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Joe Cole May 2014
When you take your first steps on that far distant shore
You might be hesitant,  nervous and wont travel very far
But people there will welcome you with warmth and open arms
So look at poetry as your way to open wide the door
And let this become one more step on another distant shore
No one here will mock you or cover you in scorn
If you hesitate to wander round new streets in early morn
Language is no barrier to want you want to do
Because poetry is our language so we will understand you
And so as the number of stamps in your passport grow you might become the one
To hold wide the door for the new and nervous poet first on a distant shore
May 2014 · 387
Nature At Its Best
Joe Cole May 2014
She stands there in the dappled light thrown by the suns last dying rays
A doe in her full glory there at end of day
Oh how I do love so much the setting of the sun
A time to sit and wonder as the day is done
See there the stripes of silver on that grey and shaggy head
Tis so rare and beautiful to see the badger leave his bed
On silent wings the owl flies past, ghostly in the gloom
How beautiful to sit out here instead of in some stuffy room
See there a fox, her cubs are by her side
She stalks small creatures of the night with the arrogance of her kind
The light is fading fast with the coming of the night
But you can listen to natures symphony sung by creatures of the night
This is a time I love when most others are taking night times rest
This is how I see nature at her best
May 2014 · 1.0k
I Am A Cereal Killer
Joe Cole May 2014
Yeah, none of you stood a chance when I drowned you in the milk
Oh how I did enjoy it so when beneath my teeth you crunched
Yes, yes I'm guilty of the crime and I shall **** yet again
Tomorrow when I fill my bowl with nuts and fruit and grains
May 2014 · 470
Just Wondering
Joe Cole May 2014
You know I was just wondering what might have been
If I had been born a her and not a me
Would I have been beautiful hmm no chance of that
I would probably grown up fat
Very broad across the *** with stretch marks and a sagging tum
38 double D across the top, no way could I cope with that
So I guess I'm glad I was born as me cos I couldn't have coped with being she
Man I've got to be crazy
May 2014 · 521
Growing Old
Joe Cole May 2014
Old tired and broken like some worn out shoe
WHY? After all I served my country and paid all my dues
Now all I have left is this torn threadbare suit
The thanks from my country for doing my bit
For the next few hours I'll just wander the streets
If I'm lucky find a doorway, have a few hours sleep
Food! Well at my age a littles enough
Maybe a discarded Macdonalds or a hard stale crust
YES, I served my country,  saw comrades die
Now I wish I'd died with them, beside them to lie
My only crime was to grow frail and old
And who's going to mourn me as my body grows cold

NOBODY because nobody cares
Joe Cole May 2014
I was just sitting and drinking a mug of coffee
And looking at the proliferation of colours round the lawn
In one small corner of the garden one almost bare brown patch
Small green shoots there are starting to show through
Those tiny specs of green are pricelesss to me
More priceless than even my most expensive rose
You see those small green shoots have sprung from
a handful of seed I spread about a month ago
They were........Wild flowers seeds.
No pruning will I do to keep them in check
No fertiliser will they get nor water when its hot
They can get on and do their own thing
They will feed the butterflies and bees
I love them
Even in the smallest plot or even just a flower *** we can all play a part in keeping nature safe
May 2014 · 675
Sverre G Holter
Joe Cole May 2014
What can we tell of this eloquent man
Of the way the words flow from his magic pen
He writes of history, of legend and myth
Stories of family, of kin and of kith
Tales of the fields,  the forest, of sea
He pens the words  that we all love to read

Sverre never stop writing
May 2014 · 472
RIP Dear Sister
Joe Cole May 2014
She went into hospital yesterday I got the bad news today
My dear sister Jackie this lunch time passed away

All her working life in a hospital doing good for all
But now shes gone to that other place as all of us must do

RIP Jackie 1951-2014
May 2014 · 1.1k
Just A Few Short Words
Joe Cole May 2014
I need no church or temple or stately towering mosque
You see I have the hills and forest and my views of the rolling seas

