Posts Tagged ‘Cecilia Brabin’
Spring cleaning
I cannot find fine words to say to tell you what I did today I didn’t wash and I didn’t clean but breathed with the earth, as if in a dream. I had to do shopping but I did not go Instead I sat here quietly and watched the garden grow, heard the lulling hum…
Read MoreLove Unrequited
Love Unrequited I still love you o’ beloved Tho’ time has raced on by and much has changed for each of us. I still love you. I still love you o’ beloved Tho’ our converged paths have separated over time and tide. I still love you. You were my most beloved and still…
Read MoreKids
Questions on the Text. Why do you think this poem says more about the parents than the children? Does it have a message about the parent-child relationship? How does the balance of subject matter in the verses help us to appreciate this message? Put yourself in the child’s position, choose three words to describe how…
Read MoreThe Garden
a gentle, descriptive poem
Read MoreBreaking free!
Let’s put our house on the market Lets go and live by the sea We need more time for us this city is choking me You work too many hours On our time there are too many demands We don’t have a life beyond working So let’s make some other plans The country…
Read MorePhotograph
PHOTOGRAPH Seeing you in the picture by candlelightYou seem real.Just like that day, recorded forever on memory and film A smile as real as ever, brought to life in the softness of a candle flame. I smile. Remembering. Still loving…….. Douse the flame, it is too much. Key Home
Read MoreTeen sons
Teen sons "I’m a mosher" he grunts "Is that why you don’t wash your hair? It looks glorious when it’s clean." "Huh", he says, "what do I care?" His brother is under the duvet we won’t see or hear from him ’til noon. There’s no point in asking when he’ll rise he turns over and…
Read MorePastures new
A child’s perspective of the first day at school. "So, what did you learn today dear?" "That Jimmy Cousins is fat, and Luke can do ‘armpit farts’ and Melinda has a new cat". "But what did you learn in lessons dear?" "That that plus that is a sum and Jake eats yellow crayons…
Read MoreSomething peculiar
Something Peculiar Something peculiar has happened to my son. I cannot exactly say what, or why, or even how….but it is peculiar. One day we were two ordinary people, mother and son, just going about our normal lives. We would have tea together, chat about his school day and my working day, plan what we…
Read MoreImagination
Check out the Archive I see a unicorn rearing up high Jo sees a train steaming by Paul sees a castle with a flag on the tower I see a rabbit, Jo sees a flower I see a dragon now spewing fire Jo…
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