Hall Of Fame June 1999

We regret that Christine's work "Facing The Music" is no longer available.

Two Dog Grey White Photograph
By John Tyson
Poetry 102

Faded, tattered, creased and torn,
my grey white face of yesterday
where I a blonde and curly child,
so full of hope on grey white chair
next to my old straw dog on wheels
whose name I cannot recollect,
except he trundled by my side
forever in my grey white world.

It shows a time of long ago.
Before the sound of marching feet
Before the air raid warning's wail
that sounded when the bombers came.
A world of innocence and joy
shared by one small fair haired boy
A world that is no more because
it passed away with Nazi war.

I wish I had the innocence
of faded, tattered photograph.
A grey white sunlit garden scene
with neighbour's noisy terrier dog
who ran along and barked at me
through grey white wooden picket fence,
because I dared to offer him
a small and grubby friendship hand.

Now I am older all is gone.
I can but pray that I'll return
to two dog land of innocence
in long lost grey white garden scene
preserved on one small photograph,
All that remains of my young world
before that world grew old and tired
and I had made my future past.

Copyright ©1999 John Tyson. All Rights Reserved.

The Hall of Fame - June 1999

Two Dog Grey White Photograph By John Tyson Poetry 102

Two Dog Grey White Photograph
By John Tyson
Poetry 102