These memories

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These memories

Held in powerful form

As though they still live

In the bright sunshine

Where they first were

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Love for these days

Spent in this place

Of childhood dreams

With carpet of soft green

And canopy of verdant branch.

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The water

Ice against the day’s heat

Licking lily feet

While underneath

Rocks smooth and age worn.

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The dark banks

Hiding small creatures’ lives

Spotted fleetingly

And we in this other life

Pointing with excited words.

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The woods downstream

Deep and cool; numinous

In an Enid Blyton mind

Explored voraciously

With soft cheek wonder.

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Then, with nature flowing through our veins

We would travel home

The smell of the sun on our skin

And the feeling that

The world was good.

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Learning, writing and connecting with May prompt-a-day from Writealm; today’s prompt is ‘memory’

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