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Phil Lately

Updated: Jun 12

 

Phil Lately

 

A man of the world

A boy of the past

Child inside dreams

With a collectors heart

 

Gets on his old hobby horse

From the age of why don’t you?

Holds aloft dusty album

Grandson ponders, What wonders?

 

Boys own, now Grand Dad zone

Stamped with nostalgia

Opened with a flourish

The unhinged flutter free

 

Treasures tweesed teased

Back into its own place

Some made for airmail

But not intended to fly

 

Delivering bold colours

Pictures of postage paid

Gathered into galleries

Worldly as an atlas

 

More than label of letters toll

Catalogued currency

Boosted by posting

Its own valuations

 

Golden age of acquisition

Collections for the masses

Covered on the first day

Packed for presentation

 

Celebration issues

Centenaries, events

A Royal part of pomp

And circumstance

 

Be headed silhouette

Monarch’s  mark holds court

Whether first or second class

Rarity mounted in sparseness

 

His past pride and joy

From an era of excitement

Displayed with affection

Activity antique

 

Grandad Phil closes his album

Looks at Grandsons polite smile

Philately a lost vintage

Is now just Phil Lately

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Jon Best
Jon Best
Jun 14

Alison, John and Martin. Thank you for kind comments. Nostalgia was my aim. I think we forgethow big stamp collecting used to be

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John Wood
John Wood
Jun 14

So much going on here. I enjoyed this.

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I loved this Jon, so many wiffs of nostalgia, 'Some made for airmail But not intended to fly'. lovely.

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Very clever

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