Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Fourth June Blog

Snaps in Time.

I see your faces, some smiling gazes,
Others more stern, how they used to be.
In infancy, movement disallowed,
Images on glass, wonders in an age
Of new inventions.

Steam driven, electricity, paved roads.
Victorians usherng new eras,
Wonderment, faces awe-filled,
Lighting dark streets, safer than in pitch night.
Great Exhibition, Darwin, evolutionary.

New plants sought in far off places,
Beginnings, now everywhere, from
Far East, Himalayas, Japan,
Latin names, ending in Chinensis,
From far Cathay.

Tarmacadam, smooth roads,
Cameras, pictures of every day life.
Caught in motion, ladies in large gowns.
Horse drawn buses, Handsome Cabs,
Horseflesh ( and manure) everywhere.

Those stiff upper lip faces,
Flashed; dangerously jso.
Set pieces, unmoving for many seconds.
But history has now recorded
People of the day.

Recording time, events, worlds moving on.
First flights, aviators,
Native peoples, sadly almost eradicated.
Dresses thinner, easier to wear,