Words I Never Wrote And Other Poems
1960 - 2008
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Prayer When I close my eyes You are there. When I wake, I call on you. All the old fears flow within the vortex of the years Circling the soul with the terrors of my youth. When I dream, you are there, When I sleep, I see only you All the nightmares Cascade upon the peace you gave Drowning memories with the realities of age. When I wake I lose the thread between reality and dreams holding fast to memories of fantasies and phantoms of tomorrow. Dispelled by age, ‘portuned by youth egregious memories churn, vomit of my life: mortality burlap round my roots ashes of my dreams drought of my soul – when I close my eyes You are there You are in all I am: I am in all you do – I see you when I dream behind the lids of blind eyes within the tied tongues of yesterday and the fetters of the lame. I see you when I wake beneath the mirrored waters of the tarn under the heartbeat wings of crows within the eyes of storms and the swollen bellies of the clouds. You are the desert grasses and the river rocks, Lightning fires and blackened trees, Starlight and the mountain breeze – When I close my soul You are there – and we are one. Copyright September 2003
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This book of poetry spans forty plus years of the author’s lifetime and presents a number of different subjects from alternative points of view. Subjects range from Christ’s Via Dolorosa and death, to spawning salmon, to domestic dispute, to love poems. Intended as a book to sample from time to time, not as a one-time read.
About the Author
Born and educated in England, C. John Boyle worked variously as a costing clerk for a division of Rolls Royce, as window dresser and salesman for a large retail home furnishing chain store, and finally as an educator, before emigrating to Canada in the late sixties. In Canada he continued to teach and completed his Undergraduate degree at UBC and, subsequently, his Master’s degree at the University of Victoria. With three children and four grandchildren, he now enjoys his writing, renovating and retirement in the Okanagan Valley of BC with his wife and dog.