ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

How about a little old fashioned romance?

REMEMBER
A perfect day as I recall among the Karrie grand and tall,
a stolen kiss, our first I think; for we were still so young back then.
Just you and I among the trees, the call of birds, the buzz of bees,
your golden hair and clear blue eyes I see it all now once again.

We stand before a mighty tree where once our names here used to be,
but sixty years have passed on by and little now can still be seen.
Remember as we passed this way I scratched them on this tree that day,
we laughed about that at the time; how smitten then I must have been.

And even after all these years I still can see your laughter tears,
when I had said there’s no escape, you’ll have to marry me one day.
Though little did we realise there that sixty years of life we’d share,
for we were still then in our teens; adulthood had seemed far away.

You squeeze my hand and smile and say it’s time that we were on our way.
You fret about me far too much, there’s still life in this old bloke yet.
Unsteadily we wander back along that old familiar track,
both lost in memories once more about a time we shan’t forget.

******

© T.E. Piggott

Ooooh! Them's beautiful words Terry - you are a romantic I can see that. You certainly met the challenge - Well done

Did you think to look up? Your initials will still be there - maybe 20 feet above your head though after 60 years

Awwww. Very romantic.

Hi Maureen,
Those giant Karrie don't move much in sixty years.
Maybe in a couple of hundred!

Terry

Hi Jackki (spelt it right this time)

Looks like we both used a similar theme here.

Goodonya Terry

Just an old romantic Neville

Terry