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Reflections while travelling

Can Bill Boyle remember how a poem goes?

William Boyle by William Boyle
20-02-2022 10:21 - Updated on 10-10-2022 16:44
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Just some
New poems
That I wrote
For you
I used to be quite
Good at it
When I was younger
But somehow
I lost the knack-
Or the knack lost me -
It comes and goes
Now it’s time
To start again
I hope I can
Remember how
A poem goes?
After the Ambulance was over (Part 2)
It was over 42 years today
Started after Sgt Pepper
Taught the band to play
Then it all stopped
Just like that.
Looking through the picture window
Of the Dushanbe Hilton
Sane as all the others
Name a country
Been in most of them
Time to stop
Just like that…
Before the darkness takes over.
Seeing someone
You know so well
Known so long
Look so frail
Look so weak
Frightens you
Or it would have before
But not now.
I know it’s only
A matter of time
And we’ll be looking
At each other like that
And be holding
Each other tight
Wanting that much longer
Just a bit longer
Just so much longer
Before we
Look so frail
Look so weak
Before we go forever.Need you with me
Always
Because without you
There is no me.
To know you
Is to
Love you
Is to
Know you
Is to
You know
Don’t you
By now?
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William Boyle

Professor Boyle has had a 45 year career in transforming sustainable education for stakeholders across the range of national and international. Initially as a classroom teacher, school leader and Local Authority Adviser; then, since 1989, as the Director of an internationally reputed Centre for Formative Assessment Studies and technical Director/Senior Adviser on system development projects for the leading global education development agencies.

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