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Stephen Williams

Poetry

So Simple?

Simple things for simple lives Simple husbands simple wives Simple children with simple needs Simple food for simple feeds Simple housing with simple rooms Simple cleaning with simple brooms Simple work with simple wage Simple book with simple page Simple letter with simple stamp Simple holidays with simple camp Simple…
Stephen Williams
8th February 2012
Poetry

Over the Top

Whistle blows, we’re under order Just another day, just another slaughter Just another time, we’re over the top The ruling class, they just won’t stop We will stop lots of things Like bullets and mortars With grimmest and grins With stiff upper lip, not quivering chins As we move on…
Stephen Williams
4th February 2012
Poetry

I am….

I am the sky, I am the sea I am the wind, within the tree I am the sand on sunlit beach I am here, but, out of reach I am the very air you breathe I am the comfort blanket weave I am all, that, is all I am…
Stephen Williams
7th January 2012
Poetry

Funny How

It’s funny how you grow together Your lives become intertwined together You’re here together there together Rarely wined and dined together You’re far to intertwined together To gather that together can be rather wide apart Maybe you walk together But do you really, really talk together? Not about the weather…
Stephen Williams
8th December 2011
Poetry

Beauty Girl

Oh, Beauty Girl that hurts inside Who had the love that now has died Who holds the key to other lives Follow heart if heart is wise But heart is wise if head allows The crushing of the wedding vows The crushing of the history made During the time of…
Stephen Williams
2nd December 2011
Poetry

Don’t Look At Me

Don’t look at me from the outside in Look from the inside out From the happy soul that lives within Of that, you should have no doubt The body that has let me down Is now my prison, but, I do not frown The restrictions it has forced on me…
Stephen Williams
29th November 2011
Poetry

Help for Heroes?

Help for heroes, so they say Buy a poppy on poppy day Show the soldier that always wins Despite the fact he has no limbs Clean it up, sanitise Nothing nasty for public eyes Heroes just for joining up? Here’s a ticket out of rut Can you walk? Can you…
Stephen Williams
27th November 2011
Poetry

Shot at Dawn

Take the “Coward” from this place Another boy goes to waste Tie him to a well fixed post I suppose his mother loved him most Recruit a squad from his platoon Home for Christmas, boom, boom, boom Not to wound, aim to kill With his pals just until SHOT AT…
Stephen Williams
26th November 2011
Poetry

My Irish Boy

I will keep you safe I will keep you warm I will guard you from the pending storm But that was then, and this is now I must release you, to battle foul So my boy is let too go A solder now, with many foe An Irish Ranger and…
Stephen Williams
24th November 2011
Poetry

Sorry Guys

It was that second the world stood still I heard a sound, I heard it shrill I felt the thud, I felt the burn I felt the sting, I felt the turn The ground came up and I went down A fighting man about to drown I gasped for air,…
Stephen Williams
20th November 2011