Mary Garratt
To: Glyn Boon: Chronicle Photographer. 31st March 1995.
Spring in Astbury
1.
Thank you for the picture
Of daffodils which blow
On Astbury Green in Springtime
Undaunted by the snow.
2.
Memories of my father
Those flowers brought to me
If he can choose his Heaven
On that Green he’ll be.
3.
Dancing midst the “daffies”
As in the days of yore
He danced with Morris Dancers.
The Green was then their floor.
4.
In Astbury at Wakes time
Our family always met.
And also at the May Day
A party tea was set.
5.
My Great Aunt in command,
The village shop did run.
Sweets, bread and little treasures
To us it was great fun.
6.
The house still lit by oil lamps
In Nineteen sixty three.
From the tap cold water only
For washing up the tea.
7.
But o’er the huge fire’s magic
Twinkling brass did glow -
Horse brasses, kitchen items -
In use not long ago.
8.
Around the lamp-lit table
Old and young together,
Discussing rhymes and stories,
Or changes in the weather.
9.
Enchanted days now long gone,
No more to pass my way,
To life brought by a picture
In my newspaper today.
Mary Garratt |