Mary Evans - Poems and Pictures

Picture 10078151, 19th century engraving by J Cochran after a painting by G Hayter, Â© Mary Evans Picture Library

To, Insert Your Friendâ€™s Name Here
by Catherine Nicholls

My dear Friend, Absent though you are,
I think of you often with fond memories
of times together. I wonder why we didnâ€™t
meet more often when you were tethered
on earth. Wherever you are now, I wish you
bliss. Share my laughter as the blackbird
bathes itself in the shallow granite trough,
and one of the plump inbred wood pigeons
awaits its turn to dunk and flap and splatter.
Do these wet splashing sounds reach you?
And perhaps those of church bells too, not
a mournful hesitation toll but a snappy hunt
through Treble Bob Major sent high aloft
to ease your eternity with a smidgen of joy?

Â© Catherine Nicholls

Picture 10078151, 19th century engraving by J Cochran after a painting by G Hayter, Â© Mary Evans Picture Library

Catherine Nicholls has lived in the Dark Sky Reserve of the Exmoor National Park for over 20 years. Without the diversions of bright lights and shopping malls she quickly turned to writing poetry to while away the long winter nights. The mole, of which there are many tunnelling away in her garden, is her favourite mammal. Before moving to Exmoor she farmed in mid-Devon for many years. She is a member of the North Devon Poets @NorthDevonPoet.

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