Standing still to remember
Eleventh hour of eleventh day
Grey monument in November
Two quiet minutes lamenting pass
As eleven leaves fall from the tree
To land peaceful in the grass
Category Archives: Regret
Tomorrow
Come tomorrow, come quick
Bringing a vacuum to be filled
Minds open to new possibilities
Which today had denied us
Page turned to a clean sheet
Past mistakes put aside
Wiped, prejudices born of experience
Letting anything be possible
To Boldly Go….
Say ‘Ahh’ for the true Brexiteers
Thinking themselves to be pioneers
Rushing to the cliff edge, with no safety ledge
Tossing themselves in a sea made of tears
What chance we might make it alone?
Former allies with faces of stone
Old enemies a pack, no need to attack
As we step into the big unknown
An Unexpected Caller
A caller rang the doorbell
Straight way my heartbeat skipped
Who can this be a-ringing
With no visitors on the script
The house is so untidy
I haven’t combed my hair
Fish smells linger from the kitchen
The timing’s so unfair
No chance to try addressing
The mad jumble of concerns
Again the bell rings threatening
To open my can of worms
A moment’s hesitation
Safe this side of the door
Jumping with surprise as
A note flutters to the floor
Then footsteps gate-ward tread
As I guiltily scan the card
‘We tried to deliver a parcel today
You must collect it from our yard’
Regret
Mark the crashing silence
That fills the pregnant pause
Once unkind words are spoken
Unjustified by cause
Might that said be unsaid
With laughter in its place
If time were more forgiving
Regretting not the case
A sage would counsel caution
Just sorry words to use
Least said, soonest mended;
A worthy phrase to muse
