I’m looking forward to the first Patron of Reading visit to Oldham Hulme Grammar School Juniors on Tuesday. I will be leading poetry workshops using people’s shoes as inspiration for Empathy Heroes Day. I thought I’d repost a poem of mine along these lines as an example. This poem was inspired by the photo above.
The Visitor
When he arrives
she wonders who’s come?
He kisses her cheek
and calls her Mum.
After he’s been
she forgets that he came.
She can’t picture his face
or recall his name.
This poem and photograph was first published on blipfoto.com on 30th May 2013.
Bernard Young Poet 