Recall

I forgive the tears and hurt,
those years I sought and never found.
For missing clues, and broken glass
in pictures made of butterfly wings

I forgive you for the summer climb,
of black sloe berries sour to taste.
Scratched legs and thorn pricked fingers,
and lemonade in litre bottles.

I forgive the middle drawer,
of packet candies ruining meals.
Cider hopes in wind dropped apples;
and burnished brown, shiny chestnuts.

I forget, and then recall,
confectioner's cream that oozed
and bruised, and gambled coins
on green baize table tops of cards.

I forget the winter storm;
the icy road and falling snow;
the night before the stolen day
I forget, and then recall.

That I forgave you long ago,
the soda siphon bubbled wars
and leather chairs, scratched and scored,
with all the turning of the years.

ŠEMG05



Poetry by Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2007-12-08 at 13:04

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Chris Fernie
Dear E,

I love this poem for I would like to be forgiven by you, you who wears her heart on a sleeve... and then offers that sleeve to someone else to cry on.

You are lovely!

Chris xxxxx
2007-12-08


lastromantichero The PoetBay support member heart!
And this poem too is a masterpiec of lost memories and nostalgia for times passed by to Adult hood and oh how i remember the gingerroot beer my mother made in wine bottles and the ones of Spirit bottles which burst to smitherines as the fermentation increased.

I tell you Al Quaida could not have held a candle to mothers Ginger beer

well done Elle a wonderful poem and in my favs
2007-12-08