I need no gods in any form except the one I see
You see my only god is nature,  the only god I need
May 2014 · 453
Storm
Joe Cole May 2014
For four  days now we've run before the bitter raging storm
timbers cracked and broken,  sails  rent and torn

Hold fast my boys hold fast for a mighty wave is bearing down
and if your swept across the rail you will surely drown

I should try to wear the ship, get her head into the wind but if
I do my bonny lads we might end up twenty fathoms down

Helmsman stand here close by me, I will lash you to the wheel,
I can't afford to lose you lad for I need your arms of steel

Lads  I will do my best to bring you safely home but we stand
into terrible danger and still yet may come to harm

My crew are tired,  weary, lashed by wind and rain, but still
they bravely fight the raging storm bearing all their pain

Then comes a mighty shout,  see there a patch of blue,  the storm
clouds liks curtains open and the sun comes into view

Gather round me now my lads and give thanks to him above for
through your courage and his guidance I can return you to
those you love.
Apr 2014 · 673
Oh Dear
Joe Cole Apr 2014
A whiskey and ginger she had before bed
Alas the alcohol fumes went straight to her head
A  wobble in her step  as she crossed the room
Humming to herself a romantic tune
3 steps sideways and 2 steps back
She stood on the dog then sat on the cat
She turned to me with a smile on her face
Said why dont you come and visit my place
Ive got a present for you if you come to my room
But you'll only get it if you get there soon
So I entered her room, heard gentle snores
The present she promised now locked behind tightly closed doors
Oh dear, I should have got there sooner
Apr 2014 · 1.9k
Tranquility (reposted)
Joe Cole Apr 2014
I listen to the sound of the breaking waves
Smell the salt tang in the air
I watch the graceful seagulls
Ride the thermals way up there
No sound of human voice, no strident car alarms
I sit in natures solitude enraptured by her charms
The sea reflects the sinking sun in hues of red and gold
I'll never tire of such things though I grow grey and old
The first gleam of the evening star appears in the ever growing dark
And the golden crescent of the moon begins her journey through the night
No words of mine can best describe natures perfect charm
This is peace, a perfect peace, tranquillity and calm
This was my very first attempt at writing and was written while I was sat on the rocks by the sea
Apr 2014 · 936
Time Has No Meaning Here
Joe Cole Apr 2014
4:45 in the morning
But time has no meaning here
I went to bed with the suns dying rays
By the light of a flickering log fire
I sit in the suns early morning light
Listening to the dawn chorus as I try to write
No good so I lay down my pen
How can I compete with nature so grand
Perhaps a bit later unwritten words will flow
But until that time comes
I'll sit and watch nature grow
This is a simple depiction of what I love to do, of the place I love to be
Apr 2014 · 1.4k
London From The Top Of A Bus
Joe Cole Apr 2014
I didn't write this work, it was written by my dear friend Carole Hurley who has been having a problem posting

