Category: stories

Loving memories

I look up our small street,
To see if you are coming.
I don’t know what time it is,
But I think I hear you humming.

You sang sweet songs for us,
And you could whistle well.
You wore an old tweed jacket
You loved us,I could tell.

I look out there each day,
But I can’t see your tall, thin shape.
I saved your Woodbine packet,
It made me feel some hope.

What does death’s door mean?
Where has Daddy gone?
When will be the welcome day,
When we hear his songs again?

I’ll sing like him all day,
I’ll dream of him all night.
I hope he won’t be angry,
If his cigarettes won’t light!

He can’t write his own songs now.
He went too far away, too soon.
I’ll write down what I think he sang,
And I’ll invent the tune.

I hear him singing now,
He dwells inside my heart.
And though I still can’t see his face,
I recognise his Art.

The most amazing thing……………Doris Lessing in wikiquotes

I never even heard of wikiquotes!Then I find a whole page on Lessing.Oddly.though I  read most of her books years ago I didn’t register most of these sentences.She is more than just a novelist,or should I say she is what novelists may aspire to be.,she thinks truthfully and with imagination

    • Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.
      • The Sunday Times, London (10 May 1992)
  • It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
  • If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
    • Particularly Cats, ch. 2 (1967)
And an interview from 1969 when she stayed with Studs Terkel in Chicago
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