‘Fly Away Home’ is the title of my new poetry collection based on the theme of sanctuary. I will be releasing one poem a week for the next sixteen weeks.
The first is Out of Touch
No relic, no heirloom,
no record of birth,
no urn, no grave,
no memorial.
One red feather boa;
the single trace
of a life long-lived,
lost in the Silence.
This poem was written in response to a sepia photograph of a long lost relative. It was given to me while I was researching my family history for a previous poetry collection entitled ‘Land of my Ancestors’.
I studied the photo for a long time, hoping to learn something from the setting and costume but could not pin the character down.
That got me to thinking about what we leave behind when we move on in life, or into death, and how quickly we can be forgotten.
This is a link poem between my new collection and ‘Land of my Ancestors’ which is available as a free download from http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JudithLesleyMarshall
n.b. There should be a line space between ‘memorial’ and ‘one’ but I can’t persuade the wordpress editor to include it!
