a marmalade sun briefly sets

the horizon aflame before

quenching itself as it climbs

behind the city’s silhouette,

It will be cooler today they say

on the early news and we might

already have had our summer,

I feel deluded and disquieted

by the phoney heat as if being

mislead by some greater force

that I do not fully understand

but am wiling to be coerced by,

so...

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a hundred years gone

old champions are called 

to gather one last time

weary clansmen not for

battle or acts of derring-do,

to proudly stand with

warriors of today, 

old war wounds bravely put 

aside for one last hoorah

one final revel in the sun,

a bent, battered battalion

take their rightful place

to call out ‘we’ve been there 

done that, got the medals

...

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perhaps there will be times

now and again and for no

particular  reason that you

will think of me,

a foolish thing I used to say

or a certain way of going

about a routine task,

and for that fleeting moment

a smile will grace your lips,

a smile you won’t be able or

wish to suppress and in that

infinitesimal fragment

you’ll understand what it was

to have really...

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