Tuesday 5 January 2010

today: the garden


I’m filled with roses
remember
hydrangea
lilac fuchsia
snowdrop bluebells
reawaken
a memory of flowers
water flows around
my brother
I look up to
a stork in the garden
dove water round

remember good times, not the weeding
don’t forget
granddaughter swimming, memories
jigsaw
such good fun in the war
shrapnel
all them bits that were fired up
red hot in a can take it back in a biscuit tin
10 shilling for the lot
Strines Road Marple
walking down
to school
never been back you’ve got to
look forwards
always
to the shelter underground rocks
school from Stockport Cheadle
our bus fare for food
back to the family sons and a daughter
today:
I’m filled with the feeling
being upside down
flowers
dove
water
flows
remember
a number of various
I can remember it all
saying it that’s a different thing.

Victor Richardson, Joyce Knibs, Tom Dolan, Victor Richardson, Dorothy
(+ William Carlos Williams – from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower)
November 2009


This poem is part of the Patience project, for more information please visit http://patience-project.blogspot.com/

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