Memory Seeds

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Memory Seeds: an illustrated collection of light poety

By Jackie Williamson

Drawings by Lesley Hall-Wood

Published by Acorns Publishing at £5.95 plus £1.50 p&p

52 pages, 30 illustrations

ISBN 978-0-9557375-3-4

To order: please email acorns@acornspublishing.co.uk or telephone 01348 831862

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Memory seeds

Now why did I just come upstairs?

Was it to stand and stare around

with vacant face and vacant mind?

I’d better go back down again,

do what it was I did before

to coax my brain to backward wind

and bring the memory to the fore.

I used to be articulate

and was never stuck for words

until I reached a certain age.

Mid-sentence now my brain goes blank.

What was it I was saying then,

before the words fell off the page

inside my head? The light’s gone out.

I keep a notebook close to hand,

jot down the things I must recall,

like shopping, phone calls, where to go.

No sooner thought than write it down

before it goes. Now where’s that pen?

I’m hunting for it, high and low

but memory fails me, yet again.

I wish that I could plant a seed

inside my brain, the memory bit,

to perk things up and make it spark

the way it used to years ago.

I’d startle people with my wit,

climb out of intellectual dark

once more into the light.