I sit on the top deck of a red London bus and view the world passing by, so much more interesting than a drive in a car.
Where are they all coming from, the people I see? Where are they going to, what do they do with their lives? These people I view.
That little old couple,  side by side holding hands. They look so content as they walk down the Strand.
The young men and women hurrying by, perhaps going to work, maybe going to buy a sandwich to eat in the park.
Tourists in their thousands viewing our London sites. I wonder where do they all go to at night.
I gaze eagerly down as we pass famous stores, their names proudly emblazoned over the doors.
I love the hustle and bustle of our London town, a wonderful mix of the old and the new, I try to absorb all the breathtaking views.
Theres Tower Bridge in her livery of gold and of blue,  her ramps held aloft as a ship passes through.
Whitehall where the soldier high on his horse so proud and so still, while tourists take photographs later to view.
Big Ben chimes as the Houses of Parliament we pass. Westminster Abbey so stately and tall, for hundreds of years overlooking it all, the laughter the sadness,  the tears and the fears.
I look at new buildings all made out of glass.  I look at it free courtesy of my free bus pass.
Apr 2014 · 599
Going Into The Wild
Joe Cole Apr 2014
For four days in May I'm going into the wild
Four days in the woods sleeping under a tarp
Why? Because for four days I can sit and write
Of day time views and noises of the night
No one else will be there to disturb my thoughts
No one I will need to support
Just me with the sounds of insects and birds
Four days without worries,  four days without cares
Its something I do on occasions, Im not anti social but at times just enjoy my own company
Apr 2014 · 512
She's Leaving Me
Joe Cole Apr 2014
Very small and eighteen years old
and she's leaving me
My little black and white cat
Yes, its time to say good goodbye
My Wiggy and I have to part
I remember the time about two in the morn
When her kittens were born on my lap
How will I manage, what will I do
I'm so going to miss Wiggy cat
Apr 2014 · 546
To The Poets Of The World
Joe Cole Apr 2014
Though you be many miles away
We'll never be apart
I just reach out my hand
To feel the beating of your hearts
Joe Cole Apr 2014
Fear not the man in black, his vicious bite nor evil sting
For when your time on earth is done you'll sit beside the King
Fear not your time of passing from this sad forbidding land
For when your time on earth is done you'll sit at Gods right hand
Apr 2014 · 1.5k
Support
Joe Cole Apr 2014
To all our poets far and near
Support the newer poets here
Your support will help them write their stuff
But in your criticism dont be to gruff
Positive criticism is gladly read
By them who really feel the need
To improve the way they write
And thus contribute more to this great site
Mar 2014 · 690
Short And Simple And Daft
Joe Cole Mar 2014
When I die as all men must
Just turn my body into dust
There's only one place for me to go
That's into the furnaces fiery glow
I'll then have the chance of one last good deed
My ashes will give a rose bush a lovely feed
Mar 2014 · 765
Solitude
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Sorry but I don't need you here
I want to be alone
All I need is my Mollie dog
laying by my side
Its not my intention being rude
nor ever to offend
Its just that on the mountain side
I can make my ammends
You see its here that I can sit and think
here that I can write
Sorry its not my intention
to push you out of sight
Dear friends I find I need to be
on a cliff above the raging sea
I find no inspiration in your mindless words
I can only write of what nature inspires
Mar 2014 · 648
Sell By Dates
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Oh dear we realy cant eat that
its past its sell by date
Well what a load of ******* crap
because its still good to use
Do you think your grandmothers lived this way?
No, they just used their nose
they knew what was good or bad,
what to keep and what to throw.
Oh dear that cheese has got some mould
lets throw it in the trash
What  a ******* idiot!
Just trim of the mould
because the mould means the cheese is at its best
Sell by dates are there to catch you in a snare
To part you from your hard earned cash
Mar 2014 · 775
Minstrel
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Yes
they sang of the stories told
of ages past and of men so bold
They sang for those who could not read
For the blind who could not see
The peasants tilled the land, and food produced
but for reading and learning had no use
And so it was left unto the singing bard
to tell of history from our past
I reposted this because I read a profile saying "I'm a poet not a story teller" What then is poetry?
Mar 2014 · 1.2k
Writing From The Toilet Wall
Joe Cole Mar 2014
When all you sht house poets die
They'll ***** a monument in the sky
To commemorate your worthless wit
A monument built from solid sh
t
I've seen this little ditty scrawled
On many public  toilet walls. Hence the title
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Rip
Slash
Burn
Trash
Yes tear the forest down
Because you make another dollar
when another tree crashes to the ground
Just stop and think for a minute before you
make another start
Every tree that you bring crashing down
Is another wound to the beating heart
It can't beat forever and every time you make it bleed
You are destroying the future
the future we all need
So put away the axe and saw, no more the burning brand
because the dollars will not save you
when you've destroyed this land
Mar 2014 · 485
Ghostly Legions
Joe Cole Mar 2014
I see the spectral shadows of those heroes from the past
No marshal music playing as the ghostly legions pass
Long dead but not forgotten those who shed their blood so long ago
Those men who shouldered arms, marched down that final road
On the spectral legions march with their heads held high,
no faltering steps from those heroes of the past
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Well I guess I can be both because I'm the one
who chose to send our boys girls out there
to fight that war

