My Poetry to Date

By hedgehog1

Mon, 19 Jun 2017
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Verses that sing in the air and catch in the wind

They flow from my pen as new ways I find

My mind is at rest as I sit here and write

About all of the things that make me feel right

 

I've written of love and lakes still and clear

About my wife and children that I hold so dear

Aberfan* and Senghenydd* were hard to then pen

I saw grown men cry as they laboured then

 

The hardest of all for me to sit down and write

As I sit here so quiet in the dead of the night

Was of Annie Mulholland* who's no longer here

But a principled woman whom you had to endear

 

I've faced all my quiet times with stoical ease

As my mind drifts wherever to suddenly freeze

For days I am quiet as my minds far away

But when it returns the sun comes out to play

 

Tenovus writing has broadened my scope

To try different formats for this is my hope

I'll write in a way so contentment I'll find

To ease all my tensions and let me unwind

 

*Annie Mulholland was a cancer campaigner I was proud to have worked with in a small way in setting up the first "Cancer VOICES Event" in Cardiff before she was taken away from us by Ovarian Cancer on the 24th of May 2016

 

*Aberfan saw one hundred and forty four (mainly children) killed.

 

*Senghenydd saw five hundred killed.

 

The National Coal Board has a lot to answer for.

 

Edward (hedgehog1) 19.06.2017

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Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Edward,

i can imagine this was a hard piece to write. It can sometimes take minutes to come up with the right words to express what we're feeling, but at other times it can take days, even months to put down our most intimate thoughts.

I always look forward to reading what you have to say in your poems. It must be so hard to loose someone who had such an impact on the big C. I was reminded of my own dad who I lost to cancer. We struggle to understand why! But thankfully time does heal.

Annie Mulholland sounds like a woman devoted to the cause, makes you wonder why she was taken.

A poem from the heart.

Jenny.

 

 

Submitted by hedgehog1 on

Good afternoon Jenny,

You always seem to write the right words in your comments and I thank you for that.

Every one of us that attended in Cardiff Bay were affected by cancer or had a diagnosis of cancer. Annie's case and that of Irfon Williams made National News because of the allocation of cancer drugs, available in England and not in Wales. Yes my poem did take a while to complete as I was unable to come to terms with losing Annie. Since I wrote it Irfon has passed away at the age of 45 such a sad loss to his wife and family. 

Edward