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Poetry Competition 2022-3 Results

Shortlisted in the top 10, John Steele, St Albans u3a

Your Eyes

The heart sees what the mind may not perceive. 

In love we often trust the heart knows best. 

It points to things we've chosen to believe 

And lets the mind take care of all the rest. 

For my part, I will always trust your eyes 

To recognize the truth in plainest sight, 

And trust my own to gaze upon and prize 

No-one but you my object of delight. 

But should clouds come to settle on the mind 

And memory give up its tenancy 

When in the end all common sense is blind 

And words begin to lose their currency. 

If it should seem that love between us dies 

Then let me see it always in your eyes. 

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