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Pages tagged "Poetry"


Losing Mum

Posted on Blog · April 07, 2015 5:38 PM

Ferry-to-LarneExactly a year ago today at 3.15pm, I was on the Ferry to Larne, going home to visit my sick mother, when I received a call to say that she had passed away.

How to tell the children, who looked at me knowing the news was not good?

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Seeing Dad

Posted on Blog · August 27, 2012 10:45 AM

Sometimes I unexpectedly see

My long-dead Father

When I am fiddling.

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'And he being dead, yet speaketh.' A Father's Day Piece.

Posted on Blog · June 14, 2012 10:48 AM

Each time I close,

Each time I open

The curtains,

I see your picture

On top of the piano.

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Visiting Dad.

Posted on Blog · May 09, 2012 10:51 AM

Bright sun dances off

The Black marble

And the shallow valleys

Of the gold engraving.

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Father & Son. Easter Piece.

Posted on Blog · April 05, 2012 10:56 AM

He looks

With round face and clear

Dark eyes,

Smiling with a gummy grin.

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My Father's Bicycle

Posted on Blog · October 27, 2011 9:06 AM

Against the back fence

In the pouring rain

My Father’s bike.

The ‘Raleigh All-Steel’

Two flat tyres.

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Remembering Dad.

Posted on Blog · September 07, 2011 9:17 AM

Raymond Carver – the American short story writer and poet published a book in 1985 called “Fires”. It is a great collection of essays and poems. Included in the book is a wonderful and moving essay called, “My Father’s Life” and a poem entitled, “Photograph Of My Father In His Twenty Second Year.” He says, “The poem was a way of trying to connect with him” long after he had died.

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