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Having been immersed in memoir writing for many months, I decided to write a small poem every day for a year to keep my poetic hand in. I've posted them to Instagram and facebook as written – where, to my amazement, people love them – but on this blog they are sometimes subject to later rewriting.
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Saturday 20 May 2023

Suddenly one runs out of time ...

Suddenly one runs out of time –

or at any rate the large, leisurely 

stretching of it ahead. Suddenly

it becomes truncated, inevitably,

no matter how long it may still 

have to run. All those ideas you had, 

for playing with different poetic forms 

or mining gems from your old journals,

they are all blowing away on the wind.

I decide, most days, just to do living.

 

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