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water wast
england's deepest lake
awed me
260 feet deep
half a mile wide
3 miles long
one side was grassy
steep screes were opposite
we found 2 plane wrecks there
1 we fished from the lake
the other was high up
great gully claimed it
i found bits
the lake haunts me
cool days
we never had much cash
holidays were to the lakes
england had much splendour
i went to old mines
found a dozen old wreck sites
strolled on the beach
listened to the bangles
what a 15 year old does
just before i was an adult
decades ago in the 80s
cool days
high up
i want to go back
see the mountains
risk my life again
did we really climb those?
i'm 7k miles away
i've mountains here
they're different
in my head i'm there
on a boat on lake windamere
eating kendal mintcake
visiting keswick village
seeing jets zoom by
bees beached
the sea at st bees beach was moving
never still like a live thing
up above a tall headland towered
we dug tunnels into the cliff face
an old rock swimming pool was dark and deep
one time an eel bit me there
after the beach we ate chips
i want to go back
About the Author: Born in Oldham, a Lancashire mill town in 1971, Nick has lived in various places and now in SE Asia. Has many interests include writing, studying history, military aviation, current affairs. He loves Gothic music and metal, likes the 1980s for what is was (trash decade!), loves tattoos and wants more.
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