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I Understand, a Poem For Granddad

I understand,
Each time you held our little hands,
How lucky we were and yet,
Such moments that glow midst the hearts swirling core,
Are the easiest to forget.

I understand,
When you wrapped us in blankets,so tight.
Rocking us patiently, deep in the night,
Knowing that someday you wouldn't be there,
The sad, silent witness of our nightly prayers.

I understand,
Every Christmas,snowed cold on your pride,
For the tinsel and toys that you couldn't provide.
Unscathed by deprival, in ignorance, blessed,
We learned Dickens and Yeats and loved Busby and Best.

In grief, at last, I understand,
You'd never hold MY children's hands,
But through times passage, comfort brings,
To know they sleep 'neath Angels wings.

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Equus

Beneath the forelocks shady shroud
 and chestnut lashes low,
A gaze to halt the human heart
This creature can bestow.
Apple breathed indifference and 
Wistful, fearful grace
Can catapult the senses beyond
This earthly place.
Mankind made him subservient
And service he knows well,
Historically, such willingness has
Grazed the gates of hell.
Natures' magnum opus, 
Of evolutions course.
Majestic in his countenance,
Noble, hypnotic Horse.

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Daybreak

Dawn breaks and soon the light dilutes the dark,
The lazy sun climbs high to make her mark.
Her slow awakening, lighting up the sky,
As tomtits flit and tweet their morning cry.

The crouching pheasant colours dawns first breath
And stealthily appears from night times death.
The wood mouse noses from his hidden hollow
As like the cock bird, knows, his time is borrowed.

The roebuck hiding deep in dawns damp hue,
Steps out, to graze, against a wall of blue.
The sun continues warming winters grasp
And bumbling badgers find repose at last.

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Before Getting a Bunny-For Brian

Love him well, his heart is bruised
He's lonely, frightened and confused,
He knows not choice like you and me,
The likes of him are never free.

His mother gone and siblings too
From now on he'll depend on you.
Be sure to see him every day,
Don't pass his hutch and walk away.

Let him play and feel the sun,
He loves to skip and jump and run.
And though he's mute, he listens well
Your secrets he will never tell.

Be kind to him and he'll live long
If he is happy, he'll be strong
Most of his kind get locked away
Forgotten about, day on day.

Love him and he'll fill your soul
And break your heart when he grows old.
Then when it comes to let him go,
Feel blessed, to know he loved you so.

For Brian (the Bunny) May 2004-Dec 2014

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After My Dog

Deserved of a long repose, he sleeps at last
Whilst I, in sorrows wake, through shadows cast,
Recall, this gentle life, the joys, the pain
And go somewhere to be near him again
Along an earth worn, dappled path, that where,
A warm wind whisks his spirit through the air,
Beneath a cloudless, swirling, kite filled sky
Shades of dying Summer, light, the colour of his eyes.