The Lights Of Castle Kennedy Poem by jim hogg

The Lights Of Castle Kennedy



I see the Copper Beech between
The Plane tree and the Evergreen
The old stone wall beside the road
The crescent where the street lights glowed

A bunch of kids outside the shop
When time was slow but didn't stop
In photographs of black and white
Our loads were small, our eyes were bright


Still playing in my memory
The sights of Castle Kennedy
I hear a haunting melody
By the lights of Castle Kennedy


The stone fights in the county yard
Left some of us a wee bit scarred
We roamed for miles on sunny days
The punches flew and then we played

Kaleidoscope of days and nights:
the splores beneath the village lights
the hedges and the fences smashed
the boagies that we built and crashed


Still playing in my memory
Those nights in Castle Kennedy
They weave a haunting melody
By the lights of Castle Kennedy


And there was romance too of course
That certain girl across the road
I get the urge to call her yet
A number I can not forget

I ran my fingers through her hair
But I was still too shy to dare
As summer stars gave way to dawn
The moment came and then was gone


Still playing in my memory
The sights of Castle Kennedy
I hear a haunting melody
By the lights of Castle Kennedy


I look across the fields from here
So far away and yet so near
The endless bend, a starlit night
Some kids beneath old Maggie's light

I see the leaving and the loss
The waters we set out to cross
The crazy days and pains of youth
The endings that came all too soon



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COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Iris Blue 28 November 2013

A nostalgic ballad of love and loss - the emotions stirred are tangible and the haunting melody audible...

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