Brian Strand Poet Verse

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a memorial

Ten Tales of Remembrance

Liza B of Yorkshire stock
a tinsmith'a wife
her face bears
     travails of life
Lily B orphaned
in a sad manner
    commissioned
'neath the army's banner
Violet O born in the great war
father Ernest 
     she never saw
Anne S unanswered
  questions still accrue
the granma
       some never knew
Frances L her tragedy
  was to unfold
the exact details
    remain untold
Annie O granny Mayo,
mother came to know
by the canal
  at Brookside row
Susanna O a mid-victorian maid
her determination
   does not fade
Ethel G's fish&chips held sway
in her wakefield take-a-way
Harriet H high cheeked,pretty&petite
of twinklig eyes&
          dressed so neat
Edith G of Jewish stock
    a housewife so usung
to me,her face
    is ever young

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Gary Radice April 18, 2021 at 3:45 AM These people come alive on the page each with their own back story. Are they from your childhood Brian? I love poems that evoke other times and other people in other places..in the same way Penny Lane did with The Beatles. I want to know more of these people. Brian Strand April 18, 2021 at 6:22 AM All relatives Gary,whose 'stories ' are either first hand, handed down or found out for my family tree books I self published for family interest.(also see mail)