Scrap Book Of Memories
My childhood recollections
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Remembering
Photo is my own Dry and still is the day as I slowly slip away, coaxing leaves that crunch beneath my boots, damp air convinces me it's early morning...
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Back Then
Photo is my own. As kids we measured each moment in the yawning of nightfall, when nocturnal sleep would carry me peacefully into dreaming of...
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Beetle Verses Elm
Late 70s flourish of trees once majestic, stolen by affliction – disease snatched life, trunks lay shipwrecked, earth shuddered a while where once...
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Man With A Plan
Sometimes out of bad situations new conditions can arise – like a phoenix from out of ashes lifts, darkness can be replaced by wink of light. Dad...
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On The Road Again
Photo is my own. Does anyone remember the journey down to Cornwall from Bristol on an August bank holiday from about 1965? Because I do. This is just...
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Christmas Kindness
With the stimulating fragrance of spicy candles, I was struck by how clear recollections of that perfect Christmas burst into my memory. Like an...
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Two Little Treasures
Ambling through woods at Stanton Park two little girls best friends catch our eyes, all dolled up they were like princesses in long satin dresses. “...
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Like Sun And Moon
Just turned eighteen or so 1973 old trusty diary tells her so, wore brown tea shirt with yellow butterfly motif that day with her usual black...
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Walking With North Wind
North wind Piercing eyes Penetrating till Tears flow, Whistling in My ears like Tortured souls, Hurtling at Great speed Driving me on, Biting this...
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Snap Shot
Nostalgic wisps of former days as bobbing boats flock like sheep, photo flash left blemish colours happy accident bathed in red, many individuals...
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Dear Mum,
Sitting in the garden, the brief memory of your voice echoes through trees, carried on happy breezes that cool the spirit. Recollections come...
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Letter To My Younger Self
Dear Eleven year old me, so clear a scene like out of a movie I find myself gazing at you back in the corridor of my old Victorian school, a shy...
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Swathed In Nature's Beauty
Remembering that sense of mystery, recalling woodland swathed in wild childhood memory; amid flowing passage of time, wondering if trill congregation...
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