Granny's war
In wartime
Granny
came to the garden
She held the world together
with strawberry jam,
elderflower champagne
and her bare hands
whipping up scones
Always a fighter
on another plane
the one that love-bombs
the curry
by putting too much
sugar in it.
I'm asking you now
Granny
Come back
to the garden
I sense you
It's overbloomed
and overflowed
from giving and giving
the threat hangs
like a spider shroud
from the trees
long blown
to dust
The specter of
all we cannot see
Looms
as does our fear of it.
About this poem
I have loving memories about my Granny who was my stepfather's mother. She was a wonderful soul, always cooking, one of the generation of the World war II women in the Women's Institute, saving fruit on the ground and making jam from it. The stoic sort. But now we are possibly on the verge of World War III I wanted to portray the fear and insecurity from a child's viewpoint through to adult realism.
Written on November 28, 2023
Submitted by kimberley_f on December 12, 2023
Modified by kimberley_f on December 12, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 6, 5, 8, 4 |
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