As I Sit On My Porch

bees buzzing along butterflies fluttering by humming birds sipping the sweet nectar from the abundance of fragrant flowers as I sit on my porch on a warm summer day young boys playing catch little girls jumping rope older girls turning double dutch skate boarders whizzing pass bikers cycling down the street as I sit on my porch on a warm summer day shooting skelly tops playing marbles pick-up sticks and jacks hopscotch on the sidewalk roller skating down the driveway touch football on front lawns as I sit on my porch on a warm summer day folks old and young frolicking in the cool water of the sprinkler neighbors tending to their gardens and shrubbery kids selling homemade lemonade from a homemade stand on the corner stick ball in the city streets red light, green light, one, two, three Miss Mary Mack, pitty pat one giant step, may I Simon says remembering the lazy, hazy days of my youth as I sit on my porch on a warm summer day