Libran Continuity (20 years on)

I have still got
The car I bought
On starting work
My first guitar
My Grandma’s pen
& book I wrote my first raw poems in.

That I have not
my
first love
first wife
first child

Remains as yet
Un-reconciled.

poem by Andrew Fincham
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Valediction (for Kate McGreavy)

My true love
had a silver hair
all sprung
amidst her raven
locks

with playful pain
she mocked me
as I drew it from those
glossy strands

and looked at me
a smile that struck again
the heart her smile re-made

*

A quarter century on
comes back that moment
as I sit alone

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Paddington Ear

alone
i made
a call
home
far away
from platform
one

& found
upon
my phone
a family
(half
asleep)
in bed

one half
my wife
one half
my son

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