Poem: The Turn of the Year
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David Lloyd
Just when you think
A day has ended
Light will provide
An encore before dusk
A tear in time
Transports you to a place
Where a river shimmers
As an evening sky settles
Somewhere a wayward tune
Escapes a sash window
Evoking memories
Of reverie or loss
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Frost on the breath
Recalls an unforgiving winter
When silence fell
As snow drifts held you
Memories frozen in ice
Melt as you ramble
Through a valley
Where children played
A rope swing marks time
Near the banks of a canal
A movement in the reeds
Opens time’s portal.
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