Miss. Esme G. Cameron
she was a very special and fine specimen .. indeed well worth remembering
Despite the fact she
knew all
the Latin names for
garden plants
and was a dab hand
at ikebana ..
She also played viola,
flute and piano ..
Every now and then,
she would also
appear in church on
Sundays
and was renowned
for writing
an occasional novel ..
It is said
she may have looked
like a nun
and dressed like some
old librarian
but she thought and
wrote like a
well-versed dockyard
hooker ..
Although to be fair,
somewhere
beneath her pince-nez,
the tartan shawl
and tweeds, our not yet
quite famous
Miss. Grace Pratt didnβt
only sweat,
but she also, did bleed
some of the
most exquisite poetry
you are ever
likely to read and the
more risquΓ©,
the better it seemed ..
But then that was her
secret you see ..
At times in-between
her verses
and stanzaβs or prose,
only a handful,
the privileged few, ever
knew she
would occasionally puff
on a cigar,
or one of those French
cigarettes,
that she always kept in
a drawer filled
with old fountain pens,
a few saucy postcards
and a single
letter marked Flanders,
France 1918 ..
Grace Pratt helped me
one hell of a lot
while I was growing up
and falling in
love with this beautiful
beast that
we now all call poetry ..
But the reason
I write now, is I recently
read that
Miss. Esme G. Cameron
formally known
as Grace Pratt, died at
home in
her sleep then aged one
hundred
and one whole yearβs
young, but whoβs counting ..
For anyone who might be interested,Β Esme G. Cameron was Graces pen name ..
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Comments
exquisite masterpiece well done sir, well done.
Well blow me down, I am more than honoured .. thank you Ms. DARKLY :)Β
I tried to Google this lady Nev but nothing came up...shame...a beautiful tribute x
Bless you our Marion .. she was my neighbour when I was growing up .. She helped me an awful lot .. My dad called her Harpic because he thought she was clean round the bend .. He loved her too really tho'
Grace Pratt wrote under the name of Esme G. Cameron .. her alter-ego .. Her novel 'A Change of Face' is sadly no longer in print .. I often think of her and did not want her forgotten .. x
She is certainly not forgotten now ...immortalised in print by yourself...it's always the 'characters'
that steal our hearts isn't it...hugs X
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Tis indeed Chuck x