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Jojo Oldham
Poems
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Jojo Oldham
Poems
Bits and bobs
Blog
Poems
Bits and bobs
Blog

Poems

It’s extraordinary really How we all carry on When our hearts are breaking Our lives are crumbling When so much is going wrong But still we keep on going Leave our beds, go to work, make small talk We find pockets of joy And laugh with the tears Be View fullsize
When my world shrank So did my wants And all the things I’d hoped we’d do Got crumpled up And put to one side Until later Or never Who knows And what was left was smaller All the little things in between Glances Touches Ways of saying things Th View fullsize
I saw some flowers today And straight away I thought of you And then I felt sad Not to say "Lovely Howers!" And hear you say 'Lovely flowers! Back too But then I felt a little less sad Because the reason I thought of you Was that we've loved so ma View fullsize
Hash browns in the freezer The flash of a dark blue coat A cross-body bag, a Greggs sausage roll Eurythmics on the radio A shirt I would have bought you A perfectly ripe nectarine The shetland theme ture, a gig you would have loved Tin foil over a ha View fullsize
I love you. I whisper softly into your cheek As you sleep Grateful for another day Hopeful that tomorrow Brings you back exactly as you are But me better So I can try again To soak up your magic I LOVE YOU. I whisper hard into your head Willing the View fullsize
It’s extraordinary really How we all carry on When our hearts are breaking Our lives are crumbling When so much is going wrong But still we keep on going Leave our beds, go to work, make small talk We find pockets of joy And laugh with the tears Be
When my world shrank So did my wants And all the things I’d hoped we’d do Got crumpled up And put to one side Until later Or never Who knows And what was left was smaller All the little things in between Glances Touches Ways of saying things Th
I saw some flowers today And straight away I thought of you And then I felt sad Not to say "Lovely Howers!" And hear you say 'Lovely flowers! Back too But then I felt a little less sad Because the reason I thought of you Was that we've loved so ma
Hash browns in the freezer The flash of a dark blue coat A cross-body bag, a Greggs sausage roll Eurythmics on the radio A shirt I would have bought you A perfectly ripe nectarine The shetland theme ture, a gig you would have loved Tin foil over a ha
I love you. I whisper softly into your cheek As you sleep Grateful for another day Hopeful that tomorrow Brings you back exactly as you are But me better So I can try again To soak up your magic I LOVE YOU. I whisper hard into your head Willing the

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