Poem of the Day » mother http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 In Memory of My Mother – Patrick Kavanagh http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/in-memory-of-my-mother-patrick-kavanagh/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/in-memory-of-my-mother-patrick-kavanagh/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:07:47 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/03/06/in-memory-of-my-mother-patrick-kavanagh/ I do not think of you lying in the wet clay
Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see
You walking down a lane among the poplars
On your way to the station, or happily Going to second Mass on a summer Sunday–
You meet me and you say:
‘Don’t forget to see about the cattle–’
Among your earthiest words the angels stray.
And I think of you walking along a headland
Of green oats in June,
So full of repose, so rich with life–
And I see us meeting at the end of a town on a fair day by accident,
after the bargains are all made and we can walk
Together through the shops and stalls and markets
Free in the oriental streets of thought.
O you are not lying in the wet clay,
For it is harvest evening now and we
Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight
And you smile up at us — eternally.

Patrick Kavanagh

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