Pete's Yesterday

Yesterday
Bronze
FamilyTree
Yromem
Better Than You?
Be Elected
Bang On Time
St.Johns Church
Eltham Palace
Stanley
P.C.
Think Again
Colonel Everest
Elizabeth Leggatt
The Queens House
Nought Line Meridian
Starling
Pit Bull Terror
Horse
Chinese Tiger
S.O.S.
Biggin Hill
The Trossachs
Stick Of Rock
Ye Olde Salutation
Nazca
Mystery
The Old Vicarage
True Or False
Killer
Blow The Wind Southerly
Autumn
A Little More Time
Lace
Cumulus
Minority
Silence
Shout Shout.....!
Altogether Now
Ambitious
K.P.A.
Take Off
Next Patient
Accentuate The Positive
Mum
Evacuee
School Meals
Steam
Frankie Howard
With Love
Mark Pilford
Wedding Dress
Gone Shopping
My Love
Piccadilly Circus
Retired
The field
Opposite Twenty Nine Healey Road,
A man-made Hill,
Remains of a treasure lode,
Coal

This minor Round
Was my stamping ground,
Where, as a boy aged nine,
I spent some time
Pondering my position and place,
Where often I turned my wet face
Towards The Sky,
And screamed my questioning cry,
"What have you done to me?"

Dragged shouting, kicking,
From that other Place,
To this previous unheard of "pecking order"
Though far removed from Nazi Marauder,
These green fields, this freedom land,
And yet, close at hand
Venom from the Passing Band,
My so called Contemporaries!

Even in the dreaded classroom
Miss Pieshaw threatened me.
"Grinidge lad, dust tha speak English,
Green Witch its plain to see?"

No wonder I ran away,
No wonder I sucked my thumb.
My childhood stolen from me,
When I desperately needed my Mum!

Ossett, Yorkshire 1944 ......
from London Borough of Greenwich.