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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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