<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563616" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>(Memory Chest) Salvaging the Past</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How surprised the sea-chest must have been<br>when it left the sea <br>began voyaging with me.<br>No more travelling in the creak of the hold, <br>bringing home trinkets<br>from Sorrento and Port Said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instead<br>the trunk set out on my Rake's Progress through<br>West London's bedsits and flatshares, <br>painted white in my minimalist period, <br>covered with a kilim in my exotic Ealing phase, <br>acquired the status of the Holy Ark<br>when my childhood's relics, unearthed<br>from my parents' attic, <br>found no other home than this dark space, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">doubly dark, it rested under my own roof<br>when for three decades my life I<br>threw down an anchor, moored <br>and grew stiff with barnacles<br>When the storm broke.<br>the trunk was salvaged, and<br>I added relics of another childhood to its store.<br>These little shoes that danced, <br>these pictures from distant Mothers' Days, <br>concrete evidence of time gone..<br>And now., what is its fate? <br>This little chest has held my past <br>for over forty years. Shall I now inter more relics there? <br>Or...................?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Janice+Windle">Janice Windle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563616" data-title="(Memory Chest) Salvaging the Past de Janice Windle" data-description="How surprised the sea-chest must have been when it left the sea began voyaging with me. No more travelling in the creak of the hold, bringing home trinkets from Sorrento and Port Said Instead the trunk set out on my Rake's Progress through West..."></div> </div> </div>

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