Meccano Poems

I REMEMBER my yesteryears

...I REMEMBER (1)

Candles & nightlights
   flickering bright
blackout curtains
    shutting out light

Dripping setting
   from Sunday's roast
spread  thick
on Monday's toast

Paper chains
...

Growing Up

...Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.

Dripping setting from Sunday's...

My Favourite Time As a Child

...When I look back on my childhood
the pre-school days were the best
living as an only child in the country
although adopted was treated as a guest

In my bedroom, I played with my toys
lots of f...

Memories Fresh As Yesterday

...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping se...

Past Times 10

...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping se...

Memories Made of This

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

dripping sett...

Good Old Days In Deed

...CANDLES and NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.

Dripp...

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Poetry

...A poet lost for words with writer’s block and barrage

		Playing with Lego in Copenhagen

Anderson’s mermaid hard on the rock

		Casting away the human soul

The artist failing construction i...

Meccano Number One

...Start life in a pushchair
end up in a wheelchair
that
doesn't sound fair to me

I'd like a parachute.

but we rise as we fall
keep our eyes
on the ball and
the game plays out as it will.

...

Toys of Yesteryear

...Toys from Yesteryear

Sitting very quietly, looking at a blank page
Prompted me to pen a poem about toys that were all the rage
I had some wooden jigsaw blocks when I was only two
In a wooden  b...

Age of Ten

...AGE OF TEN

	Way back then when I was ten 
Things were so very different then
I wrote with ink in a fountain pen
Whenever we could we would build a den 
And I loved to help my dad in the gar...

A Touch of Nostalgia Fitton Hill Story Group Short Version

...A TOUCH OF NOSTALGIA (Fitton Hill Story Group)
When we were little we would all gather                                                                                                                ...

Candles Nightlights Recited

...CANDLES&NIGHTLIGHTS
Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.
Dripping setting...

Lest We Forget

...I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine, street wise scholars.
Conkers,* glass alleys* a...

Candles and Nightlights

...Candles and nightlights flickering bright,
blackout curtains shutting out the moonlight.
Snuggle down cosy with blankets tight,
perhaps the war will end to-night.

Dripping setting from Sunday's roas...

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