Thank you Emeka for your comment. Much appreciated.
I have read a few of your poems tonight and can say that 'Great choice of words laden with deep-knitted emotions.' summarises your own writing very well too.

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Great choice of words laden withe deep-knitted emotions.

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Thank you Keith, I am really glad that this poem was able to bring you such strong and special memories too.

My mother went to live with her mother after divorcing my father (when I was just 6 months old) so I and my sister grew up from then on living with my grandmother as part of the household (although she had her own rooms they were not separately accessed). Although my grandmother didn't have a chaise longue she would preside over gatherings from her special armchair. Her mobility was always affected by health issues, in earlier years she would as the poem recalls make occasional excursions which were fond memories, but in later years she was largely house-bound yet still a vibrant and precious personality.

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The relationship described in this poem is a mirror image of the relationship I had with my paternal grandmother. On reading it I was back with her, in her sitting room, as she laid on her chaise longue with a cigarette in a black holder smoking and sipping pale ale. I loved her so much. When a poem can take you back over sixty years and stir one's imagination, the poet has achieved something very special indeed.
Thank you for this
Keith

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Thank you Shifa, I am flattered and honoured that you think so.

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Thank you to Hugh, Paul and Stephen for your kind comments.
Thanks also to all those who decided to click 'Like'.

Tomorrow's blog will also be a memorial poem. It was also written in consideration of my grandmother, but has a different perspective and is non-specific so it can be for anyone who might have lost anyone that they had a caring relationship with.

(Sadly Paul's comment is no longer viewable since he left the site)

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This is a wonderful tribute.

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She will read this from up above,
And cherish your words of true love.

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