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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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Wednesday 26 July 2023

Re-reading poems ...


Re-reading poems by people I once knew 

and loved – how sad / how sweet.


Where are they now, those friends – 

those from whom life parted me so long ago?


Not everyone got lost along the way – 

but we are all ageing.


If I am in my end times, still let me savour

those memories, those good words!




















My treasured 41-year-old copy of the first edition. Intense editing and proof-reading for a new edition makes me appreciate all over again what bloody marvellous poems are in this book!


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