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Philippa
Lawrence 1938 - 2015
An article in memory of Philippa Lawrence is published in
ARTEMISpoetry,
Issue 15 (Second Light Publications, Nov 2015).
published
in South, 18, 1998, ISSN 0959-1133;
included
in bilingual (Eng/Rom) broadcast, 2008,
National
Broadcasting Corporation (Romania);
included
in CD anthology (Eng/Rom), And the Story So Far...,
2009,
poetry p f, ISBN 978-0-9552040-2-9
The Daisy Chain
Home
on leave from the War
the
tall soldier —
dark
haired, blue eyed, dashing —
sat
on a dry stone wall
by
a Devon stream
in
the Spring sunshine.
He
showed
the
curly haired little girl,
child
of his wife’s
Paying
Guest friend,
how
to make a daisy chain,
wary
of his pugnacious small son.
When
the soldier had gone away
the
moppet made a circlet of daisies
to
adorn her baby sister’s
downy
ash blonde hair
as
she sat gurgling in her pram
on
the cottage lawn.
So
pretty for a flash of time —
pale
gold and white and green —
before
she grabbed it,
gobbled
it up
and
was sick.
The
little girl’s mother
gave
her a thrashing;
the
soldier
was
killed in battle.
Philippa Lawrence
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