! ! To Parents Comments

'come back, swim back, I need you, for I’m grown up now; I can love you without restraint; give love not ask for it…' A real feeling of yearning in this Mike. It is a beautiful poem and the pace of it is so gentle. The language is beautiful and nostalgic. The line 'When I stood a child upon the seashore' is great because you have to really think over the actual statement (is it old romantic or is it that a child was 'stood'?) . The theme of childhood/adulthood has been utilised before but not with such ambiguity and I see what Tara is getting at, as the whole poem stands as a metaphor; as poems should!

'Ran back up the beach to meet and greet my life'. A brilliant line in a brilliant poem of metaphor. And you remind me to phone my parents immediately and tell them I love them..... thank you. t x