Halfway to Heaven

Halfway to Heaven
I lost my love,
Passing away
So high up above.

Halfway to Heaven
I made my last call
As often we pray
To sweet stars that fall.

Yet halfway to Heaven
You said: 'Fare thee well',
'Fore making your way
O'er river and dell.

CBB Jun 12

poem by Colin Breck Boardman
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Never Really Liking History

Never really liking history
When I was young, it is a mystery
How now my life is tied so fast
To the deep and distant past.
Take my love-life for example
Done and dusted (hardly ample) ,
And my best friends it must be said
Are so old they've been long dead,
Painters and poets, none in blood,
Conversing in ink and coloured mud.
To cap it all, (though I wear a hat,
An anachronism now at that) ,
As history is both taking and giving,
I fly dinosaurs for a living.

(CBB Sept 2011)

poem by Colin Breck Boardman
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O, How I Smile!

O, how I smile!
I smile at the morning sun,
I smile when the day is done;
I smile at a cup of tea,
I smile at the old oak tree;
I smile at the summer flower,
I smile at each sudden shower;
I smile at the horned moon,
I smile for poor Lorna Doone;
I smile on early Monday mornings,
I even smile when I'm yawning!
I smile in slow traffic jams,
I smile when I'm eating spam;
I smile when I miss my date,
I smile when the weekend's late;
I smile at the minimum wage,
I smile at the blank white page.
I smile when my hawks aren't fed,
I smile in my empty bed;
I smile at all my enemies,

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poem by Colin Breck Boardman
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