BIRTHPLACE
Posted by Admin on 25 January 2009, 12:00 am
It looks a happy house;
so bright with hard-gloss paint
and showy new white coat –
its garden (where I lay
with whooping cough when time
forbore to move) unmarred
by children’s play, so trim,
exclusive, smug, behind
a wall on top of which
parures of purple in
their leafy clusters cling.
It looks a happy house;
but as I pass, athirst
to know what changes five
and fifty years have made
within, I wonder if
old houses ever quite
forget the sorrow they
have seen, or if some dark
ectopic memory disturbs
the harmony of those
who knew it not.
It looks a happy house;
but when I last was there,
a boy of fourteen then,
the grief those bricks enclosed
was of a potency
to haunt a thousand years.
T. C. Hudson
© T. C. Hudson.
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- - Cowes Amateur Winemakers
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- - Cowes-Deauville Twinning Association
- - Friends of Northwood Cemetery
- - Newport Rowing Club
- - Northwood Floral Art Group
- - Northwood Village Produce Association
- - Northwood W.I.
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