Category: #napowrimo2024

Side pony-tails and blue wellies

Found your red dusty rusty earth

Enchanting the young, wild and free

Behind the fences of Wentworth.

I loved hopping over the sty

Hunting the chestnuts on the ground

Scaling the Oak into the sky

Enchanted by the woodland sound.

You line the memories of my heart

A drop in the ocean of me

And although we are miles apart

I think of you often, happily.

Thank you for my magic childhood

My little patch of English wood.

I am a blade of short grass

Dancing along the river

Bubbled by the southern sun

And simmered by Sunday mass.

I’m not like the other hues

I only long for one step more

Springing from this tight pruned world

An adventure for the true.

Life took me from my woodland

Skipping, stumbling with the breeze

The passage of time followed

As I learned to take command.

I still have many rocks to climb

In my dreams along the Rhine.