GOLDEN MEMORIES
LONG HOT CHILDHOOD SUMMERS OF BALMY DAZE
WALKS ALONG THE SANDY TERRAIN OF BEACHES
REMEMBERED IN SUCH SECURIOUS BLISSFUL WAYS
WARM WATER HOLES SPLASHED ABOUT IN FAR OFF REACHES
LIKE MERMAIDS AND GOLDFISH IN AN IMPERIOUS SHIMMERING POOL
BATHED IN HAPPINESS
SAVOURING GOLDEN VANILLA ICE DRIBBLES ON THE NOSE
MADE US GIGGLE TO OUR TOES
THEN ARMED TO THE READY WITH BUCKETS AND SPADES
SAND CASTLES CAREFULLY MADE WITH PARENTAL KINDNESS OF HAND
THERE TO COMFORT AS THE TIDE WASHES THEM AWAY
TO THE AUSPICES OF VAST COLD UNKNOWN WATERY LAND
GOLDEN DAYS
GOLDEN SHARDS EMBRACING ARMS
LIFE GIVING SUN CALLED TO CALM
ILLUMINATION THROUGH DAWN'S BREAKING
SHROUDED DIMMED DARKNESS OF NIGHT
EVER BRIGHTENING MORNING LIGHT
RISES LIKE MIDAS GOD UBIQUITOUSLY TOUCHES ALL IN SIGHT
ALL SLOWLY RESURRECTED TO LIFE
HEAT EXPENDED TO WARM HEMISPHERES
TO TROPICAL HEIGHTS TEASES ALL FLORA FAUNA UPWARDS TO PHOTOSYNTHESIZE SOLAIRE'S LIFE GIVING VITAMINS
NUTRIENTS NECESSARY FOR HUMAN HEALTH
TO YIELD FULL STRENGTHENED STEALTH, PHYSICAL WEALTH
GOLDEN TIMES
GOLDEN LIQUID MOLTEN MOLDED INTO GOLD BARS
INGOTS RINGS FOR EVERYONE'S DELIGHT
TREASURED SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL
BEFORE HISTORY RECORDED AND ELIZABETHAN DAYS
GOLD CHAINS WORN, PAINTINGS FRAMES GILDED
BARTERED EXCHANGED FOR BRIDES AND LANDS
DISPLAYING THE MONARCHY'S POLITICAL MIGHT
GOLDEN ERA, OF MACHIAVELLIANISM AND SKULLDUGGERY
ENGLAND'S AUSPICIOUS PLACE IN HIERARCHICAL FLIGHT SAILORS FOUGHT AND SLAIN ENGLISH NAVY ON SPANISH GALLEONS
GUNNED SET ALIGHT ALL AFLAME
YIELDING GOLD COINS PRECIOUS STONES TREASURE SUNKEN,
TO THE SEABED LOANED HUNTED STILL BY MODERN DAY PIRATES
THEIR WORTH, PROFIT AND HISTORY TO STAVE
GOLDEN LANDS
SANDED PYRAMIDS STAND MAJESTICALLY
MOVING TO THE EYE WHEN BATHED
IN UNDULATING HEATWAVES ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLY
BUT SEEN ONLY FROM AFAR
YET SWATHED STILL SURVIVING NATURE'S BLIGHT THEY GLOW
EGYPT IN AN ERA OF PHARAOHS
OF CESAR, MARK ANTHONY, INIMITABLE CLEOPATRA
SHROUDING THEIR KING'S IN ETERNAL LIFE HIDDEN FROM HUMAN EYES IN MAZED LADEN TOMBS
THEIR ONCE GLEAMING TREASURES
NOW EXTRACTED FROM THEIR PROTECTING WOMBS GRAVE HUNTERS NOW CURSED FROM MANY MOONS AGO
WARNINGS NOT HEEDED FROM LEADERS
OF SUCH SACRED LANDS AND THEIR FOE
A TRAGEDY WOULD BEFALL THEM
FOR THE AVARICE AND DEFERENCE NOT SHOWN
OF THE KING'S ARTEFACTS FOR HIS ETERNAL
PEACEFUL AFTERLIFE WITH THE GODS
AS AN EQUAL IN MYTHS ATONED NOW CENTURIES LATER EXHIBITED IN MUSEUMS
TUTANKHAMUN'S EMBALMED BODY
ONCE ENTOMBED IN HIS SUNKEN MAUSOLEUM LAID IN STONE SARCOPHAGUS REPRESENTING
ICONIC EYGPT'S NECROPOLIS
HIS GOLDEN DEATH MASK
ICONIC OF EYGYP'S MIGHTY ACROPOLIS
BEFORE IT'S GLORY WE BASK GAZING
UNABLE NOT TO GASP
AT SHEER DECADENCE OF A KING LONG PAST FROM PHYSICAL REALM
SCROLLS AND WALL CARVINGS
TO RELAY HIS LIFE
AS IT WAS IN THAT INIMITABLE GOLDEN ERA
OF EGYPTIAN GREEK AND ROMAN EMPIRES NOW CONSIGNED
IN ANTHENEUM'S AS HISTORICAL TEXT
SUSPENDED IN A CONTINUUM TIME LOSS
TO STILL PEAK THE CURIOSITY OF ALL ITS BEQUEST
GOLDEN YEARS
AS GOLDEN YEARS APPROACH WE REMINISCE TIME PASSED SO SWIFTLY
SEEMS AS LONG AS WARM HUGS
THE BRIDE AND GROOM'S CEREMONIAL KISS
HOLDING IN THEIR HEARTS A LONG HELD WISH AS NEWLYWEDS TO REACH A GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE LIVED YET STILL NOT WITHOUT ITS CHALLENGES MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND PETTY FIGHTS A COUPLE THAT WEATHERED ALL THAT WAS ENCOUNTERED TO EACH OTHER'S SECURITY PRIDE AND CONTINUING DELIGHT ALL OUR LIVES ARE GOLDEN YET SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LIFETIME TO APPRECIATE HOW FORTUNATE WE ARE TO HAVE HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE OUR LIVES THE STORY AS IT HAS READ SO FAR
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