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Lament

With respect and with thanks for many memories;
H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900-2002)

a piper, lonely, paces a stony path,
lament-worn, joy-worn, strait,
two buckles wide, heather trimmed,
each measured turn facing a different sea,
searching chanters a different sky,
sorrowed, laughtered, wept, welcomed,
crying the dawn to wake and the dusk to sleep.
 
 
John Bailey
Somerset, April 9 2002

 

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