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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… RETURN would the wind bring back the father who strides the … Continue reading
Posted in memory, poem, Remembrance Day
Tagged birds, children, memories, poem, relationships, war
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On White Dunes
Remembrance Day, November 11th, is fast approaching. I’ve been reading my father’s poetry, and thinking of him. He died in Normandy, June 1944. His poems reveal how soldiers carry homes, families, their past, close to their hearts … ON WHITE … Continue reading
An Ordinary Man
Remembrance Day is coming up, and I wonder about my father, who died in Normandy, June 1944: what kind of man he would have been if he had survived the war? Was he changed by his experiences of the desert, … Continue reading
Posted in peace, people, poem, Remembrance Day, war
Tagged birds, children, everyday, people, poem, poetry, relationships, Remembrance Day, war
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The Spinet
New! ‘A BEDROOM OF SEARCHLIGHTS‘: poetry, being launched on May 26 at the Mill Bay Library as part of the ‘Author Appreciation Night’. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled … Continue reading
Sandbox
Today we remember those who have died in war, and we long for a time when there is peace in our hearts, in our hands, in our world … Remembrance Day … SANDBOX let there be a time when darkness … Continue reading
Incomplete
We’re in the throes of writing cards and letters to loved ones far and near, connecting in thought and hope for them all. And then, I watch the news, read the paper, and am distressed by the contrast with the … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, gifts, homelessness, knitting, poem
Tagged Christmas, food, gifts, holiday, homelessness, poem, poverty, trees, war
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Without War
Next Tuesday is Remembrance Day. We remember those who died in war, those left behind, those scarred by war. And we long for a time when there is no more fighting … A A WITHOUT WAR I long for a … Continue reading
Posted in beach, peace, poem, Remembrance Day, war
Tagged beach, children, peace, poem, Remembrance Day, sand, war
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Studio Portrait 1942
Remembrance Day is over for this year. But the fear born in wartime lives on for those who lived it. I’ve noticed an increasing number of people writing about their childhood experiences of war. Don’t forget the children …. A … Continue reading
Posted in children, imagination, poetry, Remembrance Day, war, World War II
Tagged children, imagination, photo, poetry, war, World War II
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A Book Called “Poems”
November was the ninth month of the year in the Roman calendar, which is where it gets its name from: the Latin word novem or nine. Then, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582 it got shifted to being … Continue reading
Posted in El Alamein, poetry, Remembrance Day, war, World War II
Tagged book, memory, poetry, war, World War II
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October 1942
The battle of El Alamein was one of the major turning points in WWII. Here’s my take on it, and how my father turned to poetry to deal with war. OCTOBER 1942 El Alamein – the place where poetry became … Continue reading
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Tagged battle, poetry, war, World War II
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