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Thread #160696 Message #3815124
Posted By: bradfordian
17-Oct-16 - 07:37 AM
Thread Name: Aberfan 50th Anniversary
Subject: RE: Aberfan 50th Anniversary
Lots of resources around on the internet, here is an example (click):
A few programs on telly, here is one:
"Surviving Aberfan" Thursday 20/10/16 BBC4 9pm
And a poem (author unknown, from a previous Aberfan thread)
I am a generation
And a threepenny, sixpenny, five pound note
Cannot buy me now,
Drowned and lost in a black, crawling sea.
Once I played there, nature's school.
And on a summer sweet day when birds were young
And the sky naked and laced with laughter,
I played the games that children play.
But when the sky swam, crying with tears,
The world fell down on me
And I cannot come back.
I am a generation
And I cannot come back
To the narrow streets walking empty
To the warm kitchen where Mam and Dad wait.
The snapshot taken in life yellows with years.
I am hostage of some avenging valley green god
For the rape of my land that fell down on me.
And I cannot come back.
bradfordian