Poppies

• Dramatic monologue to create feelings of sympathy
• Free form to represent mothers emotions unable to be contained
• Themes of strength and braver if war victims - strength of those left behind in war
• Parents and childhood - difficulties when children become independent
• Loneliness and loss as themes
• Released a songbird from it's cage
• A split second and you were away, intoxicated
• On reaching the top of the hill I trace the inscriptions on the war memorial
• All my words flattened, rolled and turned into felt