Just a quick dash of poetry

Great book I’ve just finished, leant to me by John Rea – a fellow worker for the Anglican Church. It’s called “The Time Travellers Wife” – and begins with the following poems. You’ll have to cut me a break alonesome with a gin on a Monday night in Lae – (they’re soppy) – the book was a quality novel (thanks John!)

Love after Love
The time will come
when, with elation
wou will greet yourself arriving
at your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel you own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

--- Derek Walcott