National Poetry Day in October this year is to be on the theme of 'Remembering' It is my intention to use that to inspire some poetry. Today I offer an acrostic and a poem of the more conventional variety.
Remember 1914
Recall
the conflict of one hundred years ago
Eschew
talk of who was at fault
Mind the
feelings of the officers
Exercise
the position of the people
Make
sure to laud relatives passing
Bring
consciousness awake to war’s futility
Endeavour
to always favour peace
Recoil
not from remembering
©David L Atkinson March
2014
Self-remember
Remember when you were
young?
The street games played
with neighbours.
Fun unbounded and
without care.
Imagination the only
limit to your labours.
Remember when you were
older?
Girls replaced the
neighbourhood kids games.
A new softness entered
life’s pattern,
confusingly unlike football’s
aims.
Remember when it was all
over?
No one’s fault, just
time and maturity.
The pain was deep
searing and tangible.
Memory gilded that
passage fondly.
Remember when you
regarded young ones?
When you looked on at
their joy and pain
and felt those
familiarly recalled emotions
as if they were fresh
and new again.
Remember when you are
much older.
When bits hurt for no
apparent reason.
The horizon of life is fast
approaching.
It’s unknown which is
your final season.
©David L Atkinson March
2014
God Bless
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