Category: Memories
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Flagbreak
Unfurl A summer morning, Worsley woods, west of Manchester the sun just peaking through the nest of trees circle of tents in various spots and a scout leader starting the beginnings of an altar fire little faces pop out of the niger tents to grab a view breakfast served at 8 am sharp but first, […]
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Tale of a Pencil Case
Salford 18th March 2018 Anyone who’s read the “First Day at School” piece on here, will know how in my first year at High school – i ended up in Needlework for form. Well, during the school week that year – as well as your regular stuff from English and Maths, Geography, History and all….we […]
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Tend
Salford, 9th February 2018 Tend Plants need looking after when they’re little. I remember , as a lad being given three packets of seed by my Grandad. they never told me what was in those silver packets but each day i’d go to my spot by the lawn, to see what popped out of the […]
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Evoke
Evoke Every memory can be triggered Veils of happy tears and wonderful times at an Occasion such as a cousins wedding Kept safe in the head until Engaged by a sight , sound or even a smell
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Moving Day
Relocate Salford, 5th December 2017 It came like a bolt out of the blue. I cant remember the date – i remember the announcement “I put an offer in – they’ve accepted!” we were moving house. Over the next few days – boxes were packed and preparations laid, as carpet and kitchen came in and […]
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At the zoo
Zoo A poem , written on a visit to Edinburgh zoo, with my nephews and the rest of the family I went to the zoo today, Saw a small elephant play. A Tiger with stripes and great big paws and a Lion with Mane and great big claws! but that wasn’t everything i saw Today […]
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Particular
Particular Take a day, any day And a place, any place Now take a time, any time and capture it Freeze frame in your memory That was the day you ate that Sandwich at the quayside cafe and saw brave souls in Frogsuits dive headlong in the eerie deep waters of a Salford Canal Basin […]
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Glorious!
in response to the prompt – Glorious Side, Turkey – 2007 Looking through the old photos again enjoying a walk in the mangavat valley near to our holiday apartment as i remember, the sun was a little hot – and this was taken later in the afternoon remains of a roman wall, set among grains […]
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Recite
Recite Inky, enters the TARDIS again….and lands in Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC High…third year english..and the origins of his poetry I recall old wooden benches – the ones with (ironically) the old inkwell’s set into the base. Mountains of Books handed down from pupil to pupil and placed strategically on what i’d now […]
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walking through pea soup
Foggy a cold morning on a Salford autumn day the vapour gathering round lampposts neon attempts in vain to cut through roads deserted for miles dipped headlights order of the day yet no ones on the road school patrols in day glo uniform stand lonesome all football ⚽️ matches in the schoolyard called as score draws […]
The Inkwell 