When was the time in your life that you look back upon with greatest fondness?

Views in Verse - on 'the golden years'. 


When was the time in your life that you look back upon with greatest fondness?

I bet you can guess what I'm thinking ...those first few years out of school!!!

Such a short period within the greater context of our lives

but so key to what we were to become as adults.

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Looking back
as I sometimes do
A memory comes to mind:
Halcyon times...
Life out of school...
 'rafferty's rules' and...
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Dishes piled high in the kitchen
Washing only ever on need
Rarely much food anyhow
If per chance you fancied a feed
Do take-out
or do without at
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Always a new friend over
Staying till last one there
No extra beds needed
just sleep anywhere
The door was ever open
Drop'ins standard fare at
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We shared our books
and crosstown buses...
Studying as we'd go
Night time was the time for fun
Our student friends would show
Our parents came by too
Chat for a while
then go at
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Despite our different backgrounds
We cared for each other with pride
Sharing each others problems
Fighting each others fights
There was no me in us
Rarely a fuss (at)
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Making love to the late nite trains
With a real tin roof for the rain
A first love came and went
We each shared that same pain
Learning to live
learning to love at
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Days raced by
no time to think
Talk was the key
cheap wine the drink
Music the backdrop
sometimes loud
MJ set us free...


Some of us played 101 guitar
Never one of them in tune
Doin' our best with vintage rock
Sat'day arvo from noon
Rhythm was the challenge
Laughter was on cue at
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We seemed to know
where we were going
Without ever wondering how
We shared so much together
With rarely a shout or a row
Self control on show
Where it came from
I now don't know...at
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Some of us took fulltime jobs
Few resisted the call
the winds of change
were by then blowing
Far too hard at the door
Our own needs were changing too
life partners changed it all at
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Somewhere within this makeshift 'home'
In going about our days
we became something we didn't plan
Within this sometime haze
Where pawns became kings
in learning life's
most precious things at
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These days ...a busy life
few regrets come to my door
But whenever things
do get me down
I call upon lessons
learnt all those years before
in preparing for life
(and meeting my wife)
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Forwarded from my Ipad - Grahame J Flynn