Remembrance - ThinkOfAPoem

The Theme of National Poetry day this year 2014 is remembrance 

I remember my Father in this poem. I still have his jumper resting over the back of my desk chair. I would have worn it out by now but I cant wear it as his arms were normal length and mine are 8" and I cannot bear to cut the sleeves off - the pointlessness of cutting up clothes poem

So it will go on resting on my chair, its scent slowly diminishing.

Dead Man's Clothes

 

I am sniffing a dead man's clothes
nine months after

Musty smell
he smelt musty
slowly musty took over
Breathe deeply
past the weary worn-out
Hidden in the fibres
woven in the wool
I can find it
scent of family
the comfort and the sadness
knitting together

wrap round
the inadequate

 

Sue Kent