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Shells of Alamein Lest We Forget War

Lest we forget

When the Shelling 
And the Din of gunfire
Finally stopped 

His mind was shot
A hollow broken shell
Stood

Crooked in the corner of some foreign land
Every boy and man befell unto
Inspite of class or rank 
Come 1,
Come all 
To walk the plank

Into no mans land
Gods hands

As the marching band grew silenced 
Drowned out by the violence 

Of brethren slain,
Into the Dunes of Alamein

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Rich Or Wealthy

So what are the Rule's ?

You wish to place place this wager on ?

And how is the Jury then to Judge ?

Your Bank Account
Your Real Estate 
Your Stocks and Share's 
Minks and Furs 
Supercars , Jewel's and Gold

Versus 

My 2nd Mortgage 
10 year old Car
Overdrafts 
And rising Credit Card Bills 

Based on this alone I fear you win this wager
Hands down no contest

But what if we raised the stakes
To what we could actually 
take with us to our grave

Like Friends and Family 
Those we have blessed 
Lives we had touched 

I fear my Foe
The Currency in Death you shall seek
Will not be measured 
In Money and Gold

But rather in Deed's and Actions 
And whether or not you will be missed

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Living With Long Covid After 19

How melancholy I yawn then sigh 

When recalling who I was 2 year's
ago just before Covid-19 struck
I was doing alright getting bye ok
But fast forward currently to today 
and I now feel completely different

As luckily enough for me though I have 
not nor a close family member suffered
any ill effects had to be hospitalized
or far worse die

What I got instead is a sinking feeling
in the pit of my stomach and hole in
my heart that I fear may just be terminal

It's almost as if the world I thought and
have come to know throughout this
time has slowly ebbed the joy most
certainly has its in my rear view mirror now

And with it taken any hope a vaccine 
or cure will be found in order to save 
my fragile sanity from shattering

So i find myself asking who can and does
a Jester call when they themselves are
feeling down and in need of cheering up

And also at this moment I find myself 
contemplating not quite sure if and 
where redemption resides

But if it can't rain all the time 
Better get busy living or busy dying

Said the Crow to the raindrop splitting
hairs on the Reapers scythe

What's kept you

For I have been long expecting you

Can't you see I have already packed 
all of my baggage 

Into the bin-bag's under my eyes 

I am in this for the long haul

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Kind Regards To 1 and All For Jan Allison Comments

Once in a blue moon not very often

Without over thinking it

Something i wrote makes me
glad i did

Because it obviously touches a
nerve or stirs the soup in other's
as it did with i

And when i log on at the top
of the page a bubble appears
with numbers in it

Denoting i my friend have
received comment mail

And when i click on and begin to
read them

I am glad such kind comments
and many positives appear in front
of me for may i say a deserving 
one of our own worth it

So kind regards to 1 and all
of you who took the time to 
comment show and share
your support

You did a good thing here 
not because you could but
rather because you choose
to do so

She obviously is in and keeps 
good comany as so do you

Kind Regards
Yours Sincerely
From me to Yee
Guild of Writers 

So to all of you may i say this

Speaking only personally 
my parting  word's i wish
to say and gift to thee are

Best wishes
Love
Humour
&
Goodwill

And once again thanking you
i say

You did a good thing here , here

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Praying For a Quick Death

Quickly, 
Quickly, 
Quickly.

You spoke in search of light relief

And hearing your cries for Help

I cried myself to Sleep

On the rotten old couch upstairs 

While Mum Cradled you in your Marital Bed

I Prayed religiously 

Death come Quickly

To Shelter 

You from the Cancer Pain

A Milkshake Cocktail of Morphine 

To Aid Discomfort 

While thinking all the While

Show your Face God

Where is your Grace and Mercy 

When it comes to the Innocent 

I fear you have done not only my Family

But the entire World

A Discourtesy 

Ask anyone and they shall say

He was 1 of the Good One's 

Wouldn't hurt a Fly , Never told a Lie


And come December 28th 

Ashes to Ashes,  Dust to Dust

The Floor opened up the Gates of Hell

And ever since 

I Fall and Fall

Quicker,
Quicker,

Quickly 

A Pithy End 

My Father
My Friend
My Support 
My Sponsor 

Amen

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Apart

I remember for the very first time hearing
Words that had not been experienced
But on reflection treated the subject matter well
And I have heard singers sing like impostors
Because it was not there words
That they took to the stage to sell
But what is the wordsmith
Without the tortured poet
That suffers for his art
Yet cant play the part
Because his mundane life is a million lifetimes apart.

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Surreal Stars Viceral Dreams

As i looked up to the sky

The darkness ever so slightly dissipated

And was replaced by the majesty, grace,
wonder and beauty

Of a billion plus stars

Some so large, bright and close

It felt like i could wrap my world around them

And most surreal of all

Was i wasn't actually dreaming

This was visceral

This was real

A infinite universe of celestial graveyards

Beyond the earths ceiling

Starring directly back at me

Whilst driving through the Karoo desert post midnight

By Beaufort West

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The Times They Are Yet Still a Changing and Moving Onwards

Cometh the end of each and every 
December

January so to with it as well bringeth a 
new year to start a fresh once all over
again 

And though the time and date and 
solar winds may change

The seasons somehow however never seemingly do

The sky is still just as blue as the sun
is red grass is green as is the night
tinged in black

Just as like when spring and summer
eventually return and dawn

Denote it's time to pack away our
winter warming clothes into the
back of our closets and cupboard
draws

That unless we truly feel within and
inside our head and heart's 

A certain individual kind of love 
and caring does reside that warms
us dearly

Then matter's not the time or season
place or age

Tomorrow they will be no more richer or
poorer 

If nothing changes and everything remains

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Picture

Picture your world in coulourfull strokes
With Care and Abandon
Of a life worth living
Devoid of Wealth
and immune to Goverment Stealth

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Sudden Death or Patently Aware Death is Coming For You Time is Precious

As I have and I presume most of you have as well

Had at some point in our life time

Had to experience loss and death

And a Silent muse just posed the question

I am now about to ask of you to

Given that there is no good way to die

But that death is how we all meet our end

Then on which side of this decision do you fall

A sudden death in an instant

One moment here the next you are gone

Maybe perhaps wall alone with no one there

Never having said or got to make you peace

Or being given say six months to live

Ever slowly slipping fading away

Most probably suffering daily in endless pain

Never not knowing if today is the day

And having to see the look on loved ones faces

But at least you got to say and make your peace 

Goodbye and everything you wanted to say 

And the funny contradictions about death

Is it effects those way far more still living in reality 

Than the dead for sure per say

As in death the dead pose no question anymore

As they are Silent One and all forevermore