A Taste of the Work
Selected Poems
With All Respect to Training and Test Dept
From Volume 1 – Lament and Joy · 1943
In training in the training school,
You will find a golden rule:
That trainees mustn't work too fast –
They want the piles of work to last!
Relays, switches, wiring and cables,
Tons of such work piled on tables,
Scores of trainees knocking about –
Not one is thinking of work all out.
– Extract
A Special Someone
From Volume 1 – Lament and Joy
I love You, My Darling – You I adore.
In Love will I be with You evermore.
No word shall I speak, or deed shall I do
Which would, My Darling, cause pain unto You.
Charmingly sweet, so adorable too –
Darling, my Dearest, I really Love You!
Where the Money Goes
From Volume 1 – Lament and Joy
When you think – aren't we funny –
Work like mad, earning money;
When we get it – poof! – it goes,
Melts away like winter snows.
Shopping for our needy foods
And other essential daily goods –
Tins of beans, meats and soup,
Fish in oil, and canned fruit.
– Extract
To My Loved One – Departed
From Volume 1 – Lament and Joy · In memory of Doris
You were my Life, You were my Love,
But God did call You, from above,
Oh Why! Oh Why! my Love did leave,
Me so alone – Her – me to grieve.
I feel Thy Presence, sometimes near –
Those loving moments, to me so dear.
A Gem so Precious, You were to me –
I cherish the memories, of Darling Thee.
– Extract