TRIP TO ELTHAM PALACE POEM 22

The tragedy of parting is assuaged by the promise of meeting again. Today I travel to see Stonehenge, the Druid stones in Salisbury, another site hosted by English Heritage. So I say adieu! I endeavour to put up my post anyway, so we shall see.

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“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Arms

In your arms I see Paradise,

A flock of birds winging in a current,

Rise to the heavens and lofty see all.

A touch makes me glad,

And there is a peace I have not found

In other circumstance or ritual.

To be apart therefore takes me from

My Reverie and the comparison is painful,

The comfort lost and surety no longer found.

So to be with you is heaven but too be without you

Is a grey existence till next we meet,

For with you I am complete.

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine