tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82851929445418883812024-03-13T15:24:14.418+11:00Red Steps, Then BlueDr Merilyn Childs' poetry archive. Here I plan to publish poetry I've written during the past 30 years, and as I write more.
Also...please visit me at merilynchilds.comMerilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-43107056104422397032017-05-24T10:37:00.003+10:002017-05-24T10:50:30.893+10:00Does she know your name?'Does she know your name?'<br />
people ask.<br />
'does she know who you are?'<br />
as if she is facial recognition software.<br />
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No.<br />
No. <br />
You don't understand.<br />
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When I stroke<br />
Alzheimer's moaning,<br />
when I croon and<br />
feel her mottled paper skin:<br />
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her breathing eases; and<br />
I hear her pausing.<br />
I hear her pausing.<br />
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<br />Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-22546617533477102802017-04-26T09:22:00.001+10:002017-04-26T09:22:57.298+10:00In JanuaryIt wasn't until January<br />
that insight came.<br />
Lunch melting, the table<br />
umbilical cord to capitulation,<br />
the salad a nightmare<br />
of knives and screams<br />
& bloody memories.<br />
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I've hidden inside sandwiches<br />
too long.<br />
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<br />Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-25799104902055557852016-05-08T00:15:00.002+10:002016-05-08T00:15:19.851+10:00Blue thin edgeIt's come around around again<br />
That year I made us<br />
Three. How smug I was.<br />
How free.<br />
Now, I sit beside you<br />
Thin and edges blue<br />
My love like anguish<br />
Loud and yelling<br />
While we chatter.<br />
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<br />Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-56157221386160282032016-04-09T17:32:00.003+10:002016-04-09T18:55:35.347+10:00Drunk on EllisFor once I'll tell the truth:<br />
Dubbo, drunk on beer,<br />
I looked into the gum,<br />
killed ants,<br />
thought of Ellis.<br />
Heard Malcolm lie.<br />
Shorten tell a joke.<br />
ABC Crackle.<br />
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It's like swimming in dirt, Bob.<br />
Beneath your eloquent<br />
regretful sky.<br />
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<br />Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-8463778278749131142016-04-07T12:51:00.000+10:002016-04-07T14:53:44.660+10:00in veinI've looked for lines<br />
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between there and here</div>
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and failed.</div>
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even my blood bears no resemblance.</div>
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I've broken so many rules</div>
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flakes cling to my skin til I'm blinded<br />
(echo hours, dark and dark)</div>
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I've lived that fucking mess.<br />
Tided up.</div>
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Artefactual. Oh yes. </div>
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Yet: alight. It puzzles me.<br />
Somehow, like living a synonym.</div>
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breathe in. hold.</div>
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breathe again.<br />
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: in vein.</div>
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Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-63733429573726830852016-04-06T12:51:00.002+10:002016-04-06T12:51:23.723+10:00frag.ment<i>for Arson de Bris</i><br />
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you shin.e<br />
words.<br />
word.s & you.you.tube<br />
such beauty.<br />
i eat pie<br />
bumblehumble crumbs<br />
re.calling_it's you<br />
with he/art &<br />
a world in need/heed<br />
of such soaring<br />
<br />Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-57205260638519877182015-01-30T10:45:00.001+11:002015-01-30T10:45:09.261+11:00View<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Today is memory.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Through window grime</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">to park: the wisteria tunnel</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">where o</span><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">nce there was a rocket</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">and a roundabout</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">long since gone.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">where once I pushed a stroller</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">with grandparents</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">long now dead.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">On Sunday I walked there with you</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">once-were-Helen. Mother.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">We sat on the second wooden bench</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">your eyes closed/skin an empty shell.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">My eyes blinded.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">A young girl runs past, we stir.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">There's a Labor Party BBQ. Speeches I can't hear.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I think of David Hicks. Your protest.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I want to tell you: <i>He's free now Mum</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Vindicated. I know you'd be pleased.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Through window grime</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">to park, and the wisteria tunnel:</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Yes, I see the landscape of my years,</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">and the view of yours forgotten.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Merilyn Childs, 21/1/2015</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">From my 30for30 series</span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-68878184115216062015-01-30T10:44:00.001+11:002015-01-30T10:44:26.283+11:00direction<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">sometimes it's hard to tell</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">the direction of good.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Bad seems visceral; vocal: like</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Vlad with vampire teeth</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">on the blood of hope.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I weave garlic into chains,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">ring bells, knot ropes</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">and throw handfuls of rice. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">(The last rather odd, but there you have it):</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">in search of sunlight</span><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Merilyn Childs 25/1/2015</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">From my 30for30 series</span></div>
Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-68787062408933777112015-01-30T09:54:00.003+11:002015-01-30T10:48:23.670+11:00Unnamed<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">
with a break</div>
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of heart, and fear</div>
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this journey came.</div>
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<i>Alice Walker </i>whispered</div>
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"each one pull one",</div>
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packed her bags, came with me.</div>
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and I saw into the mud</div>
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where your feet walked</div>
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where my feet (shod) left marks.</div>
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i am bookmarked </div>
