***
the child danced
a song without words
wind laughed playfully
***

***
happily all day
child traced patterns with a stick
on dry sandy soil
***

***
a pirate
sailing the seven seas
child on upturned dining table
***

***
the child's parents
did not believe in prayer
but the child prayed anyway
***

***
running barefoot along the sand
the child stopped and turned
she watched her footprints fill with water
***

***
grandma said grace
the child eyed her dinner
getting cold
***

***
tears kept wanting to leak out of her eyes
the child never realized
this was sadness
***

***
the child's doll
her mama box silent
after having a bath...
***

***
"Well I never"
the little girl said
to her broken doll
***

***
in her mind
were all the books
the child could ever read
***
hands pressed against the attic window
the child watched the slow Lancaster bombers
thundering over in the dark night sky
***

***
the little girl
always wanted
a big red plastic train engine
***

***
in amazement
the child danced
a song without words
wind laughed playfully
***

***
happily all day
child traced patterns with a stick
on dry sandy soil
***

***
a pirate
sailing the seven seas
child on upturned dining table
***

***
the child's parents
did not believe in prayer
but the child prayed anyway
***

***
running barefoot along the sand
the child stopped and turned
she watched her footprints fill with water
***

***
grandma said grace
the child eyed her dinner
getting cold
***

***
tears kept wanting to leak out of her eyes
the child never realized
this was sadness
***

***
the child's doll
her mama box silent
after having a bath...
***

***
"Well I never"
the little girl said
to her broken doll
***

***
in her mind
were all the books
the child could ever read
***
hands pressed against the attic window
the child watched the slow Lancaster bombers
thundering over in the dark night sky
***

***
the little girl
always wanted
a big red plastic train engine
***

***
in amazement
child watched monsters striding across wheat fields
electric pylons
***

***
the child always knew
she belonged to nature
and to the sea
***

***
standing by the stream
out of time
child and her brother
***

***
a summer's day
time stretched
for the child
***

***
the child and her brother
danced like two leaves
until the breeze caught him
***
***
she talked to the tramp
but the child found out
he was a war veteran who’d lost everything
***

electric pylons
***

***
the child always knew
she belonged to nature
and to the sea
***

***
standing by the stream
out of time
child and her brother
***

***
a summer's day
time stretched
for the child
***

***
the child and her brother
danced like two leaves
until the breeze caught him
***

***
she talked to the tramp
but the child found out
he was a war veteran who’d lost everything
***

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