The world of remembrance
A world set apart
A world we first visit with tears
The cost of admission is one broken heart
How painful that world first appears
The world of remembrance
A world of recall
A world full of people who care
With portals of love that are open to all
Built on the memories we share
The world of remembrance
A world full [...]
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The World Of Remembrance
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry, Remembering Mother on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughts on a Funeral by Catherine Turner
Posted in Family Poetry, Poetry, Remembering Mother on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today as I went off to work on the bus
I started to think about Mother and us
Of the way that she’d died and her funeral when
We all went together and stood in the Crem
Then, as I remembered that horrible day
I started imagining what she would say
If she rose from her coffin and hovered above
To look [...]
Remembering Mother – copyright Catherine Ann Turner
Posted in Remembering Mother on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have written poetry from as far back as I can remember. Not the highbrow type that takes a lot of understanding, just simple words forming simple rhymes. Some poets feel that the rhyming word is unimportant and too often contrived but my poetry always rhymes. I enjoy the challenge of trying to get the [...]
I Choose You – by Chris Williams
Posted in Remembering Mother on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were born sisters just us two
You didn’t choose me and I didn’t choose you
I dragged you along wherever I went
I carried you till my knees were bent
Later on in our teens we grew apart
looking for boys to steal our heart
When we found them and married it changed my life
It’s a shock to the system [...]
Grief Is A Secret – copyright Catherine Ann Turner
Posted in Remembering Mother on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No-one really knows it all
Only me and you
And that’s the way it has to stay
A secret shared by two
Too precious to be tossed around
For all the world to hear
Too beautiful to let them see
One solitary tear
But when the secret’s hard to bear
There’s comfort in your call
It’s strange that something so obscene
Feels so good to recall
I [...]
Dust Gatherers – copyright Catherine Ann Turner
Posted in Remembering Mother on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So many things we found inside
The home vacated when she died
Piles of papers, bills and rent
Receipts for every pound she spent
Paper clippings, creased and torn
of uncles dead and babies born
Supplements from magazines
Proclaiming God would save the Queen
A soap star in a daring dress
The wistful smile of dead princess
Little gifts that children gave
Bought with pennies [...]
