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Ghostly Way
My father and mother in front, us boys behind.
It was the most wonderfully frightening experience for us back then.
When asked it was always the way we wanted to go.
Not the usual way down the brightly lit carriageway, but
through the village then, a turn to the right
down the 'ghosty' way on our way back home.
Dimming the car lights
The horror show could begin.
The white blanketed road...
Monday 16th July 2018 9:25 am
An empty house, a full life
Standing outside her house
staring at the water-starved fuchsia
on her dusty window sill
still clinging onto life with blood-coloured blooms
Until a few weeks ago
she lived here
surrounded by her few possessions
haunted by the memories
of her children
who no longer inhabit this earth.
Her body is frail
and she can no longer live here
My sadness as I look upon her life
is compou...
Friday 15th June 2018 8:51 am
Detached memories
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
I found fragments of a past life
Remained forgotten for long years
Cast along the wayside
Of memory's lane.
Branches of a time displaced.
Misplaced and left to fade away
Vague memories of my past
Or of a past that is now detached
From my spirit.
Did I really live that life?
Or are these souvenirs from a past not m...
Friday 23rd March 2018 8:37 pm
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