Kedgeree

Mother mine

Port Isaac maid

A tribute

To the life you gave 

You gave your love

Your magick life

To raise and guide

This awkward sprite

Made kedgeree 

To keep me strong

And when I sang

You heard my song

Paused your busy

Sat on your knees

To see my latest

Masterpiece

You wisely saw

Inherited smarts

Couldn’t compensate 

For a kind heart

Showed me that

The spirit world

Owed nothing to this

Loudmouthed girl

Create my own

Is what you prayed

Make it happen

Don’t be afraid

Responsibility

Didn’t always come

But you persisted 

Brave, tired mum

To know myself

You showed the need

For integrity

Thought, word and deed

You taught me manners

And not to blame

Be accountable

And hold others the same 

Invisible 

To all but you

My teens felt hard

We made it through

And now a woman

Here I stand

Sculpted by

Your artists’ hand 

Your music, magic

To me you give

A role model

Of a life well lived 

Your ear is there

And always was

Never reproach

Simply love

No matter the word

The deed or thought

You never judged

But always taught

I rebelled against

Your hippie ways

Went to the city

Tried “straight-laced”

But now contrite

My soul and bones 

Have returned to our 

Ancestral home 

Now Ma I find

Your Cornish song

Your way was my way

All along

And I consider

With clearer sight

That maybe mother 

Was always right!