Remembering

Season 2, #4: Visits for remembering. For making memories new.

The room is pitched on a shaft of light,
Beating on the bare boards,
And skewering the air
About which they sit and breathe;
Five souls in a room.

Quietly filling the space between meals,
With news, and remembering, 
And commenting, and agreeing.
Quietly, as only family can do.

Outside; clumps of pollen, 
Float on the wind toward the motorway.
Catching on the grass, 
And the Dublin Bay Roses
- “They must be cutting in the fields.”

Another cup of tea,
Another from the pot,
Skinned with all the brews past; 
Every single one of them. 

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Visits for remembering.
For making memories new.
For loving - as much as possible -
Every new thing that can be loved.

Five souls in a room,
Counting the distance made,
Together or apart; 
Weaved in the wind, 

Between them all.
Smiling and loving together.
Waiting out the days.
Remembering.

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Read more from Season 2…

This is the second season of Notes and Noises. If you liked this (or didn’t) why not take a quick look at some of the other posts in the series:

Apple Tree

Introduction

Digging Holes

Remembering

On Introversion

Ctrl + Alt + Del

The Price You Pay

Realising

Distant Conversations

Knowing

All at Once

Being There

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