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Remembrance Day is coming up. I’m sure anyone whose relations, whether close or distant, died in a World War has memories and questions as I do about my father…

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would the wind bring back
the father who strides the sky
pipe in one hand

does he want to know the son                          
who died ten years ago

the daughter who loves snowdrops

would he want to walk
round the lake with us
watch eagles and chickadees
note Canada geese
on their flight south

understand that I have forgiven
him for going to war
and dying so long ago

 

Sketch by Evelyn Ethel Houghton

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