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Buckden Roundabout
April 2017
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POETRY CORNER
Welcome once again to Poetry Corner. The Roundabout is looking for submissions of poems of no more than 30 lines from all
and every resident of Buckden. We would especially like the school children to participate. So get writing those masterpieces
and send them to the Editor. This month, Ken Bushell has written the poem 'Looking at Life’.
When a man reaches Eighty
The end is in sight
Either he’s bald
Or his hair has turned white
He’s off to bed early
And turns off the light
Knowing he’ll visit the bathroom
Many times in the night
Taking a nap happens often each day
Doing odd jobs, stems off final decay
He contacts his kids and his grandchildren too
Urging them to succeed at what he failed to do
Where did happiness go ?
He reflects on his life
He had more than his share but
He misses his wife
In the local newspaper he scans every week
The obituary columns, he is trying to seek
If his name is among them. If it’s not he’s OK
And ready to enjoy living the rest of the day