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Lost in Translation: a poem by Moyra Caldecott

on 10th June 2009

From thought
to speech
so much is lost
in translation.
More so now
that I am old.
I reach for words
to illuminate
the landscape of my mind,
but a fog
comes down
and obscures everything…

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Moyra Caldecott was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1927, and moved to London in 1951. She earned degrees in English and Philosophy and an M.A. in English Literature, and wrote more than 20 books.

She has a reputation as a novelist who writes as vividly about the adventures and experiences to be encountered in the inner realms of the human consciousness as she does about those in the outer physical world. To Moyra, reality is multidimensional.

Moyra died peacefully on 23rd May 2015, aged 87.