Memories In Boxes
...Memories in boxes
By lady Arabella
As I sit here and go through all the boxes I’ve made
Each one holds a memory which time cannot fade
From old school reports that showed all I could be
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Categories:
fairfield, beautiful, heart, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Croydon
...Indisputably bankrupted deux times
boardings on stalled windows
Recession unproofed
bundles of betwichted people aloff
clumsily lost Waitrose
and still the Fairfield roof leaks
Queens gardens i...
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Categories:
fairfield, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Croydon 1975
...When I was 12
our family arrived at Croydon.
Everything seemed grander
a real Municipal town
we had record and camera shops
and departmental stores
everything seemed geared for conspicuous expe...
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Categories:
fairfield, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Croydon Yesteryear
...You've aged well with Conviction
Guarding your yesteryears
of residential Presbyterian Thornton Heath in 58
and Kennards in the town centre
Bygone Croydon days
with Grants and Allders, crown jew...
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Categories:
fairfield, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Hellboy's Fight Record
...Hellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!
Date Opponent Location Result
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Categories:
fairfield, appreciation,
Form: List
History of Havard Yard
...Okay. So, according to her license plate, Sarah had something to do with the name “Welbeck Street” and had once asked if the Journal would consider using “Harvard Yard” in her name. Also according to...
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Categories:
fairfield, america, people, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
2 Mikey
...Poor Mikey
gave everything he had
for fifteen minutes under lights
(and they are expensive lights).
He went down not once but twice
in the same game with the same head
(his only one).
Rules ...
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Categories:
fairfield, conflict, football, high school,
Form: Free verse
California Raging Inferno
...Under a State of Emergency
California Inferno
We thought 113 degrees was so bad?
Now people and pets have to run for their lives!
Whilst we sit cooly in out poetic
dives!
So absorb...
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Categories:
fairfield, emotions, fear, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Ugly Sue
...Ugly Sue or Smelly Sue as the kids used to call her,
Lived in a cardboard box under the bridge at Fairfield.
Some said she was 100 years old and she had Leprosy.
When I was a kid the others used t...
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Categories:
fairfield, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
Grey Hound
.... for public domain
Ankle high, boot blacked and tightly laced nun shoes,
a faint wisp of cheap lavender perfume,
a baby's cry over a mother's shush,
moments on a bus ride across country,
tr...
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Categories:
fairfield, change, journey, poverty, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Fairfield Horseshoe (Cumbria)
...Three hours of grassy scramble
attain Fairfield horseshoe
enveloped by immense landscape
an awe inspiring view
gentle glow upon my cheek
expelled from summer's ray
the timid breeze encircles me...
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Categories:
fairfield, nature
Form: Rhyme
Ambleside
...Loughrigg and Wansfell, Fairfield and Red scree,
The most charming of villages lie beneath thee,
It's beauty is bountyfull, many books have been wrote,
I see a different side, I see the fo...
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Categories:
fairfield, holiday, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Good Luck In Fairfield
...Good luck in Fairfield
Good luck in Vermont
Good luck using your words
Try not to get caught
Good luck with people
Good luck with yourself
Try to speak clearly
Try to think of Fairfield Pond...
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Categories:
fairfield, lovedream, dream,
Form: Free verse