FUNNY WHAT MAKES YOU THINK OF THINGS

FUNNY WHAT MAKES YOU THINK OF THINGS

Funny what makes you think of things –

I haven’t thought about this in years

The thick verdant pink

Of the cherry blossom

Still clinging with

Quiet determination

To the springtime trees

Awaiting winds and storms

And a flower petal snowstorm

Funny what makes you think of things –

I haven’t thought about that in years

Funny but it took me right back –

I hadn’t thought about this in years

Inside the garden

Next door but one to ours

And the vast tree

In the very middle

That caused a sudden thick

Deep springtime blizzard

To kick my small shoes through

Funny what makes you think of things –

I haven’t thought about that in years

Funny but I’m standing right there –

I haven’t thought about this in years

In the garden of

Dot and Tom Hayhurst

She used to feed me lunch

In school holidays

When Mum and Dad were at work

Dot fainted once in the kitchen

And I didn’t know quite what to do

Funny what makes you think of things –

I haven’t thought about that in years

Funny what makes you think of things –

I haven’t thought about this in years

Tom used to dress like

Frank Spencer on telly

A beret and a gabardine mac

A radio ham – his huge green shed

Beyond the thickly moulting tree

Had a huge antenna which seemed to reach

Right up to the sky to that younger me

Funny what makes you think of things –

I haven’t thought about that in years

Martin A W Holmes, April 2017