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    Magic of Life
    Magic of Life
    Magic of Life
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    Magic of Life

    By Jennifer Christie Temple

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    Ever wondered if life and the human experience of it might be more magical than most people ever imagine? This is poetry for those who never lost their sense of childish wonder.
    A collection of poems that explore the nature of reality and man’s place within it, plus a few designed just to raise a giggle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJennifer Christie Temple
    Release dateFeb 5, 2015
    ISBN9781311468246
    Magic of Life
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    Jennifer Christie Temple

    Jennifer Christie Temple grew up in rural Hertfordshire in the 1950’s. The daughter of a traditional woodcutter and forester, her childhood days were spend in woodlands, meadows and country lanes and she learned to love and respect nature and all life.Trained in biology, Jennifer found her work in science unfulfilling and soon turned her attention to writing. She became a successful freelance writer, working for magazines and newspapers across the UK and Ireland. For several years, she wrote a humorous column about city life for The Daily News in Birmingham, where she lived for 25 years.Moving to a village on the border between England and Wales, she now lives in retirement with her husband and a small group of chickens and devotes her time to walking the surrounding hills, her grandchildren and writing poetry.

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      Book preview

      Magic of Life - Jennifer Christie Temple

      I am more.

      More than this body

      anchored to the floor.

      Sometimes, I soar.

      I ask ‘Why?’

      just open my mind

      and though I don’t try,

      sometimes, I fly.

      I find it strange and comforting

      to find answers waiting there.

      As though expecting my asking,

      solutions just seem to appear.

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      Young Love

      Young love, so delicate, so fine, entwines and binds

      with twists of mist that curl like twine

      around a girl and boy.

      Ensnare and tear at hearts and mind,

      until the only thought is feel,

      the only moment, now.

      Our middle years try to forget, deny

      but yet it’s there, pushed back in mind

      and not for newer loves to find.

      While life is full and partners pull

      the mind and heart to present day,

      the first love hides away.

      Young love devours the dreaming hours

      of old men, as they wait to die

      in ivory towers of lonely rooms.

      Dependent on their inner eye,

      they sip and slip, with sweet regret,

      to thoughts of lips that linger yet.

      Soft memories dance, entrance and pull

      to thoughts of sweet young bosoms full

      of life and love and clinging need

      for chance to shed the urgent greed

      of bodies sighing to contain

      hot feelings playing life’s refrain.

      The old man, with his outward calm

      and even breath and dust-dry palms,

      belies the storm of lusty thought

      that holds him caught, like headlamps bright

      can trap a rabbit in the night.

      And who would grudge this sad

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