Farewell Mum Poems

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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It was the longest goodbye
But it came too soon 
Nothing could prepare us
For the silence in the room

We wanted you for longer
You held on for...

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Perhaps I should have said goodbye
I should have given a minute to wave my hand for the last time
Maybe I should have been there when...

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Sonnet on sheet damp with tears.
Set ablaze in memory of mother.
Wind claims ashes....

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My mother, Sylvia Plath,
These days, I might laugh,
Electric oven, you know!
I was too young to know,
One way to go--
It was too young to know,
I used...

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Mum, sorry I was not able to make it for your funeral in time.
We are continents apart and circumstances could not permit me to bid...

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Three warriors strong, of fleeting 
Foot, beset by  columns of night’s
Thick soot, to  waadi’s tears dried 
Long and loud, waits deadly mine
With shrapnel’s...

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HI ALL ITSBEEN A WHILE IVE NOT BEEN AROUND SINCE THE LAST TIME I WAS AROUND THAT DAY I WAS LOWERED INTO THE GROUND.I’M...

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MUM ...

WHERE DO I START? I DON'T THINK THERE IS WORDS , TO EXPLAIN HOW I AM 


FEELING ABOUT THE LOSS OF YOU... BUT I...

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MUM ...

WHERE DO I START? I DON'T THINK THERE IS WORDS , TO EXPLAIN HOW I AM 


FEELING ABOUT THE LOSS OF YOU... BUT I...

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some are going ahead
some are going back 

having my fingers wielded 
on an old type-writer
i’m thinking what should i do 

a pretty long time passed...

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