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Buckden Roundabout
March 2017
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POETRY CORNER
Hello Buckden. Welcome to your very own 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 the Editorial team will try to publish
two or more of the best poems every month. To start us off, Peter Keable has written the poem
'Sometimes' about getting older.
Sometimes everything stops, the sounds are all there
But the mind is bare
Of original thought.
Caught!
In a trap of uncertainty, not feeling right.
Though the short future beckons bright,
The past holds like rock.
Shock!
At that time of life where success has drifted away
And every outing races a day
Toward that graven night.
Tight!
The hold that life grips as the grandchildren fun-run
Around me, jostling with pain old joints shun,
Laughing with life's new rhymes.
Sometimes.