Some one had to go it wasn't me, I stay at home
and ponder over my next words and lies
to feed the gullible minds out there

So your destitute and broke, well for me thats just a joke,
its not my fault that your kids will starve
Ive more important things to than to worry over you
I have to go and by anothef expensive car

Oh sorry I forgot it was me who hatched the plot to starve you
and send the kids to war

Do you think that I lose sleep about their torn and shattered
flesh? Or of the shattered minds that come back home
Needs editing so will have to go to my laptop
Mar 2014 · 624
Im Only A Politician
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Not my fault the rancid stink
Of water that you have to drink
Not my fault the acrid stench
of petrol fumes that fill the air
Not my fault the acid rain
destroying this once so green terain
You're the ones who put me here
to fight on your behalf
to allay your fears.
What you pay me from taxes payed
gives me a house in the everglades
Gives me a boat and top range car
While you must live in abject fear
about what for you the future holds
of twelve hour days and unpaid bills

I'm  a Politician,      you elected me
Reposted for Jonny Angel
Mar 2014 · 1.1k
HALF A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Where do I start?... Its taken me over fourty years to write this


Half a bottle of scotch taken each night to drown out the fears
the heartrending sights
Yeah half a bottle is just about right to dull the dreams and the nightmares that still linger
PTSD they call it this day, councelling given to help them get through
what they did see, things they did do
I remember clearly after such a time being told I wasn't a soldier I wasnt a man for being sick with fear, tears in my eyes at the bloodied remains close to my side.
Yeah well I was a soldier but not yet a man, at 19 my life had hardly begun but I still had to survive at the point of a gun
Yeah half a bottle of scotch is the crutch I have found because I'm still alive... Not just another name on a hole in the ground
thousands of miles from home.
Patrolling the paths in the in a land burnt and harsh not knowing what would come, the bullet the bomb or mayber the mine placed or shot by the oft unseen had
OK so I still did my bit in spreading the ****.... Yes I've had their blood on my hands but I still regret the things that I did in that harsh barren land.
Did I hate them? Those men who killed the ones I called friends. No they were only doing what they thought was right in protecting their home and their lands
Yeah so half a bottle of scotch is the friend I now have, it helps to stifle the dreams of the places I saw, the things that I saw and also the things that I did.
Don't check this for litary correctness or punctuation because about them I just dont care. Injust felt its time for you to know the real me

Joe
Mar 2014 · 487
The Great Western Canal
Joe Cole Mar 2014
I have walked the paths of The Great Western Canal
In the beautiful English county of Devon
At once in tune with nature and all she had to offer
Cold wet and windy as it was on that day
It did not deter me, from my course did not sway
It was not silent, the songs of the birds
Every step onwards their sweet songs were heard
The slow turbid movement of water so green
The ducks and the swans oft were they seen
There's something sureal about waters gentle flow
It pulls you, it draws you to follow where it goes
By mans design the canal was built and was formed
Now taken over by nature, and given new form
Once a byeway for industrial use
Now a rare place of nature saved from abuse
Onwards I walk, the sound of wind in the leaves
How can I stop, how can I leave?
The peace that I feel when walking these paths
Is a memory savoured,  one that will last
For all of my friends who suffer from stress
Take a walk by the water, and you'll suffer less
I promise you this from the depths of my heart
A walk by the water will give a new start
I cant think of a place I'd much rather be
Than walking the paths of tranquility
Joe Cole Mar 2014
What is the best description of you?
I've lost the words to describe
What is the best way to thank you?
I've lost the right words to use

