Terry Collett Poems

Miss Pinkie (she dropped
the title Mrs from
her name ages ago)
lay on the sofa
...

Jane's mother said
she was up by the church
and so you went up

the path leading
...

Janice helped you
to gather up
the loose pieces of coal
on the cobbled road
...

He's gone off to war once more.
Polly has seen him leave from
an upstairs window. Master George
in his smart uniform getting into
...

Granddad had a front room
full of treasures

to your child's eyes
...

You walked Fay
to your new school
off Tower Bridge Road
one Saturday morn
...

At your grandmother's house
on the stairs
there was a statue
of a cocker spaniel
...

Those are primroses
Jane said
pointing to flowers
in a hedgerow
...

Miss Snoot sat
in the front of the class
near the teacher's desk
next to the short blonde girl
...

There was
on the sideboard
in your granddad's house
a small statue
...