I found a poetry book 

In a church in Goring 

Not far from the River Thames 

Quite a number of books 

Had been donated by those 

With kind hearts and gentle ways 

It was a book of collected poems 

A thick paperback tired and well read 

I found a cinema ticket hidden

 Between pages ninety six and seven 

Ticket 54937 issued in June 1954

The ninth summer after the war 

Was there a reason that it had been concealed 

Or was it just a bookmark now forgotten