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Описание: When I was just a child of five,
Those summer days would come alive,
With Mum in charge, her heart so merry,
We’d head down to the Penny-Ferry.

Our swimsuits packed, our spirits high,
Beneath the blue of England’s sky,
One towel shared by all, no care,
Just sun and laughter everywhere.

Old bottles filled with water clear,
Our “picnic” — simple, cheap, sincere,
We’d march past the George and Dragon’s door,
To where the ferry touched the shore.

Across the Thames, so calm, so wide,
We’d glide to reach the other side,
Where Mums and children splashed away,
In shallows bright with golden play.

The river glowed a gentle green,
The clearest water ever seen,
And ripples danced from passing boats,
Like little songs the current wrote.

Beneath the sand, soft ripples curled,
Freshwater mussels lined that world,
A treasure trove beneath our toes,
Where sunlight through the water glows.

You never see them now, alas,
Just memories through time’s thin glass,
Yet sometimes still, at the henley Prom,
One shell appears — a ghost, a psalm.

But clearest still, that fateful day,
When Mum’s kind heart led me astray,
For knitted trunks (her loving feat),
Fell straight and soggy round my feet!

Still clutching tight, I didn’t care,
I splashed about without despair,
One hand for trunks, one hand for play,
I kicked! and laughed the hours away.

Oh Mum — the lengths that love will go,
To see her children’s faces glow,
Those knitted trunks, that ferry ride,
Still warm my heart with grateful pride.

For though the years have slipped and flown,
That river’s rhythm humms its tone,
And in my heart I’ll always see,
The joy aboard the Penny-Ferry.
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Catch Ya Later ....
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A heartfelt rhyming poem recalling childhood summers on the River Thames crossing by the Wargrave Penny-Ferry, splashing in the shallows, and a mother’s love that knitted happiness (and swimming trunks!) from the heart.
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