CHILDHOOD MEMORY 3

Candles & nightlights 
flickering bright
blackout curtains 
       shutting out the moonlight
snuggle down cosy 
          blankets tight
perhaps
    the war will end to-night

dripping setting
        from Sunday's roast
spread so thick 
     on Monday's toast
meat bones simmer 
    ..on the old gas ring
Pa's homemade soup
             the 'real thing'

paper chains cut &    glued
beer 
         in glass bottles brewed
Christmas puddings 
          with threepenny bits
the Meccano present 
                  made to fit

Sunday school outings 
             upto Coombe hill
my first ever train ride
                so quite a thrill
Walks over corn fields 
 to the Bugle Horn
         crisps and lemonade upon their lawn

A weekly soak
         in a round tin bath
towelling off 
          by open fire in the hearth.
a viewpoint       from childhood
 seen
    growing up at
number sixteen     Beech green