72 Miles From The Sea

OH TO FEEL LOVES EXQUISITE ACHE Oh to feel loves exquisite ache To feel that desperate longing Experiencing that naked want Of being wi...

THAT RAINY SUNDAY It’s a rainy Sunday And I’m feeling blue Remembering the past And thinking of you Do you happily look back? Across...

ABIGAIL’S TALE In the comfort of the coffee shop Nestled into an oversized sofa Sits Abigail, homesick and sad As she reads a letter fr...

THE WEEPING WILLOW TREE Like the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, They come from feuding kin And must hide their love From those...

FORGOTTEN? I had forgotten her I had forgotten The way she looked With her bright elfin face And brown soulful eyes I had forgotten ...

BUTTERFLY SUMMER I remember well, when we were young And all those long halcyon days We spent so many joyful hours Just idling our time...

BEFORE LOVE DIED We walked together in the spring When our love was a fresh new thing The cherry trees were in blossom And we thought l...

LOVE LETTERS IN THE LIBRARY I entered the musty library, Of the once great house With its leather upholstered chairs And oak paneled wa...

LOVE ARRIVED LIKE A TEMPEST Love arrived like a tempest Sweeping him off his feet Leaving him breathless And trembling in its wake But...

IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN # 1 If I had only known It would be the last time I'd see you fall asleep I would have stayed A little longer...

THE SMILE THAT GRACED The smile that graced Her sweet face Was aimed at me, And her eyes Gazed deeply into mine, With seemingly bound...

SHOW ME HOW TO CLOSE THE DISTANCE Show me how to close the distance Betwixt me and your heart What words remain unspoken? Show me what ...

I WISH I’D KNOWN I wish I’d known, As the door slammed shut Behind you That it would be the last time As I would have said I love y...

We didn’t think that life Could get any better We were young Happy and content Kicking footballs Building carts Climbing trees Fishing in th...

How I look back with regret At that summer long ago A sultry sensual summer A time of sexual awakening When I was on the threshold, The blos...

I have an old photograph It was taken at Wimbledon, Long, long ago It was of dear sweet Yvonne And she was smiling at me From an old discolo...

I have always been rather partial To a skinny brunette That’s always been my ideal It stems from when I was a lad of 14 And the time I saw A...

I found the box in the attic A flat, rigid white box The sort that special greetings card came in It was immediately familiar Reminding me o...

I was fourteen when I met her It was the school holidays And time could hang heavily As you tried to fill the days But that was before Maria...