Long Schooldays Poems

On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...

Read More

I sit breathing, feel the breaths in and out,
know the breaths long and short, wish the peace 
for heaven and earth, wish for soothing seasons 
of rain and wind, and wish for all to have...

Read More

A Life Well Lived
     by Robert J (Bob) Moore  (©2015)
The old man sat at the window, staring into space
people could only wonder, at the smile upon his face
but they had...

Read More

LEAVING BOYHOOD BEHIND


White shirt 'n' school tie to blue-collar, dress-code is changing with age
From schooldays to pay-days, from homework to hard work 
School bells and game playing to work's whistle and wage earning
With new mates,...

Read More

 
"Roll on tonight my mates are coming round
  For a few cold beers and some rocking sounds
  Time is drawing near, as I hear a knock at the door
  Blimey! at...

Read More

A Schoolboy’s Cornucopia
                                ...

Read More

Brought up from the womb of schooldays
Where memories still frames those mischief plays
Stuck with the thoughts of dreaming holly bolly babes
Comparing the beauties from among the best
The out and out gist, one surely misses those...

Read More

When we turned eleven
our schooldays turned to memories.
The descent into the clanking dark
commenced as chalk-dust abandoned our nostrils.
Reborn as the men o’ the black seam
when we turned eleven.

I cried myself to sleep at night,
bones stiffened...

Read More

It’s been many years since I’d climbed the wooden steps to my parent’s attic. The hinges of the trap door creak and a cloud of dust rises as I push the door open. I fumble...

Read More

Can you recall being in school?
The clock, whose hands, never seemed to move!

The scent of fresh pencil shavings, m-m-m.
A box of new crayons to not only open, but to smell.

The desks we had, actually had...

Read More

I was named 'kashinath' by grandfather,
but from very schooldays to colleges
and throughout my life's different stages,
my name was trimmed to 'kashi' by others!

It is a very old name in India,
my friends used to tease me...

Read More

Mirror of memories 





As he stands by me,
wonder if he is the one?
my first love ?

Subtle emotions of schooldays, classroom,
Those moments 
of togetherness in canteen,
For one cup of coffee,
teasings and laughter,
I remember everything ....
But for...

Read More

Sitting on the window sill with the wind in my hair

I gaze up into the stars, pondering the great unknown.

Thinking back of that night, when I heard your first cry 

tears of joy filled my...

Read More

Jackie Hall was very very tall
But I was very very small
I’d shrink back in the shadows for fear of being seen
Because Jackie and her gang were very very mean.

My only time of sanctuary was when...

Read More

Schooldays sweethearts, they grew through their teens
Enjoying life together living their young scenes

He knew there would be a day to complete their task
He went down on one knee, he'd a question to ask

My darling Elaine...

Read More

Its JUST another bruise, another cut
JUST about time you kept your mouth shut
Only JUST walked in, through the front door
One minute standing, then JUST fell to the floor
Should have said where id JUST been
Kept a...

Read More

I remember the painting, with a heavy heart....I
remember my best friend Valerie, how we sat and talked.
which was beating the most my heart or the sun
as in the shade of my red parasol
memories of my...

Read More

In my schooldays I had a stream to sit on its bank in cool air
Tender fingers moving in my hair with grace in the form fair

As I grew up the stream disappeared in order to...

Read More

The auld fella’s auld fella left the tech
after Ripening for sixteen summers.

Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a
shovel and a pick at his lonely boots.

‘DIG’. he knew that Language. and by God
did he dig. there is a dignity

in breaking...

Read More

Memory - that trickster of time
that gives us glimpses, pictures sublime
of rose tinted schooldays, birthdays and more
sandcastled weekends and Christmas of yore.
Yet, seems to paint over the guilt and the pain,
the bullying schoolboy, the weekend...

Read More

When love was innocent 





If he would keep one seat for me beside,
Glad inside I would try my best to hide,

Would pray teacher gave difficult sum to him,
So that he turned to me in the...

Read More

Embrace the new technologies, 
acquiring knowledge as your goal, 
in the realm of search and seizure 
feed your mind, refresh your soul. 

Social Media and bloggers, 
irritants in cyber space 
will whore themselves for your...

Read More

For no reason I suddenly burst into song 
an old tune from my childhood, while walking along
								
Took me back forty years – I was forming a band
and those awful school dinners that we couldn’t stand...

Read More

Embrace the new technologies, 
acquiring knowledge as your goal, 
in the realm of search and seizure 
feed your mind, refresh your soul. 

Social Media and bloggers, 
irritants in cyber space 
will whore themselves for your...

Read More

As a five year old first day at school
I first clapped eyes on you
Looking big and nobodies fool
Wanted you, to look at me too

Girls were a nuisance
I once heard you say
Tried to keep my distance
To...

Read More