When I was just a little boy, my mother used to bake,
her weekly bread and muffins, and sometimes a fruit cake.
My playmates used to form a line, and sit along the gutter,
sometimes waiting an hour or more, for a muffin each with butter.
Midweek sometimes she’d cook rib stew, with peas and carrots too.
She’d have it cooking half a day, to boil the marrow through.
She said "it’s full of nourishment, you’ll all grow big like me"
I Looked and said "nowt" at the time, she was only five foot three.
Author notes
JUDMC Option no. 1
A contest entry
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Comments
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A fine short set of memories!
Thank you for sharing -- a very good shorter memory poem -- nice work -- Good luck in the contest!
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Take no notice of the comments. It's fine as it is. Good write.
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This is a great poem full of northern warmth and humour as well as sweet memories. Thanks for entering.
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Thank you for posting this delightful poem in my contest. Your imagery is wonderful.
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Just a few quick editorial comments.
- line 7. Looks like a typo; "you'l" -> "you'll"
- line 8. Is "nowt" supposed to be "naught"? Also, it's okay that you're not punctuating, but is there any chance you could do something (capitalize "at", maybe) to delineate the new thought?
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thepoetsings
Thanks for commenting on"Boyhood Memories."
I have made the relevant adjustments.By the way
the word "nowt" is a north of England expression
meaning "nothing", in the same way as Lol,
(the meaning and origin, of which I'm still not certain)has made it's way into common parlance,
in the U.S.A. thanks again,and Best Wishes George ++++
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Ahhh, okay. That's the thing about these anonymous contests - can't check up and see on where people are from. I mean, usually it's a dead giveaway if I see "colour" or "favourite"; if I'd really been thinking, "gutter" would have tipped me off as we generally call those curbs over here. At any rate, thanks for giving me a bit of an education!
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awwwwwwwwwwwwww sweet memories best of luck in contest
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