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Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2291016
A collection of my autobiographical poems
#1046108 added May 17, 2023 at 11:31pm
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Dusty Memories
Memories float like whispers,
tattered dreams of distant times.
An echo of childish laughter
trips down towards the creek.

The thump of the pump in the old tin shed
laid to rest in a rusty bed.
The gurgle of the creek calls me on,
tempting me,
the forgotten allure of Marmite and watercress sandwiches.

The hay barn where dust motes
danced in shafts of light
and the old abandoned cowshed -
gone.
Destroyed on a path to progress.

But in my dreams, a little girl
who looks a lot like me
still searches for goose eggs to take home for Mother
and sits in the feijoa tree
and dares the world to steal her dreams.



Free verse. Written 24 February 2015.

Second place in "Shadows and Light Poetry ContestOpen in new Window. (March 2015).
Third place in Whispers of the Soul contest (February 2015).



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