Brian Johnston Poems

My friends I’ve had a great idea,
I have to let you in on,
I can’t believe that no one else
Has thought of this before.
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ASKED AND ANSWERED - An Echo Poem

Written by: John Westlake and Brian Johnston
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The silence, the almost endless joyful silence,
That's what I remember most looking back,
Silence and belonging, companionship,
Not in Nature so much as part of it,
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Your passion is permanently etched on my soul,
On all flesh, branding skin north and south.
Even after I have finished brushing my teeth
I can relive your taste in my mouth.
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Your words are raw,
Mine more designed,
Your poems are passionate,
Mine more refined.
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Let me see if I can prognosticate
The important events of your day.
Hmmmm!
I see you lying in bed and slowly waking up,
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Imagine you and I are free to be
And chose to be together,
Embracing life's tumultuous show
Enchanted with the chance to grow.
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I think the sonnet form is almost bare
Of interest in this modern world so fast,
TV commercials keep us in our chair
And all we're taught to value doesn't last.
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Your daughter has created a barrier out of cushions from the couch
In the middle of your living room
Which she and her sleepover friend proceed
To jump over, entreating you to 'judge' the quality of each jump.
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I do not seek your enmity
but think I'm grateful we're not friends
although we were for many years.
Let half the nation say adieu,
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