Tony Dockery Open Poems

  • 1.
    To feel despondent in a chasm of obedience,
    One’s thoughts to focus and pain to own,
    Escaping tears of a child’s compliance,
    Becalmed in deep waters of a place unknown.
    ...
  • 2.
    Life’s birthday cards of changing numbers,
    Simmering oats and frost covered windows.
    From soapy-soled sandals and shorts of corduroy,
    To hand-me-down jumpers in times when just a boy,
    ...
  • 3.
    I sat beside my wind-up train,
    Of red and blue, some tracks remain,
    The key now rusted, but yet in place,
    I fear to wind it, you know, just in case.
    ...
Total 3 Open Poems by Tony Dockery

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The Song Of The Soldier-Born
 by Robert Service

Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant;
Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.

Give me to live and love in the old, bold fashion;
A soldier's billet at night and a soldier's ration;
A heart that leaps to the fight with a soldier's passion.

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