Bill not ironic (even having trouble spelling it) I only saw it due to
Sheila's comments
cheers old P
On 28/11/2018 09:36, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thanks again, Sheila.
> Patrick, are you just being ironic in claiming my poem, ‘It will come’ did
> not arrive?
>
> I do mean that the dead return in dreams and often in surprising or at
> least unannounced wakeful moments.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 7:58 pm, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill this did not arrive here -even looked in spam -am I right in
>> someone died then returns in dreams?
>>
>> or is it not so tied down
>>
>> cheers P
>>
>> On 27/11/2018 22:59, Sheila Murphy wrote:
>>> Very real, Bill. Vivid, true in its conceptual being. How departure
>> feels.
>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 2:01 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
>> wrote:
>>>> Someone you care about
>>>>
>>>> will leave the table
>>>>
>>>> and not come back
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> will become
>>>>
>>>> an absence
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> riding in a different
>>>>
>>>> compartment
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your head will not seem ample
>>>>
>>>> to carry their legacy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All that proximity
>>>>
>>>> once so available
>>>>
>>>> now so fled
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The de-parted
>>>>
>>>> no longer attached
>>>>
>>>> don’t so much shift
>>>>
>>>> to some other plateau
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> as dog our steps,
>>>>
>>>> blunder into our dreams
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You never know
>>>>
>>>> as you turn a corner
>>>>
>>>> of thought
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> when they might approach
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>>
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