The Slow Bereavement of Edward Hughes

Edward Hughes had an addition
Rather he was added to
Grace Elizabeth Sarah Fields
At the age of 22

They saw the world then came to rest
In a garden with bright views
In a gentle twilight
Edward and Grace Hughes

Today he sat alone at table
Grace was absent from his side
He searched for words but was not able
To talk of Grace, swept by the tide

Swept by the tide of time and pain
Cut adrift from peace and love
Drifting near then far again
Until the time he's fearful of

The time when Edward Hughes will be
Alone as once before
When Grace Elizabeth Sarah Fields
Will be there no more

He knows this time must come at last
We all know it too
Yet none of us can bear the thought
The parting of these two

Down the Pub

Don't belch on your beloved
Don't over-fill your paunch
With nuts and crisps and lager
Work very hard to staunch
Inebriated promises
Of everlasting love
She's heard it all before my friend
So let me tell you bruv
She had your number hours ago
Knew what you was about
You had your third pint on the go
When she knew you was a lout

The Village in the Tree #3 - The Village in the Sky

The Village in the Sky?

Well might the gentle reader cry

Protesting - yet we don't forsake

More correctly, we have not forsook

The title writ upon the spine

And the cover of the book

Our tale is still arboreal

Confusion is ephemeral

Our persistent theme will be

The Village in the Tree

The perspective of observers

Is differentiated

Compared to that of those within

The realm investigated

Then we are not surprised

That the Village in the Tree

Is known by those that live therein

Quite contrarily

As the Village in the Sky

"Point made and noted

Please pass on

To a point of relevancy"

Yet gentle reader we must dwell

Awhile upon this piquancy

For in this matter by and by

The fate of the Village in the Sky

Shall be seen to have been chosen

Inadvertently

By the naive determination

Of the villagers not to be

The Village in the Tree

Let me explain …