I was planning to bring you flowers But they fade and die You no longer see living plants In a garden Or a park So I brought you something more lasting Unusual A purple tinged succulent In a glass cube Transparent You can see the soil The moss and roots And then I saw the […]
Tag: Mum
Haiku for Mum
I am reposting a haiku/senryu as a response to Carpe Diem #915 Melody on the theme of Mother. I wrote it back in the summer after visiting my mother in the care home where she has been living for nearly two years. She has Pick’s disease, a form of dementia. Although you’re fading, Your smile is […]
Thinking about my mum
Reply to Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy, eat your words – your mum posed like Marilyn, but mine looked like her. While your mother posed in a Marilyn stance, mine had the blonde hair and knew how to dance. I inherited Mum’s nature and the blue of her eyes, but all I got from […]
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