Dear Reader, this is a poem I wrote for a dear friend and colleague, Mike Donohoe, who was one of the best teachers I ever met. Mike used Art to teach English Language to asylum seekers and refugees from many different backgrounds – Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine, Angola, to name but a few. His students loved him. He died suddenly with a heart attack on the street in Manchester on or around Twelfth Night.<\/p>\n
Between Epiphany and Candlemas I shall remember
\nHow a still and silent Love
\nKept the dark watches of the night;
\nHow you did not die alone, but with a host of angels
\nAnd the blessings of all whose lives you touched.
\nIt is a wise man who scatters their darkness
\nAnd your Joanas and Joes will smile and shine you
\nAll around us.<\/p>\n
Now, stars from all the windows are taken down
\nAnd hang in this prayer.
\nHeav’n’s torn sheet unwinds and changes chime
\nAcross the frosty glory
\nOf this bleak midwinter.
\nI shall remember too, how you saw His star in the east
\nAnd moved into the Mystery of
\nLove on earth.<\/p>\n
Leigh Cook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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