A spinney by some brook
Out of a blue wintry sky
the soul of a memory spoke to me
silently,
for words were never his.
And I wonder why
as the memory invokes
a spinney by some brook
I cannot remember having seen
before.
Are his games running wild
orphaned too soon,
undeserved by all?.
Do they go by my names now?
We can never have played them
under the same sun.
Did his soul stray into
a dream of faerie and woke up
the same day
(but for 73 years)?
Am I therefore wrongly timed
in the same family?
My wits have gone astray,
freezing in this wintry wind
(a poet lost for words)
and yet weirdly
we seem to play our games
in the same summer.
In the night I cried tears
(liquid diamond to me)
for the world.
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This poem needs some extratextual context, I think. My wife and I were doing some research into my (Frisian) family on my father's side - I have hardly no knowledge of them at all (my real grandmother died in 1938 and my grandfather in 1963 when I was about 3,5 years old). We found some weird stuff: my greatgrandfather had a twin brother who died at the age of 1 month. When we were looking into his atrologogical birth chart, we decided we needed that of his wife too. When I saw the latter birth chart, I had a cold fright, which I cannot explain other then a feeling like: oh no, not her again. We then off course checked for my grandfather Jan (Dutch version of John, so yes, I am named after him). We found that there had been an earlier son Jan, who was born on Oct 27th 1885 and died on March 23rd 1887. My real grandfather was born March 9th 1888 (feels like a replacement son to me). When we checked both the birth chart and the chart of the day Jan 1 died (yes, March 23rd is my birthday, 73 years and 8 hours after his premature death of which we have not been able to find a cause) we found some very strange correlations with my birth chart that have totally freaked me out (as I am a Womb Twin Survivor - there should have been a twin brother for me). It is almost as if Jan 1 and me, we come from the same soul, that I am somehow a reincarnation into the same family of Jan 1, which I find hard to accept, even though I am almost sure that there have been past lives for me. Anyway, the bits that I knew about my real grandfather seems to make much more sense now (and possibly I understand my father better too - he knew about this history of an earlier Jan, apparently, but never told me (so my stepmother informed me). Yesterday I did a tarot spread and weirdly got the Death card in the spot directly to do with Jan 1 in my daily life (Death = Transformation and linked to Scorpio in Astrology - under which sign Jan 1 was born... Help!😅)
I am so pleased you wrote an explanation because at first I did not understand the poem. Reading the poem again, after reading the explanation, it was much clearer. There are some things in life which can never be totally explained x
All too true, the freakier, the more interesting life gets. Thanks for reading and understanding the lengthy explanation 🤗