Writer Highlight Featuring: Sue Lobo

OLD BOOTS AND CASTANETS

In the old attic of dreams forgotten &
yesterday´s plans,
Of finding old books & lace that turns
to dust in my hands,
Disintegrating memories of lives lived, now
dead & gone,
Of childhood, dancers & thespians &
of singer´s lost song,
Raiment patched by mother, Gran´s scarf
with love knitted,
Old fancy-dress silks, Roman helmets, in
games to be kitted,
Musty scents, smells of old perfumes, the
dead fingered dust,
Sun tiptoeing in fearfully, showing bronze
tarnished & old rust.
On the echoes of floorboards, the stamping
of Alhambra´s Ole,
Now, castanets cruelly silenced & old
feet, no longer at play,
I spy in the corner, boots of cracked
leather & laces well frayed,
Soles, by day toiling hard land, at night
they dancingly swayed,
Where are those far away feet, of those
busy lives well lived?
Gone now to heaven & dust, passed,
buried, truly well sieved,
Those old feet in old boots, now dancing
all sins cleansed away,
Leaving in my attic, just the whispered
echoing of cheered Ole’.

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