What is the best description of me?
You say you've lost the words to describe
What is the best way to thank me?
You say you've lost the right words to use

What is the best description of me?
You will re find the words to describe
What is the best way to thank me?
Well just use the words in your heart

Rina and Joe
Mar 2014 · 388
No More The Dreams
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Let's search once more for the crystal stream
where poets sat and wrote
and young lovers dreamed of the beautiful years to come

But no more now is the crystal stream where the poets
wrote and the lovers dreamed
of the beautiful years to come

The crystal stream now a fetid sewer of filthy
industrial waste
The fields and hedgerows long since gone
to be replaced by shattered dreams
What a legacy for our unborn sons

No more do we gather and sing the songs
of the beauty that was once this land
no more do we sit and dream
of those beautiful years to come
Mar 2014 · 358
POETRY
Joe Cole Mar 2014
She sits at her desk,
takes up her pen and the ink begins to flow.
Each word carefully chosen,  each word so
carefully placed.
we watch in stunned silence as the poetry takes shape.
How many of us could pen such a literary work of art?
How many would sit and ponder and
not know where to start....
Mar 2014 · 457
Forget the city stench
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Get away from it all and step into the wild
Feel fresh rain against you skin
Linger here awhile
Find a cool and shady place where you can lay your head
Beneath a canopy of stars
Gleaming like diamonds overhead
Forget the stress of daily life, let nature have her way
Wake, refreshed, renewed to greet the brand new day
Forget the unforgiving city steets,
Leave your mobile phone behind
Forget the stress of daily life
For a short while, leave it all behind
Mar 2014 · 2.0k
The South Country
Joe Cole Mar 2014
This poem was witten by my godfather Hilair Beloc 1870-1953

When I am living in the midlands
That are sodden and unkind
I light my lamp in the evening
My work is left behind
And the great hills of the South Country
Come back into my mind

The great hills of the South Country
They stand along the sea
And its there walking in the high woods
That I could wish to be
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Walking along with me

The men that live in North England
I saw them for a day
Their hearts are set upon the waste fells
Their skies are fast and grey
From their castle walls a man may see
The mountains far away

The men that live in West England
They see the Severn strong
A rolling on rough water brown
Light aspen leaves along
The have the secret of the rocks
And the oldest kind of song

But the men that live in the South Country
Are the kindest and most wise
They get their laughter from the loud surf
And the faith in their happy eyes
Comes surely from our sister the spring
When over the sea she flies
The violets suddenly bloom at her feet
She blesses us with surprise

I never get between the pines
But I smell the Sussex air
Nor I never come on a belt of sand
But my home is there
And along the skyline of the Downs
So noble and so bare

A lost thing I could never find
Nor a broken thing mend
And I fear I shall be all alone
When I get towards the end
Who will be there to comfort me
Or who will be my friend

I will gather and carefully make my friends
Of the men of the Sussex Weald
They watch the stars from the silent folds
They stiffly plough the fields
By them and the God of the South Country
My poor soul shall be healed

If ever I become a rich man
Or if ever I grow to be old
I will build a house with a deep thatch
To shelter me from the cold
And there shall the Sussex songs  be sung
And the story of Sussex told

