I remember

Each month our local writers' groups sets one or two themes for members to write about. This month it was "I remember" This is my first attempt at writing any sort of poetry.

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Mini skirts, bell bottoms and my first kiss

Serials, cartoons and newsreels at the flicks

Ice skating, tadpole catching and cycling to school.

Milkbars, juke boxes and being cool

Biscuits, sugar and flour that were weighed

Five jacks, marbles and ball games we played

Smokey Dawson, Roy Rogers and Peter Pan

The milkman, the baker and the dunny man

Cilla, Cliff and of course, the Beatles

Iodine, Mercurochrome and Condy’s crystals

Rock concerts at The Stadium; tennis at White City

Polio injections without any pity

Surfies, rockers and the mods

Measles, mumps and chicken pox

Secret Seven, Bobbsey Twins and Nurse Ames

Golden books and Charlie Chuckles with its games

Rampant bushfires, drowning floods and August wattle

Drop the hankie, pass the parcel and spin the bottle

Tunnel ball, vigoro and hopscotch

The Mickey Mouse Club we’d all watch

Kittens and puppies and many budgies

School milk and sandwiches with my buddies

Bonfires, crackers and sparklers bright

But the scary stories would give us a fright

Cut out dolls, cowboy hats and hula hoops

Bandstand and Six O’clock Rock and fab groups

The twist, the stomp and a parental frown

A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down