Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page
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It was the Jazz Weekend at the end of October, on a stormy night in Cork, a few years ago I was wandering around taking in the festivities and here's what happened!
Hello Again Hello!
The rain shot leaves fast swim the autumn gale
And rise again at the dark corners where
The streetlights make the revellers look pale
It's jazz weekend in Cork, the buzz is there.
While running from the elements I go
And shelter in a city centre bar,
The music's wild the night is young and so
I filter through the crowd and there you are.
Hello again, Hello, - my god it's you
Old feelings rise and stab my memory.
The might have been's! Oh yes I know, I know
The might have been's were never meant to be.
But there are golden sunsets in your eyes,
Lost years that I must not intrude upon,
We share some words and I am hypnotised,
So much to say, then suddenly your gone.
I'm just an old grey cowboy with a pen,
Still riding down lost canyons of my mind,
Where old ghosts come to haunt me now and then,
God bless the yesterdays we left behind.
© Ronnie McGinn
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