Poem -

CURLEW 1955

The plaintive cry of the curlew

is sadly, heard no more

on the bleak and windswept moorland

I wandered as a child long ago.

But now, as I walk the heathered upland

in my mind’s ear I hear it calling,

like a ghostly spirit whistling

on the wind of sixty, lost forever years.

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