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between poetry, keyboard, muscles, whiteness:</div>
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it is a small gesture Alice,</div>
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I pulled. And I pulled.</div>
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Merilyn Childs, 29/01/2015<br />
Part of the 30for30 series</div>
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Alice Walker reading "Each One, Pull One" from <i>Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 </i></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="270" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x8bv87" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8bv87_alice-walker-each-one-pull-one-poem_creation" target="_blank">Alice Walker - 'Each one pull one' (poem)</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/mickeynold" target="_blank">mickeynold</a></i>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-56271766287448119442015-01-11T13:53:00.001+11:002015-01-11T13:55:16.936+11:00Heaven<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wanted to believe in heaven.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you died.<br />I tried.<br />I wanted to meet you,<br />having been so close<br />between rib and bone.<br />It stopped me dying<br />That pretence of you:<br />spirit waiting, wafting.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Daughter: you died.<br />Heaven is a verb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">used by terrorists.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remembering Charlie Hebdo</em><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Merilyn Childs 10/1/2015</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-58076702647410348402015-01-11T10:48:00.000+11:002015-01-11T10:48:10.792+11:00Please: join us!<blockquote type="cite">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">google sat with us</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">like an angel</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">listening here and there</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">patting our brows</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">adjusting our crumbs</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">remembering our secrets.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How nice of google</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(how thoughtful)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to send me endless pretty pictures</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of bright blonde girls</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(click click click)</span></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">doing computer sciences.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps I'd like to join them?</span></blockquote>
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Merilyn Childs 11/12015Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-26464206545356795232015-01-05T22:49:00.001+11:002015-01-05T22:49:53.922+11:00what hope looks like<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">he screamed during the spinal tap.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He has meningitis". There it is.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We can't block out that sound.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6 weeks and he has taken his first step.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Curtains wide open, no looking away.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is bandaged and needled.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We make phone calls.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We wait. We cling. We keen.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is a room full of mothers</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sleeping on the floor.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Impossibly, I am one of them. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is air-conditioning</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and a play room, and </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People speak in whispers.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Family come and go.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time is hot.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are melting.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then: the thermometer makes friends.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Merilyn Childs 5/1/2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">[<i>My son James contracted viral meningitis at 6 weeks. He is now 25 and well.</i>]</span></div>
Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-10421308488111214812015-01-04T20:29:00.004+11:002015-01-04T20:29:54.088+11:00weight/wait<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I start with a homophone.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To explain.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have discovered that the words that we use,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(you and I)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">intersect. Yes:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">somewhere in English.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">perhaps in a poster?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">or a handout caught by wind?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">perhaps on a sign left behind?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">mother: somewhere between your poverty</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and my <i>Soda Stream</i> bubbled air-conditioning</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I pump 2kg weights</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While you for water wait.<br />Wait. Then walk.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Merilyn Childs 4/1/2015</span></div>
Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-48177265983079040602015-01-04T20:28:00.001+11:002015-01-04T20:28:40.521+11:00Hard<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">muscles test weights</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my mind sweats</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">memories:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">being 29, before your name</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">was called.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've fought for you/</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my silent battle cry:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">other people's daughters</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my own</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and other mother's sons.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Merilyn Childs 3/10/2015</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br /></span></div>
Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-70945454161340013632015-01-03T17:33:00.001+11:002015-01-03T17:33:49.124+11:00Distance<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">your distances are not like mine.<br />there is no equity between us:<br /> I have clean water; you have mud.<br />Oh, bridge: be short.<br />Midwife, lean into her heart.<br /><br />Merilyn Childs 2/01/2014<br /></span></div>
Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-29551700030530778292015-01-03T17:32:00.002+11:002015-01-03T17:32:42.278+11:00Hard<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">muscles test weights</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my mind sweats</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">memories:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">being 29, before your name</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">was called.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've fought for you/</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my silent battle cry:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">other people's daughters</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">my own</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and other mother's sons.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Merilyn Childs 3/10/2015</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br /></span></div>
Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-58960883331962205602014-12-30T16:58:00.002+11:002014-12-30T16:58:24.898+11:00resistance<i>poem for Catherine</i><br />
