In loving memory of Mum
Memories
Memories are the fabric of your life,
Woven in your mind.
What you forget might never have been;
Never been
Felt,
Never been
Seen.
You have to remember yesterday,
To know who you are today.
(Pam Hatcher, 2018)
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Mum would have loved this, Simon xxx
Claire
27th December 2020
...or even 'liked it'
Simon
27th December 2020
Of all the Hatcher aunts and uncles, Pam was always the most interested in my poetry. This is from my latest book, only just out. I hope she might have licked it:
Grit
There is a tale of an old man,
a Yogi or a Chinese master,
who walked all his life with a grit
in his sandal. ‘Love the grit’, he said.
‘The soreness in the sole of your foot,
in the soft place in front of your heel,
reminds you of troubles you have
come against and borne successfully.
Love the grit, because you know
it’s only there to test you’.
In one continuation to this tale;
an acolyte took the grit from her sandal
and replied, ‘My lack of grit
reminds me the solution to a problem
is often simpler than it may appear.
I can go further without it’.
Simon
27th December 2020