52 Poems About People

The titles and a one line description of some of the poems are shown below.
They appear in alphabetical order of title to make them easier to find.
All the poems are about people even if one seems to be about a bed sheet
The characters range in age from a 7 year old remembering when he was three to an old guy struggling with a jigsaw puzzle and reviewing his life. Some are philosophical but in a folksy rather than academic way.
Je ne Suis pas Charlie was written against the tirade of hatred that followed the Paris killings and was originally simply called Respect. Many are sentimental, some just written to make you laugh, others to make you think again by considering a new perspective.

THE POEMS
Always Remember
-A reminder not to lose ourselves in life
A Mind Disturbed
-Three short phases of a worrying life
An Intimate Relationship
-Re-establishing links with a son
A Rosy Glow Returns
-Memories of a grandfather
Beer-on-the-Jetty Philosophy
-A Caribbean father’s reflections on life
Bordering
-A long life reviewed as a jigsaw is completed
Breaking Through
-A plea for a return to a complex love
Community Servant
-A drug dealer to kids defends his role
Dialogue with a Teenager
-A mother and daughter discuss midnight
Drought
-A brief dystopian view of the future
Easter
-A secular family’s light-hearted holiday story
Empty Space
-A brief chilling scene
First Experience of Warmth
-A memory of a childhood event
First Toy, First Love, First Loss
-A sad account of childhood loss
Getting Spliced
-A short formal poem about the act of marriage
Graham Greene
-A tribute to a favourite author
Hands
-Images that tumble into a story
Hostess
-Four lines of character assassination
Je ne Suis pas Charlie
-A response to the outcry about the cartoonist
Lament
-About not liking the loss of English
Lifelong Love
-A tribute to parenting
Lives Change
-A child recalls a day at the zoo
Lost at Sea
-A boy on a beach with his dad
Lucky Billy Taylor
-A Lancashire monologue
Massaging Expectatio