Poem of the Month by Jock Love
- Posted on 30 Sep 2021
- 04 min read
Jock Love dedicates this poem to Captain Chris Dent of 2 PARA, killed in action below Darwin Hill on May 28th 1982.
From: James Love
Date: 28 September 2021 at 00:20:24 CEST
To: P Keating
Subject:Poem
P,
Footnote :
Before we left our positions on Sussex Mountains.Chris Dent confided in me that his wife had just given birth to a baby girl.
We had travelled south at the end of our winter. Having arrived in the Falklands as theirs was beginning. It just seemed to me at the time, it was…….
Forever Autumn
Jim
Sent from my iPhone
FOREVER AUTUMN
To never savour autumn
Or smell the burning leaves,
Sniff the scent of pollen.
From flowers and the trees
To hear the children’s laughter,
Of innocents at play,
See the red of a sunset
At the finish of your day.
To hold a new-born babe,
As you shelter from the rain
Experience love and tenderness,
Or the heartache and the pain
All these things and more,
Have I briefly been aware,
But too never savour autumn?
Or breathe its smoky airs.
Giajl © Jim Love
Forever Autumn
For Capt. Chris Dent KIA
28th May 1982
Sent from my iPhone
