Beans

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beans, childhood, gardening, grandfather, happiness, memories, poetry, tanka

On feeling nostalgic (Tanka)

planting runner beans
memories of fun childhood
grandfather’s garden
as fast as he put them in
I managed to take them out

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Smiles

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friendship, haiku, life, memories, poems, poetry, smiles

So many years on

A quiver of memories

Old friends share their smiles

Sand

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childhood, haiku, happy, memories, poetry, sand, sandwiches, seaside

A view of the sea

Happy childhood memories

Sand in sandwiches

calm

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grief, grieving, haiku, loss, memories, pain, peace, poetry

On hearing of a friend’s grief

She had reached a peace
becalmed in her memories
years had eased the pains

fallen

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armistice, autumn, haiku, heroes, litter, memories, poetry

armistice gardens
fallen leaves lay in neat piles
empty burger wraps

Penny Pup

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beauty, haiku, memories, Penny, pets, puppy, spaniels, springer

(fond memories)

Such a lovely pup
My little pooch Penny Dog
Try not to say ‘Aww’

Ashes

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air, Ashes, cedar, haiku, memories, scented

From out of the blue
Scented cedar ashes float
Wind borne memories

Memories

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childhood, dragons, friendship, fun, games, haiku, memories, poem, poetry

Remember childhood?
We could fly, and fight dragons
Almost forever

Yesterday

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bouquet, dreams, haiku, memories, memory, sepia

Faded sepia,
Wistful smile from yesterday
Bouquet of lost dreams

fallen

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bugles, death, history, life, loss, memorial, memories, sadness, short story, war

On finding a neglected memorial to a forgotten war …

 

The bugle’s long faded call took with it all promise of eternal memory.
Names carved in stone often lasted not much longer than the generation
that composed them, causes became historical and worse, academic,
families adopted new priorities and the dead faded into unrecognised
faces staring from indistinct sepia cards.
Perhaps it was for the best: the solutions to conflicts were invariably the
result of pragmatism and essentially found in the present with an eye to
the future.
The fallen remained beyond all wanting; such is the nature of lives and
of deaths.