Monday, February 9, 2009

GUARDIAN POSTER POEM - Me breaking the ice...

I wrote this really quickly because I wanted to post a poem to get started before they changed the subject again, but I know I could have done it a lot more justice if I'd had some time... I just wanted to break the ice and do this for the first time...

Growing old for her:

I watched her pass, she died so young
And I promised her I'd carry on
I'd live my life for both our sakes
So she would never truly be gone.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm growing old
In the mostpart just for her not me
It's getting harder day by day
To fight the grasp of frailty.

Behind closed eyes I see her still
In vivid colour and awkward peace
Forever framed in time and place
But tranquil in her sweet release.

Her serenity engulfs me too
And I find the strength to pursue my task
Of growing old as I think she'd want
But "How am I doing?" I long to ask.

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8 comments:

  1. Jesus...that's one hell of a lot of pink. I have to go and bathe my eyes with aloe vera gel now...

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  2. Oh good, I was worried I hadn't used enough pink! :-)

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  3. Mish - it's less pink now. .. any better? also removed my self-depreciating intro, no-one likes the passive-aggressive blogger

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  4. It is? I can't tell. Mind you, aside from organic pink--the inside of my wife's mouth and..erm...and Pongo's (our cat's) mouth and Honey's (our dog's) mouth, the undersides of my children's feet, sea-shell interiors, certain flowers, flamingoes etc.--I really, really dislike pink.

    It's just too camp/lttle girl's bedroom/Jayne Mansfield's home furnishings for me. Sorry

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  5. Well the writing isn't pink any more, but that's probably little relief from the dayglow onslaught...

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  6. Thanks for the visit and the comment. I simply HAD to return the visit because your blog name is so clever.

    I see you wrote this quickly - yes, most often the quick writing can be the best writing because it has ``flowed'' so rapidly from brain to paper.

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  7. Ah - thanks David - I'm glad you came to see me because I forgot where I'd been yesterday! The name of my blog reflects the fact that I rather felt like I wasn't really on here to do anything earth-shattering, just small things in a small way.

    It's good to get different perspectives on writing, as with this one I did it quickly and with the more recent one above I pondered it greatly and in some ways probably got a bit bogged down in the rhyming.

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  8. Even I got bored of the pink... Maybe this pleasant shade of skyblue will be better?

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