 13th January 2022 6:48 pm
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