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This week’s poem was written at the end of March 2010. Its a response to my father discovering that our family’s olive groves were sold (in secret) years ago by my father’s sister. This relative, who I’ve only met once, managed to also squander the proceeds from the sale.
The saddest part of the discovery was that the person forced my grandmother to sign over the rights to the land just before the matriarch of the family died! One has to wonder, what sort of character badgers a 93 year old woman on her death bed for the family’s inheritance! Instances like this, make me glad that I had very little to do with these people over the years.
The poem is called: Olive Grove
The highlighted author for the week is: Chrissie Hynde – though technically not a full time writer, her genuineness, song lyrics and written material on animal rights qualify her as an inspirational person.
Cheers – Vasilios Theodorakis – May 2010