Memories and images from my childhood; specifically, the TV shows I watched before I went to school, in the very early 1950's, have come back recently.
Good old Google images brought me photos from those shows, and reminded me of some I had forgotten. I may be writing more poems about these. The titles are especially evocative, and at times ironic:
Bertie the Bunyip!
Ding Dong School ( with Miss Frances)
Winky Dink, where you sent away for a thick plastic screen to cover the TV screen, so you could draw on the screen with Winky Dink!
Queen for a Day!
I could go on, but the poem I have written doesn't really concern any of those:
Always
My favorite
song on Fifties TV
Can’t
remember the name of the show;
It was on
before I entered kindergarten.
Small TV
tube, everything black and white,
Just three
channels,
But on some
show, on in the middle of the day,
A man was
singing
“I’ll be
loving you… Always.
With a love
that’s true… Always.”
My four year
old heart warmed to the lyrics
To the
lilting music.
What was
Always to me then?
The hour
when twilight turned to darkness?
When rain seemed to pour without ceasing?
What did I
know of Always?
My four year
old heart and its promise .
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