Home

All that glitters ...

Posted by Silver Spun Sand on April 6, 2009 - 20:03
from the ABC set Silver Spun Sand Poems

Not her brush
not her comb
with their trace
of ash-blonde hair.
Not the vase
she’d fill with roses
from her garden
standing empty
on my window-sill.
Not the picture she drew –
off work with the flu
or the wonky clay-pot
she made in pottery
at evening school.
Not her note
telling me,
‘Au revoir’, that
she’d loved me because
not in spite of. Nor
the lump in my throat –
the tin in my cupboard
I keep digestive biscuits in
with its faded,
hand-written sticker,
‘June, 1985 – ‘Home-made
gingerbread, baked
in Rachel’s kitchen’.
Not the yellowed cutting
from the local rag –
a photo of her
as Festival Queen.
Or the cross
she always wore –
twenty two carat
I bought her
for her twenty-first.
The metro-ticket
from a snatched
weekend in Paris,
marking the pages
in a book
she never finished.
That’s what I call
pure gold.

Discuss this piece in the abctales forum


Comments

Dynamaso | April 7, 2009 - 06:10

This is 'pure gold' to read. Simply beautiful...

Silver Spun Sand | April 7, 2009 - 06:50

Thanks, Dynamaso. Glad you enjoyed it:-)

Tina

MistakenMagic | April 7, 2009 - 10:41

This is gorgeous Tina! It has a beautiful rhythm to it and the subtle rhymes work really well. Just loved;

'The metro-ticket
from a snatched
weekend in Paris,
marking the pages
in a book
she never finished.'

Brilliant, beautiful poem.

Magic xxx

Silver Spun Sand | April 7, 2009 - 11:10

Thank you, Magic:-) For many reasons, this is a very 'special' poem.

Tina xxx

Nathan Bednarek | April 7, 2009 - 21:38

For a special someone I'm sure.

Another beautiful piece, dear Tina. It flows so gently, so peacefully. It could be because of the structure, but we both know there is so much more to it ;-)

The love expressed in this poem is what I call 'pure gold'.

xox

Silver Spun Sand | April 7, 2009 - 22:24

You are dead right ... on every count, Nathan. Thank you.

Tina x

threeleafshamrock | April 12, 2009 - 12:33

Simply lovely, strong sentiment rolled up in the little memories that mean so much.

ChrisXX

Silver Spun Sand | April 21, 2009 - 17:39

Sorry, Chris. I missed this one. Thank you so much for reading and for what you said. You are right, of course.

Tina xxx