Music Mum Poems

I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal...

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Just sitting down in my most visited space looking back with eyes wide open not closed viewing the scene again this time the life took...

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The rain hit hard.

Pounding and banging on the windows
like fists of lament

Then the darkness came
A reminder to call loved ones

Being one of the lucky ones
my...

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The hophead at the
Music festival next to me
Yells out the instruction
"Everybody shrink!"

The lead singer holds parallel
To the audience an elongated
Truncheon with a dishwashing
Glove on the...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Like always it was there in my abode
Chirping, singing until I opened my eyes

Curious to see its little face
I followed it into the woods

But the...

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Sun approaching the quiet sea
Blue boats leaving port slowly,
Young girls playing with dolls
Andalus music with mint tea;

Call from the white mosque
Lights and silence in the...

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When I was little I really loved music,
Was joyous to hear and therapeutic.
My mother would put on rock and roll,
My father would share opera and...

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I am from Great Britain  – it’s not a rumour
I always try to write with a sense of humour

In 1996 we moved to live...

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Tonight I went out Swinging for the very first time
Now the title has grabbed your attention – I hope you will read my rhyme!

Tonight I...

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At my mother's funeral
'Abide With Me' was played,
It did not sum up who she was yet
A memory was made.
An older memory I have
I was three...

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Beneath the deep blue sky, my ship,
Its curving timbers bend and bow,
Upon a mast flapping about,
Are white sails all eager to go.

A voyage over distant...

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