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Taken to go with the poem below. The poem is about my mothers letters of encouragement... not just written to me, despite being confined to bed for many years with chronic pain from rheumatoid arthritis she wrote to many people the most beautiful letters. The letter in the picture is actually one of hers and the vintage photo is her on a beach in Norfolk with my older brother when he was about three years old. This is the first picture I've taken specifically to go with a poem.

 

 

i wish my hand could write as yours

words falling from your indigo pen

easing over the page like morning rain on thirsty grass

receiving hearts blossomed like flowers at the turn of spring

as the balm of you unfolded from dainty envelopes

sealed with confident queenly stamps

scattering tiny pieces of your enchanted soul

 

how i miss those condolences

little papers of parcelled love

still i grieve for everything you were

knowing that kind of peace

only transpired from your quiet mind

one who never laid hands on a perfume bottle

but was filled with the fragrance of flourishing meadows

the only mortal i ever knew

who was certain to stitch a broken heart together

with a line of inky blue

 

Original post -> suzyhazelwood.tumblr.com/post/170808236495/i-wish-my-hand...

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