Bio

 

Colin Ian Jeffery is an established English poet and novelist with world-wide reputation; his books can be purchased from Amazon and all good bookshops. He was seven, a choirboy, when he became entranced by poetry after hearing the priest read the twenty-third psalm. The beauty of the words struck his soul like lightning, and his Muse began to sing. He then found poetry was being read on the BBC radio Home Service and would listen in awe and delight to such poets as Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman, and Ted Hughes.

 

Trigger Warning

Time, relentless and hard
Sweeps me swiftly forward
Moving onwards without pause
Each lover soon a memory.

In childhood time seemed paused
Bright summers never ending
Holidays of happiness and adventure
Shared with family and friends long dead.

How can I hold back time
Trapped and precious to my heart?
Slipping rapidly away
Chaining me to loneliness.

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