Remembrance: Written Tales Chapbook, #2

By Written Tales

Written Tales Chapbook II, a collection which embraces the past. A volume of Remembrance. Memories surrounding family, culture and war. Events we can never forget. This chapbook breaks down the work into three sections:

1. The Passing
2. Memories
3. Never Forget

The stories and poems within these pages will touch the heart. We hope you enjoy this edition as much as we did preparing it to share with you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Written Tales
• Release date: May 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781393304319

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INTRODUCTION

Written Tales Chapbook II, a collection which embraces the past. A volume of Remembrance. Memories surrounding family, culture, and war. Events we can never forget. This chapbook breaks down the work into three sections:

The Passing

Memories

Never Forget

The stories and poems within these pages will touch the heart. We hope you enjoy this edition as much as we did preparing it to share with you.

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I

THE PASSING

When he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ROMEO AND JULIET)

1

CALLING YOUR NAME

EADBHARD MCGOWAN

I never knew my grandfather,

never made his acquaintance

or felt his affection, his closeness.

I talk often to the dead,

try to share moments, explain my fears,

or to ask for their opinion.

I speak to them to make a connection.

Will they answer me from a distance?

Do they know my apprehension?

Hard to hear them in the noise

of this side’s distracting diversions.

I imagine an old man with white hair

holding my hand, smiling,

as we walk through the streets,

lined with chestnut trees,

and pass through wheat fields;

he is talking to me or remains silent.

Silence is often an answer

to questions whose response

would be too