<br />
I'm female, right?<br />
Well, true.<br />
But I was never having kids.<br />
<br />
The atomic clock<br />
tickticktick to midnight<br />
bunkers in our dreams<br />
not you.<br />
<br />
One day I said<br />
"why not"<br />
a different ticking.<br />
so we did:<br />
<br />
you; my greatest irony.<br />
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Merilyn Childs, 30/12/2014Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-83584432167346643542014-12-30T13:01:00.000+11:002014-12-30T13:01:51.597+11:00heaven help Sarajevo<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">there is wind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">wild on the mountain,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">there are angels flying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">there are angels with atlases,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">compasses, helmets with lights,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">picks, shovels, climbing ropes,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">feathers for the night.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">there are no angels</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">but the angels that are there</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">(peering between the crevices)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">have wind in their bloodied hair.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Merilyn Childs, 7/2/1994</span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-88907509066262452042014-12-30T12:59:00.002+11:002014-12-30T13:01:39.442+11:00Preparing<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">it feels possible</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">a sentence; controlled/</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">verb, noun, participle, colon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">acts/dates/lines:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">go that way.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">then sun falls</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">burns grass/seers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">the smell of charcoal</span><br />
<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">the smell of charcoal</i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">smeered</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Merilyn Childs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">29/12/2014</span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-76972363905528011652014-12-30T12:27:00.002+11:002014-12-30T13:02:03.104+11:00The inside feel of names<i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">for RG</i><br />
<br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Some names, tag-like:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">there by accident, fingers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">stained and the echo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">of dried leaves blowing.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Some names belong:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">they pack bags/</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">find their owner.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">your name found you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Bringing circles, clusters:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sometimes curvation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sometimes rubble</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sometimes chocolate/chilli/vowel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">horizons</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">and journeys to wh/y</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Merilyn Childs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">11/12/2015</span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-25115221497306646692014-12-30T12:26:00.004+11:002014-12-30T13:02:15.241+11:00Poem for my son<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the Sarajevo mother</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">her dead son wrapped</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">in war and the bloody arms</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">of hunger, 1992</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Did you know I wrote about her?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">my young poet's voice</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">feeling into</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the crevices of frown/eyes/</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the deep keen of mourning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">there where she held</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">onto rubble, falling.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">I hear you breathing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the world sucked in/out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">no grenades in your pocket</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">and I forget for long seconds at a time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the Sarajevo mother.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">I hear you leaping</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the world in your lungs,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">sucked in/out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">you: my joy.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">this is success:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">your hair streaming upwards</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">sun/clouds hunger/tears</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">your epidermis wings/anchors</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">your world like paint</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">you are colours</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">you are rainbow/</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">sunshine in water</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">deep to somewhere/anywhere</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">paintbrush in your pocket.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Merilyn Childs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Sept 23rd 2014 </span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285192944541888381.post-55299566194786718832014-12-30T12:26:00.002+11:002014-12-30T13:02:25.991+11:00On the downing of the MH-17<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">this skin of me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">at edges and depths</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">carries memory</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the betrayal of tragedies</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">never expected</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">had i known you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">- before that fall to field</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">amidst smoke and steel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">and then your life a passport</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">in a stranger's hand-</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">i might have smiled:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">offered you tea.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">I might have disliked you,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">It would not have mattered.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">you were someone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">unknown</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">yet here you are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">etched, remembered.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">look here</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">always:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">always in this skin of me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Merilyn Childs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">July 18th 2014</span>Merilyn Childshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863634409012723981noreply@blogger.com0