Welcome to David Selzer
David Selzer is a writer of poetry, prose fiction, screenplays and stage plays. He embraces digital platforms to share his work of more than fifty years… READ MORE
Latest Post / Update
-
HERE
Garden, Hoole © SCES 2006
For more than half our lives, we have livedin this enigmatic, anachronistic
Victorian villa – built to look like
a Georgian farmhouse – with ashlar blocks
at three corners, the fourth unfinished.
A Valentine’s Day removal, we ate
a takeaway in the kitchen with friends.
The wife is a widow now. Our daughter
has grown, gone and visits: her childhood
still blesses the rooms sun touches through the day’s
compass. We have watched, at the long sash window
on the half landing, the sky and the garden
change through the slow seasons – sparrows in flight,
a leaf falling. Love lasts.
4 responses to “HERE”
-
A time of nostalgia for you at this turning point in your lives. As long as it is not indulged too much, nostalgia can be a great comfort and a reminder of the important things in life, the most important being love in all its forms. I am now linked in love with your family through my son, your daughter and our beautiful granddaughter. Love not only lasts but extends its loving tentacles and, if we allow, envelops and rejuvenates us.
-
HERE
David, it sounds to me as though you are now becoming a part of that house. Perhaps propping up that fourth corner?-
Poet’s Corner then – the artist as buttress.
-
-
Touché!
-
Search by Tag
9/11 A.E. Housman America Anglesey anti-semitism Aristotle Atlantic Atlantic Slave Trade Auschwitz Beaumaris British Cape Town cathedral Celts charity Cheshire Chester childhood Churchill Civil War comrades cormorant death Dee dee estuary Dublin England English Europe Ezra Pound Fossils fox French Gaza gazebo German gibbet God Great War gulls heart Hegel Hitler Iraq Ireland Irish sea irony. Israel Jerusalem Jews landscape Liverpool Liverpool Bay Llandudno London love Manhattan May Menai Straits Mersey miracle Missouri Moscow Napoleon North Wales Ovid paradise Paris Plato pre-pubescent Putin racist river river Dee robin roma Romans Rome Russia skull South Africa Soweto Stalin swifts Syria T.S. Eliot teacher Telford USA Venice Victorian Vienna W.B. Yeats Wales Wellington Welsh Western Front winter Wirral Ynys Mon
Leave a Reply