Susan's Ribbon

 Grandad gave her half-a-crown to buy a ribbon for her hair,  holding tight to Grandad's hand to the shop to see what's there. When they drew up to the counter reels of ribbons in a row, yellow, blue, pink and orange all the colours there on show, but for one her heart was set on, what she wished for there was none.

Grandad said there was a shop he knew a long long time ago, by the market in the old square when a young man he went there, to buy a ribbon for a sweetheart, to buy a ribbon for her hair.  In the old shop he and Susan walked up to the counter there,  Susan spent her two and sixpence on a ribbon,  a golden ribbon,  the one she wished for for her hair............

Time to Remember

                                                                    

Things faces friends places, years and moments half-forgotten.

Laughs, fears songs tears memories are made of this........

THINGS I know, FACES I love, FRIENDS to be with  PLACES to go.

YEARS I've lived through, AND MOMENTS in time.

HALF-FORGOTTEN stories told in rhyme

LAUGHS with my brother FEARS of crime,  SONG to be written,

and TEARS sometimes.

 MEMORIES of old times ARE here to stay.

And MADE OF THIS is my life to this day.........