A Cameo of Years Past

 

A clotheshorse about the fireplace

A pipe rack with father´s meerschaums on the hearth

A napoleon clock ticked the hours away

flanked by two brass candlesticks

The odour of damp clothes drying in a fiery light

Wellington boots by the kitchen door

The pantry long before the refrigerators arrived

with large earthenware jars full of pickled onions

A worn lampshade with ragged tassles

creating oddly ghost like shadows about the room

A table set for tea

A plate of buttered bread

A jar of strawberry jam and crockery 

which did not match

Wall paper in need of being replaced

My brother sat on a rug with his toy soldiers

A miniature fort with keep, drawbridge and moat

Two gaberdine coats hanging from the door

A room in a time for us all

No photographs exist of this normality

only a vivid picture forever impressed in my mind