Tag: home

• prodigal

  come home
  to where you are needed
  we have left your old chair
  at the water’s edge
  still waiting

  remember again the place of your making
  long since forgotten

  your father’s face
  remember your home

  your mother’s terrace
  where you sat alone

  watching for tears on a weeping fig
  that she left in a pot by the door

  a place at the table
  kept down the years

  unbroken

  all has been left
  wide open

  16/11/2020

  chair, family, Father, home, key, mother, shore, weeping fig

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• a clear sky

  you taught me a lot
  and lit a fire in the snow

  under the dovecote
  a rook comes and goes

  from a clear sky

  and you sent me a photo
  of a white candlestick

  I keep on my wall
  it reminds me often

  of home

  19/12/2017

  candlestick, dovecote, fire, home, rook, sky, snow

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