Monday, November 15, 2010

Poem for Today

Memories
Hidden in the forest
Where the trees grow thick and strong,
There's a cottage, small and humble,
Where I lived when I was young.
There's a yellow roof of thatch,
And a rough red chimney there,
With diamond latticed windows
Letting in the cool fresh air.

When work was finished for the day
In peace I hurried home;
Through the trees, so thick and handsome,
Where as a child I'd roam.
A smiling face would greet me;
Hot dinner on the grate:
But this day, all was lonely,
'Twas so early, yet so late.

No smoke came from the chimney,
No whispers filled the air:
But the memories still haunt me
Of my mother smiling there.

Now many years have crept along;
I sadly realise
That never shall I see again
The love-light in her eyes.
Till I walk down the cobbled path,
And lift that rusty latch;
Till memory brings back again
My home with the yellow thatch.
© 1967  : Colin Gordon-Farleigh 

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