To hold you, to hold you
Hello, everyone. It is very good to be making a new podcast. My internet connection is working again. Thank you very much for your patience, and a big thank you in particular to all those of you who sent me e-mails saying how sorry you were about my internet problems.
It is a long time since we had any poetry on the podcast. From time to time, I look at a book of English poetry and wonder whether I can use any of the poems. But very few poems are written in simple English which is easy to understand. My friend, Margaret Scorey, however writes poems which use simple and direct English, and are therefore very good for English learners. Here is a poem she wrote about a month ago. She wrote it for a woman who had recently become a grandmother. But the woman’s family, and the new grandchild, were in America, so grandmother travelled to America to hold her new grandchild in her arms for the first time. Margaret has called the poem “To Hold you, to hold you”.
My longing is to hold you,
to feel your soft cheeks against mine
to look into your gentle eyes
to touch your hair
and feel the warmth of your breath.
Soon I will.
But know that when I return,
the ache will be as great as it is now,
softened only by memories.
But one thing, I will be able to say is,
‘I’ve done it, I’ve done it, I’ve held you’.
Poem copyright Margaret Scorey, 2007, used with permission.
Photo of grandmother and new baby by Brian Hession/Flickr
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19 July 2009
beautiful poem, I like it :-)
27 April 2008
Thank you for this beautiful poem.
26 January 2008
It´s great to have you back. Thank you.
26 January 2008
It´s great to have you back. Thank you.
25 January 2008
Marcis – Firefox 3 is a development version only, so I guess the problem is in Firefox, not with the podcast. Perhaps you could tell Mozilla what you have found.
The podcasts are managed server-side by the LoudBlog podcasting cms.
25 January 2008
The podcast did not worked in FireFox 3. What is the software are you using? Would want to make the same for Sanskrit.
23 January 2008
YOUR PODCAST MAKES ME VERY HAPPY!
YOU MUST BE A MAN OF ABILITY :-)
I HOPE THINGS WILL TURN OUT WELL FOR
YOU~!
22 January 2008
I forgot to say, Grandad went too and was equally delighted to see his new granddaughter.
22 January 2008
Peter, you have recorded that so beautifully and sensitively. I've emailed the grandmother to let her know it is here .. I hope she will share the link with her daughter.
Mags
21 January 2008
Welcome back and thank you for this beatiful poem. I save Margaret Scorey's website..Thanks for all your intelligeant pod cast
21 January 2008
Welcome back!
21 January 2008
Welcome again
Peret
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