I will hold my house in the high woods
Within a walk of the sea
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Shall sit and drink with me
Mar 2014 · 810
Come, Walk With Me
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Yes, come
Come walk with me on the high lands
where so few have ever trod.
Where the air is crystal pure
in this place where majestic eagles soar.
Listen, listen to the silence
of this pure un sullied place,
gaze at the beauty that man has not yet defaced.
Yes, walk with me in the splendour
created by natures hand
breath deeply of the beauty
before its to destroyed by man
Mar 2014 · 1.5k
My South Country
Joe Cole Mar 2014
My south country that we call the Sussex Weald
A place of gentle landscapes of softly rolling hills.
My south country where I grew up and played as a child
Where I learned of nature as I studied life in the wild.
They stand in magestic glory between the land and the rolling sea
Those magestic hills we call the downs
we of the Sussex Weald
Yes, I'm a man of the Sussex Weald, of generations long gone bye
I'm a man of the South Country
And as a south country man I'll die
Mar 2014 · 287
Untitled
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Take a walk in the wild woods
if you have the courage
Trees, dark, foreboding
Wooden hands reaching out
clasping, strangling.
But its all in your mind.
Take a walk in the wild woods,
relax in the peace and calm.
Free your mind, free your soul
Look, listen, be at peace, be free.
Don't worry about household bills,
dont worry about passing time
Time has no place in the wild woods
Just relax, dream and empty your mind
Mar 2014 · 309
What Am I Doing Right Now
Joe Cole Mar 2014
What a silly statement, question
I have a glass of scotch, just enough light to see.
A little black cat on the arm of my chair,
a little black dog with her head on my lap.
The TV is on in the corner but I dont really know what is on
I'm quite content just to sit here
alone with the thoughts in my mind
This is now, this is me
Mar 2014 · 2.2k
LETS RAPE AGAIN
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Lets **** again
this fair land, ***** so many times before.
She cannot cry out in pain
as we steal her innocence.
Take it...take what she has to offer,
care not for the ravaged earth you leave behind
while you earn another dollar.
Yeah, she can recover
but not in your lifetime or mine.
But why should I be bothered?
After all she was put here to provide
Mar 2014 · 436
I Cry
Joe Cole Mar 2014
Yes I cry for this sad ******* land.
I cry because I see no justice
I cry for the weak, the starving, the dying
I cry for those who have no hope.
How many of you all so cry? How many of you really care?
I'm just one voice among millions
so what can I do?
NOTHING
You see one voice counts for nothing
in a world of corruption in high places
Put your hand on your heart, feel the beat
but for every missing beat
Another sin against humanity
Mar 2014 · 458
No...I don't believe
Joe Cole Mar 2014
No... I don't believe in God....(Gods)
Hypocracy, I attend church, Friday prayers!!!
That makes me better than you
do you really believe that?
The bible, the quran, books that speak of love and peace,
of humility.
But still the atrocities go on
in the name of the various religions.
Oh dear I'm now offending some of you
but I'm not going to apologise.
Take a long hard look at yourselves
are you the one who called that person a vicious animal
when he/she murdered that child?
What an insult to animals. Animals dont ******.
More people have died in the name of our various religions
than for any other reason.
Yeah, lets go to our churches, mosques and temples,
lets listen to the hypocritical preaching of love and peace
THEN go home and **** the neighbours because they
dont believe in your religion.
Oh dear, who is this terrible man with his blasphemous writing?
I hope my god strikes him down and sends him to hell.
Well that's ok because hell cant be any worse
than than the hell that man has caused
In the name of religion
Controversial perha5ps but it's how I feel

Hmmmm no comments
Mar 2014 · 359
Winter Wonderland
Joe Cole Mar 2014
We sit in our cabin beneath the pine trees,
our music the sound of the seas breaking waves.
We gaze into the flames of the log fire,
reading stories in the flames as they wave.
We are warm in our own seclusion as outside the snow silently falls,
cocooned in our world of enjoyment as the beauty of winter does call.
With the coming of dawn a new world is revealed,
a world now pristine and pure.
Mar 2014 · 379
A New Year Is Born
Joe Cole Mar 2014
We leave this old year to the sound of a softly played tune, enter the new in a crescendo of sound.
A million trumpets blowing, the deep throbbing beat of drums all around

We hold hands and encircle the world with our thoughts.
We leave the old and welcome the new as the brothers and sisters of man

Soon the darkness will give way to light as the new sun climbs high in the sky.
Spreading the light of peace on us all as the world is reborn anew.

So open your minds and open your hearts as this new world is born,
bring love and peace to all of mankind as the new year begins its first dawn....
Joe Cole Mar 2014
The old year draws to a close, a new year is about to begin, what does the future hold? More death destruction and sin.

