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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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Thursday 26 October 2023

Finally I remember …

Finally I remember 

to light a white candle, 

let it burn all the way down, 

and speak my favourite 

Prayer for the Dead.


I take the photo of his 

keen-eyed, smiling face 

out of my healing grid.

He is in a new realm now,

needing no earthly healing.


When I come to do my usual 

morning ritual, I add a request, 

to Bill, to be there in welcome: 

the friendly face of one 

he called ‘always generous.’



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