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Categories:
staidly, adventure, beautiful, blessing, riddle,
Form: Epigram
with memories of fall
still warm in my heart
i keep the candle lit
well into the night
staidly and patiently
waiting and longing
praying and hoping
imagining the day
you'll come home
Categories:
staidly, autumn, home, light, longing,
Form: Free verse
(St Valentine’s day 1992)
Most Valentine poems are about love
and rightly so,
but this is a true story and needed to be told.
Somebody lost someone today.
His mangled body on the
refinery grounds did lie.
They were working on him
Them! That win most, but
alas, they lost this one.
I use to see him every
morning, pedaling his cycle on the
dark and misty corridors
of Roscommon road, habitual
instincts homing in towards
the works chimney.
Yes somebody lost someone
today, the staidly traffic
lights just carried on,
wayfaring curiosity soon
gone, life just keeps on and
on, till tomorrow. Then!
Somebody lost someone today.
© Harry J Horsman 1992
Categories:
staidly, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
(Fever Cure)
When I was just a young lad,
and one respected ones
mum and dad!
An annual visitor
uninvited befelled one’s youth,
an infliction born of
distempered walls
and arctic drafts.
The doctor would be called
to staidly produce an opinion,
“Seven days indoors”
Before proceeding to scribble
in Latin, my wholesome cure,
“A cure to endure”
If only to fix one’s redemption.
Each day the prescribed tonic,
equaled one quarter of a cup
with the instructions to sip
slowly “Oh! So slowly” While
my mother’s brown eyes
never once left my agonizing
plight, the taste indescribable,
yet a remnant of memory
tells one, it could dwell
in this very ink,
I write with today!
© Harry J Horsman 2005
Categories:
staidly, life,
Form: Free verse