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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 23 November 2023

'What a gorgeous picture ...'

 

‘What a gorgeous picture of you!’

they cry. I can never see it. But

today, I think I understand: I am 

actually 84! I might need to accept that. 

For two years past, deep in my memoir, 

I’ve been 42 again in my head. I try

to look from the outside now. Yes, OK,

this might indeed be a very nice photo 

of an old woman … a happy old woman.














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