Colin Ian Jeffery Poems

Son of a tribal chief
Fled with mother as a child
When father killed by rival tribe.
Suffered greatly growing to manhood
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Japanese suicide pilots called the ‘Divine Wind'


Honoured to be chosen
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Shakespeare falsified Richard's memory
Appeasing Tudor royal line with lies
Claiming him unfit king and bloody tyrant
Crown taken on bloody Bosworth Field.
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After supper with his disciples
Jesus went alone to pray
And in the garden spoke to his Father
Lord God Almighty.
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(A prophet is without honour in his own country)
Jesus Christ

Oh, lover of honeycomb boys
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I placed friendship
Upon you
Saw brilliance in your sunrise.
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(Soldier's lament, France, World War One)

Go tell the sergeant major
Private Jones is dead
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Proud Highland stag hears howling hounds
Turns fleeing for his life
With huntsmen spurring on horses
Hunting horn blown at full gallop.
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Gentle giant of the great apes
Close to humans in spirit and nature
Same sympathy with love of family
Mighty vegetarian walking the Congo
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Do not weep me
Grieving over my fall from grace
For he forgave me
And I outpaced the echoes
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