Can we improve this sad mad world where the bomb and bullet are god?
Where mans inhumanity rules in the search for a political hold.

What does it matter, the death of a child. The grief of parents and friends.
It matters not for the death of a child can be used for political gains

Mans intent to destroy this once beautiful world, pollution of water and land.
Where will it end, what can we do? To halt the rot that descends.

We just sit back. " It wont happen to me" Well sorry thats not the case.
Tomorrow it could be you or me.

The white gold of drugs being sold to our kids, now they are starting so young,
lining the pockets of evil.
What will the new year bring?
Written at Christmas 2012
Mar 2014 · 631
Desert Sands
Joe Cole Mar 2014
I wander the sandy wastes and the deserts barren plains, they have their own stark beauty washed clean by infrequent rains

Each grain of sand an art form carved by natures hand, only the blind cannot see the beauty of this land

Stop, look and listen to what natures provided here, the desert has a purpose and the purpose will come clear

Close your eyes and listen to the whispering singing sands, appreciate the beauty of this stark forbidding land
Here's a heads up for my part VI challenge
Joe Cole Feb 2014
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them
The wonderful words of Robert Binyon written 100 years ago


The great war, the war to end all wars....but still it goes on
The weeping mother, the sob of a wife and still the dyings not done

I've seen it and done it, left mothers to weep, left a wife with a fatherless child
But!!! I was quicker on the trigger, he's dead and I'm still alive
There's no glorification in the things I have done, no poking my chest out with pride
I had to do it, it had to be done or I was the one who would have died
Can we still squander the youth of our lands in a fight not even our own
Why must we still kneel to the political will?! Why can't we have minds of our own
I'm not proud, don't boast about the things that I've done but I'm nstill alive in the place I call home...
Feb 2014 · 365
IT COMES TO ALL OF US
Joe Cole Feb 2014
I woke up this morning feeling quite cold,
it's time to accept that I'm getting old

The hair on my head has turned white and grey,
I look in the mirror.....there's less there each day

No more the spring in my step I had as a youth
muscles now stiff, no longer loose

I look at the stairs, now a mountain to climb,
at least I'm retired, can now take my time

A walk with my dog in the air clean and fresh,
but 200 yards later and I'm gasping for breath

Age comes to us all with the passing of time
but I can look back and enjoy the life that was mine
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Joe Cole Feb 2014
Though you be many miles away we'll never be apart
I just reach out across time and space and feel the beating of your heart
Joe Cole Feb 2014
I cast my mind back to my formative years
the simple life of a child, no real dangers or fears

No play stations or TV we made our own fun
Our playgrounds the fields and the forests under the sun

I often think back to those halcyon days
When we had unwritten rules about the way that we played

Eleven years old and wasps in a cloud
fourty eight stings later and boy did I howl

Now aged fourteen and a change for the best
Two years of training as a professional chef

At sixteen years old and a big change had begun
because I decided to make the army my home

Two brothers before me had taken up arms
and if needed would fight to keep our country from harm

Nineteen and still innocent in a strange foreign land
a place of death and destruction,  sharp rocks,  burning sand

I still have the dreams about what I did, things I saw
I guess such things happen when teenagers go to war

Twenty two and another change in my life
because I'm no longer single,  I now have a wife

On valentines day in 74
the midwife delivered a son to my door

A miracle of nature this beautiful boy
the first time I held him my heart filled with joy

And so long years passed, the good and the bad
at fourty from the army I parted, neither happy nor sad

I had travelled to lands I would never have seen
if I hadn't chosen to wear khaki and green

So at forty I made another life change
and decided to enter the security game

Several years later I decided to teach
to pass on the knowledge that others did seek

Well now approaching my sixty seventh year
its time to embark on another career

It's time to relax and grow gracefully old
a time to take up my pen so my story gets told
Decoded to post this here, I havent started a part 7 collection yet
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