Another perfect day...
poem by:
Frank Hornby .
Written
on Feb 09, 2021
"We'd walk about a mile up the East Lanc's road...leading to the back of the Kraft, it was a magical place where we all played...explored, and always had a laugh. It was just behind the Cheese Factory...like a wild nature reserve...honest it really was class!"...we'd crawl through the hole in the big fence...to play, and hide in the long willowy grass. Catching sticklebacks, and tadpoles...we brought home in jam jars, it was another place to escape to...despite our legs covered in scratches, and scars....Happily we'd play there for hours, and hours...losing all sense of meaningless time....getting covered in mucky mud..not forgetting the frogspawn slime. Just eight years old, and having the time of our young, innocent lives... but the disappointment is real, when hometime finally arrives. So homeward we trudged, having ran out of more games to play, wearily, but safely arriving home...at the end of yet another Perfect Day!"
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Frank Hornby . commented on Feb 10, 2021 at 7:18am
I won't forget that little "oasis" behind the Kraft cheese factory in Kirkby...great memories....
ann parks
commented on Feb 20, 2021 at 1:31am
yet another perfect poem thank you
Frank Hornby .
commented on Feb 20, 2021 at 8:53am
Thank you Ann....you are so kind with your comments....I love going back in time....ðŸ‘ðŸ»
ann parks
commented on Feb 22, 2021 at 12:13am
Hey Frank.... talking of jam jars - remember the growing mustard seeds in the jam jars with the pink blotting paper? I say this poem is perfect because you convey the happiness we found in simple things....thanks for reminding me.
Cecilia Crasto
commented on Feb 28, 2021 at 12:27am
For some reason I felt the need to check in on PS and so glad I did for I got to read this delightful poem about the past related by my favorite poet. Hope you and the family are all well Frank, considering the way this Pandemic has impacted the lives of everyone. Stay safe and well my dear friend. Love and blessings-Cecilia.
Frank Hornby .
commented on Feb 28, 2021 at 8:53am
Yeah I do remember in the infants school....the seeds growing on blotting paper, and carrot tops sprouting on saucers of water....it's amazing what sticks in your mind....it really does make you feel happy recalling all that simple stuff...😃...I loved all those nature lessons as a kid...(still do)....one time we were playing at the "back of the Kraft"...I must've been about ten yrs old...I rescued a hare caught in a poachers snare ..the wire was around its neck....it was thrashing about in the grass...me and my mate dived on it and I claimed it as mine ...and took it home ...when me ma seen it, she screamed at me to "get it out of the kitchen!"....she wouldn't let me keep it!...I had to let it go...I was gutted...hahaha..great memories Ann...stay safe..ðŸ‘ðŸ»
Frank Hornby .
commented on Feb 28, 2021 at 9:07am
Ahh..Cecilia!....g'day missus...😃..it's great hearing from ya!...it good to know you are well...and yeah, I'm still dipping into my past to put into verse..(I can't help it)...thanks for your lovely comments..ðŸ‘ðŸ»......it won't be long before the world is rid of this curse, and we can go about our lives freely...😷 and not have to wear masks....✌ðŸ»...stay safe ...(I'm still waiting for another of your lovely poems to appear)....bye for now..🤛
Keith Jepson
commented on Oct 06, 2021 at 4:42am
Another koinkadink Frank! We had a place like that under a railway arch in Wakefield. I felt I was there with you reading this, the difference was I hated going 'home' Nice one,
Frank Hornby .
commented on Oct 06, 2021 at 5:42am
Hahaha.."Koinkadink"...that's gorra be a Yorkshire word..right?.....thank god we had those places to escape to when we were kids eh?...I'm glad I jogged a distant memory for you...thanks for reading, and commenting Keith...much appreciated....
Keith Jepson
commented on Oct 26, 2021 at 12:02pm
Spot on Frank...
Talal Uddin
commented on Dec 24, 2021 at 3:05pm
Those was the golden times of our life. It seems to me that I would like to go back to that life once again.
Frank Hornby .
commented on Nov 10, 2022 at 12:41pm
Talal, thanks for reading and commenting....and yeah I'd readily pay to be taken back to the '60s....and relive the good times... (only the good times)..thanks again mate...
