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IRISH EXAMINER | January 25th, 2017 Nora Fleming of the Wicklow pieces of prose and poetry for her
Writers Group, who sent us
this week’s inspiring poem, own family and Grandchildren for
is retired from the family business
in the little village of Redcross in special occasions like Births,
Co Wicklow.
Weddings, Communion,
Nora is a Grandmother, and loves
reading and writing. She is an active Confirmation holidays and emigra-
member of Wicklow Active
Retirement Group and she joined the tion.
Wicklow Writers Group in
September 2009. If you have a poem you’d like to

From a very young age she loved see published in The Irish Examiner
writing little rhymes and reciting
poetry. then email it direct to ronniem-

Over the years she has written cginn@eircom.net.

If possible keep your poem to 20

lines. You may choose any subject

you like, in any form you like as long

as it’s original. We look forward to

hearing from you.

Ronnie McGinn

THE GIFT

In the silence of her little room,
She sits by the big log fire.

The Grandfather clock chimes away the hours.
Above her a spider weaves tirelessly
in the light of a flickering candle.
Her eyes grow weary,
The unfinished garment slips,
Suddenly she remembers,
Tomorrow the Baptism,
Her first Grandchild.
With her single needle
stitch after stitch,
Strand after strand
She works at her masterpiece.
The logs on the fire
burn to black cinders,
At last her work is done.
She neatly folds the soft white robe
And shuffles to bed,
While the spider unsleeping
Works late into the night.

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