A fitting tribute, Max. Andrew
On 18 August 2010 08:33, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sputnik
>
> 'Vision-impaired'
> senior New Zealand writer
> O. E. Middleton
> (Ted), had his funeral
> yesterday in Dunedin.
>
> Our mutual friend, Alan,
> read Dunbar's
> Lament for the Makars -
> 'Timor mortis conturbat me'.
>
> My Ted Middleton,
> not then senior,
> served as writing tutor
> at Adult Education
> Auckland - a tiny group
> of his I shyly joined
> in 'fifty-seven,
> year of the sputnik.
>
> We went outside and peered up.
> A bright light was crossing our sky.
> Ted peered where we pointed,
> took our word for it.
> We all chuckled at America's
> discomfiture.
>
> Decades since I met him,
> decades since I read him.
> They say his stories
> are not vision-impaired.
> A small light, once in our sky.
>
> Timor mortis? he was a makar,
> a maker, and gone before.
>
> Max Richards
> in Melbourne
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
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http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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