Memories of another time
Memories of another time .....
My memory stirs to take me back...to our home beside
the railroad track
where back and forth the shunter went...never seeming
to relent.
Empty box cars shunted in...to be filled with
coal....from....
the coal yard bin
the whistle blew...then clickety clack...it pushed the
cars along the track.
The coal yard was our frontal view...these sounds we
were accustomed too.
to see and hear trains day and night...was no more to
us...than a familiar sight.
It was another era...another time...when we lived at
.old 69'.
the war had just ended, times were tough...what jobs
there were...didn't pay enough.
There was little money to be had...there were six of
us ,,,and Mom and Dad.
In winter, our only source of heat...was a wrought iron
stove to warm hands and feet.
our house was rented....in need of repair...but the land-
lady didn't seem to care.
Dad's job didn't pay a whole lot...Mom stretched the
the meager wages.,...he got.
passed down clothes from one sister to another.....
which were mended and altered by our busy
mother..
Groceries were charged at the corner store ....we were
clean and neat ....but we were poor.
somehow, it didn't seem that way...your only poor...if
you can't pay.
And we got by and learned to share...cause...love dwelt
in that home there.
it enriched our lives in so many ways...to treasure and
cherish all our days.
Our parents are gone now, we are grown....with homes
and families of our own.
but always my mind still wanders back ...to that house
beside... the railroad track.
written by me
Norma J. Suddard back in January 1997.
About this poem
a true account of a memory stirred my imagination once again and I couldn't stop writing stories and my binders are filled to capacity with both. Many, many, many of my poems came out as a memory stirred my mind and my pen just wrote about growing up in small town. This is a true account of that time. Norma J. Suddard
Written on January 21, 1997
Submitted by norma.suddard on August 21, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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