THE GREEN

We shared the scarcity

The borrowed cup of sugar

And clothes passed on

From house to house

Around the Green

Teeming laughing

Screaming children

Trolleys skates and hobbies

Running down the avenues

Fathers going out to work

In scorching heat

And biting cold

A life that took its toll

And Mothers ever present

Baking bread

In warm kitchens

Making ends meet

Out of the loaves and fishes

Of our limitations

The feeding of the multitude

Of life’s desires

Around the Green

Beyond the Green

And coming down the avenues
To home again and sound refreshing sleep

In the small rooms of our childhood.

The Wind

This is the wind

To be in bed with

Snug beneath

The piles of eiderdown

Memories

Times of innocent

Music

Walking lightly

On the earth

This is the wind

Rushing down

The ancient chimney

Like Pentecost

Dancing on the fire

Of lively flame

Unruly smoke

Reminding us to be

More playful