Hazel Connelly Poems

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11.
After Christmas

The weeks after Christmas
I searched through the house
for something to fit me
But couldn't find a blouse.
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12.
Ella's Do

It was a grand do at Ella's
The champagne flowed free
Ladies only, no Fellas
Except Joe you see.
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13.
Hippy

I was a of a hippy for a while
With chants of make love not war
A flower child wanting to be free
And didn't like the law.
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14.
Halloween Evening

The moon was lost behind a cloud
When something weird went by
I tried to see what it was
But it flew so fast and high.
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15.
Bungee Jump

Won't get me up there, can't get me to try,
Looking down a ravine, from a mile up in the sky,
What's heady for some, is nothing for another
A bit of bungee jumping, said my big brother.
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16.
Hormones

My jeans zip is popping
My body’s gone all crazy
Everyone is noticing
My memories a bit hazy.
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17.
Compassion

Humanity's ego, to resort to violence
To settle conflicts, makes no sense,
And yet we still have not learned
The art of peace for which we yearned.
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18.
Forgetful

Can you see my keys?
I can't remember where they are
I really need to find them
Or I can't get in the car,
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19.
Granddad

Granddad were a grand chap
He wore a trilby
And a gabardine mac.
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20.
£10 Pommie

From Wigan to Australia I am bound
Emigrating to turn my life around
Twenty years a tradesman I have been
With spells of unemployment in between.
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